Post Soviet Republics
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Georgia (Caucasus World)
by Peter Nasmyth  Publisher Comments Providing the first comprehensive cultural and historical introduction to modern Georgia, Peter Nasmyth charts the nation's remarkable journey to statehood, giving extraordinary insights into this facsinating region....
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Beyond the Pale
by Benjamin Nathans Publisher Comments A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, beyond the Pale of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide...
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In Quest for God and Freedom: Sufi Responses to the Russian Advance in the North Caucasus
by Anna Zelkina Publisher Comments After the first war in Chechnya in 1994 and related flareups in Daghestan, the world suddenly discovered within Russia the existence of "exotic", freedom-loving but also "warlike" Muslim peoples intent on liberating themselves from the domination of a...
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Wolves of Islam: Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terrorism
by Paul Murphy Publisher Comments The Dubrovka Theater Center seige in the center of Moscow on October 23, 2002 by Chechen Islamic terrorists ushered in a new, hostile escalation in the fanatical Islamic Chechen's ten-year fight against the Russian state. The "wolves of Islam" have...
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Chechen Jihad: Al Qaeda's Training Ground and the Next Wave of Terror
by Yossef Bodansky Publisher Comments One of the most respected experts on radical Islamism returns to alert readers to the future course of Islamic extremism--by turning the spotlight on the troubled region of Chechnya....
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The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling Under Communism (Jackson School Publications in International Studies)
by Marianne Kamp Synopsis This groundbreaking work in women's history explores the lives of Uzbek women, in their own voices and words, during the Soviet Hujum, the 1927 campaign in Soviet Central Asia to encourage mass unveiling as a path to social and intellectual "liberation."...
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A Good Comrade: Janos Kadar, Communism and Hungary
by Roger Gough Publisher Comments Few political lives have been as dramatic, or as marked by sudden changes of fortune, as that of Janos Kadar. Was Kadar--Hungary's communist leader from 1956 to 1988--an ambitious, ruthless party functionary or a tragic visionary? In this, the first...
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Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924-1941
by Jonathan Dekel-chen Publisher Comments This is the first history of the Jewish agricultural colonies that were established in Crimea and Southern Ukraine in 1924 and that, fewer than 20 years later, ended in tragedy. Jonathan Dekel-Chen opens an extraordinary window on Soviet rural life...
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Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust
by Miron Dolot Publisher Comments An eyewitness account of the forced collectivization of Russian agriculture in 1929-1931 and the ensuing famine in the Ukraine, brought about by Stalin's command....
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Historical Dictionary of Latvia
by Andrejs Plakans Book News Annotation The 1997 first edition reflected the transition period of the Baltic country since its independence in 1991. Plakans (emeritus history, Iowa State U.-Ames) has now updated his reference to account for regular elections, Latvia's entry into NATO and...
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Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus
by Thomas Goltz Book News Annotation Goltz (Central and Southwest Asia studies, U. of Montana) has written widely about Turkey, the Caucasus, and Central Asia for 20 years. Drawing on his own tours of Georgia and his journalistic contacts with its president Eduard Shevardnadze, he...
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Post-Soviet Nations: Perspectives on the Demise of the U. S. S. R.
by Alexander J Motyl Publisher Comments 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 situation....
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Understanding Belarus and How Western Foreign Policy Misses the Mark
by Grigory Ioffe Synopsis In this fascinating study of unfinished nation-building in Belarus, Grigory Ioffe draws on his two dozen research trips to the country to trace Belarus's history, geography, political situation, society, and economy. The ambivalent relationship between...
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Belgrade: A Cultural History
by David Norris Synopsis Perched above the confluence of two great rivers, the Sava and Danube, Belgrade has been home to many civilizations: Celts, Romans, Byzantines, Bulgars, Magyars, Ottomans and Serbs. A Turkish fortress, the focus for a Serbian principality, an...
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The Lone Wolf and the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Power (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies)
by Moshe Gammer Publisher Comments Moshe Gammer discusses the three-hundred-year history of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Chechnya. Utilizing information gathered through intensive research, he provides thorough analyses of the region's diverse peoples and cultures, including...
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Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self-Portraits (Annals of Communism)
by Alexander Vatlin Publisher Comments What did the rulers of the Soviet Union truly think about each other? This book opens a window onto the soul of Bolshevism--revealing what no other set of materials has ever offered--allowing readers access to the powerful men who, despite living in a...
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Gender, Sex and Subordination in England, 1500-1800 (95 Edition)
by Anthony Fletcher Publisher Comments Men and women in early modern England lived their lives within a social and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy - the social and cultural dominance of the male - has long been a fundamental feature of western civilisation, yet has...
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Voices from Vilna
by Helaine Shoag Greenberg Publisher Comments To my great joy, I found poignant letters in my family home describing my father's and his family's life and current events from 1930 to 1940 in Vilnius, Lithuania. On a roots trip there in 2000, the letters were shown to the Director of the Vilna Gaon...
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Banished from the Homeland
by Crissa Constantine Publisher Comments Crissa Constantine powerfully describes her family's struggles and determination to be free from the Holocaust....
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Dilemmas of Transition in Post Soviet Co
by Joel C Moses Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 186) and index....
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