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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 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 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 $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Mccauley Publisher Comments Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Stalinism still casts its shadow over post-Communist Russia. For the Second Edition of this popuar text, the author re-examines this remarkable phenomenon in the light of the latest research findings of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anders Aslund Synopsis This book focuses on the transformation from Soviet Russia to Russia as a market economy and explores why the country has failed to transform into a democracy. Aslund provides a broad overview of Russia's economic change, highlighting the most important... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wendell Steavenson Publisher Comments After working for Time magazine in London, Wendell Steavenson spent two years in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Stories I Stole captures the exuberance of a fledgling nation of local despots, mountain tribes, blood feuds, and an unlimited flow of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Gordin Publisher Comments Dmitrii Mendeleev: It's a name we recognize, but only as the disheveled scientist pictured in our high school chemistry textbook, the creator of the periodic table of elements. Until now, little has been known about the man, but A Well-Ordered Thing... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marian Dziewanowski Book News Annotation A popular account of the enigmatic monarch that locates him both among the events and personalities of the court of St. Petersburg and on the larger stage of Napoleonic Europe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Avrich Publisher Comments In the turmoil of the Russian insurrection of 1905 and civil war of 1917, the anarchists attempted to carry out their program of "direct action"-workers' control of production, the creation of free rural and urban communes, and partisan warfare against... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rodric Braithwaite Publisher Comments In this new book, the authors assert that the Trilateral countriesthe United States, Canada, Japan, and the nations of the European Unionhave made an inadequate and intermittent commitment of policy toward Russia since 1991. They focus on four broad... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price $2.40 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 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 $32.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Fen Montaigne Publisher Comments In the summer of 1996, award-winning journalist Fen Montaigne embarked on a hundred-day, seven-thousand-mile journey across Russia. Traveling with his fly rod, he began his trek in northwestern Russia on the Solovetsky Islands, a remote archipelago that... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by W Bruce Lincoln Publisher Comments For three centuries--beginning with the accession of Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov in 1613--the Romanov Dynasty ruled Russia. Its reign ended with the execution of Nicholas II and Alexandra in the early 20th century. Noted Russian scholar W. Bruce Lincoln... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ellen Jones Publisher Comments This book explores social change in the Soviet Union.... (read more) List Price $110.00 Your price $15.90 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Victor M. Fic Publisher Comments The history books that claim that the Bolshevik victory was a "historic inevitability" present a narrow point of view. This important volume sets the record straight and relates the story of the vanquished, non-Bolshevik political groups who sought in... (read more) Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Vadim J Birstein Publisher Comments During the Soviet years, Russian science was touted as one of the greatest successes of the regime. Russian science was considered to be equal, if not superior, to that of the wealthy western nations. The Perversion of Knowledge, a history of Soviet... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sheila Fitzpatrick Publisher Comments Lenin's New Economic Policy of the 1920s, although a relatively free and open potential alternative to Soviet communism, was also a time of extreme tension, as Russian society and culture were rocked by the forces of resistance and change. These essays... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lynne Viola Publisher Comments The collectivization of Soviet agriculture in the late 1920s and 1930s forever altered the country's social and economic landscape. It became the first of a series of bloody landmarks that would come to define Stalinism. This revelatory book presents... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $31.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Felkay Publisher Comments Freed from over forty years of Soviet domination, Hungary finally was given a chance to determine its own destiny in the last decade of the twentieth century. This book takes the reader through the complex period of Hungary's transformation from a Soviet... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price $7.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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