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The Post Soviet States: Mapping the Politics of Transition
by Graham Smith  Publisher Comments The collapse of the Soviet Union has engendered one of the most momentous and critical regional transformations of our times through formation and development of the post-Soviet states. This book explores the politics of post-Soviet transition and the...
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Chechen Wars : Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? (02 Edition)
by Matthew Evangelista Publisher Comments In this book, Matthew Evangelista challenges Moscows justifications for the Chechen invasions by exploring the sources of both wars and the implications for Russias internal coherence and international standing....
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Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory
by Yoav Karny Synopsis The story of the Caucasus region and the Chechen people is told by an intrepid and sophisticated Israeli journalist. "Highlanders" offers a better understanding of the region described as a "museum of civilizations." Photos. Maps....
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Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture
by Gayla Diment Publisher Comments Siberia has no history of independent political existence, no claim to a separate ethnic identity, and no clear borders. Yet, it could be said that the elusive country 'behind the Urals' is the most real and the most durable part of the Russian landscape....
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Historical Dictionaries of Europe #45: Historical Dictionary of Ukraine
by Zenon E. Kohut Publisher Comments Covers Ukrainian history from the earliest times to 2004 with emphasis on the modern period. Introduces Ukraine, through 700 entries, to the reader through a combination of general articles on population, geography, economy, politics, and culture...
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Testimony of Lives: Narative and Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia
by Vieda Skultans Publisher Comments Vieda Skultans left Latvia as a refugee at the age of six months. In 1990, she returned for the first time. This remarkable book is both a personal account of a homecoming and an anthropology of a people trying to come to terms with its past and to face...
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The Hemshin: A Handbook (Caucasus World)
by Hovann H. (edt) Simonian Publisher Comments The Hemshin are without doubt one of the most enigmatic peoples of Turkey and the Caucasus. As former Christians who converted to Islam centuries ago yet did not assimilate into the culture of the surrounding Muslim populations, as Turks who speak...
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Reconstruction of Nations Poland Ukraine
by Timothy Snyder Publisher Comments Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieval notions of citizenship. He presents the ideological innovations and ethnic cleansings that abetted the spread of modern nationalism but also examines...
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Historical Dictionary of Georgia
by Alexander Mikaberidze Book News Annotation Mikaberidze's (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia) single-volume reference illuminates the often tumultuous history of the country of Georgia through details on approximately 800 names, events, locations, and cultural phenomena from around 11,000...
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The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation
by Andrew Wilson Publisher Comments This book is the most acute, informed, and insightful account of Ukraine and its people available today. Andrew Wilson focuses on the complex relations between Ukraine and Russia and explains the different versions of the past propagated by Ukrainians...
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Statehood and Security: Georgia After the Rose Revolution (American Academy Studies in Global Security)
by Bruno Coppieters Publisher Comments Analyzes security challenges facing Georgia since a more democratic government took over in 2003, including secessionist crises within its borders and regional instability in the Caucasus....
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Moldova: A Romanian Province
by Marcel Mitrasca Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-435) and index....
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Discovering the Moscow Countryside: An Illustrated Guide to Russia's Heartland
by Kathleen Berton Murrell Publisher Comments Discovering the Moscow Countryside is a fascinating voyage into the history, architecture, people, and archaeology of the country that surrounds Moscow. The towns and villages dotted around this wooded landscape are rich in associations. Wave after wave...
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Nationalism in Uzbekistan: A Soviet Republic's Road to Sovereignty
by James Critchlow Publisher Comments Drawing from a wide range of Uzbek and Russian sources, James Critchlow analyzes significant developments leading up to Uzbekistan's declaration of sovereignty and examines the outlook for the republic's emergence as an independent international player...
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Highlanders : a Journey To the Caucasus in Quest of Memory (00 Edition)
by Yo'av Karny Publisher Comments The story of the region, told by an intrepid journalist <BR>Many dire predictions followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, but nowhere have they materialized as dramatically as in the Caucasus: insurrection, civil wars, ethnic conflicts, economic...
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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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Belarus: Then and Now
by Lerner Geography Dep Synopsis Discusses the history, geography, ethnic mixture, politics, economy, and future of the former Soviet republic of Belarus....
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History of the Peoples of Siberia : Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990 (92 Edition)
by James Forsyth Publisher Comments This is the first ethnohistory of Siberia to appear in English, and presents to an anglophone audience a vast corpus of previously inaccessible ethnographic and linguistic material. It covers from the early history of Siberia after the Russian conquest...
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Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine
by Timothy Snyder Publisher Comments The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyïv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles—intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground...
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Statehood and Security: Georgia After the Rose Revolution (American Academy Studies in Global Security)
by Bruno Coppieters Publisher Comments The former Soviet state of Georgia threw off its corrupt and undemocratic government in the andquot;Rose Revolutionandquot; of November, 2003. Today, the new government under President Mikheil Saaskashvili faces complex security problems both within and...
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