Russian & Former Soviet Union

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962330022Author Curtis FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint 30 Press PublishingPublisher 30 Press Publishing

A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for...

'A gripping and compelling account.... The peaceful ending of the Cold War between West and East remains one of the greatest achievements of modern statecraft' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, Literary Review This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815730408Author Steven PiferFormat HardbackPage Count 382Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm)...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapital, that the roots of Lenin's political thought took shape. This book, from a former curator of the Russian...

Providing a comprehensive overview of Russia's foreign policy directions, this handbook brings together an international team of scholars to develop a complex treatment of Russia's foreign policy. The chapters draw from numerous theoretical traditions by...

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has been marginalized at the edge of a Western-dominated political and economic system. In recent years, however, leading Russian figures, including former president Vladimir Putin, have begun to stress a...

Vladimir Putin has emerged as one of the key leaders of the twenty-first century. However, he is also recognized as one of the most divisive. Abroad, his assertion of Russia's interests and critique of the western-dominated international system has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869578Author Ernest MandelFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books

The tenth edition of this go-to textbook covers contemporary Russian politics and its fundamental principles. It discusses established topics such as executive leadership, parties and elections as well as newer issues of national identity, protest, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316484831Author Malcolm NanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia's attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAndrei P. Tsygankov is professor in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations at San Francisco State University.Book InformationISBN...

In 2012, on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration for a controversial third term as president, mass protests ended in violent clashes between demonstrators and the police. 'They ruined my big day, now I'm going to ruin their lives,' Putin was alleged...

How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems and US...

Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corpses-the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists, and other luminaries, as well as more...

Almost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia's authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus - or the Soviet man - is understood to...

The 2013-2014 Euromaidan Revolution's call for justice, dignity, and liberty brought Ukraine, which had 'disappeared' behind the Iron Curtain for decades after the horrors of World War II, into the world's public consciousness. Yet, the country was soon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666748154Author Nicholas DenysenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail...

The war in Syria has put Russia at the centre of Middle Eastern politics. Moscow's return to the region following a prolonged period of absence has enhanced its geopolitical status at a time it has emerged as a rival to the West. Yet, contrary to the...

From a highly distinguished author on the subject, this biography is an excellent scholarly introduction to one of the key figures of the Russian Revolution and post-Tsarist Russia. Not only does it make use of archive material made newly available in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815732433Author Daniel TreismanFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine. Opposing Putin is a risky proposition; for instance, a fellow Russian Parliament member turned dissident, Denis Voronenkov, was on his way to see Ponomarev when he was shot and killed...

The book explores the Russian leadership's strategic agenda and illuminates the range of problems it faces in implementing it. Given these difficulties and the Russian leadership's concerns about an unstable and increasingly competitive world, the...

A major new account of the post-Napoleonic Holy Alliance and the promise it held for liberalsThe Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In this book, Isaac Nakhimovsky reveals the Enlightenment origins of this...

*A portion of profits will be donated to relief funds in Ukraine*"When you attack us, you will see our faces, not our backs, but our faces." -Volodymyr Zelensky, hours before Russian Autocrat Vladmir Putin invaded Ukraine"Glory to Ukraine" isn't a...

This book draws on the authors experience from 26 years of Ukrainian diplomatic service in, among others, Bonn, Berlin, Washington, and Vienna, and his work as a speechwriter to most Ukrainian foreign ministers for the last two decades. Scherbas...

The growing influence of Russia on the Western far right has been much discussed in the media recently. This book is the first detailed inquiry into what has been a neglected but critically important trend: the growing links between Russian actors and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737735Author Peter ReddawayFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 780gDimensions(mm)...

Debating the Origins of the Cold War examines the coming of the Cold War through Americans' and Russians' contrasting perspectives and actions. In two engaging essays, the authors demonstrate that a huge gap existed between the democratic, capitalist,...

When the Cold War ended, the spying that marked the era did not. An incredible true story from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated New York Times bestselling author of Crazy.Between 1995 and 2000, "Comrade J" was the go-to man for SVR (the successor to the KGB)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9785604071052Author Sergei TkachenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Limited Liability Company Elk and Ruby Publishing HousePublisher Limited Liability...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838216164Author Vitalii OgiienkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939438515Author Antony C SuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Dauphin PublicationsPublisher Dauphin PublicationsWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm)...

'An excellent and important work' Literary Review'Anyone concerned about how the bear will respond will find this historically informative account an accessible and stimulating guide' Sunday Express'Putin and the Rise of Russia is a privileged insider's...

Vladimir Putin's intervention into the Georgia/South Ossetia conflict in summer 2008 was quickly recognized by Western critics as an attempt by Russia to increase its presence and power in the "near abroad", or the independent states of the former Soviet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538728765Author Michael IsikoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint TwelvePublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet RepublicsThe Russian oil industry-which vies with Saudi Arabia as the world's largest producer and exporter of oil, providing nearly 12 percent of the global supply-is facing...