Post Soviet Republics
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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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Ukraine: An Illustrated History
by Paul Robert Magocsi Book News Annotation Written for the general reader and useful for undergraduate history courses, this volume traces Ukraine's history in well-illustrated short chapters. Notably, each chapter is preceded by a map. Magocsi (Ukraine Studies, U. of Toronto) completed the...
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Thinking Peaceful Change: Baltic Security Policies and Security Community Building
by Frank Möller Book News Annotation One might think that, given the generally peaceful nature of recent change in the Baltic Sea region, the states of the area would have evolved into some form of a security community rather than following the national security strategies that have...
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Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Repulic of Georgia (Culture and Society After Socialism)
by Mathijs Pelkmans Book News Annotation In this volume, Pelkmans (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) offers the results of research carried out during extended stays in the Georgian province of Ajaria between 1999-2001. The result is a fascinating study of the changes that are...
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Ceau
by Christoph Buchel Publisher Comments In 1936, the youthful Nicolae Ceaucescu was imprisoned for anti-Fascist agitation in Bucharest. Some 53 years later, he was tried and convicted as a dictator, for genocide and the sabotage of the Romanian economy. In that interval, Ceaucescu had gone...
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The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times: Vol. I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century
by Richard Hovannisian Publisher Comments Edited by the leading history of the Republic of Armenia, this is the definitive history of an extraordinary country--from its earliest foundations through the Crusades, the resistance to Ottoman and Tsarist rule, the collapse of the independent state...
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Young Stalin
by Simon Sebag Montefiore Publisher Comments Based on ten years of exhaustive research and astonishing new evidence from newly opened archives in Moscow, Siberia, and Georgia, "Young Stalin" is a brilliant pre-history of the USSR from the perspective of those who would bring it into being...
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In the Name of God: Rhetoric, Religion, and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine
by Alfred G. Mueller Ii Publisher Comments Focusing attention on Ukrainians' quest for credibility in the post-Soviet era, In the Name of God takes readers on a journey through everyday life in Ukraine throughout its first decade of independence. Written by a scholar of rhetorical studies, this...
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Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of Postsocialism
by Ruth Mandel Publisher Comments Before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, private marketeering was regarded not only as criminal, but even immoral by socialist regimes. Ten years after taking on board western market-orientated shock therapy, post-socialist societies are still struggling...
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Eastern European Studies #8: The War in Chechnya
by Stasys Knezys Publisher Comments The war in Chechnya, despite all the media coverage, remains a confusing tangle for many people. The war was the result of many conflicting political, economic, judicial, and military issues that had been fermenting for decades. Only the most fundamental...
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Sabres of Paradise
by Lesley Blanch Publisher Comments Book jacket/back: This is the magnificent account of the people of that exotic land, the Caucasus, their heroic leader Shamyl and their courageous thirty year fight to stem the tide of Russian Imperialism. It is also a history of 19th century Russian...
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Transformation of Central Asia : States and Societies From Soviet Rule To Independence (04 Edition)
by Pauline Jones Publisher Comments The Transformation of Central Asia: States and Societies from Soviet Rule to Independence expertly examines the institutional processes involved in the daunting task of building new states in Central Asia following the fall of the Soviet Union....
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Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn, Post-Soviet Republic
by Thomas Goltz Publisher Comments This underground classic tells the story of oil-rich Azerbaijan's first years of independence from Moscow. Goltz's vivid, personal account, filled with memorable portraits of individuals in high places and low, carries the reader from the battlefront to...
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Chienne De Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya
by Anne Nivat 
Publisher Comments Two years ago, when she was thirty years old, Anne Nivat decided to see first-hand what war was all about. Russia had just launched its second brutal campaign against Chechnya. And though the Russians strictly forbade Westerners from covering the war...
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The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian Far East
by Alexia Bloch Publisher Comments A little over a century ago the American Museum of Natural History launched its ambitious Jesup North Pacific Expedition to learn more about the peoples inhabiting the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America. In...
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The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus
by Charles King Publisher Comments The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the twentieth century lay inside the Soviet Union, before...
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Revolution in Orange (06 Edition)
by Aslund Synopsis The dramatic series of protests and political events that unfolded in Ukraine in the fall of 2004the Orange Revolutionwere seminal both for Ukrainian history and the history of democratization. Pro-Western presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was...
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Grief of My Heart: Memoirs of a Chechen Surgeon
by Khassan Baiev Publisher Comments A Booklist Editor’s Choice for 2003 In this riveting memoir, Khassan Baiev relates his harrowing experiences as a surgeon in one of the worst war zones of the last decade. When the hospital where Baiev worked in Grozny, the Chechen capital, was...
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Stories I Stole from Georgia
by Wendell Steavenson Publisher Comments After working for Time magazine in London, Wendell Steavenson spent two years in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Stories I Stole captures the exuberance of a fledgling nation of local despots, mountain tribes, blood feuds, and an unlimited flow of...
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Armenian People Volume 2 From Ancient Times
by Richard Hovannisian Publisher Comments Edited by the leading historian of the Republic of Armenia, this is the definitive history of an extraordinary country - from its earliest foundations, through the Crusades, the resistance to Ottoman and Tsarist rule, the collapse of the independent...
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