Female president of the United States in popular culture president of the United States in two episodes. A 2006 BBC Four adaptation of John Wyndham's short story "Random Quest" depicts the main character being sucked into an alternative reality in which Condoleezza Rice is president of the United States. In ABC's 2008-2009 TV series "Life on Mars" (a remake of BBC's series of the same name), it is hinted that Malia Obama, the daughter of then-candidate Barack Obama, is the president of the United States in 2035. In Showtime's TV series "Homeland", which began in 2011, Elizabeth Marvel plays United States President Elizabeth Keane. In ABC's TV series "Scandal",
Martin Malia to the English version of "The Black Book of Communism". His book "History's Locomotives. Revolution and the making of the Modern World" (2006) is a good example of historiographic reflection. In the eighth chapter Malia gives a complete and concise survey of debates about the French Revolution from the 19th century up to our time. One of his colleagues at Berkeley was another prominent Russian historian, Nicholas V. Riasanovsky. In the official Berkeley obituary, Riasanovsky is quoted as saying of Malia: "[he was an] outstanding and now very popular historian, occupying a leading position in the present international discussion of