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Policing Economic Crime in Russia: From Soviet Planned Economy to Capitalism by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $97.07In analyzing how economic crime was managed in Russia, from the Brezhnev era to the Yeltsin years, this book reveals the historical roots of the 'criminal problem' that has marked Russian politics... -
Toward a Century of Peace: A Dialogue on the Role of Civil Society in Peacebuilding Kevin P. Clements (University of Otago, New Zealand) 9781138585768
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66Peace studies pioneer Kevin Clements and Buddhist peacebuilder Daisaku Ikeda engage in dialogue on topics such as conflict resolution, the refugee problem, nuclear disarmament, building a culture of... -
Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959–1991 by Radoslav Yordanov 9781503636422
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $89.97In the immediate aftermath of its successful revolution, Cuba was heralded by socialist nations as the vanguard of communism in Latin America in the early 1960s. But by the late 1980s, Cuba's... -
Speeches That Changed the World by Quercus
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06From 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: $56.32This 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... -
Speeches That Changed the World Quercus 9781529443141
Booksplease Price: $41.98From 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: $176.59After 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... -
An Impossible Dream: Reagan, Gorbachev, and a World Without the Bomb Guillaume Serina 9781785905278
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Picture the scene: the Republican President of the United States credited with christening the Soviet Union an `Evil Empire', and that country's own President, the General Secretary of the Communist... -
The Poetic Justice: A Memoir by John Charles Thomas 9780813950754
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $28.94This 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: $176.59Rarely 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: $91.14In 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: $167.60Booksplease Price: $147.54This 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... -
European Security in the 1990s: Deterrence and Defense after the INF Treaty by Walter Laqueur 9781489935786
Booksplease Price: $176.59Rarely 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... -
Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire by Bret Baier 9780062845696
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $40.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062845696Author Bret BaierFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age by Archie Brown
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45* 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,... -
The Spy in Question: A totally gripping Cold War espionage thriller by Tim Sebastian
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.56Discovery 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: $110.51This 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $21.06All 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $21.06How 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: $31.18Booksplease Price: $29.91No 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: $149.78This 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: $171.60Booksplease Price: $165.95The 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: $120.90Booksplease Price: $108.60Born 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: $86.35The 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: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82The 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: $71.06This 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: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.11The 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: $222.53The 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,... -
Russia Goes Dry: Alcohol, State and Society by Stephen White 9780521558495
Booksplease Price: $62.63Russians 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: $69.30Examining 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: $33.13Booksplease Price: $3.86Dr 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... -
Gorbachev and Reagan: The Last Superpower Summits. Conversations that Ended the Cold War by Svetlana Savranskaya 9789633863466
RRP: $161.75Booksplease Price: $142.56This 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... -
Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers by Stephen F. Cohen 9780393307351
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $40.35An 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: $60.04Alexander 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... -
The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War by Beth A. Fischer 9780826212870
RRP: $64.25Booksplease Price: $56.71It 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: $210.60Booksplease Price: $190.44Russians 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... -
Empires and Autonomy: Moments in the History of Globalization by Stephen M. Streeter 9780774815994
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $133.22Globalization 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: $60.92In 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06'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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.79Russia 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...