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Yeltsin: A Life
by Timothy J. Colton  Publisher Comments Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and the withdrawal of Soviet control over eastern Europe, it...
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Russia in Search of Itself
by James H Billington Publisher Comments In the turbulent decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union, conditions have worsened considerably for many Russians, and a wide-ranging debate has raged over the nature and destiny of their country. In Russia in Search of Itself, James H. Billington,...
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The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
by David Hoffman Publisher Comments David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post, sheds light onto the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men Hoffman reveals how a few players managed to take over Russia'...
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Blowing Up Russia : the Secret Plot To Bring Back KGB Terror (07 Edition)
by Alexander Litvinenko Synopsis Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006. In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the Russian...
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Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter
by Igor (pht) 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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Gorbachev: On My Country and the World
by Mikhail Gorbachev Publisher Comments Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects...
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Voices From Chernobyl : Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (06 Edition)
by Svetlana Alexievich 
Publisher Comments Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of what happened on April 26, 1986, when the worst nuclear reactor accident in history contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Svetlana Alexievich--a journalist who now...
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Running with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland
by Roger Took Publisher Comments Russian Lapland, a region of amazing contrasts. Here lies the last true wilderness of Europe, a rich and pristine ecosystem teeming with bird and animal life. But here too lie the dark, satanic mills of the former Soviet Union and the rotting remnants of...
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Capitalism Russian-Style
by Thane Gustafson Publisher Comments Capitalism Russian-Style provides a progress report on one of the most important economic experiments going on in the world today: the building of capitalism in Russia. It describes Russian achievements in building private banks, companies, stock...
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Black Earth: A Journey through Russia After the Fall
by Andrew Meier Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-495) and index....
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Russia's Fate Through Russian Eyes: Perspectives of a New Generation
by Heyward Isham Publisher Comments Blowing the cobwebs from antiquated notions of Russia as an enigmatic nation doomed to tragic failure, twenty-eight articulate and entrepreneurial young Russian men and women--representatives of a new generation who came of age during and after the fall...
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Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower
by Steven Rosefielde Publisher Comments This book demonstrates Russia's intention to re-emerge as a full-fledged superpower before 2010....
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Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution
by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser Publisher Comments In the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia, from this generation's leading Moscow...
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The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan
by Artyom Borovik Publisher Comments Until his death in 2000, Artyom Borovik was considered one of the preeminent journalists in Russia. With The Hidden War he provided the world its first glimpse inside the Soviet military machine, capturing the soldiers' terror, helplessness, and despair...
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Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall
by Andrew Meier Publisher Comments A Decade After the Soviet Collapse, Russia remains a country in limbo, a land of vast potential struggling with an unfinished past. Journeying to Russia's five corners -- Moscow, Chechnya, Norilsk, Sakhalin, and St. Petersburg -- Andrew Meier, a former...
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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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Out of Order: Russian Political Values in an Imperfect World
by Ellen Carnaghan Synopsis One common explanation for the failure of democracyto take root in Russia more quickly and more thoroughly than it has points to inherited cultural values that predispose Russian citizens to favor an autocratic type of governance. Ellen Carnaghan takes...
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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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