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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century by Modris Eksteins Publisher Comments Part history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris Eksteins's family members lend an intimate dimension... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Midland Book #0536: Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russias City of Steel by John Scott Synopsis Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly incredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked. --Ronald Grigor Suny A genuine grassroots account of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In Siberia by Colin Thubron Synopsis An evocative portrait of one of the most breathtaking yet little-known places on earth, written by England's #1 bestselling, award-winning author--"one of the two or three best living travel writers, in some ways probably "the" best" (Jan Morris). Map.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe by Angela Stent Publisher Comments The relationship between Russia and Germany has been pivotal in some of the most fateful events of the twentieth century: the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the emergence of a new Europe from the ashes of communism. Here Angela Stent combines... (read more) List Price $47.50 Your price: $1.25 Used - Hardcover
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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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Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History by Charles J Halperin Synopsis ... an imaginative and dispassionate re-examination of the significance of the Mongol Conquest and its aftermath for Russia's historical development. --Slavic Review On all counts Russia and the Golden Horde infuses the subject with fresh insights and... (read more) List Price $13.95 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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Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918 (Russian Literature and Thought) by Maxim Gorky Publisher Comments One of the most renowned Soviet writers of the twentieth century, Maxim Gorky was an early supporter of the Bolsheviks. He became disillusioned with the turn of events after the 1917 revolution, however, and wrote a series of critical articles for the... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $6.50 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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Steeltown, USSR by Stephen Kotkin Publisher Comments No one, not even Mikhail Gorbachev, anticipated what was in store when the Soviet Union embarked in the 1980s on a radical course of long-overdue structural reform. The consequences of that momentous decision, which set in motion a transformation... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gorbachev and Glasnost: Viewpoints from the Soviet Press by Isaac J Tarsulo 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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Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923 by Edward Hallett Carr Publisher Comments Russia's geographical position as both a European and an Asian power and her twin aims of promoting world revolution and establishing normal relations with capitalist governments led to server stresses in Soviet foreign policy. This volume analyzes these... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 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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The Private Life of Kim Philby: The Moscow Years by Rufina Philby Publisher Comments Before he died in Moscow in 1988, unrepentant and fulfilled, Philby had become a symbol in the West of Soviet-inspired treachery - an Englishman from a privileged background who had betrayed the entire free world. With interviews by Hayden Peake and an... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Grief of My Heart: Memoirs of a Chechen Surgeon by Khassan Baiev Publisher Comments A Booklist Editors Choice for 2003 In this riveting memoir, Khassan Baiev relates his harrowing experiences as a surgeon in one of the worst war zones of the last decade. When the hospital where Baiev worked in Grozny, the Chechen capital, was destroyed... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hoover Institution Press Publication #545: Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime: The Creation of Private Property in Russia, 1906-1915 by Stephen F. Williams Book News Annotation The agricultural reform unleashed by Russian Prime Minister Petr Stolypin in 1906, which was aimed at the widespread privatization of peasant communal lands, was "reform in the direction of liberal democracy" in the estimation of Judge Williams (US... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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