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The Poetic Justice: A Memoir by John Charles Thomas 9780813950754
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.84This inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black—and, at thirty-two years of age, the youngest—justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in the... -
European Security in the 1990s: Deterrence and Defense after the INF Treaty by Walter Laqueur 9780306434426
Booksplease Price: £90.56Rarely if ever have the political, economic, and military foundations of the Western Alliance been in such a state of flux. Walter Laqueur and Leon Sloss, therefore, deserve credit not just for the... -
To Be or Not to Be in the Party: Communist Party Membership in the USSR by Yuri Glazov 9789027727176
Booksplease Price: £46.74In March of 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Seviet Union. Initially, one could discern serious changes in the policy and statements of this new, young, and obviously efficient leader only... -
Gorbachev and Bush: The Last Superpower Summits. Conversations that Ended the Cold War by Svetlana Savranskaya 9789633863442
RRP: £85.95Booksplease Price: £75.66This book presents and interprets archival records of the meetings between Mikhail Gorbachev and George W. Bush between 1989 and 1991, including transcripts of conversations between top leaders on... -
Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire by Bret Baier 9780062845696
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £20.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062845696Author Bret BaierFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Speeches That Changed the World by Quercus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From 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... -
Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev: Revisiting the End of the Cold War by Norman A. Graebner 9781440836343
Booksplease Price: £28.88This work is a contemporary chronicle of the Cold War and offers an analysis of policy and rhetoric of the United States and Soviet Union during the 1980s. The authors examine the assumptions that... -
The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age by Archie Brown
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46* UPDATED WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR *CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders', dominant individual wielders of power,... -
Speeches That Changed the World Quercus 9781529416053
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.72From 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... -
European Security in the 1990s: Deterrence and Defense after the INF Treaty by Walter Laqueur 9781489935786
Booksplease Price: £90.56Rarely if ever have the political, economic, and military foundations of the Western Alliance been in such a state of flux. Walter Laqueur and Leon Sloss, therefore, deserve credit not just for the... -
The Spy in Question: A totally gripping Cold War espionage thriller by Tim Sebastian
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Discovery means certain death. And he's running out of time.It's 1990, and Dmitry Kalyagin is about to attain membership in Gorbachev's politburo when his long-dormant status as a "mole" for the... -
Soviet Nuclear Policy Under Gorbachev: A Policy of Disarmament by Daniel Calingaert 9780275937379
Booksplease Price: £56.67This work offers a broad interpretation of the extraordinary changes that have taken place in Soviet arms control policy since Mikhail Gorbachev became Soviet head of state in March of 1985... -
Spy Shadow: A nerve-shredding espionage novel full of suspense by Tim Sebastian
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.29All sins cast long shadows...James Tristram is an aging secret operative, soft of body but sharp of mind. Sent by English spymaster Cornish to aid an uprising against the Polish government and its... -
Saviour's Gate: A scintillating novel of espionage and war by Tim Sebastian
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.29How many have to die to save one man?Each night a small jet leaves Moscow heading for a lonely outpost in the frozen Soviet North. It takes no passengers and brings none back.Intelligence shows this... -
Diplomatic Afterlives Andrew F. Cooper (University of Waterloo) 9780745661995
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34No 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... -
Governing Through Turbulence: Leadership and Change in the Late Twentieth Century by Paul J. Best 9780275951665
Booksplease Price: £76.81This important study examines aspects of political leadership and governance in the last decades of the 20th century. Driven by innovations in science and technology, turbulent change has impacted... -
Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition by Donna A. Buchanan 9780226078267
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £85.10The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signaled the onset of tumultuous political, economic, and social reforms throughout Eastern Europe. In Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Soviet Union these changes... -
Across Three Continents: Reflections on Immigration, Education, and Personal Survival by Katerina Bodovski 9781433130656
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £55.69Born in Soviet Moscow, Katerina Bodovski was twelve years old when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, coming of age as the "perestroika" and "glasnost" movement gained full speed... -
Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition by Donna A. Buchanan 9780226078274
Booksplease Price: £44.28The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signaled the onset of tumultuous political, economic, and social reforms throughout Eastern Europe. In Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Soviet Union these changes... -
Present Imperfect: Stories By Russian Women by Ayesha Kagal 9780367299637
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The selections in this Anthology overturn Soviet-era taboos with a vengeance. First published in the aftermath of Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalizing reforms, these stories revel in the basic... -
Governing Through Turbulence: Leadership and Change in the Late Twentieth Century by Paul J. Best 9780275951672
Booksplease Price: £36.44This important study examines aspects of political leadership and governance in the last decades of the 20th century. Driven by innovations in science and technology, turbulent change has impacted... -
Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union by Conor O'Clery 9781610391986
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a... -
Constructing the Soviet Elite: Recruitments, Exclusions, and Repressions Within the Soviet Communist Party, 1917-1941 Gaël-Georges Moullec 9781680536942
Booksplease Price: £114.12The Soviet Communist Party faced a large-scale problem of regulating membership after the Russian Revolution of 1917. While recruitments were conducted mainly according to the internal Party rules,... -
Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers by Stephen F. Cohen 9780393307351
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.69An inside account of the events unfolding in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. In a series of interviews, 14 leaders of Gorbachev's reforms talk about their personal and political struggles... -
The Fate of Marxism in Russia by Alexander N. Yakovlev 9780300105407
Booksplease Price: £30.79Alexander Yakovlev, a major architect of perestroika and a leading sponsor of glasnost, was a senior Soviet official who worked at the highest echelon of government side by side with Mikhail... -
Russia Goes Dry: Alcohol, State and Society by Stephen White 9780521558495
Booksplease Price: £32.12Russians are the world's heaviest drinkers. The consumption of alcohol permeates family life, shapes the economy, and plays an occasional but striking role in the political leadership. It was in... -
Media Cultures of the Russian 1990s: Inventing the Post-Soviet Public Sphere Maya Vinokour 9798895060094
Booksplease Price: £35.54Examining Russian-language media from the "long 1990s"-the period beginning with Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost ("openness") and ending with the election of President Vladimir Putin-Media... -
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Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles by Deepak Chopra 9781844132195 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Dr Deepak Chopra, the bestselling pioneer in mind/body medicine, shows how coincidences are messages about the miraculous potential of each moment. He reveals how, through understanding the forces... -
The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War by Beth A. Fischer 9780826212870
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £29.08It is often assumed that Ronald Reagan's administration was reactive in bringing about the end of the Cold War, that it was Mikhail Gorbachev's ""new thinking"" and congenial... -
Russia Goes Dry: Alcohol, State and Society by Stephen White 9780521552110
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £97.66Russians are the world's heaviest drinkers. The consumption of alcohol permeates family life, shapes the economy, and plays an occasional but striking role in the political leadership. It was in... -
Gorbachev and Reagan: The Last Superpower Summits. Conversations that Ended the Cold War by Svetlana Savranskaya 9789633863466
RRP: £82.95Booksplease Price: £73.11This book is the culmination of twenty years of research in which the editors gathered thousands of pages documenting the most important conversations of the late Cold War. Every word Ronald Reagan... -
Empires and Autonomy: Moments in the History of Globalization by Stephen M. Streeter 9780774815994
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32Globalization is one of the most significant developments of our time. But what distinguishes the present era from "golden" periods of empire building in past? Which elements of contemporary... -
Foreign Policy and East Asia: Learning and Adaptation in the Gorbachev Era by Charles E. Ziegler 9780521425643
Booksplease Price: £31.24In this book Charles Ziegler develops the concept of learning in foreign policy by exploring the link between Mikhail Gorbachev's domestic reforms and the radical transformation of Soviet relations... -
Great Speeches in Minutes Jacob F. Field 9781787477230
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'I have a dream', 'Government of the people, by the people, for the people', 'This was their finest hour', 'Tear down this wall', 'Give me liberty, or give me death', 'Free at last!'. They are the... -
Russian Politics: A Very Short Introduction Brian D. Taylor 9780197516027
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.56Russia is rarely out of the news. This has been particularly true since it launched the largest war in Europe since World War II when it invaded Ukraine in 2022. Yet Russian politics can be difficult... -
Children of the Katyn Massacre: Accounts from Polish Families Torn by the 1940 Mass Murder in Soviet Camps by Gino Felice 9780786427567
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59World War II was--and remains--one of the bloodiest wars in history. Not only did millions of soldiers die in combat but millions of civilians lost their lives--some for no greater crime than... -
KGB: Death and Rebirth by Martin Ebon 9780275946333
Booksplease Price: £75.81It was official. In 1991, two months after an abortive coup in August, the KGB was pronounced dead. But was it really? In KGB: Death and Rebirth, Martin Ebon, a writer long engaged in the study of... -
The Secret Police and the Revolution: The Fall of the German Democratic Republic by Edward Peterson 9780275973285
Booksplease Price: £76.81The opening of the secret files of the East German Ministry of State Security after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 enabled this study. Most interesting are the reports from the thousands of... -
In The Footsteps Of Adam by Thor Heyerdahl
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Thor Heyerdahl is one of the greatest explorers of our day. At the age of 84 he has chosen to take a journey through his memories. This is not a chronological autobiography but rather an epic... -
Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union Ellen Mickiewicz (Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science, Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science, Emory University) 9780195063196
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £15.24Television 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...