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The Sovereignty Revolution by Alan Cranston 9780804747615
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $38.96The Sovereignty Revolution is the late Senator Alan Cranston's analysis of the problems created by our current conception of sovereignty, "with every nation supreme inside its own borders and... -
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War by James Wilson 9780801456831
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.57In The Triumph of Improvisation, James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to Operation Desert Storm in January 1991... -
Condemned to Repeat It: 'Lessons of History' and the Making of U.S. Cold War Containment Policy by Sheldon Anderson 9780739117446
Booksplease Price: $99.84Foreign policymakers frequently invoke historical analogies to make and justify decisions in the belief that history teaches particular lessons. Yet historians and philosophers are not so sure... -
Pravda Ha Ha: Truth, Lies and the End of Europe by Rory MacLean 9781408896518
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and... -
The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War: Architecture of Triumph by Douglas E. Streusand 9780739188293
Booksplease Price: $201.06This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive... -
The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War: Architecture of Triumph by Douglas E. Streusand 9781498530507
Booksplease Price: $100.82This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive... -
The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin’s Disinformation War by Alan Philps 9781035401338
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' Washington Post'Philps has an eye for detail and a heart for... -
Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989 by Kristina Spohr
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $55.85'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,... -
The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy by Metta Spencer 9780739144732
Booksplease Price: $100.82In The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, Metta Spencer recounts the political and military changes that have occurred in Russia up to mid-2010. Using hundreds of interviews she conducted with... -
The Bleeding Wound: The Soviet War in Afghanistan and the Collapse of the Soviet System by Yaacov Ro'i
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $95.75By the mid-1980s, public opinion in the USSR had begun to turn against Soviet involvement in Afghanistan: the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) had become a long, painful, and unwinnable conflict, one... -
Across Cultures and Empires: An Immigrant's Odyssey from the Soviet Army to the US War in Iraq and American Citizenship by Mahir Ibrahimov 9780700632237
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $44.27In Across Cultures and Empires author Mahir Ibrahimov invites the reader to share his incredible journey through the world-shaking geopolitical transformations of the late twentieth and early... -
Reagan's Legacy in a World Transformed by Jeffrey L. Chidester
RRP: $89.60Booksplease Price: $74.70Since Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, the global community has witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the integration of Europe, the War on Terror and the Arab Spring, a hot Chinese... -
Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989 by Kristina Spohr 9780008280116
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.71'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,... -
Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin by Michael McFaul 9780801488146
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $37.09For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural predisposition for authoritarian leaders. Yet, as a... -
The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 by Robert Service 9781610397711
Booksplease Price: $45.28On 26 December, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet, just six years earlier, when Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of... -
Russia Since 1980 by Steven Rosefielde 9780521613842
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $59.38Russia 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... -
Changing Channels: Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia by Ellen Mickiewicz 9780822324638
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29New in paperbackRevised and expandedDuring the tumultuous 1990s, as Russia struggled to shed the trappings of the Soviet empire, television viewing emerged as an enormous influence on Russian life... -
Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions by Steven L. Solnick 9780674836808
RRP: $153.95Booksplease Price: $124.62What led to the breakdown of the Soviet Union? Steven Solnick argues, contrary to most current literature, that the Soviet system did not fall victim to stalemate at the top or to a revolution from... -
Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement by Lawrence S. Wittner 9780804756310
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $150.91Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. This abbreviated version of Lawrence Wittner's... -
Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War by Stephen F. Cohen 9780231148962
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $178.93In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen challenges conventional wisdom about the course of Soviet and post-Soviet history. Reexamining leaders from Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin's... -
Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement by Lawrence S. Wittner 9780804756327
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. This abbreviated version of Lawrence Wittner's... -
The Future Will Not Come by Mikhail Zygar 9781398714038
Booksplease Price: $30.75'TEN, NINE, EIGHT, SEVEN . . .' On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union begins its countdown. From the steppes of Kazakhstan, the first human - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin - launches into space.In that... -
Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War by Richard N. Gardner 9780742539983
Booksplease Price: $92.78This compelling memoir of Richard N. Gardner's years as ambassador to Italy from 1977 to 1981 offers fascinating insights into the foreign policy of the Carter administration as well as into a... -
Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union by Stella Ghervas
RRP: $70.10Booksplease Price: $59.59A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer lasting peace.Political peace in Europe has... -
Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990 by Kristina Spohr 9780198727507
Booksplease Price: $142.08In 1989 and 1990 the map of Europe was redrawn without a war, unlike other great ruptures of the international order such as 1815, 1870, 1918, and 1945. How did this happen? This major... -
Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent by Nicholas Daniloff 9780826218049
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $49.35An American reporter of Russian heritage assigned to Soviet-era Moscow might seem to have an edge on his colleagues, but when he's falsely accused of spying, any advantage quickly evaporates...As a... -
The Essential Ronald Reagan: A Profile in Courage, Justice, and Wisdom by Lee Edwards 9780742543768
Booksplease Price: $64.14The Essential Ronald Reagan recounts_in a concise way_the extraordinary life and career of a great American president from his small-town Midwestern roots through his Hollywood film star days to his... -
Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier's Memoir by John R. Galvin 9780813176000
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $49.55When four-star general John Rogers Galvin retired from the US Army after forty-four years of distinguished service in 1992, the Washington Post hailed him as a man "without peer among living generals... -
The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History by Milton Leitenberg 9780674047709
RRP: $118.85Booksplease Price: $98.38Russian officials claim today that the USSR never possessed an offensive biological weapons program. In fact, the Soviet government spent billions of rubles and hard currency to fund a hugely... -
Maria the Monarch by Homero Aridjis 9781942134336
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22"I highly recommend this extraordinary trip to the kingdom of the monarch."-Dr. Lincoln Brower, Sweet Briar College, the world's leading expert on the Monarch butterfly Each year, in the Mexican... -
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $32.10A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize ... -
Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History by Larry Brilliant 9780062049261
Booksplease Price: $25.80When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor,... -
Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life by Hella Pick 9781474613750
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43'Memoirs of such richness are rare . . . a joy' JAMES NAUGHTIE'A remarkable personal journey, by one of the great political correspondents of our world - eloquent, enlightening, exhilarating'...