Soviet States Post 1985
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After Atheism: Religion and Ethnicity in Russia and Central Asia (Caucasus World)
by David C Lewis  Publisher Comments Based on interviews with people throughout Siberia, Central Asia and European Russia about their spiritual experiences, this book brings together insights into the "religious" world-view of those who claim to be Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, pagan or even...
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The Kremlin & the High Command: Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin (Modern War Studies)
by Dale R Herspring Publisher Comments Throughout its existence, the Red Army was viewed as a formidable threat. By the end of the Cold War, however, it had become the weakest link in the Soviet Union's power structure. Always subordinate to the Communist Party, the military in 1991 suddenly...
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Failed Crusade : America and the Tragedy of Post-communist Russia, Updated (00 Edition)
by Stephen F. Cohen Publisher Comments 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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Steeltown, USSR
by Stephen Kotkin Publisher Comments No one, not even Mikhail Gorbachev, anticipated what was in store when the Soviet Union embarked in the 1980s on a radical course of long-overdue structural reform. The consequences of that momentous decision, which set in motion a transformation...
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The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition
by Andrew Horton Publisher Comments Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most interesting in the world, aesthetically as well as politically. How have Soviet...
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Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
by David Satter Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-302) and index....
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The End of the Communist Revolution
by Robert V Daniels Publisher Comments The End of the Communist Revolution puts Perestroika firmly in its long-term historical perspective as the final stage of a long revolutionary process, and within the context of Leninism, Stalinism and Breshnevism. Daniels puts forward a new...
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Memories of a Meltdown: An Egyptian Between Moscow and Chernobyl
by Mohamed Makhzangi Publisher Comments In the spring of 1986, Mohamed Makhzangi was living in Kiev, an Egyptian doctor studying in the Ukraine. As a result, he--like thousands of other--found himself living a nuclear nightmare when the Chernobyl plant had a catastrophic meltdown. Despite...
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The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
by Amin Saikal Publisher Comments Nearly ten years of bloodshed and political turmoil have followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Soviet occupation not only proved a major trauma for the people of Afghanistan; invasion ended at a stroke the growth in superpower detente that...
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Russia's Road to Deeper Democracy
by Tom Bjorkman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-133) and index....
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Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed
by Anders Aslund Synopsis This book focuses on the transformation from Soviet Russia to Russia as a market economy and explores why the country has failed to transform into a democracy. Aslund provides a broad overview of Russia's economic change, highlighting the most important...
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Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia
by Valerie Sperling Publisher Comments This book offers a rich and clearly-written analysis of the women's movement in contemporary Russia. It tells the engaging story of the women's movement's formation and development in a country undergoing a radical economic and political transition from...
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Notes from Russia: Hand-Made Street Notices
by Alexei Plutser-samo Publisher Comments Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Alexei Plutser-Samo....
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Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
by David Satter Publisher Comments Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime. This riveting book...
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Cambridge Soviet Paperbacks #03: After Gorbachev
by Stephen White Publisher Comments Dramatic and confusing changes in what used to be the Soviet Union have transformed the world in which we live. This fourth edition of Stephen White's best-selling introductory text has been revised throughout and examines the full cycle of this period...
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Casino Moscow : a Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism's Wildest Frontier (01 Edition)
by Matthew Brzezinki 
Publisher Comments After awakening from its long communist slumber, Russia in the 1990s was a place where everything and everyone was for sale, and fortunes could be made and lost overnight. Into this free-market maelstrom stepped rookie "Wall Street Journal" reporter...
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The Legacy of Chernobyl
by Zhores A. Medvedev Publisher Comments On the morning of April 26, 1986, a Soviet nuclear plant at Chernobyl (near Kiev) exploded, pouring radioactivity into the environment and setting off the worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy. Now a former Soviet scientist gives a...
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Dispatches from the Former Evil Empire
by Richard Threlkeld Publisher Comments As a former Moscow correspondent for CBS news, Threlkeld was an observer of the Russian scene during the last years of Yeltsin's regime. He takes the reader on a colorful ride from crime-ridden East Siberia to the glitzy casino world of Moscow, and...
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Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia
by Marshall Goldman Publisher Comments In the aftermath of the financial collapse of August 1998, it looked as if Russia's day as a superpower had come and gone. That it should recover and reassert itself after less than a decade is nothing short of an economic and political miracle. Based on...
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Inside Putin's Russia : Can There Be Reform Without Democracy? (04 Edition)
by Andrew Jack Publisher Comments International views of Russia have changed drastically in the last decade, due in part to the leadership of the decidedly pro-Western President Yeltsin. It was not without concern that we saw the next elected leader pulled from the ranks of the former...
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