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The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture Under Communism
by Isaiah Berlin  Publisher Comments The first collection of Berlin's writings about the USSR, with only a few published previously under a pseudonym to protect his Russian relatives. Here are Berlin's accounts of his 1945 Foreign Office memorandum on the state of the arts under Stalin...
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Biography of No Place : From Ethnic Borderland To Soviet Heartland (04 Edition)
by Kate Brown Publisher Comments Drawing on recently opened archives, ethnography, and oral interviews that were unavailable a decade ago, "A Biography of No Place reveals Stalinist and Nazi history from the perspective of the remote borderlands, thus bringing the periphery to the...
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Armenian People From Ancient To Modern Times (04 Edition)
by Richard G. 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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Return To Diversity (4TH 08 Edition)
by Rothschild Publisher Comments Highly acclaimed and thoroughly updated, Return to Diversity, Fourth Edition, provides a comprehensive political history of East Central Europe from World War II to the present. An engaging and straightforward political narrative, the book is organized...
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Iron Curtain: From the Stage to Cold War
by Patrick Wright Publisher Comments "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." With these words, in a now legendary speech given in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill famously warned the world of the...
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A Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion & Violence in Modern Jewish History
by Michael Stanislawski Synopsis "Michael Stanislawski's "Murder in Lemberg" is an extraordinarily interesting jewel of a book. It is a good read and an exciting story. More important, this in-depth account of an 1848 murder case and its legal aftermath allows Stanislawski to get at the...
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Stories I Stole from Georgia
by Wendell Steavenson Publisher Comments Fed up with 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...
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The Baltic States in World Politics
by Birthe Hansen Publisher Comments The aim of this collaborative work is to focus on the international dimension of the security challenges faced by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania after their re-emergence as independent states in 1991. Given their specific geopolitical positioning between...
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Georgia (Caucasus World)
by Peter Nasmyth Synopsis This book is the first comprehensive cultural and historical introduction to modern Georgia. It covers the country region by region, taking the form of a literary journey through the transition from Soviet Georgia to the modern independent nation state...
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Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
by Dominique Arel Synopsis An examination of post-Soviet society through ethnic, religious, and linguistic criteria, this volume turns what is typically anthropological subject matter into the basis of politics, sociology, and history. Ten chapters cover such diverse subjects as...
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The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science
by Vadim J Birstein Publisher Comments During the Soviet years, Russian science was touted as one of the greatest successes of the regime. Russian science was considered to be equal, if not superior, to that of the wealthy western nations. The Perversion of Knowledge, a history of Soviet...
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The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State (Eugenia and Hugh M. Stewart '26 Series on Eastern Europe)
by Michael S. Melancon Publisher Comments In 1912 a thin line of Russian soldiers, confronted by a large crowd of gold miners on strike for several weeks, reacted with fear and anger. At their officers' orders, they opened fire, shooting five hundred unarmed protestors. The event reverberated...
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Croatia: A Nation Forged in War
by Marcus Tanner Publisher Comments Croatia's unique position at the crossroads of Europe--between Eastern and Western Christendom, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans and between the old Habsburg and Ottoman empires--has been both a curse and a blessing, inviting the attentions of larger...
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Ten Days That Shook the World (Dover Value Editions)
by John Reed Publisher Comments The basis for the Academy Award-winning 1981 film "Reds," Reed's classic eyewitness account captures the opening days of the Russian Revolution. His passionately involved narrative describes the fall of the provisional government, the assault on the...
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Showdown the Lithuanian Rebellion & The
by Krickus Richard J Publisher Comments This gripping eyewitness account explains the forces behind the rebellion and the role that Americans played in this important event....
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Democracy at the Local Level: A Guide for the South Caucasus
by International Idea Publisher Comments Critical elements that shape systems of local governance in the South Caucasus region are discussed in this guide to sustainable democracy. The importance of local elections, the strengths and weaknesses of different electoral systems, and citizen...
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Civil War in Siberia
by Jonathan D. Smele Publisher Comments This book traces the clash between the ???Reds??? of the Moscow-based Soviet regime and the ???Whites???, the militaristic, counter-revolutionary governments....
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Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad (National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century)
by James Hughes Publisher Comments The sheer scale and brutality of the hostilities between Russia and Chechnya stand out as an exception in the mostly peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union. Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad provides a fascinating analysis of the transformation of...
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The Cold War, 1945-1991
by Michael L. Dockrill Publisher Comments Michael Dockrill's concise study of the early years of the Cold War between the Western Powers and Soviet Union has been widely acclaimed as an authoritative guide to the subject. In this second edition, he and Michael Hopkins bring the story up to the...
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Making Common Cause: German-Soviet Secret Relations, 1919-1923
by Vasilis Vourkoutiotis Publisher Comments Using German and previously closed or underutilized Soviet archives, this work brings to date the historiography of one of the most important aspects of twentieth-century international relations: the steps by which Germany and Soviet Russia, the two...
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