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Unglued Empire: The Soviet Experience with Communications Technologies (Ablex Communication, Culture, & Information Series)
by Gladys D. Ganley  Publisher Comments ". . .Ganley has marshaled an extrodinary range and volume of information and presents the story with bolth clarity and drama. Unglued Empire offers a gold mine of case-study data for scholars analyzing the interplay of politics and modern communication...
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Russia in Search of Its Future
by Amin Saikal Publisher Comments The contributors to this book analyse a Russia which is searching for its future amid a maelstrom of complex forces - political, economic, socio-cultural, and international....
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Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power
by Virginia Rounding Publisher Comments RA great thumping triumph of a bookS ("London Telegraph"), this is the first comprehensive modern biography of Catherine the Great to explore her both as a woman and empress....
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The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
by David Hoffman Publisher Comments David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post, sheds light onto the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men Hoffman reveals how a few players managed to take over Russia'...
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Flawed Succession: Russia's Power Transfer Crises
by Uri Ra'anan Publisher Comments In four highly critical sections, Professor Uri Ra'anan and his authoritative contributors analyze the state of Russia's power transfer crises throughout time. This collection takes aim at Russia's unpredictable leadership changes and consequent crises...
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A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy
by Robert Moore Publisher Comments A At 11:28 a.m. on Saturday, August 12, 2000, high in the Arctic Circle under the roiling surface of the unforgiving Barents Sea, Captain Gennady Lyachin was taking the Kursk, the pride of Russia’s elite Northern Fleet, through the last steps of...
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A History of Russia (Palgrave Essential Histories)
by Roger P. Bartlett Publisher Comments Roger Bartlett traces the history of Russia from its beginnings in Kiev Russia, through the Muscovite and Imperial, Soviet and post-Soviet periods, to the end of the twentieth-century. While offering a broad perspective on Russia's historical development,...
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Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914
by Barbara Alper Engel Publisher Comments This book charts the personal dimensions of economic and social change by examining the significance and consequences of Russian peasant women's migration from the village to the factory and/or city in the years between the emancipation of the serfs in...
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
by Anna Politkovskaia Publisher Comments Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has struggled under Russian domination for centuries. The region declared its independence in 1991, leading to a brutal war, Russian withdrawal, and subsequent "governance" by bandits and...
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Russian Empire (01 Edition)
by Andreas Kappeler Publisher Comments The "national question" and how to impose control over its diverse ethnic identities has long posed a problem for the Russian state. This major survey of Russia as a multi-ethnic empire spans the imperial years from the sixteenth century to 1917, with...
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Moscow - Stalingrad 1941-1942: Recollections - Stories - Reports
by Alexander Vassilevsky Synopsis In the winter of 1941, 78 choice Nazi divisions, 1,700 tanks and over 1,000 planes were drawn up near Moscow to carry out Operation Typhoon. The Germans had come so close to Moscow that German could be heard on the radio on any wave length, and the very...
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Shaman's Coat : Native History of Siberia (02 Edition)
by Anna Reid Publisher Comments A vivid mixture of history and reporting. The Shaman's Coat tells the story of some of the world's least-known peoples--the indigenous tribes of Sibena. Journalist and historian Anna Reid traveled the length and breadth of Siberia one-twelfth of the...
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Thank You, Comrade Stalin! : Soviet Public Culture From Revolution To Cold War (00 Edition)
by Jeffrey Brooks Publisher Comments Thank you, our Stalin, for a happy childhood." "Thank you, dear Marshal [Stalin], for our freedom, for our children's happiness, for life." Between the Russian Revolution and the Cold War, Soviet public culture was so dominated by the power of the state...
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Welcome to Russia (Spyglass Books)
by Alison Auch Publisher Comments A Russian child introduces the reader to a new culture through a brief look at daily life in Russia. Includes a beautifully illustrated sample of Russian folklore....
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Battle That Shook Europe : Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire (03 Edition)
by Peter Englund Publisher Comments The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of Peter the Great’s vast Russian Empire. In 1700, the Tsar combined with Denmark, Saxony, and Poland to attack Swedish hegemony in the North. When the forces finally defeated King Charles XII of Sweden...
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Russia in Modern World (99 Edition)
by Denis Shaw Publisher Comments This book presents a geographical analysis of the new Russia which has emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union since 1991....
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The Liberation Movement in Russia 1900-1905
by Shmuel Galai Publisher Comments The story of Russian liberalism's failure to present an effective alternative to Tsarism and Bolshevism....
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Soviet Politics, Nineteen Seventeen To Nineteen Ninety-one (92 Edition)
by Mary Mcauley Publisher Comments Now available in paperback, this timely work offers an authoritative and lively history of the entire spectrum of Soviet politics, from the rise of Lenin and the October Revolution of 1917 to the emergence of the Commonwealth of Independent States. It...
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Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography #29: Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865
by Mark Bassin Publisher Comments Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Amur region had been a virtual terra incognita for the Russian public. However, the region's annexation succeeded in stirring the dreams of the country's most outstanding social and political visionaries, who...
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Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries: Voices from the Menshevik Past
by Leopold H. Haimson Publisher Comments This book presents the life histories, drawn from a series of interviews conducted in the 1960s, of three prominent survivors of the Menshevik party: Lydia Dan, Boris Nicolaevsky, and George Denike. Each of these figures played an important role in the...
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