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Soviet Foreign Policy: New Dynamics, New Themes by Carl G. Jacobsen 9781349113439
Booksplease Price: £43.83This book looks at the new themes and directions that have characterised Soviet foreign policy during the "first" Gorbachev era. Various aspects are studied in detail, such as the shift of attention... -
The Presidency of George H.W. Bush by John Robert Greene
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.20Shortly after George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1989, John Robert Greene's verdict on the 41st president of the United States was that he "brought no discredit to the... -
Ending the Cold War: Interpretations, Causation and the Study of International Relations by Richard K. Herrmann 9781403963840
Booksplease Price: £90.56Although in hindsight the end of the Cold War seems almost inevitable, almost no one saw it coming and there is little consensus over why it ended. A popular interpretation is that the Soviet Union... -
Red Commanders: A Social History of the Soviet Army Officer Corps, 1918-1991 by Roger R. Reese
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.20One of the largest and most feared military forces in the world, the Red Army was a key player in advancing the cause of Soviet socialism. Rising out of revolutionary-era citizen militias, it aspired... -
The Presidency of George H. W. Bush John Robert Greene 9780700641802
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21After George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1992, John Robert Greene's verdict on the 41st president of the United States was that he "brought no discredit to the office" and... -
We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin by Chris Miller 9780674292147
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.96"Miller's terrific book reminds that Russia made moves toward the East five hundred years ago, and explains why ignoring the Russian factor in Asian geopolitics today would be a big mistake."-Michael... -
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy 9781780746463
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84BY THE AUTHOR OF CHERNOBYL: HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2015 On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned... -
Russia Jill Dougherty 9781493087983
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.71At the height of the Cold War during her freshman year of high school, CNN's Jill Dougherty developed an obsession with Russia. Over the next half-century, she studied in Leningrad, traveled the... -
Communism by Mark Sandle 9781408264508
Booksplease Price: £42.60Why did communism grow so quickly? Why did it spread to turn almost half of the world red by the mid-1970s? What impact did it have upon capitalism and capitalist society?Communism is a concise... -
The Conundrum of Russian Capitalism: The Post-Soviet Economy in the World System by Ruslan Dzarasov 9780745332789
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £31.53The fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of contemporary Russian capitalism are often all too often read as a juncture with the past. In reality, Russia's current capitalist system originated... -
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.08A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise "A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite,... -
Timebends: A Life by Arthur Miller 9780802146144
Booksplease Price: £13.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802146144Author Arthur MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Dealing with Dictators: The United States, Hungary, and East Central Europe, 1942-1989 by Laszlo Borhi 9780253019394
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.66Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests. During this... -
Dealing with Dictators: The United States, Hungary, and East Central Europe, 1942-1989 by Laszlo Borhi 9780253033710
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests. During this... -
The Abkhazians: A Handbook George Hewitt 9781138874596
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This handbook provides a ready introduction and practical guide to the Abkhazian people and language. It includes chapters written by experts in the field, covering all aspects of the people,... -
Russia's Fate Through Russian Eyes: Voices Of The New Generation by Heyward Isham 9780367301965
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54This book demonstrates that the reforms of the 1990s led to a sharp decline in the standard of living for the average Russian urbanite, for instance in Novosibirsk. It discusses some of the... -
Russia's Constitutional Revolution: Legal Consciousness and the Transition to Democracy, 1985-1996 by Robert Ahdieh 9780271026039
Booksplease Price: £28.53Robert Ahdieh assesses here the troubled history and uncertain future of constitutionalism in post-communist Russia. He argues that the development of Russian constitutionalism and legal culture,... -
Russia'S Dead End: An Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin by Andrei A. Kovalev
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Elite-level Soviet politics, privileged access to state secrets, knowledge about machinations inside the Kremlin-such is the environment in which Andrei A. Kovalev lived and worked. In this memoir of... -
Christianity And Democracy In Global Context by John Witte
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24In the past, Christianity has had both positive and negative influences on democracy. Christian churches have served as benevolent agents of welfare and catalysts of political reform. But they have... -
Russian Foreign Policy Beyond Putin Eugene B. Rumer 9780415450638
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Russia's resurgence as an assertive actor in the global diplomatic arena after a long period of introspection and preoccupation with domestic troubles, and the economic revival that underpins it, are... -
Russia'S Dead End: A Kremlin Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin by Andrei A. Kovalev 9781612348933
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.26Elite-level Soviet politics, privileged access to state secrets, knowledge about machinations inside the Kremlin-such is the environment in which Andrei A. Kovalev lived and worked. In this memoir of... -
Reminiscing Our Heritage: The 70s to the Millennium Danny Walsh 9780863889899
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54This book is designed to be used by anybody working with older adults in residential, nursing and day care facilities. It provides a wealth of reminiscence material which can be used in a number of... -
A Very Private Plot by William F. Buckley 9781581824773
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.74In his latest installment in the Blackford Oakes series William F. Buckley, Jr., continues to astonish and delight. The year is 1995, and an energetic senator wants to disarm, perhaps even eliminate,... -
The Poetic Justice: A Memoir by John Charles Thomas 9780813947839
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.89This 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... -
Political Victory: The Elusive Prize of Military Wars by Brian Crozier
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Success in war has always been difficult to measure. What is judged successful by military leaders may not be judged so by political leadership, nor by the wider public, at least in a Western-style... -
Survival: April - May 2022: War in Europe by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.14Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue: Nigel Gould-Davies... -
Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millenium by John L. H. Keep 9780415351096
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £62.64Stalinism surveys the efforts made in recent years by professional historians, in Russia and the West, to better understand what really went on in the USSR between 1929 and 1953, when the country's... -
How Will They Know If I'm Dead?: Transcending Disability and Terminal Illness by Robert Horn
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £75.08Most books on terminal illness focus on death and dying. This book is about neither. It doesn't deal with statistics or the medical aspects of a crippling disease, and it isn't written by a celebrity... -
Labour and the Left in the 1980s by Jonathan Davis 9781526151445
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. Leading scholars explore aspects of left-wing... -
Media and the Cold War in the 1980s: Between Star Wars and Glasnost by Henrik G. Bastiansen 9783319983813
Booksplease Price: £112.36The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people-and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies' ability... -
The Gulf War 1991 Alastair Finlan 9780415968522
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £90.68The Gulf War of 1991 heralded a new type of warfare characterized by astonishing speed and technology with remarkably few casualties amongst the coalition forces. Just under a million coalition... -
Labour and the Left in the 1980s Jonathan Davis 9781526106438
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £51.83This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. Leading scholars explore aspects of left-wing... -
Mysteries of the Cold War by Stephen J. Cimbala
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59First published in 1999, this edited volume draws together contributors to discuss the end, management, technology and strategy of the Cold War with a focus on the USA and the Soviet Union. Mysteries... -
Russian in Plain English: A Very Basic Russian Starter for Complete Beginners Natalia V. Parker 9780367415402
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Russian in Plain English enables complete beginners to acquire the skill of reading words written in Cyrillic independently, with no English transcription or imitated pronunciation, within a short... -
Deconstruction After 9/11 by Martin McQuillan
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49In this book Martin McQuillan brings Derrida's writing into the immediate vicinity of geo-politics today, from the Kosovan conflict to the war in Iraq. The chapters in this book follow both Derrida's... -
When the Wall Came Down: Reactions to German Unification by Dr. Harold James
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £45.09When the Wall Came Down provides a wide-ranging compendium of responses in Germany and other countries to the events of 1989-90, and includes essays by Henry Kissinger, Vaclav Havel, Ralf Dahrendorf... -
The United States And The Ussr In A Changing World: Soviet And American Perspectives by Andrei Bochkarev
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24As the Cold War draws to a close, new issues inevitably have begun to surface in U.S.-Soviet relations. This reader brings together Soviet and U.S. perspectives on the broad range of challenges that... -
How Will They Know If I'm Dead?: Transcending Disability and Terminal Illness by Robert Horn 9781574440713
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Most books on terminal illness focus on death and dying. This book is about neither. It doesn't deal with statistics or the medical aspects of a crippling disease, and it isn't written by a celebrity... -
The Cold War: 1945-1991 by John Mason
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Mason provides concise coverage of the entire Cold War, paying particular attention to the Soviet-American dimension. This pamphlet:* Analyzes the origins of the conflict* Examines how the existence... -
Patterns Of Censorship Around The World by Ilan Peleg
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24From "political correctness" on U.S. college campuses to political imprisonment of writers in Latin America, censorship remains a pervasive and persistent political force in nations the world over...