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Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union
by Ellen Mickiewicz Publisher Comments Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last three decades. In 1960, only five percent of the population had access to TV, but now the viewing population has reached near total saturation. Today's main source of information in the...
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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...
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Unfinished Journey
by Nancy Rosenfeld Publisher Comments A significant contribution to our understanding of how grassroots American Jewish activism on behalf of Soviet Jewry helped 'open the iron door' of the U.S.S.R..-- Publishers...
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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...
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Peter the Great
by Robert K Massie Publisher Comments "Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review<BR>The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT.<BR>Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth...
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The Politics of Transition: Shaping a Post-Soviet Future
by Stephen White Publisher Comments This book, written by three of the West's leading scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, traces the politics of transition in the late 1980s and early 1990s from its origins to its uncertain post-communist future. Detailed but clearly and accessibly...
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Age Anxiety
by Mark Galeotti Synopsis Covers "security", incorporating military doctrine, political skulduggery, international relations and economic stablilty, seeking to knit them together into a coherent whole. The book follows a broadly chronological line and each chapter contains a...
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Collapse of the Soviet Military
by William E Odom Synopsis In this book, a distinguished United States Army officer and scholar traces the rise and fall of the Soviet military, arguing that it had a far greater impact on Soviet politics and economic development than was perceived in the West. Drawing on...
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Russia: The Roots of Confrontation
by Robert Daniels Publisher Comments Robert V. Daniels' book Russia: The Roots of Confrontation, first published in 1985, examines the historical contrasts between East and West and elucidates the Russian enigma. The book springs from the thesis that Russia's national character and its...
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Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality
by Lilia Shevtsova Publisher Comments In this comprehensive assessment of what has happened in Russia since 1991--what has been accomplished and what so has so far failed--the author argues that the new situation in Russia cannot be defined simply in terms of either authoritarianism or...
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Russia After the Fall (Carnegie Endowment Series)
by Andrew Kuchins Synopsis Russias first decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union has been simultaneously tumultuous and transformative. For most of the 1990s the Russian economy was in free fall, the legal system in absentia, and the majority of citizens engaged primarily in...
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Journey Into the Whirlwind
by Eugenia Ginzburg Publisher Comments Both witness to and victim of Stalin's reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia's prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book<BR>...
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Stalin's Successors: Leadership, Stability, and Change in the Soviet Union
by Seweryn Bialer Publisher Comments This book provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the structure and process of Soviet politics have been transformed since Stalin’s death, and particularly during the years of the Brezhnev regime. In explaining the Soviet Unionâ€...
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Journey for Our Time: The Russian Journals of the Marquis de Custine: An Intriguing Look at the Continuities in Russian Politics and Society
by Astolphe Custine Publisher Comments Presents the penetrating and timeless observations from the Marquis's 1839 trip to Russia....
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Global Studies: Russia, the Eurasian Republics, and Central/Eastern Europe (Global Studies)
by Minton F Goldman Publisher Comments This tenth edition of Global Studies: Russia, The Eurasian Republics, and Central/Eastern Europe continues to provide introductory essays, up-to-date background information, and current statistics on the region. A collection of world press articles...
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Conversations with Stalin
by Milovan Djilas Publisher Comments A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.<BR>...
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Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia
by Marc Raeff Publisher Comments Marc Raeff investigates the early development of the Russian intelligentsia, a unique social and political force that was instrumental in westernizing its country and fermenting the revolutionary movement....
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Russian Pluralism--Now Irreversible?
by Uri Raanan Publisher Comments The writers in this book question whether there may be a reversion to an authoritarian system in Russia....
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General Alexander Lebed
by Alexander Lebed Publisher Comments General Alexander Lebed is the most popular leader in Russia and its likely next president. Now, here is the brawling autobiography of this paratrooper, politician, peacemaker, and patriot. General Lebed's story takes readers from vodka-sodden arguments...
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New Nations Rising: The Fall of the Soviets and the Challenge of Independence
by Nadia Duik Publisher Comments Two leading experts describe in vivid detail the indomitable forces of nationalism reshaping the countries of the former Soviet Union and offer crucial insight into the likely future of the region. Nadia Diuk and Adrian Karatnycky have traveled...
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