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by Viktor Shklovsky  Publisher Comments Borrowing his title from Laurence Sterne, Viktor Shklovsky's A Sentimental Journey describes the travels of a bewildered intellectual through Russia, Persia, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus during the period of the Russian Revolution. Although valuable as... (read more)  List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.50 (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 $20.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lewis Siegelbaum Publisher Comments "An extremely valuable contribution to the study of Stalinism."--Slavic... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments As late as 1922 Lenin believed in the imminence of social revolution in the West, and he planned subversion in Finland, Turkey, Lithuania, and other countries. Lenin had little regard for Trotsky's judgment on important matters and relied heavily on... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $15.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Racioppi Publisher Comments This book traces the evolution of Soviet thinking about South Asia and the Third World from 1970 to the present, and examines how Soviet policy objectives changed during that period.... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $14.35 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Service Publisher Comments reshaping of their society, and the results will prove of vital importance to the global community. Robert Service has provided a valuable and engaging guide to their recent remarkable journey.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days. "Updated For The Paperback Edition.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Urban Publisher Comments How was it that after seventy years of communist dictatorship, political life returned to Russia? This book addresses that question by focusing on the individuals, groups and movements that brought this about, their struggles against the Soviet regime... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lindsey Hughes Synopsis A biography of Peter the Great (1672-1725). It tells his story from birth to death in 12 chapters, including two final chapters on his legacy and posthumous reputation, with the aim of providing a vivid sense of the dynamics of his life and reign. The... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David J. O'Brien and Stephen K. Wegren Publisher Comments Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia reviews change in agricultural and rural life since 1990 through historical, political, sociological, and anthropological investigation. The contributors' interest is not so much in agriculture itself but in agrarian... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $32.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexander Dallin Publisher Comments Bulgarian Georgi Dimitrov, Stalin's close confidant and trusted ally, served as secretary general of the Communist International (Comintern) from 1934 to its dissolution in 1943. In this revealing collection of more than fifty top-secret letters, the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Zhores A. Medvedev Publisher Comments On the morning of April 26, 1986, a Soviet nuclear plant at Chernobyl (near Kiev) exploded, pouring radioactivity into the environment and setting off the worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy. Now a former Soviet scientist gives a... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Fishbein Publisher Comments Anne Fishbein made her first trip to Yaroslavl, Russia, in 1990. She has returned nearly every year since, documenting the city's progress away from communist isolation and into the modern world. This mesmerizing collection of more than 50 black-and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Yergin Publisher Comments 2010: Russia disintegrates as its frontier regions rebel or drift into the orbit of neighboring countries. 2010: Russia is invigorated by an economic chudo -- "miracle" -- that turns it into a thriving exemplar of the free market. 2010: Russia becomes a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by G Patrick March Publisher Comments Eastern Destiny: Russia in Asia and the North Pacific is the history, in one volume, of the remarkable eastern expansion under tsars, emperors, and commissars. The narrative spans the centuries from the Mongol Conquest in the 13th century to the Cold War... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Krickus Richard J Publisher Comments This gripping eyewitness account explains the forces behind the rebellion and the role that Americans played in this important event.... (read more) Your price $3.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Manuel Gime Saurina Publisher Comments Outstanding figures who have shaped the path of history are profiled in these handsome, inexpensive volumes. These biographies detail the facts known about their subjects and emphasize their childhood, motivation, accomplishments, and humanity, as well... (read more) List Price $7.98 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey A 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 $35.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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