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by E T Gaidar  Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-133) and index.... (read more)  List Price $30.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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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... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments Rasputin, one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the twentieth century, has remained cloaked in the myth of his own devising since his extraordinary ascent to power in the court of Nicholas and Alexandra, the last tsar and tsarina of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen White Publisher Comments This book, written by three of the West's leading scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, traces the politics of transition in the late 1980s and early 1990s from its origins to its uncertain post-communist future. Detailed but clearly and accessibly... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $2.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joel M Ostrow Publisher Comments One dilemma facing new or newly independent states, such as those of the former Soviet Union, is how to design effective legislatures when political parties are weak and fragmented or even nonexistent. In this book, Joel M. Ostrow develops a comparative... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anatoly Shcharansky Publisher Comments Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharanskey is a man very much like many of us -- which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years' imprisonment in the Orwellian universe of the Soviet gulag particularly... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John M Thompson Publisher Comments The fifth edition of this lucid account of Russian and Soviet history from ancient Kievan Rus' to Vladimir Putin's presidency in the early years of the twenty-first century presents major events and trends. Thompson also covers controversial topics... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dmitri Trenin Publisher Comments In "Russias Restless Frontier," Dmitri Trenin and Aleksei Malashenko examine the implications of the war with Chechnya for Russias post-Soviet evolution. Considering Chechnyas impact on Russias military, domestic politics, foreign policy, and ethnic... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicolai N Petro Publisher Comments How could the West have better prepared for the fall of communism and gained a clearer picture of Russia's new political landscape? By cultivating an awareness, Nicolai Petro argues, of the deep democratic aspirations of the Russian people since... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Nivat 
Publisher Comments Two years ago, when she was thirty years old, Anne Nivat decided to see first-hand what war was all about. Russia had just launched its second brutal campaign against Chechnya. And though the Russians strictly forbade Westerners from covering the war... (read more) List Price $29.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Loren R Graham Publisher Comments Although by the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment became the largest in the world, little is known about it in the West. Loren Graham presents the first concise, modern history of science in Russia, the Soviet Union, and the commonwealth of... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lindsey Hughes Book News Annotation 300 years of Russian history is explored in this account of the Romanov family, which traces this rule from to Tsar Michael in the 17th century to the execution of Tsar Nicholas II in the days following the end of World War I. Hughes, a noted... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger E Kanet Publisher Comments The world has recently witnessed remarkable changes in Soviet foreign policy. Eastern Europe has sprung free of the country that held it in its grip for over forty years. The Soviet leadership has accepted the reunification of Germany and supported the... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $11.53 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Galeotti Synopsis Covers "security", incorporating military doctrine, political skulduggery, international relations and economic stablilty, seeking to knit them together into a coherent whole. The book follows a broadly chronological line and each chapter contains a... (read more) Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Riha Thomas Publisher Comments "This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items; 20 of the selections are new. The first volume has undergone the least change with 3 new items, of which... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edgar Knobloch Publisher Comments A new approach to the study of Russian history. Traditionally the history of Russia has been interpreted from the European standpoint, and has more often than not been based on European sources and methods. However, Edgar Knobloch takes a completely new... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Steinberg Publisher Comments The book is based on documents and photographs from recently opened Russian archives and from Western collections. The documents, which appear for the first time in English (the language in which some of them were originally written), include... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Kuchins Synopsis Russias first decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union has been simultaneously tumultuous and transformative. For most of the 1990s the Russian economy was in free fall, the legal system in absentia, and the majority of citizens engaged primarily in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fred Coleman Publisher Comments For this authoritative work on the slow collapse of the Soviet Union, Fred Coleman draws on over thirty years of first-hand observations and personal experiences as a Moscow correspondent. Having interviewed at length major Soviet figures-from Sakharov... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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