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A History of Russian Economic Thought by Vincent Barnett 9780415547666
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $70.92The collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic at the end of the 1980's was conceived as a victory for capitalist democracy. Here, Vincent Barnett provides the first comprehensive account of... -
Soviet Management and Labor Relations Bruno Grancelli 9781032490038
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $38.04Soviet Management and Labor Relations (1988) examines the official model of Soviet labor relations and the operational reality. It outlines the main characteristics of labor relations during Russia's... -
The United Nations at the Crossroads of Reform by Wendell Gordon 9781563244001
RRP: $113.51Booksplease Price: $99.83This study presents a case for the reform of the United Nations and discusses possible measures for enforcing peace worldwide. There are separate chapters on such topics as the General Assembly,... -
Critical Reflections On Dist. by Terry D. Evans
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $41.33This 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... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.10The 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: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97The 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: $60.62Booksplease Price: $56.68The 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: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49This 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: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55Eastern 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: $126.41Booksplease Price: $116.98First 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: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.59This 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: $74.81Booksplease Price: $69.84This 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: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.45For 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: $98.04Booksplease Price: $81.95In 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... -
What Is at Stake Now – My Appeal for Peace and Freedom Cloth by Gorbachev
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.76Thirty 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... -
Christianity And Russian Culture In Soviet Society by Nicolai N. Petro
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50This book is the product of a three-day conference at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. It focuses on the tension between the expression of Christian beliefs and the legal restrictions... -
East Central Europe and Communism: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943-1991 Sabrina P. Ramet (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) 9781032318202
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $47.91The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous... -
Britain and the Revolutions in Eastern Europe, 1989: Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume XII Richard Smith 9781032570488
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.96This volume documents the UK Government's response to the unfolding social and political changes in Eastern Europe during 1989.The year 1989 saw momentous change in Europe. It was the year in which... -
Shock-shift in an Enlarged Europe: Geography of Socio-economic Change in East-central Europe After 1989 by F.W. Carter 9781138352094
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $44.62First published in 1999, this volume emerged in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and focuses on a geographical analysis of problems associated with socio-economic changes taking place in... -
Soviet/east European Survey, 19871988: Selected Research And Analysis From Radio Free Europe/radio Liberty by Vojtech Mastny 9780367303891
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $48.30This book presents fifty analytical reports of Soviet/East European survey by the research staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, focusing on the main events and trends in the Soviet... -
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw 9780141998237
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56One 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: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49This 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 BRICs Superpower Challenge: Foreign and Security Policy Analysis by Kwang Ho Chun
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.39In an imaginative and interesting way, Kwang Ho Chun seeks to capture the dynamics of the changing international system and the prospects for a change in the international distribution of power. The... -
From Submission To Rebellion: The Provinces Versus The Center In Russia by Vladimir Shlapentokh
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50Written in the spirit of comparative and historical analysis, this book addresses the relationship between the center and its provinces?an important issue in any society?using Russia as a case study... -
Shock-shift in an Enlarged Europe: Geography of Socio-economic Change in East-central Europe After 1989 by F.W. Carter
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $116.98First published in 1999, this volume emerged in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and focuses on a geographical analysis of problems associated with socio-economic changes taking place in... -
Disengagement from Southwest Africa: Prospects for Peace in Angola and Namibia by Sander L. Gilman 9781138509245
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.30Gorbachev's new thinking on superpower relations assumes that struggle between two opposing world systems no longer characterizes the present era. This second volume in the East-South Relations... -
Soviet Communism: Programme and Rules by Stephen White 9781032674988
Booksplease Price: $136.70Soviet Communism (1989) contains the full text of the 1986 new and significantly revised foundational documents of Soviet Communism, the Programme and Party Rules – changes agreed following Mikhail... -
Security, Arms Control and Defence Restructuring in East Asia by Bjorn Moller 9781138346451
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $142.79First published in 1998, this volume examines East Asia, especially Northeast Asia, which has been a region of considerable political security of importance for several key reasons. It features... -
The Climax of Capitalism: The U.S. Economy in the Twentieth Century by Tom Kemp 9781138835955
RRP: $125.12Booksplease Price: $120.25How did the United States become the twentieth century's dominant economy? What is special about America and the American way of capitalism, that favoured such a rapid climb to wealth and power? And,... -
The Sovieteast European Relationship In The Gorbachev Era: The Prospects For Adaptation by Aurel Braun
Booksplease Price: $140.64This book focuses on the nature of the Soviet-East European relationship in the Gorbachev era and on the prospects for the adaptation of that relationship to changing conditions in today's world,... -
Russia's Path from Gorbachev to Putin: The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia by David M. Kotz 9780415701471
RRP: $87.71Booksplease Price: $81.19Over the past few years, many of the former Communist-rule countries of Central and Eastern Europe have taken a steady path toward becoming more or less normal capitalist countries - with Poland and... -
Bandits, Gangsters and the Mafia: Russia, the Baltic States and the CIS since 1991 by Martin McCauley 9780582357648
Booksplease Price: $62.04During the 1990s, the "roving bandits", big business or the oligarchs, stole Russia. They gained influence over President Yeltsin and his government, and gradually shaped policy in their own... -
International Conflict Resolution by Ramesh Thakur 9780367161934
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49This book presents papers on different perspectives in tackling the economic, racial and other injustices which generate conflict. The papers infer that the nuclear threat provides the most urgent... -
Beyond The Thaw: A New National Strategy by S. J. Deitchman
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49This book is the first comprehensive examination of the U.S. national security situation in all of its dimensions since the dramatic events that began in 1989. It explores the shape of the armed... -
The Diplomacy of Détente: Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz by Stephan Kieninger 9780367590345
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $56.68This book investigates the underlying reasons for the longevity of detente and its impact on East-West relations.The volume examines the relevance of trade across the Iron Curtain as a means to... -
Korea 1991: The Road To Peace by Michael J. Mazarr 9780367161194
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81This book is the product of a continuing joint effort by the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses and the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies to find roads to a lasting... -
The Diplomatic Record 19911992 by Hans Binnendijk 9780367306786
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $46.57This volume reveals to readers the impact of recent events on diplomacy a year or so into the post-Cold War world, describing disintegration in the East, integration in the West, new relations with... -
Cooperation In Science And Technology: An Evaluation Of The U.s.-soviet Agreement by Catherine P. Ailes 9780367155995
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.88This book examines the background, objectives, and organizational arrangements of the U.S.-U.S.S.R Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Science and Technology, summarizing and comparing the... -
The Soviet Bloc And The Third World: The Political Economy Of East-South Relations by Brigitte Schulz
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49This volume deals with the nature of the relationship between the countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and those of the Third World, offering some background to the decline in the Soviet... -
Russia's International Relations in the Twentieth Century by Alastair Kocho-Williams
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36Russia has long been a major player in the international relations arena, but only by examining the whole century can Russian foreign policy be properly understood, and the key questions as to the...