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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...
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The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II
by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days. Updated For The...
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Dancing Under the Red Star: The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag
by Karl Tobien Publisher Comments The shocking and inspirational saga of Margaret Werner and her miraculous survival in the Siberian death camps of Stalinist Russia. Between 1930 and 1932, Henry Ford sent 450 of his Detroit employees plus their families to live in Gorky, Russia, to...
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Ten Days That Shook the World
by John Reed Publisher Comments In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record...
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The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization
by Lynne Viola Publisher Comments 'In this ground-breaking study Lynne Viola--the first Western scholar to gain access to the Soviet state archives on collectivization--brilliantly examines a lost chapter in the history of the Stalin revolution. Looking in detail at the backgrounds...
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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....
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Post-Soviet Nations: Perspectives on the Demise of the U. S. S. R.
by Alexander J Motyl Synopsis < P> 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...
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A Lifelong Passion : Nicholas and Alexandra : Their Own Story
by Emperor Of Russia Nicholas Ii Synopsis Preserved by the archivists of the Stalinst era, these are the letters and photographs of Nicholas II, Alexandra and their five children. In all some 13,000 letters survived, ranging from matters of state to expressions of love. Information is also drawn...
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The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy
by David Mayers Publisher Comments George Kennan, Charles Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, William Bullitt, Joseph E. Davies, Llewlleyn Thompson, Jack Matlock: these are important names in the history of American foreign policy. Together with a number of lesser-known officials, these...
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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...
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Memoirs of 1984
by Yuri Tarnopolsky Synopsis Tarnopolsky recounts his year in a Siberian labor camp, and offers his interpretation of the fall of the Soviet Empire and the future Russian crossroads....
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A History of Russia
by George Vernadsky Synopsis Generally recognized as the standard one-volume history of Russia, this monumental work describes Russia's growth from the times of the nomadic tribes to the present Cold War and examines the social, religious, and cultural as well as the political and...
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Steeltown, USSR
by Stephen Kotkin Synopsis 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...
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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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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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The Private Life of Kim Philby: The Moscow Years
by Rufina Philby Publisher Comments Masterspy Kim Philby's secret life is far stronger than any spy fiction. Recruited by the Soviet KGB at Cambridge in the 1930s, he made his way into the British Secret Intelligence Service where he became head of its anti-Soviet section, then liaison...
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Religion, State and Politics in the Soviet Union and Successor States
by John Anderson Publisher Comments Making use of newly-available archival material, this book provides the first systematic and accessible overview of church-state relations in the Soviet Union. John Anderson explores the shaping of Soviet religious policy from the death of Stalin until...
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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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Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953
by Jonathan Brent Publisher Comments A new investigation, based on previously unseen KGB documents, reveals the startling truth behind Stalin's last great conspiracy. On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had been unmasked among Jewish doctors in the USSR to...
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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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