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Expelled: A Journalist's Descent Into the Russian Mafia State by Luke Harding Publisher Comments In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper, The Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service --the successor to the KGB--had broken into his apartment. He... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover 
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen Publisher Comments The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Petrostate: Putin, Power, New Russia (10 Edition) by Marshall I. Goldman Publisher Comments In the aftermath of the financial collapse of August 1998, it looked as if Russia's day as a superpower had come and gone. That it should recover and reassert itself after less than a decade is nothing short of an economic and political miracle. Based on... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia by Angus Roxburgh Publisher Comments Russia under Vladimir Putin has proved a prickly partner for the West, a far cry from the democratic ally many hoped for when the Soviet Union collapsed. Abroad, Putin has used Russias energy strength as a foreign policy weapon, while at home he has... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Gorbachev, Yeltsin, & Putin: Political Leadership in Russia's Transition (Carnegie Endowment Series) by Archie Brown Publisher Comments This volume analyzes various aspects of the political leadership during the collapse of the Soviet Union and formation of a new Russia. Comparing the rule of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin, the book reflects upon their goals... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Armageddon Averted : the Soviet Collapse Since 1970-2000 (2ND 09 Edition) by Stephen Kotkin Publisher Comments Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse--this compact, original,... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989 by Rodric Braithwaite Publisher Comments The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. Afghan mujahideen upset their plans, holding on with little more than... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Lost and Found in Russia: Lives in the Post-Soviet Landscape by Susan Richards Publisher Comments After the fall of communism, Russia was in a state of shock. The sudden and dramatic change left many people adrift and uncertain—but also full of a tentative but tenacious hope. Returning again and again to the provincial hinterlands of this... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Vodka, tears, and Lenin's angel :my adventures in the wild and woolly former Soviet Union by Jennifer Gould Book News Annotation Gould, now a staff reporter at The Village Voice, describes the strange and complicated world of the post-Communist former Soviet Union from the inside. She mingles with politicians and teenage age mafia millionaires, Western-educated Muslim women... (read more) Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror by Alexande Litvinenko Synopsis 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) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Black Earth: A Journey through Russia After the Fall by Andrew Meier Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-495) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Out of Order: Russian Political Values in an Imperfect World by Ellen Carnaghan Publisher Comments One common explanation for the failure of democracy to take root in Russia more quickly and more thoroughly than it has points to inherited cultural values that predispose Russian citizens to favor an autocratic type of governance. Ellen Carnaghan takes... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Russia's Fate Through Russian Eyes: Perspectives of a New Generation by Heyward Isham Publisher Comments Blowing the cobwebs from antiquated notions of Russia as an enigmatic nation doomed to tragic failure, twenty-eight articulate and entrepreneurial young Russian men and women--representatives of a new generation who came of age during and after the fall... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser Publisher Comments In the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia, from this generation's leading Moscow... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan by Artyom Borovik Publisher Comments Artyom Borovik, who died last year, was considered one of the preeminent journalists in Russia. The first glimpse inside the Soviet military machine, The Hidden War captured the soldiers' terror, helplessness, and despair at waging war in a foreign land... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Putin's Russia: Life in a failing Democracy by Anna Politkovskaya Publisher Comments A searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from “the bravest of Russian journalists” (The New York Times) Hailed as “a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness” (New Statesman), Anna Politkovskaya made her name... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall by Andrew Meier Publisher Comments "A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Putin's Oil: The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia by Martin Sixsmith Synopsis Putin's Oil relates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, in particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $18.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick Publisher Comments In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia by Steve Levine Publisher Comments The new Russia is marching in an alarming direction. Emboldened by escalating oil wealth and newfound prominence as a world power, Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has veered back toward the authoritarian roots planted in Imperial/Czarist... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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