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The Emergence of Organizations and Markets by John Frederick Padgett 9780691148878
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $89.41The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of... -
My Presidential Life: The Showdown at Putin's Dacha and Other Misadventures on the Diplomatic Road by Judd Swift 9781493081486
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $44.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493081486Author Judd SwiftFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman &... -
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? - New Edition by Philip E. Tetlock 9780691178288
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $168.54Since its original publication, Expert Political Judgment by New York Times bestselling author Philip Tetlock has established itself as a contemporary classic in the literature on evaluating expert... -
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? - New Edition by Philip E. Tetlock 9780691175973
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $35.63Since its original publication, Expert Political Judgment by New York Times bestselling author Philip Tetlock has established itself as a contemporary classic in the literature on evaluating expert... -
Soviet Rock on Screen: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of a Film Genre Rita Safariants 9780299354800
RRP: $140.40Booksplease Price: $113.30As the Iron Curtain fell and Cold War suspicions thickened in the second half of the twentieth century, the quintessentially American genre of rock and roll, seen as a potent symbol and product of an... -
The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power Luciano Cheles 9780367507480
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $87.83The leader's portrait, produced in a variety of media (statues, coins, billboards, posters, stamps), is a key instrument of propaganda in totalitarian regimes, but increasingly also dominates... -
Framing the Interpreter: Towards a visual perspective Michaela Wolf 9780415712743
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $108.89Situations of conflict offer special insights into the history of the interpreter figure, and specifically the part played in that history by photographic representations of interpreters. This book... -
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham 9781501134630
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $28.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (Nonfiction) 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781501134630Author Adam... -
Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media by Brian McNair
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $63.73The reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev have brought tumultuous change to political, social and economic life in the Soviet Union. But how have these changes affected Soviet press and television reporting?... -
The Soviet Legacy by Roy D. Laird 9780275945589
Booksplease Price: $149.19Laird accomplishes two major goals: he provides an analytical, blow-by-blow description of the collapse of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership, and he explores the legacy left by... -
What Went Wrong with Perestroika by Marshall I. Goldman 9780393309041
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $34.44A critical analysis of the economic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, which claims that the Soviet leader did little to counter the nation's overindulgence in heavy industry or to combat a burgeoning... -
Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics by Philip G. Roeder
RRP: $120.90Booksplease Price: $101.15Why did the Soviet system fail? How is it that a political order, born of revolution, perished from stagnation? What caused a seemingly stable polity to collapse? Philip Roeder finds the answer to... -
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism by Victoria Smolkin 9780691197234
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $56.59When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to... -
Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down by Sir Rodric Braithwaite 9780300204186
Booksplease Price: $73.01Rodric Braithwaite was British ambassador to Moscow during the critical years of perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the failed coup of August 1991, and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. With... -
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism by Victoria Smolkin 9780691174273
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.91When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to... -
Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's by Gil Troy 9780691130606
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $76.50Did America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often "yes." In Morning in... -
Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia by John Garrard
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise... -
Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party by A. James McAdams
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $49.74The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The... -
Soviet Socialism: Social and Political Essays by L.G. Churchward 9781032675824
Booksplease Price: $211.42Soviet Socialism (1987) is based on the author’s specialized knowledge of many aspects of Soviet politics, including local government, the Communist Party and the Soviet intelligentsia. Written... -
Contemporary Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy by Erik Hoffmann
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.87This survey of writings on the debates about and events relating to Soviet foreign policy concentrates on the Gorbachev period. Changes in Soviet theory and foreign policy decision making are covered... -
Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution by M. Steven Fish 9780691029146
RRP: $120.90Booksplease Price: $101.15This book presents a fresh view of Russian political change in the Gorbachev and early post-Soviet periods not by examining perestroika and glasnost in and of themselves, but by investigating the... -
Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party by A. James McAdams 9780691168944
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $50.72The first comprehensive political history of the communist party Vanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The... -
Reporting the Post-communist Revolution by Robert Snyder
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $64.14The events of 1989 were the material of great reporting. They also revealed the power of journalism. Long before people in Central and Eastern Europe liberated themselves, they discovered democratic... -
America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror by Jeffrey A. Engel
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.74How should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders? Should it adhere to grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it partner with other nations or avoid entangling... -
Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective by Archie Brown 9780199562459
Booksplease Price: $90.29A rigorously argued and lively interpretation of the transformation of the Soviet system, the disintegration of the Soviet state, the end of the Cold War, and the role of Mikhail Gorbachev. Written... -
The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma by Steven S. Smith 9780691057378
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $71.43Events in Russia since the late 1980s have created a rare opportunity to watch the birth of democratic institutions close at hand. Here Steven Smith and Thomas Remington provide the first intensive,... -
How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics by Robert Jervis 9780691175058
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $153.09Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades. How Statesmen Think presents his most important ideas on the subject... -
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015 by Melvyn P. Leffler 9780691172583
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $79.42Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism gathers together decades of writing by Melvyn Leffler, one of the most respected historians of American foreign policy, to address important questions about U.S... -
The Russian Moment in World History by Marshall T. Poe
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $46.20Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union's demise and Russia's ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. In this provocative... -
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015 by Melvyn P. Leffler
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $49.16Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism gathers together decades of writing by Melvyn Leffler, one of the most respected historians of American foreign policy, to address important questions about U.S... -
Germany Divided: From the Wall to Reunification by A. James McAdams
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $98.34Germany Divided remains one of the most thought-provoking and comprehensive interpretations of the forty-year relationship between East and West Germany and of the problems of contemporary German... -
Perestroika and the Party: National and Transnational Perspectives on European Communist Parties in the Era of Soviet Reform by Francesco Di Palma 9781789200201
RRP: $202.80Booksplease Price: $166.06Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc... -
How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics by Robert Jervis
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades. How Statesmen Think presents his most important ideas on the subject... -
Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance by Kathryn Stoner-Weiss 9780691092812
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $78.84In Local Heroes, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss analyzes a crucial aspect of one of the great dramas of modern times--the reconstitution of the Russian polity and economy after more than seventy years of... -
Perestroika and the Party: National and Transnational Perspectives on European Communist Parties in the Era of Soviet Reform by Francesco Di Palma 9781805391326
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $33.03Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc... -
Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan by Henry R. Nau 9780691168494
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16Debates about U.S. foreign policy have revolved around three main traditions--liberal internationalism, realism, and nationalism. In this book, distinguished political scientist Henry Nau delves... -
Manifesto for the Earth: Action Now for Peace, Global Justice and a Sustainable Future Mikhail S. Gorbachev 9781905570027
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.09For more than a decade Mikhail Gorbachev has been engaged in working to protect the earth and its inhabitants via the organization he founded in 1992, Green Cross International. In an age when... -
Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika: The Soviet Labour Process and Gorbachev's Reforms, 1985-1991 by Donald A. Filtzer 9780521452922
RRP: $212.55Booksplease Price: $204.93Soviet Workers and and the Collapse of Perestroika is a comprehensive analysis of the role of labour policy in the development and ultimate collapse of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. Drawing on a wide... -
The Khrushchev Era: De-Stalinization and the Limits of Reform in the USSR 1953-64 by Donald A. Filtzer 9780333585269
Booksplease Price: $65.99The Khrushchev Era examines the major political, social, and economic reforms of Nikita Khrushchev, from the 'Secret Speech' and Khrushchev's limited, but at the time earth-shattering critique of... -
The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War by Michael Cotey Morgan 9780691176062
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $56.37The first in-depth account of the historic diplomatic agreement that served as a blueprint for ending the Cold War The Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five...