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Russia Since 1980 by Steven Rosefielde
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £47.48Russia Since 1980 recounts the epochal political, economic, and social changes that destroyed the Soviet Union, ushering in a perplexing new order. Two decades after Mikhail Gorbachev initiated... -
Gorbachev's Failure in Lithuania by Alfred Erich Senn 9780312124571
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £63.36The world watched first in fascination, then in horror, and eventually in amazement. From 11 to 14 January 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev went to Lithuania to persuade the leaders of that rebel Soviet... -
Coming in from the Cold War: Changes in U.S.-European Interactions since 1980 by Christine Ingebritsen 9780742500174
Booksplease Price: £51.20The early 1980s brought dramatic changes in East-West relations. The decade began with the death of Yugoslavia's Tito, the birth of Poland's Solidarity trade union, and the U.S. election of Ronald... -
DIY Cultures and Underground Music Scenes by Andy Bennett 9780367664510
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £44.24This volume examines the global influence and impact of DIY cultural practice as this informs the production, performance and consumption of underground music in different parts of the world. The... -
The Russian Intelligentsia: From the Monastery to the Mir Space Station by Professor Christopher Read 9781350035393
Booksplease Price: £91.69The Russian Intelligentsia is the first single-volume history of a small but tremendously influential group of Russian intellectuals who achieved world renown in a variety of spheres. While previous... -
The Soviet Union and the Asia-Pacific Region: Views from the Region by Pushpa Thambipillai 9780275932121
Booksplease Price: £76.51In examining the economic and social reforms of Gorbachev's Soviet Union, the contributors to this new study provide a broad portrait of the state of current soviet relations with the countries of... -
The Other Side of Arms Control: Soviet Objectives in the Gorbachev Era by 9780367537036
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.09How does the Soviet Union view the costs and benefits of nuclear arms control? What factors motivate Soviet negotiations with the Western world on this crucial issue? And what, precisely, does the... -
Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders by George W. Breslauer 9780521814867
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders examines the strategies employed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to build leadership authority. Political leaders often use a combination of coercion, material... -
A Memoir of the Missile Age: One Man's Journey by Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.40Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev was an eyewitness to history as he saw the arms race accelerating at an absurd and inexplicable pace, and he understood why. His perspective was from inside the Soviet... -
The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy by Matthew J. Ouimet 9780807854112
Booksplease Price: £45.15Since the sudden collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe in 1989, scholars have tried to explain why the Soviet Union stood by and watched as its empire crumbled. The recent release of... -
Russian Civil-Military Relations by Dale R. Herspring 9780253332257
Booksplease Price: £27.27"... a volume that provides both solid historical background for the novice reader and provocative and thoughtful material for the more advanced scholar. It should find wide classroom use at all... -
Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders by George W. Breslauer 9780521892445
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.78Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders examines the strategies employed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to build leadership authority. Political leaders often use a combination of coercion, material... -
Russian Imperialism: Development and Crisis by Ariel Cohen 9780275964818
Booksplease Price: £37.81The fall of the Soviet Union was one of the most dramatic events of this century. It was also one of the most surprising. Evidence of the USSR's impending fall was abundantly available both in theory... -
Who's Who in Russia since 1900 by Martin McCauley
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.52Who's Who is Russia and the Soviet Union is a unique reference guide which examines the leading political, economic, cultural, military, scientific and sporting personalities from 1900-1991. Through... -
Kolyma Tales by Varlan Shalanov
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these... -
No Miracles: The Failure of Soviet Decision-Making in the Afghan War by Michael R. Fenzel
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14The Soviet experience in Afghanistan provides a compelling perspective on the far-reaching hazards of military intervention. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev decided that a withdrawal from Afghanistan... -
Behind the Red Veil: An American Inside Gorbachev’s Russia by Frank Thoms 9781684630554
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Frank Thoms went to the Soviet Union not to judge but to learn. As a result, he gained the trust and confidence of the people he befriended—and discovered much about himself. Behind the Red Veil... -
The Collapse of Communism by Lee Edwards
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £13.58Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and eight years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, experts continue to debate one of the most important political questions of the twentieth... -
Who's Who in Russia since 1900 by Martin McCauley 9780415138970
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.65Who's Who is Russia and the Soviet Union is a unique reference guide which examines the leading political, economic, cultural, military, scientific and sporting personalities from 1900-1991. Through... -
Twenty Years in a Siberian Gulag: Memoir of a Political Prisoner at Kolyma by Leonid Petrovich Bolotov 9781476682211
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Caught up in one of the many purges that swept the Soviet Union during the Great Terror, Leonid Petrovich Bolotov (1906-1987) was one of 86 engineers arrested at Leningrad's Red Triangle Rubber... -
Can Russia Change?: The USSR Confronts Global Interdependence by Walter C. Clemens 9780415508261
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.67First published in 1989, this ground-breaking book sought to determine whether contemporary Russia had the capacity to change and if, in so doing, it could alter the complex web of East-West... -
Gorbachev's Revolution by Anthony D'Agostino 9780814718988
Booksplease Price: £90.87In the mid-1980s Mikhail Gorbachev's political and economic reforms promised a relaxation of tensions between the U.S.S.R. and the United States without disturbing the basic balance of power in... -
Unglued Empire: The Soviet Experience with Communications Technologies by Gladys D. Ganley 9781567501988
Booksplease Price: £44.31. . .Ganley has marshaled an extrodinary range and volume of information and presents the story with bolth clarity and drama. Unglued Empire offers a gold mine of case-study data for scholars... -
Gorbachev by Zhores A Medvedev 9780393304084
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.22In March 1985, without the usual long delay and speculation, Mikhail Gorbachev, at fifty-four years of age, became the youngest Soviet leader since Stalin. Gorbachev belongs to a new generation of... -
Unglued Empire: The Soviet Experiences with Communications Technologies by Gladys D. Ganley 9781567501971
Booksplease Price: £76.81. . .Ganley has marshaled an extrodinary range and volume of information and presents the story with bolth clarity and drama. Unglued Empire offers a gold mine of case-study data for scholars... -
The Baltic States and the End of the Soviet Empire Kristian Gerner 9781138482067
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59First published in 1993. How is it possible for the three tiny Baltic republics to gain their freedom from the Soviet Union, without a single shot being fired or a single stone thrown at the... -
Russian Imperialism: Development and Crisis by Ariel Cohen 9780275953379
Booksplease Price: £76.51The fall of the Soviet Union was one of the most dramatic events of this century. It was also one of the most surprising. Perhaps because many Sovietologists neglected its status as an empire, most... -
Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left David Camfield 9781773637327
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.98Increasingly, people are responding to the contemporary crises underwritten by capitalism by exploring the politics of communism. Some have taken a sympathetic, even nostalgic, view of "actually... -
Turning Points-Actual and Alternate Histories: The Reagan Era from the Iran Crisis to Kosovo by Rodney P. Carlisle 9781851098859
Booksplease Price: £81.03This fascinating work is a series of explorations of key events in the adminstrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, each of which speculates on what might have happened if events had... -
Soviet Policy Toward Israel Under Gorbachev by Robert O. Freedman 9780275939939
Booksplease Price: £61.63Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power in 1985 signalled the beginning of significant improvements in Soviet-Israeli relations--thoroughly examined in this carefully researched volume. Based on an... -
Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization: The Consolidation of the Modern System of Soviet Production Relations 1953-1964 by Donald A. Filtzer 9780521522410
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09This 1992 book is a comprehensive study of the position of Soviet industrial workers during the Khrushchev period. Dr Filtzer examines the main features of labour policy, shop-floor relations between... -
Smoke, Mirrors and Memories: Legacies of the Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-1989 Jeffrey W. Jones 9781487562748
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.44This book studies the complexities of the Soviet-Afghan War from several points of view, calling attention to the experiences of those involved. The late-1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan... -
The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy by Andrei Kozyrev
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £15.90Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, he was present when tanks... -
The Soviet Naval Threat To Europe: Military And Political Dimensions by Bruce W. Watson 9780367311490
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99Originally published in 1989. Given the events of 1987 and 1988-the death of Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov, who had served as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy from 1956 to 1985 and was so... -
The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era by Ronald W. Schatz 9780252085598
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Ronald W. Schatz tells the story of the team of young economists and lawyers recruited to the National War Labor Board to resolve union-management conflicts during the Second World War. The crew... -
Mongolia in the Twentieth Century by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £49.17The remote vastness of Mongolia has remained somewhat of a mystery to most Westerners - no less so in the 20th century. Homeland of the legendary conqueror Chingiz Khan, in modern times Mongolia... -
Diplomatic Afterlives by Professor Andrew F. Cooper 9780745661988
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80No longer content to fade away into comfortable retirement, a growing number of former political leaders have pursued diplomatic afterlives. From Nelson Mandela to Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, to... -
Speeches That Changed the World by Quercus 9781529452594
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and... -
Speeches That Changed the World Quercus 9781529443141
Booksplease Price: £21.53From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and... -
Global Problems and Common Security: Annals of Pugwash 1988 by Joseph Rotblat 9783642750748
Booksplease Price: £90.56After many years of sterile arms control negotiations between the super powers, which did not produce a single genuine disarmament measure - and sometimes had the opposite effect of stimulating the...