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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick  
Publisher Comments In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving...
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Russia in the New Century PB
by Victoria E Bonnell Publisher Comments What has happened to Russia since the collapse of communism in 1991 and where is the country going in the new century? Russia has escaped widespread social disorder or political collapse, but few observers would argue that the situation has stabilized...
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The Warrior Who Would Rule Russia
by Benjamin Lambeth Publisher Comments Lambeth draws on over two years of interviews with Lieutenant General Aleksandr I. Lebed to construct this first and only detailed portrait....
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Russia's Islamic Threat
by Gordon M Hahn Publisher Comments The notion that the Chechen-led jihad in the North Caucasus is an indigenous affair, far removed from the global Islamist jihad, is perhaps comforting to Americans and other Westerners, but it is a myth. Moreover, the North Caucasus jihad may be the...
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Russian Pluralism--Now Irreversible?
by Uri Raanan Publisher Comments The writers in this book question whether there may be a reversion to an authoritarian system in Russia....
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The Litvinenko File: The Life and Death of a Russian Spy
by Martin Sixsmith Publisher Comments The first book-length account of the radiation poisoning murder of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-KGB officer who turned against the Kremlin and fled Moscow. Includes 8-page photo insert....
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Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter
by Igor Kostin Publisher Comments On April 26, 1986, Reactor #4 at the V. I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant near Chernobyl exploded, releasing 400 times more radioactive matter than the bombing of Hiroshima. Igor Kostin, then a reporter for the Novosti Agency, took the very first photograph...
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General Alexander Lebed
by Alexander Lebed Publisher Comments General Alexander Lebed is the most popular leader in Russia and its likely next president. Now, here is the brawling autobiography of this paratrooper, politician, peacemaker, and patriot. General Lebed's story takes readers from vodka-sodden arguments...
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Politics of Transition: Shaping a Post-Soviet Future
by Stephen White Publisher Comments Traces the politics of Soviet transition in the late 1980s and early 1990s from its origins to its uncertain post-communist...
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Imagined Economies: The Sources of Russian Regionalism (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by Yoshiko M Herrera Publisher Comments This book analyses the economics of regional sovereignty movements in the Russian Federation from 1990 — 1993....
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End of Eurasia : Russia on the Border Between Geopolitics and Globalization (02 Edition)
by Dmitri Trenin Publisher Comments Ten years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the issue of Russias international identity still remains largely unresolved. In this thought-provoking book, Dmitri Trenin argues that Russia must join the West by becoming integrated with the European...
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After the Collapse Russia Seeks Its Plac
by Dimitri K Simes Publisher Comments Nearly a decade has passed since the breakup of the Soviet Union. Today developments in the region trouble the world once again as Russia simultaneously struggles with economic crisis and attempts to pursue a newly assertive foreign policy. But today's...
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The Russian Mafia: Private Protection in a New Market Economy
by Federico Varese Publisher Comments Challenging widely held views, this book presents a thorough account of the Russian Mafia. It charts the emergence of the group in the context of the transition to the market, the privatization of protection, and pervasive corruption. It includes reports...
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New Nations Rising: The Fall of the Soviets and the Challenge of Independence
by Nadia Duik Publisher Comments Two leading experts describe in vivid detail the indomitable forces of nationalism reshaping the countries of the former Soviet Union and offer crucial insight into the likely future of the region. Nadia Diuk and Adrian Karatnycky have traveled...
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Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in and After the Soviet Union: The Mind Aflame
by Valerii Ale Tishkov Publisher Comments Valery Tishkov is a well-known Russian historian and anthropologist, and former Minister of Nationalities in Yeltsin's government. This book draws on his inside knowledge of major events and extensive primary research.</p> <p></p> <p&...
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Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Commumist Russia
by Stephen F Cohen Synopsis A professor of Russian studies reveals what really happened in Russia after the end of the Soviet Union and the complicity of U.S. policy in a great human tragedy. "Failed Crusade" is a deeply informed and passionate call for a new policy toward Russia...
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Beslan: The Tragedy of School No. 1
by Timothy Phillips Publisher Comments On the morning of September 1, 2004, the children of Beslan were excited about the start of a new school year. But as traditional festivities got underway, heavily armed terrorists stormed the school playground, changing ordinary lives in the southern...
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Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military
by Zoltan Barany Publisher Comments Why have Russian generals acquired an important political position since the Soviet Union's collapse while at the same time the effectiveness of their forces has deteriorated? Why have there been no radical defense reforms in Russia since the end of the...
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Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture (Culture and Society After Socialism)
by Eliot Borenstein Book News Annotation "Overkill" is the term Borenstein (Russian / Slavic studies, New York U.) uses to describe the sensationally violent and abnormally graphic sexual nature of entertainment and mass culture in late- and post-Soviet Russia. In his examination of the "new...
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Reeling in Russia
by Fen Montaigne Publisher Comments In the summer of 1996, award-winning journalist Fen Montaigne embarked on a hundred-day, seven-thousand-mile journey across Russia. Traveling with his fly rod, he began his trek in northwestern Russia on the Solovetsky Islands, a remote archipelago that...
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