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by Walter C Clemens  Publisher Comments Why isn't the Baltic region like the Balkans? Why have the Baltic republics not experienced ethnic cleansing, border wars, authoritarian rule, and social chaos? Instead, peace, democracy, and market economies have taken root since the fall of communism... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $6.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Lesley Blanch Publisher Comments Book jacket/back: This is the magnificent account of the people of that exotic land, the Caucasus, their heroic leader Shamyl and their courageous thirty year fight to stem the tide of Russian Imperialism. It is also a history of 19th century Russian... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Woodruff Publisher Comments Drawing on a vast array of empirical evidence, Woodruff shows how the widespread use of barter arose as local authorities tried to protect industry against the destructive effects of price increases and crude tax and accounting systems. As businesses... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tatyana Tolstaya Publisher Comments These twenty pieces address the politics, culture, and literature of Russia with both flair and erudition. Passionate and opinionated, often funny, and using ample material from daily life to underline their ideas and observations, Tatyana Tolstaya's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Andrew Publisher Comments The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the "most... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carolly Erickson Publisher Comments Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anatol Lieven Publisher Comments In this subtle, penetrating study, Anatol Lieven presents an intimate and engaging portrait of the history, culture and politics of the Baltic States from their ancient origins to their contemporary status.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments Although some twenty million people died during Stalin's reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruben Gallego Publisher Comments This is an extraordinary personal testament, the story of one boy's triumph in the face of impossible obstacles. Born with cerebral palsy in Moscow, Ruben Gallego was hidden away in Soviet state institutions by his maternal grandfather, the secretary... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Taubman 
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 793-824) and index.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marshall T Poe Publisher Comments "This unique, interesting, and stimulating book shoehorns the whole of Russian history into a single long essay, one that is argued very forcefully and written with remarkable clarity and verve."--Reginald Zelnik, University of California, Berkeley... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott Shane Publisher Comments A brilliant and original account of how Gorbachev's easing of information controls destroyed the illusions of communism and drove the Soviet system to ruin. Shane writes with such bracing authority, such startling insight, that Dismantling Utopia must be... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.21 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Solomon Volkov Publisher Comments From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $20.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Service Publisher Comments of political oppression and social intimidation that has yet to be expunged.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gail W Lapidus Publisher Comments In this book, distinguished U.S. and Russian scholars analyze the great challenges confronting post-Communist Russia and examine the Yeltsin government's attempts to deal with them. Focusing on problems of state- and nation-building, economic reform... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $4.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey Hosking Publisher Comments From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge, flat expanse dominates the Eurasian continent. Here, over more than a thousand years, the history and destiny of Russia have unfolded. In a sweeping narrative, one of the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan M Ball Publisher Comments In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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