Darvin Babiuk: 18 books

The collection of Seki City folktales called “The Love of a Silver Fox” became very popular in Seki when originally published in Japanese. Readership and popularity has since spread. This collection was created by local writers who have studied the legends, old tales and fairy tales about...

Japan is a land of contrasts, a land where the latest technology works in symbiosis with ancient traditions. Some of the stories in this collection celebrate the age-old traditions of Japan, others deal with society trying to cope with change, while still others deal with expatriates trying to cope with fitting in a closed, xenophobic society.

Did ULTRA win the war? No, men and tanks and bombs and airplanes did. Did ULTRA shorten the war? Given the extent to it which it provided foreknowledge, once the balance of military forces was relatively close the answer must be yes. Did ULTRA prevent an earlier end to the war either by creating such...

A discussion of the ideas that formed the basis of the Russian Revolution and the men that formulated them.

A brief review of the events and competing ideologies that led to the 1917 Russian Revolution and the Bolshevik's success in taking power.

A review of how the university system rose out of feudal times and developed the organizational pattern that made it the basis higher learning up to modern times.

Anatoli Molotov has been internally exiled to Siberia for alleged crimes committed while serving as a Soviet diplomat at the United Nations headquarters in New York in the mid 1950s. Landing “softly” in the gulag administrative town of Koriak, he is assigned to a mid-management government position,...

Internal collapse and a succession of varying Russian governments in 1917 necessitated the need for British policy makers to re-evaluate their attitudes toward Russia. It is well-known that this ultimately evolved into hostility towards Bolshevism. What is not so evident is how this decision was...

A short description of the formation and structure of the Muscovite town.

Snowden Nastiuk has gone to Russia after the time of the fall of Communism to bury himself, a loser in a loser nation in a world that wants only winners. Buried in a job working as a Document Controller in a Russian oil camp near Noyabrsk, Snow is – not happy, but at least content sitting out his...

Welcome to Marib, Yemen: the land that Sheba forgot. Or at least most of the modern world, until Al Qaeda and its putative successors made it a tableau for terrorism, civil wars, kidnappings and death. It is here, in Yemen, where the Queen of Sheba came from; where Noah's son Shem settled after...

It is not an easy time for young people to try and make their way in the world: economic malaise, student debt, and political turmoil all contribute to the difficulties youth have in finding their place.Kosei's Conundrum: Coming Up for Air is the story of a young Japanese college graduate...

Everything was great in their relationship until Ai unexpectedly brought her mother over to meet him and together they found that a few months of love and respect couldn't overcome millenia of cultural bias and xenophobia.

Snowden Nastiuk has gone to Russia after the time of the fall of Communism to bury himself, a loser in a loser nation in a world that wants only winners. Buried in a job working as a Document Controller in a Russian oil camp near Noyabrsk, Snow is – not happy, but at least content sitting...