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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 Joanne Turnbull Publisher Comments Recently unearthed in the archives of the NKVD, Nina Lugovskaya's diary provides a rare window into the daily routines of an educated Moscow family during the 1930s. Nina's diary begins in 1932, after her father's return from three years exile in Siberia.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 $14.50 (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 $8.50 (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 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 Eugenia Ginzburg Publisher Comments Both witness to and victim of Stalin's reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia's prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book<BR>... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian Moynahan Publisher Comments Grigory Efimovich Rasputin—drinker, thief, womanizer—arrived in St. Petersburg in 1903 as if from the medieval past . . . tattered, black-clad, muttering. By the time of his sensational murder thirteen years later, the peasant was the ”... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Woodford Mcclellan Publisher Comments This up-to-date history of Russia -- from the cataclysmic events of 1917 to the uncertain, explosive present -- is based on the latest findings of scholars from Russia and the West. The book reflects the author's "own" extensive research in many Russian... (read more) List Price $51.00 Your price $12.49 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 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 Robert C. Tucker Publisher Comments Here, in a compact yet comprehensive volume, are the essentials of Lenin's writings, each of them introduced with a brief interpretive commentary. Patterned after Professor Tucker's highly successful anthology The Marx-Engels Reader, this book includes... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price $8.95 (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... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Omer Bartov Publisher Comments In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.95 (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 Stephen K Wegren Publisher Comments This comprehensive, original and innovative analysis of the social, economic and political factors affecting contemporary Russian reform is based upon extensive field work, interviews, archival documents, and published and unpublished source material... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Murphy Publisher Comments The Dubrovka Theater Center seige in the center of Moscow on October 23, 2002 by Chechen Islamic terrorists ushered in a new, hostile escalation in the fanatical Islamic Chechen's ten-year fight against the Russian state. The "wolves of Islam" have... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $15.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Milovan Djilas Publisher Comments A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.<BR>... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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