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Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia by Semyonova Tian Shans Publisher Comments ... a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasantsociety in the years before the revolution.... The translation is superb. --Steven Hoch ... one of the best ethnographic portraits thatwe have of the Russian village.... a highly readable... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Dragonfly Nasa & the Crisis Aboard Mir I by Bryan Burrough Publisher Comments In this riveting account of the ill-fated American missions to MIR, bestselling author Bryan Burrough tells the incredible true story of how a joint Russian-American crew narrowly survived almost every trauma an astronaut could imagine: fire, power... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln, and the greatest reformer tsar since Peter the Great. He was also one of the most contradictory, and fascinating, of history's supreme leaders. He freed the serfs, yet launched vicious wars. He engaged in the sexual... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Russia the Soviet Union & the United S by John Lewis Gaddis Publisher Comments From the capricious reign of Catherine the Great and Alexander I to the provocative leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, the author concentrates on the interplay between interests and ideologies in the relationship between the United States and the Soviet... (read more) List Price $54.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Warrior Who Would Rule Russia by Benjamin Lambeth Publisher Comments Lambeth draws on over two years of interviews with Lieutenant General Aleksandr I. Lebed to construct this first and only detailed portrait.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.80 Used - Trade Paper
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Non-proliferation incentives for Russia and Ukraine by John C Baker Publisher Comments Given their protracted economic difficulties, the nuclear and aerospace industries in Russia and Ukraine are tempted to export dual-use technologies that can contribute to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile systems. John C... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $3.00 Used - Hardcover
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Post-Soviet Nations: Perspectives on the Demise of the U. S. S. R. by Alexander J Motyl Publisher Comments With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the subsequent creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the nationality question has assumed central importance. In this collection of essays, twelve leading specialists analyze the current situation.... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $4.60 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret Plot to Save the Tsar: New Truths Behind the Romanov Mystery by Shay Mcneal Publisher Comments Chapter One Setting the Stage Chaos and Fear At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Romanov dynasty had ruled Russia for 300 years and Tsar Nicholas II was considered one of the wealthiest men in the world. Russia was an immense country... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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After the Collapse Russia Seeks Its Plac by Dimitri K Simes Publisher Comments Nearly a decade has passed since the breakup of the Soviet Union. Today developments in the region trouble the world once again as Russia simultaneously struggles with economic crisis and attempts to pursue a newly assertive foreign policy. But today's... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $1.98 Used - Hardcover
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Remaking Russia: Voices from Within by Heyward Isham Publisher Comments "Isham has brought together an interesting group and turned their essays into answers to three questions: 'Who are we (Russians)?' 'Where are we going?' and, 'How do we get there?'" -- Foreign... (read more) List Price $46.75 Your price: $4.98 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation by Andrew Wilson Publisher Comments This book is the most acute, informed, and insightful account of Ukraine and its people available today. Andrew Wilson focuses on the complex relations between Ukraine and Russia and explains the different versions of the past propagated by Ukrainians... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Russia by Donald Mackenzie Wallace Publisher Comments The Zaporovian Commonwealth has been compared sometimes to ancient Sparta, and sometimes to the mediaeval Military Orders, but it had in reality quite a different character. In Sparta the nobles kept in subjection a large population of slaves, and were... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Ukraine in the World: Studies in the International Relations and Security Structure of a Newly Independent State (Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies) by Lubomyr A Hajda Publisher Comments Since 1991 independent Ukraine has emerged as a vital new factor in global politics. With a territory and population among the largest in Europe, a crucial geopolitical location, and substantial economic resources, Ukraine was quickly recognized as a... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.20 Used - Trade Paper
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Gorbachev and Glasnost: Viewpoints from the Soviet Press by Isaac J Tarasulo Publisher Comments This collection of recent articles from the Soviet press provides a unique window on Gorbachev's USSR and a clear picture of the passionate struggle between reform advocates and their conservative opponents.... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lenin's Mistress: The Life of Inessa Armand by Michael Pearson Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of The Sealed Train and Those Damned Rebels comes the definitive biography of Inessa Armand: revolutionary, tactician, and confidante and mistress of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Although she is little known today, after the October... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Unfinished Journey by Nancy Rosenfeld Publisher Comments The partial, and as yet incomplete, rescue of Soviet (now former Soviet) Jewry, first from the anti-Semitism of the communist regime and now from the anti-Semitism of extreme nationalists, is one of the great success stories of international human rights.... (read more) List Price $33.99 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Former State Socialist World: Views from the Left by David Mandel Publisher Comments In order to document what really is taking place in these former communist countries, David Mandel, a translator of Russian and long time observer of Russian society, brought together social scientists in the West with their Russian counterparts. The... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $2.99 Used - Trade Paper
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China: The Balance Sheet What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower by Center For Strategic Publisher Comments China's emergence as a major international power is perhaps the most important development in world affairs of the 21st century. Now, this book provides an indispensable survey of that country, the world's largest-- a vast land with 1.4 billion people... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Café "The Blue Danube" by Radka Yakimov Publisher Comments In Caf The Blue Danube, Radka Yakimov, a native of Bulgaria, recalls tales that are heartfelt, reflective and insightful. The communist regimes of Eastern Europe, the fight for women's rights and trying to adapt to a new life in Canada while suspended... (read more) Your price: $6.00 DRM-Free PDF - Electronic
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Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union & Where Is It Going? by Leon Trotsky Publisher Comments Trotsky's profound analysis of the contradictory state that issued from the first socialist revolution in world history is one of the few works of political literature which has withstood the test of time. It provides a theoretical framework to... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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