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Russia in Transition by David Lane 9780582275669
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £55.09An accessible book covering the momentous changes that have occurred, and are still occurring, since the fall of the USSR in 1989. Contributions from an impressive collection of authors are drawn... -
Communism and its Collapse Stephen White (University of Glasgow, UK) 9780415171809
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Ranging from the Russian revolution of 1917 to the collapse of Eastern Europe in the 1980s this study examines Communist rule. By focusing primarily on the USSR and Eastern Europe Stephen White... -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Contemporary World by David J. Whittaker 9780415360913
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Examining a number of case studies, including Palestinian, Afghan and Iraqi refugees, David J. Whittaker's book provides a balanced introduction to this very controversial subject.Fuelled by... -
Managing Defence in a Democracy Laura R. Cleary 9780415408875
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Although each state is unique it is possible to identify certain common problems and issues with respect to defence governance and management. Governance and Management of Defence is a unique... -
The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World by Mark N. Katz 9780521392655
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £57.81What did Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika mean for future Soviet support of Marxist revolution in the third world? In this book, four experts on Soviet relations with the third world take a... -
Cuba After Thirty Years: Rectification and the Revolution by Richard Gillespie
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49First Published in 1990. This collection of articles has been produced, not just to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Cuban revolution, but because the anniversary has fallen at a time of... -
Survival August-September 2021: Debating US Foreign Policy by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue: Daniel Deudney and G. John... -
Beijing Jeep: A Case Study Of Western Business In China Jim Mann 9780813333274
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84When China opened its doors to the West in the late 1970s, Western businesses jumped at the chance to sell their products to the most populous nation in the world. Boardrooms everywhere buzzed with... -
The Soviet System In Crisis: A Reader Of Western And Soviet Views Alexander Dallin 9780367311520
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24This reader is intended to fill the urgent need for up-to-date materials on the Gorbachev era and to provide scholars and students with source materials and interpretations not available in standard... -
Constructing Capitalism: The Reemergence of Civil Society and Liberal Economy in the Post-Communist World by Kazimierz Z Poznanski
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This is an appraisal of the transformation that has taken place in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The book addresses two central issues: how has the state socialist system of party monopoly and... -
The Long War - Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States by Mark T. Berger 9780415495707
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.09The rise and fall of the Cold War coincided with the universalization and consolidation of the modern nation-state as the key unit of the wider international system. A key characteristic of the... -
Sovieteast European Survey, 19861987: Selected Research And Analysis From Radio Free Europe/radio Liberty by Vojtech Mastny 9780367303907
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £36.10First published in 1988. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is well-known for broadcasting news and information to millions of listeners in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In order to be an... -
What Is at Stake Now – My Appeal for Peace and Freedom Cloth by Gorbachev
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, world peace is at risk again. The United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward... -
Critical Reflections On Dist. by Terry D. Evans
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04This book suggests that apparently unrelated vignettes of Mikhail Gorbachev, Robert Mugabe, and Harold Wilson are closely connected and illustrates that the concept of distance education may be seen... -
Social Capital and Social Cohesion in Post-Soviet Russia by Judyth L. Twigg
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.17This work shows that the collapse of socialist employment and social service systems - and of the USSR itself - has had profoundly damaging effects, manifested in dislocation and homelessness, ethnic... -
Creativity and Conflict Resolution: Alternative Pathways to Peace by Tatsushi Arai 9780415691512
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98This book explores how creative ways of resolving social conflicts emerge, evolve, and subsequently come to be accepted or rejected in inter-group relations. Creativity and Conflict Resolution... -
The North Korean Army: History, Structure, Daily Life by Fyodor Tertitskiy 9781032148236
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book focuses on the Korean People's Army (KPA) - the armed forces of North Korea - covering its history, structural organisation and lives of the soldiers and officers within its ranks... -
Western Europe In Soviet Global Strategy by Ray S. Cline 9780367216313
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Soviet global strategy, long established and well understood by the Kremlin leaders, is to intimidate weak and fearful governments, exploit indigenous difficulties, disrupt social order, and promote... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron LadyIn June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in... -
The Soviet Military Experience: A History of the Soviet Army, 1917-1991 Roger R. Reese 9780415217200
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The Soviet Military Experience is the first general work to place the Soviet army into its true social, political and international contexts.It focuses on the Bolshevik Party's intention to create an... -
Japan and the shaping of post-Vietnam War Southeast Asia: Japanese diplomacy and the Cambodian conflict, 1978-1993 by Andrea Pressello
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978 and the consequent outbreak of the Cambodian conflict brought Southeast Asia into instability and deteriorated relations between Vietnam and the... -
Gorbachev And His Generals: The Reform Of Soviet Military Doctrine by William C. Green
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book explores how the reforms and political currents sweeping through Soviet society relate to the indications of change in the Soviet military doctrine as a result of the changes initiated by... -
Revolution And Transition In East-central Europe: Second Edition David Mason 9780813328355
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Eastern and Western Europe continue to change in their relationship to one another and in their ongoing dynamic with the post-Soviet states. Economic development, electoral upheaval, and the Bosnian... -
The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe: The Poverty of Utopia by Vladimir Tismaneanu
RRP: £97.99Booksplease Price: £90.68First published in 1988, The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe states that since de-Stalinisation began in Eastern Europe, the 'dead hand' of institutional Marxism has been eroded by... -
Emerging Dimensions Of European Security Policy by Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber 9780367162283
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99This book represents an overview of European security affairs as of 1989-1990. It deals with fundamental theoretical and political-strategic considerations; looks at arms-control developments; and... -
Democracy and Democratization in Comparative Perspective: Conceptions, Conjunctures, Causes, and Consequences by Jorgen Moller 9780415633512
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £54.14This book provides an introduction to democratic theory and empirical research on democracy and democratization. The book first examines conceptions of democracy from the origins in ancient Greece to... -
The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity by Sandra Postel 9781853831485
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.54For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?s water supplies. Today, 27 countries are short of water, a quarter of the world?s population has no safe water, 46 per cent have no proper... -
Hungary's Cold War: International Relations from the End of World War II to the Fall of the Soviet Union by Csaba Bekes 9781469667478
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £63.53In this magisterial and pathbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's international relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the West... -
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw 9780141998237
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of... -
In Quest Of National Security by Zbigniew Brzezinski 9780367155391
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This anthology brings together essays and speeches the author have written and delivered, both in academia and in government, on the perennial question of national security that involves wider... -
The Soviet Colossus: History and Aftermath by Michael G. Kort
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.09The Soviet Colossus revisits the turning points in Russia's modern history, from the fall of the tsarist regime to the establishment of the Bolshevik dictatorship and Stalinist totalitarianism; the... -
Restive Partners: Washington And Bonn Diverge by W. R. Smyser
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £28.95West Germany is now one of the world's most powerful and prosperous states. The author emphasizes that Germany has become a new Germany, with different capabilities and needs than the Germany of... -
Ten Years After Helsinki: The Making Of The European Security Regime by Kari Mottola 9780367305314
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Divided between two military alliances, Europe has maintained stability based on political status quo and military power balance. However, European states-including neutral and nonaligned... -
Democratization in Eastern Europe by Geoffrey Pridham 9780415110631
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66This book is an attempt to tackle the problem of democratization in East-Central Europe from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Its contributors look at the process of change within a comparative... -
Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe by Karl Cordell 9780415173117
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66A broad-ranging study that explores the complex relationship between ethnicity and democratization, focusing on specific case studies including France, Spain, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Russia,... -
Japanese-Russian Relations, 1907-2007 Joseph Ferguson (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) 9780415674478
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japanese-Russian relations from the end of the Russo-Japanese War until the present. Based on extensive original research in both Japanese and Russian... -
Soviet Constitutional Crisis by Robert Sharlet 9781563240645
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.93Moving from the adoption of the "post-Stalin" Constitution of 1977 through its subsequent implementation under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko to the radical legal "restructuring" of the Gorbachev... -
Demonetisation Decoded: A Critique of India's Currency Experiment by Jayati Ghosh 9780367368036
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38On the night of 8 November 2016, at 8:15 pm, India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced in a televised broadcast to the nation that with effect from midnight, currency notes of denominations Rs... -
Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism by Zdenek Mlynar 9780231118651
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.36Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent... -
Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1991: Classic and Contemporary Issues by Frederick J. Fleron
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £50.31The purpose of this anthology is to deepen Western understanding of the sources and substance of the foreign policy of the Soviet Union. Authoritative analysts here explore significant issues in...