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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 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 Ronald Grigor Suny Publisher Comments This timely work shows how and why the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union was caused in large part by nationalism. Unified in their hostility to the Kremlin's authority, the fifteen constituent Union Republics, including the Russian Republic, declared... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Wilson Publisher Comments A close-up account of the 2004 popular revolution in Ukraine, and what it means... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Reed Publisher Comments In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Remnick 
Publisher Comments In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Victoria E Bonnell Publisher Comments Here, for the first time in English translation, are contemporary accounts of working-class life during the final decades of the Russian Empire. Written by workers and other close observers of their milieu, these five selections recreate the world of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michelle La Marrese Publisher Comments In A Woman's Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noblewomen's unusual property rights. In contrast to women in Western Europe, who could not control their assets during marriage until the second half of the nineteenth... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $26.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andre Liebich Publisher Comments This book is an inquiry into the possibilities of politics in exile. Russian Mensheviks, driven out of Soviet Russia and their party stripped of legal existence, functioned abroad in the West--in Berlin, Paris, and New York--for an entire generation. For... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.50 (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 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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by D C Lieven Publisher Comments In this ambitious book, Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire form ancient Rome to the present. Focusing on Russia, Lieven compares the Tsarist and Soviet empires with others throughout history.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser Publisher Comments In the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia, from this generation's leading Moscow... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Meier Publisher Comments A Decade After the Soviet Collapse, Russia remains a country in limbo, a land of vast potential struggling with an unfinished past. Journeying to Russia's five corners -- Moscow, Chechnya, Norilsk, Sakhalin, and St. Petersburg -- Andrew Meier, a former... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gordon M Hahn Publisher Comments The notion that the Chechen-led jihad in the North Caucasus is an indigenous affair, far removed from the global Islamist jihad, is perhaps comforting to Americans and other Westerners, but it is a myth. Moreover, the North Caucasus jihad may be the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments Harvard Professor of Russian History Richard Pipes traces the evolution of the Russian state from the ninth century to the 1800s. Pipes analyzes the political behavior of the principal social groupingspeasantry, nobility, middle class, and clergyand... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James H Billington Publisher Comments "A rich and readable introduction to the whole sweep of Russian cultural and intellectual history from Kievan times to the post-Khruschev era." - Library Journal. Illustrations, references, index.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Mccauley Publisher Comments One of the most successful dictators of the twentieth century, Stalin believed that fashioning a better tomorrow was worth sacrificing the lives of millions today. He built a modern Russia on the corpses of millions of its citizens. First published in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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