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Destination in Doubt: Russia Since 1989 (Global History of the Present)
by Stephen Lovell  Publisher Comments This book is a short history of Russia since the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. In a matter of months, Russia was apparently demoted from "evil empire" to despondent poor relation of the prosperous West. Yet the country also seemed...
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A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia: 2nd Edition 2nd Edition
by David M. Crowe Publisher Comments David Crowe draws from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources to explore the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or Roma, from their entrance into the region in the Middle Ages until the present....
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New Myth, New World: From Nietzsche to Stalinism
by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal Publisher Comments The Nazis' use and misuse of Nietzsche is well known. The Superman, the "will to power," Nietzsche's equation of bourgeois democracy and decadence, and his denigration of reason were staples of Nazi propaganda. Communists also used and misused Nietzsche,...
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Lenin
by Dmitri Volkogonov Publisher Comments For years, westerners have wondered what secrets were preserved not only in the KGB archives, but also in dozens of other off-limits locations. Now that Dmitri Volkogonov, historian and former general in the Soviet Army, has been entrusted with the...
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The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive (Annals of Communism)
by Vladimir Ilich Lenin Publisher Comments Lenin - the man, the revolutionary, and the world leader - has remained an enigma, part myth arising from the tumult of the Russian Revolution and part image carefully controlled for nearly seventy years by the leaders of the Soviet Union and their...
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The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Wilder House Series in Politics, History, & Culture)
by Terry Martin 
Publisher Comments The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms...
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Russias War a History of the Soviet War
by Richard Overy Publisher Comments Historians are in general agreement that the Russian war effort to defeat the invading Axis powers was the decisive factor for securing an Allied victory and ending World War II. Now with exclusive access to previously unavailable information from the...
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Russian Research Center Studies #93: National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956
by David Brandenberger Publisher Comments During the 1930s, Stalin and his entourage rehabilitated famous names from the Russian national past in a propaganda campaign designed to mobilize Soviet society for the coming war. In a provocative study, David Brandenberger traces this populist...
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Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum
by Martin Edward Malia Publisher Comments Spanning the years from Peter the Great to the fall of the Soviet Union, thisbook gives readers a clear and sweeping view of Russia as an outermost memberin the continuum of European nations....
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The Formation of the Soviet Union
by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments In a 1996 Preface to the Revised Edition, Pipes suggests how material recently released from the Russian archives might supplement his account....
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Exeter Studies in History #1: The Soviet Union: A Documentary History, Volume One: 1917-1940
by Edward Acton Publisher Comments CONTENTS: Part One: Revolution and Civil War (1917-1921) i. The February revolution and the Provisional Governmentii. The Bolshevik seizure of soviet poweriii. Bolshevik state, Orthodox churchiv. Soviet power and the peasantryv. The other Russia: a...
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Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth Century Russia
by Erich E. Haberer Publisher Comments A comprehensive study of the participation of Jews in the Russian revolutionary movement of the nineteenth century....
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Basees/Routledgecurzon Series on Russian and East European S #21: Conscience, Dissent, and Reform in Soviet Russia
by Philip Boobbyer Publisher Comments Boobbyer's book embraces the political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Soviet Russia. Part 1 looks at the changing features of the Soviet ideology from Lenin to Stalin, and the moral universe of Stalin's time. Part 2 is a history of the...
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Intimate Enemies: Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918-1928 (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies)
by Igal Halfin Publisher Comments Intimate Enemies is a brilliant study of the transformation of Bolshevik Party ideology, language, and power relations during the crucial period leading up to Stalin's seizure of power. Combining extensive research in recently opened Soviet archives with...
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Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
by Aleksandr Fursenko Publisher Comments Contains unsettling insights into some of the most dangerous geopolitical crises of the time.--The Economist This acclaimed study from the authors of One Hell of a Gamble brings to life head-to-head confrontations between the Soviet premier Nikita...
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Russian Corporate Capitalism from Peter the Great to Perestroika
by Thomas C Owen Publisher Comments From the three perspectives of geography, economic policy, and ideology, this work examines corporate capitalism under the tsarist and late Soviet regimes. Thomas C. Owen discovers a remarkable history of thwarted effort and lost opportunity. He explores...
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The Dream That Failed: Reflections on the Soviet Union
by Walter Laquer Publisher Comments Walter Laqueur as been hailed as "one of our most distinguished scholars of modern European history" in the New York Times Book Review. Robert Byrnes, writing in the Journal of Modern History, called him "one of the most remarkable men in the Western...
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Identity in Formation : the Russian-speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (98 Edition)
by David D. Laitin Publisher Comments Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, nationality groups have claimed sovereignty in the new republics bearing their names. With the ascendance of these titular nationality groups, Russian speakers living in the post-Soviet republics face a radical...
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Russia: A Short History
by Abraham Ascher Publisher Comments This concise and informative book covers the entire sweep of Russian history, from the earliest settlers to the present state of this complex country....
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Russia's Rulers Under the Old Regime
by Dominic Lieven Publisher Comments Dominic Lieven here probes deeply into the lives and politics of the most important members of Tsar Nicholas II's government-the 215 men appointed by Nicholas to his State Council. His book tells us a great deal about the last ruling elite of Russia...
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