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by Donald W Treadgold  Publisher Comments This classic work stands as the fullest, most comprehensive text available on twentieth-century Russian history. Donald Treadgold traces the wrenching transformations of Russian society in the opening decades of this century, marking the emergence of... (read more)  List Price $38.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by David Mayers Publisher Comments George Kennan, Charles Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, William Bullitt, Joseph E. Davies, Llewlleyn Thompson, Jack Matlock: these are important names in the history of American foreign policy. Together with a number of lesser-known officials, these... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $2.49 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Olga Matich Publisher Comments The first generation of Russian modernists experienced a profound sense of anxiety resulting from the belief that they were living in an age of decline. What made them unique was their utopian prescription for overcoming the inevitability of decline and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $32.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dimitri K Simes Publisher Comments Nearly a decade has passed since the breakup of the Soviet Union. Today developments in the region trouble the world once again as Russia simultaneously struggles with economic crisis and attempts to pursue a newly assertive foreign policy. But today's... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lynne Viola Publisher Comments One of Stalin's most heinous acts was the ruthless repression of millions of peasants in the early 1930s, an act that established the very foundations of the gulag. Solzhenitsyn barely touched upon this brutal episode in his magisterial Gulag Archipelago... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Aleksandr S Pushkin Publisher Comments Written by Russia's greatest poet, this fact-based tale of an illiterate Don Cossack who nearly succeeded in deposing Catherine the Great was greeted with hostility by Czar Nicholas I, who insisted on censoring it. Pushkin did fieldwork and research that... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Nivat 
Publisher Comments Two years ago, when she was thirty years old, Anne Nivat decided to see first-hand what war was all about. Russia had just launched its second brutal campaign against Chechnya. And though the Russians strictly forbade Westerners from covering the war... (read more) List Price $29.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicolas Werth Publisher Comments "Werth has as solid a command of the Soviet-era archival documentation as anyone. But while he lays out a synthetic, institutional panorama of a segment of Soviet bureaucracy, he can write at the same time a story full of suspense, in a crisp and lucid... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) 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 $85.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen White Publisher Comments This book, written by three of the West's leading scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, traces the politics of transition in the late 1980s and early 1990s from its origins to its uncertain post-communist future. Detailed but clearly and accessibly... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $2.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexander J Motyl Publisher Comments The astonishing disintegration of the U.S.S.R. has left a massive intellectual void, as scholars and journalists scramble to make sense of events transpiring at a dizzying pace. Into this vacuum steps The Post-Soviet Nations, which casts new and... (read more) List Price $52.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dmitri Trenin Publisher Comments Ten years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the issue of Russias international identity still remains largely unresolved. In this thought-provoking book, Dmitri Trenin argues that Russia must join the West by becoming integrated with the European... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Se Montefiore Publisher Comments Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes–as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag–has given him the lasting distinction as a... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alex Pravda Publisher Comments This volume brings together empirical and analytical studies of the nature and evolution of Soviet-British relations.... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marc Ferro Publisher Comments One of the world's preeminent historians, Marc Ferro is a leading member of the Annales School of France and a recognized authority on early twentieth-century European history. For well over two decades, in volumes such as The February Revolution of 1917... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by E T Gaidar Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-133) and index.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Loren R Graham Publisher Comments Although by the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment became the largest in the world, little is known about it in the West. Loren Graham presents the first concise, modern history of science in Russia, the Soviet Union, and the commonwealth of... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments Rasputin, one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the twentieth century, has remained cloaked in the myth of his own devising since his extraordinary ascent to power in the court of Nicholas and Alexandra, the last tsar and tsarina of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger E Kanet Publisher Comments The world has recently witnessed remarkable changes in Soviet foreign policy. Eastern Europe has sprung free of the country that held it in its grip for over forty years. The Soviet leadership has accepted the reunification of Germany and supported the... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $11.53 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Galeotti Synopsis Covers "security", incorporating military doctrine, political skulduggery, international relations and economic stablilty, seeking to knit them together into a coherent whole. The book follows a broadly chronological line and each chapter contains a... (read more) Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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