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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)
by Aleksa Solzhenitsyn  Publisher Comments Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the...
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The End of the Communist Revolution
by Robert V Daniels Publisher Comments The End of the Communist Revolution puts Perestroika firmly in its long-term historical perspective as the final stage of a long revolutionary process, and within the context of Leninism, Stalinism and Breshnevism. Daniels puts forward a new...
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Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953
by Yoram Gorlizki Publisher Comments Following his country's victory over Nazi Germany, Joseph Stalin was widely hailed as a great wartime leader and international statesman. Unchallenged on the domestic front, he headed one of the most powerful nations in the world. Yet, in the period from...
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Putin's Russia : Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain (3RD 07 Edition)
by Dale R. Herspring Publisher Comments This thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic text provides the most current and authoritative assessment of Russia available. Distinguished scholars offer a full-scale assessment of Putin's leadership, exploring the daunting domestic and...
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Letters Home from the Crimea: A Young Cavalryman's Campaign
by Philip Warner Publisher Comments Among the British troops bound for the Black Sea in May 1854 was a young officer in the 5th Dragoon Guards, Richard Temple Godman. Godman sent many detailed letters home to his family in Surrey throughout the campaign. He served through the entire war...
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The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus, Revised Edition
by Lesley Blanch Publisher Comments The Caucasus--a region of supreme natural beauty and fiercely proud warriors--has throughout history been characterized by violence and turmoil. During the Great Caucasus War of 1834-1859, the warring mountain tribes of Daghestan and Chechnya united...
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Warriors and Peasants: The Don Cossacks in Late Imperial Russia (St. Antony's)
by Shane O'rourke Publisher Comments "Warriors and Peasants" depicts the lives of the Don Cossacks, the largest of all the Cossack communities, in late Imperial Russia. The dual identity of the Cossacks, that of the steppe and of the settled Slavic areas, is emphasized as the key to their...
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Stalin: Revolutionary in an Era of War (European History in Perspective)
by Kevin Mcdermott Publisher Comments Stalin's massive impact on Soviet history is often explained in terms of his inherent evil, personality defects, and power lust. This volume argues that Stalin's thoughts and actions are best contextualized in the inter-relationship between war and...
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Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past
by Serhii Plokhy Book News Annotation Plokhy (Ukrainian history, Harvard U.) discusses numerous questions pertaining to the development of modern Russian and Ukrainian historical identity, possibly chief among them the question of where Russian history ends and Ukrainian history begins...
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Joint Committee on Eastern Europe Publication Series #12: History of the Balkans: Volume 2
by Barbara Jelavich Publisher Comments Volume II concentrates on the Balkan wars and the 2nd World War; both had their origins in the desire of nationalist circles to complete the territorial unification of their states. A substantial part of this book deals with the wartime experience, the...
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Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914
by William C., Jr. Fuller Publisher Comments "A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty".--Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard University....
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Reflective Laughter: Aspects of Humour in Russian Culture
by Lesley (edt) Milne Publisher Comments "Generally speaking, the only thing less funny than humour in translation is humour and translation as explained by a group of scholars. One should make an exception, however, for Reflective Laughter... a witty and informative overview (of) a broad and...
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Conscription and Search for Modern Russian Jewry (06 Edition)
by Olga Litvak Publisher Comments Reveals the enduring impact of forced service in the Tsarist army on both Russian Jewish youth and Russian Jewish literary culture...
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The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life: 1865-1906
by Dmitry Shlapentokh Publisher Comments The interest of Russian intellectuals in the French Revolution demonstrates that some Russian thinkers of the 19th century had begun to question the concept of Russia's uniqueness. Yet most of them came to believe that the French Revolution (which they...
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Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 (03 Edition)
by Cynthia Hyla Whittaker Publisher Comments mounted at The New York Public Library in the fall of 2003, to celebrate the tercentenary of St. Petersburg....
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Dispatches from the Former Evil Empire
by Richard Threlkeld Publisher Comments As a former Moscow correspondent for CBS news, Threlkeld was an observer of the Russian scene during the last years of Yeltsin's regime. He takes the reader on a colorful ride from crime-ridden East Siberia to the glitzy casino world of Moscow, and...
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And Now My Heart is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930
by Alan M. Ball Publisher Comments Warfare, epidemics, and famine left millions of Soviet children homeless during the 1920s. Many became beggars, prostitutes, and thieves, and were denizens of both secluded underworld haunts and bustling train stations. Alan Ball's study of these...
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The Russian Moment in World History
by Marshall T. Poe Publisher Comments "This unique, interesting, and stimulating book shoehorns the whole of Russian history into a single long essay, one that is argued very forcefully and written with remarkable clarity and verve."--Reginald Zelnik, University of California, Berkeley...
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Peter the Great (New Studies in European History)
by Paul Bushkovitch Publisher Comments A narrative of the fifty years of political struggles at the Russian court, 1671–1725. This book shows how Peter the Great was not the all-powerful tsar working alone to reform Russia, but that he colluded with powerful and contentious...
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Cambridge Companion To Modern Russian Culture (98 Edition)
by Nicholas (ed.) Rzhevsky Publisher Comments An introduction to modern Russian culture, from language and religion to literature and the arts....
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