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by William Husband  Publisher Comments By integrating the human dimension into Russian history, The Human Tradition in Modern Russia introduces Russian social history to readers in a provocative and interesting new way. The essays in this unique collection are based largely on previously... (read more)  List Price $18.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Andrew Konitzer Publisher Comments Russian regional-level voting has been a better instrument of democracy than some might think, according to this close and systematic examination. In elections for provincial governors, republican presidents, and other executives of Russia's various sub... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Rosefielde Publisher Comments This book demonstrates Russia's intention to re-emerge as a full-fledged superpower before 2010.... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vladimir Putin Publisher Comments Who is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly -- overnight and without warning -- was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world? How can we trust him if we don't know him?<P>... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Shay Mcneal Publisher Comments Chapter One Setting the Stage Chaos and Fear At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Romanov dynasty had ruled Russia for 300 years and Tsar Nicholas II was considered one of the wealthiest men in the world. Russia was an immense country... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zoltan Barany Publisher Comments Why have Russian generals acquired an important political position since the Soviet Union's collapse while at the same time the effectiveness of their forces has deteriorated? Why have there been no radical defense reforms in Russia since the end of the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Yuri Tarnopolsky Publisher Comments Tarnopolsky recounts his year in a Siberian labor camp, and offers his interpretation of the fall of the Soviet Empire and the future Russian crossroads.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Vernadsky Publisher Comments Generally recognized as the standard one-volume history of Russia, this monumental work describes Russia's growth from the times of the nomadic tribes to the present Cold War and examines the social, religious, and cultural as well as the political and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $4.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ellen Mickiewicz Publisher Comments Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last three decades. In 1960, only five percent of the population had access to TV, but now the viewing population has reached near total saturation. Today's main source of information in the... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nancy Rosenfeld Publisher Comments A significant contribution to our understanding of how grassroots American Jewish activism on behalf of Soviet Jewry helped 'open the iron door' of the U.S.S.R..-- Publishers... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anna Geifman Publisher Comments "[Geifman] argues effectively that those who practiced individual acts of violence against tsarist officials and the population in general had a much more destructive effect on the imperial regime than has generally been acknowledged in the historical... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laurie S Stoff Publisher Comments Women have participated in war throughout history, but their experience in Russia during the First World War was truly exceptional. Between the war's beginning and the October Revolution of 1917, approximately 6,000 women answered their country's call... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Aleksander Topolski Publisher Comments ALEKSANDER TOPOLSKI was sixteen years old on the morning of August 24, 1939, when he was called up for military service. In eight days his native Poland would be invaded by the Germans. Shortly after that, the Russians rolled in under the Hitler-Stalin... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexander J Motyl Publisher Comments With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the subsequent creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the nationality question has assumed central importance. In this collection of essays, twelve leading specialists analyze the current situation.... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joel C Moses Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 186) and index.... (read more) Your price $13.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Andrew Publisher Comments In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West remained a secret until the publication of The Sword and the Shield in 1999. That man was Vasili Mitrokhin, the KGB's most senior archivist... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments Our foremost authority on Russian communism -- the author of the definitive studies The Russian Revolution and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime -- now addresses succinctly the enigmas of that country's seventy-year enthrallment, asking: Why did tsarism... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Kotkin Publisher Comments No one, not even Mikhail Gorbachev, anticipated what was in store when the Soviet Union embarked in the 1980s on a radical course of long-overdue structural reform. The consequences of that momentous decision, which set in motion a transformation... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Pearson Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of The Sealed Train and Those Damned Rebels comes the definitive biography of Inessa Armand: revolutionary, tactician, and confidante and mistress of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Although she is little known today, after the October... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Khassan Baiev Publisher Comments A Booklist Editor’s Choice for 2003 In this riveting memoir, Khassan Baiev relates his harrowing experiences as a surgeon in one of the worst war zones of the last decade. When the hospital where Baiev worked in Grozny, the Chechen capital, was... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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