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by Vladimir Gimpelson and Douglas Lippoldt  Publisher Comments Labour markets are a central element of any transition from planned economy to market-oriented system. This groundbreaking book examines the plight of Russian workers and employers during the first decade of post-Soviet reforms, providing the first... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $22.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Frederick C Corney Publisher Comments All revolutionary regimes seek to legitimize themselves through foundation narratives that, told and retold, become constituent parts of the social fabric, erasing or pushing aside alternative histories. Frederick C. Corney draws on a wide range of... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edith Rogov Frankel Publisher Comments The Russian Revolution of 1917 continues to be a subject of most intense controversy; and the fundamental questions which have divided observers over the last seventy years still stir fierce debate. In this volume, eighteen leading specialists from... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lesley Chamberlain Publisher Comments In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. 'We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all' he wrote to Stalin,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Leo J Bacino Publisher Comments In an original and stimulating manner, Reconstructing Russia focuses on the Wilson administration's efforts to find some way to provide economic support to Russian Siberia as a counterpoint to German economic influence. The connection between the Wilson... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price $21.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Bjorkman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-133) and index.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $4.33 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary M Leder Publisher Comments In 1931, Mary M. Leder, an American teenager, was attending high school in Santa Monica, California. By year's end, she was living in a Moscow commune and working in a factory, thousands of miles from her family, with whom she had emigrated to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Charques Synopsis Recounts the personalities, events and movements which dominated the reign of Nicholas II in a penetrating and provocative analysis of the forces which led to the collapse of Russian tsarism.... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Willi Vanden Heuvel Publisher Comments This book challenges the current view of Russia. Contributors come from the heart of Russia and describe not only the human dimensions of current problems, but also the commitment and courage of the unsung founders of the "new Russia." Included in the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thane Gustafson Publisher Comments Capitalism Russian-Style provides a progress report on one of the most important economic experiments going on in the world today: the building of capitalism in Russia. It describes Russian achievements in building private banks, companies, stock... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Iu A Buranov Publisher Comments For most of the twentieth century, the Soviet Union was viewed by the outside world as a mysterious monolith, whose leadership was protected by secrecy and ruled by naked fear. What few know is that in the early years of the Soviet state an incredible... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Yuri Slezkine Publisher Comments 'This fascinating and authoritative book covers the history of relations between Russian civilization and the hunter-gatherer peoples of northern Eurasia. Slezkine charts changing Russian policies toward these circumpolar cultures beginning with the fur... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mikhail Epshtein Publisher Comments The last ten years have been decisive for Russia not only in the political sphere; the period has also seen the rise and crystallization of Russian Postmodernism. The essays, manifestos, and articles gathered here investigate various manifestations of... (read more) Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Caroline Brooke Publisher Comments Caroline Brooke explores the way in which Moscow has reinvented itself over the years and the fascination it has exerted over the many writers, artists, and composers who made the city their home.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ilya Zbarsky Synopsis Between 1924 and the fall of communism in 1991, many millions of visitors paid their respects to the embalmed body of Lenin in Red Square. This is the story of the mausoleum, told by the only survivor of the family that plunged the founder of the Soviet... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Valerie Sperling Publisher Comments This book offers a rich and clearly-written analysis of the women's movement in contemporary Russia. It tells the engaging story of the women's movement's formation and development in a country undergoing a radical economic and political transition from... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Toby Clyman Publisher Comments These autobiographies span the century and cover a wide range of classes and professions. Among the authors are women of the gentry (Natalia Grot), the merchant class (Aleksandra Kobiakova), the lower bureaucracy (Praskovia Tatlina), and the serf class... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Took Publisher Comments Russian Lapland, a region of amazing contrasts. Here lies the last true wilderness of Europe, a rich and pristine ecosystem teeming with bird and animal life. But here too lie the dark, satanic mills of the former Soviet Union and the rotting remnants of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Rutland Publisher Comments Business and the State in Contemporary Russia is the most recent volume in the John M. Olin Critical Issues series, published by Westview in conjunction with Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian Research. In this latest installation, contributors... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexis Troubetzkoy Publisher Comments One of Russia's greatest emperors, beloved of his subjects for his many liberalizing works domestically and for his victory over the great Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander I presumably died in 1825, at the age of 48. Ever since then, rumors have swirled... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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