Post Soviet Republics
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Gulag: A History
by Anne Applebaum  
Publisher Comments The Gulag — the vast array of Soviet concentration camps — was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust. The Gulag entered the world's historical...
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Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetr
by Peter Demetz Publisher Comments A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia’s great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter...
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One Soldier's War
by Arkady Babchenko Publisher Comments One Soldier’s War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of the book was hailed by Tibor...
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
by Anna Politkovskaya Publisher Comments Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has struggled under Russian domination for centuries. The region declared its independence in 1991, leading to a brutal war, Russian withdrawal, and subsequent "governance" by bandits and...
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Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
by Omer Bartov Publisher Comments In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the...
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Siberia (Westview Series on the Post-Soviet Republics)
by Victor L. Mote Publisher Comments Known to most as a realm of exile and labor camps, Siberia is also one of the world’s wealthiest resource bases. This harsh, vast land constitutes nearly three-quarters of Russia’s territory, yet after four centuries of Slavic migration and...
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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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Muslim Communities Reemerge: Historical Perspectives on Nationality, Politics, and Opposition in the Former Soviet Union and Yugo (Central Asia Book Series)
by Andreas Kappeler Publisher Comments The terrible events afflicting Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tajikistan fill the news, commanding the world's attention. This timely volume offers rare insight into the background of these catastrophic conflicts. First published in German on the eve...
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Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation
by Serhy Yekelchyk Publisher Comments In 2004 and 2005, striking images from the Ukraine made their way around the world, among them boisterous, orange-clad crowds protesting electoral fraud and the hideously scarred face of a poisoned opposition candidate. Europe's second-largest country...
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Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule
by Karel C Berkhoff Publisher Comments "If I find a Ukrainian who is worthy of sitting at the same table with me, I must have him shot," declared Nazi commissar Erich Koch. To the Nazi leaders, the Ukrainians were Untermenschenandmdash;subhumans. But the rich land was deemed prime territory...
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Croatia: A Nation Forged in War
by Marcus Tanner Synopsis In this book an eyewitness to the breakup of Yugoslavia provides the first full account of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Croatia from its medieval origins to today's tentative peace. Marcus Tanner describes the creation of the first Croatian state; its...
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Dreamworld and Catastrophe: the Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
by Susan Buck-morss Publisher Comments The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia. As the century closes, this dream is being left behind; the belief that industrial modernization can bring about the good society by overcoming material scarcity for all has been...
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State & Nation Building in Ukraine
by Taras Kuzio Synopsis Taras Kuzio uses primary sources and interviews to survey the transformation of the Ukraine into an independent state, exploring issues such as borders, symbols, myths, national histories and new elites....
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Historical Dictionaries of Europe #47: Historical Dictionary of Slovakia
by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum Synopsis The Historical Dictionary of Slovakia offers in its second edition an up to date series of entries on Slovak political, social, and economic development since the creation of the second Slovak Republic in 1993 until its admission into the European Union...
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Imagining the Nation: History, Modernity, and Revolution in Latvia (Post-Communist Cultural Studies)
by Daina Stuku Eglitis Publisher Comments Imagining the Nation explores the fate of contemporary Latvia, a small country with a big story that is relevant for anyone wishing to better understand the nature of post-Communist transitions....
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Ukraine's Orange Revolution
by Andrew Wilson Publisher Comments The remarkable popular protest in Kiev and across Ukraine following the cooked presidential election of November 2004 has transformed the politics of eastern Europe. Andrew Wilson witnessed the events firsthand and here looks behind the headlines to...
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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 In this authoritative look at the roots of modern terrorism, Yossef Bodansky, one of the most respected—and best-informed—experts on radical Islamism in the world today, pinpoints the troubled region of Chechnya as a dangerous and little...
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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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