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Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR: A Survey of Former Soviet Citizens
by James R Millar  Publisher Comments This book illustrates how the Soviet social system works and how the Soviet people cope with it....
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New Directions in Soviet History (Icse)
by Stephen White Publisher Comments Soviet history has seldom been of such importance--both to historians and to a broader public in the USSR--as it now is. In this timely volume, scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, using a breadth of source material including Soviet archives and the...
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Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union
by Geoffrey Hosking Publisher Comments Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union "Russia." Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end, in fact, Russia actually destroyed the Soviet Union. How did this happen, and what kind...
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Washington Papers #150: Soviet Policy Toward Israel Under Gorbachev
by Robert O. Freedman Publisher Comments Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power in 1985 signalled the beginning of significant improvements in Soviet-Israeli relations--thoroughly examined in this well-researched volume. Based on an analysis of Soviet behavior and interviews with Israeli and Soviet...
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Thank You, Comrade Stalin!: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War
by Jeffrey Brooks Publisher Comments Thank you, our Stalin, for a happy childhood." "Thank you, dear Marshal [Stalin], for our freedom, for our children's happiness, for life." Between the Russian Revolution and the Cold War, Soviet public culture was so dominated by the power of the state...
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The Soviet Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the USSR
by Michael Kort Book News Annotation **** New edition of a book endorsed, in earlier incarnations, by BCL3. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Hope Against Hope: A Memoir (Modern Library)
by Nadezhd Mandelshtam Publisher Comments A poignant monument to their love and is also a unique first-hand account of the life of the intelligentsia under Stalin. Mandelstam describes what it was like to get the knock on the door in the middle of the night and to live a life in exile, unable to...
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Dancing Under the Red Star: The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag
by Karl Tobien Publisher Comments Written by her son, this inspiring chronicle of faith, defiance, and personal triumph tells the unforgettable true story of Margaret Werner, the only American woman to survive Stalin's Gulag....
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Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953
by Jonathan Brent Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-386) and index....
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Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
by Donald Rayfield Publisher Comments Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin's dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted...
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Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917
by Stephen F Cohen Publisher Comments In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Stephen F. Cohen cuts through Cold War stereotypes of the Soviet Union to arrive at fresh interpretations of that country's traumatic history and its present-day political realities. Cohen's lucidly written...
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Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia
by Gabriel Gorodetsky Publisher Comments In this rich and engaging book Gorodetsky draws on vital new archival material to unravel the mystery of Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941 and Stalin's enigmatic behavior on the eve of the attack. 16 illustrations....
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Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali Publisher Comments What the Kremlin wanted during the Cold War — and what it was willing to do to get it. Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth century. In Khrushchev's Cold War, Aleksandr...
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Russian Dance: A True Story of Intrigue and Passion in Stalinist Moscow
by Aelion Brooks Publisher Comments A riveting true story of a beautiful woman and her Jewish lover caught up in Stalin's purges of the Old Bolsheviks in Russia in the 1930s....
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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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First Socialist Society 2ND Edition
by Geoffrey Hosking Publisher Comments "The First Socialist Society" is the compelling and often tragic history of what Soviet citizens have lived through from 1917 to the present, told with great sympathy and perception. It ranges over the changing lives of peasants, urban workers, and...
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Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents (Annals of Communism)
by Lewis Siegelbaum Publisher Comments "An extremely valuable contribution to the study of Stalinism."--Slavic...
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Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin
by Jochen Hellbeck Publisher Comments "Revolution on My Mind" is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia. We see into the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror. Writing a diary,...
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Stalin: A Biography
by Robert Service Publisher Comments Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure...
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Sakharov: A Biography
by Richard Lourie Publisher Comments The first biography of one of the greatest Russians of the twentieth century....
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