Boris Yeltsin and Russia's Democratic Transformation (Jackson School Publications in International Studies)
by Herbert Ellison


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Russian politician Anatoly Chubais has compared Boris Yeltsin to Peter the Great and Tsar Alexander II in terms of his importance in transforming Russia. Ellison (emeritus, history and international studies, U. of Washington) basically agrees with... (read more)

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Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror
by Alexande Litvinenko


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Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006. In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the Russian... (read more)

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Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917
by Vladimir Lenin


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On September 11, 2001, a central critique of missile defence -- that it will be futile against the lowest-tech and most likely type of attack against the United States -- was brought home with terrible force. Yet the programme continues, as it has in one... (read more)

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Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
by Aleksandr Fursenko


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Contains unsettling insights into some of the most dangerous geopolitical crises of the time.--The Economist This acclaimed study from the authors of One Hell of a Gamble brings to life head-to-head confrontations between the Soviet premier Nikita... (read more)

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B-Zone: Becoming Europe and Beyond
by Anselm Franke


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Edited by Anselm Franke. Essays by Maurizio Lazzarato, Melita Zajc, Boris Despodow, Stavros Alifragkis and Anna Barseghian.... (read more)

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Black Earth City: When Russia Ran Wild (and So Did We)
by Charlotte Hobson


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A young woman's heady encounter with the new Russia, as she and the country thrill to their first taste of freedom It is September 1991 and the dismantling of the Soviet Union is under way. In Voronezh, a provincial town famous for its loamy black earth,... (read more)

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Tattered Banners: Labor, Conflict, and Corporatism in Postcommunist Russia
by Walter Connor


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In post-Soviet Russia's transition to new political and economic systems, few issues are as important as labor. Although the "worker's paradise" may have been largely imaginary, the loss of job security and benefits that has accompanied marketization... (read more)

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Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union
by Geoffrey Hosking


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Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union "Russia." Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end, in fact, Russia actually destroyed the Soviet Union. How did this happen, and what kind... (read more)

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History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky and Ahmed Shawki


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Published for the ninetieth anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, this edition of Leon Trotsky's masterpiece, with a new foreword by Ahmed Shawki, tells the epic story of the remarkable events that transformed the history of Russia — and the... (read more)

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My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin
by Susan Butler


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My Dear Mr. Stalin is the first publication that contains the complete correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin. This collection of more than three hundred hot-war messages, never before fully available in any language, is an... (read more)

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The Post Soviet States: Mapping the Politics of Transition
by Graham Smith


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The collapse of the Soviet Union has engendered one of the most momentous and critical regional transformations of our times through formation and development of the post-Soviet states. This book explores the politics of post-Soviet transition and the... (read more)

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Ukraine's Orange Revolution
by Andrew Wilson


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A close-up account of the 2004 popular revolution in Ukraine, and what it means... (read more)

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Russia: Experiment with a People
by Robert Service


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reshaping of their society, and the results will prove of vital importance to the global community. Robert Service has provided a valuable and engaging guide to their recent remarkable journey.... (read more)

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Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin
by Jochen Hellbeck


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"Revolution on My Mind" is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia. We see into the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror. Writing a diary,... (read more)

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Memories of a Meltdown: An Egyptian Between Moscow and Chernobyl
by Mohamed Makhzangi


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In the spring of 1986, Mohamed Makhzangi was living in Kiev, an Egyptian doctor studying in the Ukraine. As a result, he--like thousands of other--found himself living a nuclear nightmare when the Chernobyl plant had a catastrophic meltdown. Despite... (read more)

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The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
by Timotheo Tzouliadis


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A remarkable piece of forgotten historythe story of how thousands of Americans were lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives only to meet a tragic, and until now forgotten, end The Forsaken starts with a photograph of a baseball... (read more)

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Thinking Peaceful Change: Baltic Security Policies and Security Community Building
by Frank Möller


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One might think that, given the generally peaceful nature of recent change in the Baltic Sea region, the states of the area would have evolved into some form of a security community rather than following the national security strategies that have... (read more)

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