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Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs by Mikhail Gorbachev
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.18Mikhail Gorbachev is the man who changed everything. It was Gorbachev's initiative that raised the Iron Curtain; his actions that resulted in one of the era's most symbolic events, the demolition on... -
The New Russia Mikhail Gorbachev 9781509523610
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.91After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the... -
Global Studies Encyclopedic Dictionary by Mikhail Gorbachev 9789042038554
Booksplease Price: $105.69This book provides brief expositions of the central concepts in the field of Global Studies. Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev says, "The book is intelligent, rich in content... -
What Is at Stake Now: My Appeal for Peace and Freedom Mikhail Gorbachev 9781509543229
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.76Thirty 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 The United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward... -
The Ambassador's Wife's Tale by Julia Miles 9781903070901
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.11Who really looks after British interests abroad? Behind the pomp of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, another powerful force is busily but discreetly propping up the image of UK plc. For 28... -
Gorbachev's Gamble: Soviet Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War Andrei Grachev (Political Analyst and Journalist, Former Political Adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev) 9780745643465
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.86Gorbachev's Gamble offers a new and more convincing answer to this question by providing the missing link between the internal and external aspects of Gorbachev's perestroika. Andrei Grachev shows... -
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy 9781780746463
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.56BY 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... -
We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin by Chris Miller 9780674292147
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $31.42"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... -
Russia'S Dead End: A Kremlin Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin by Andrei A. Kovalev 9781612348933
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $64.41Elite-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... -
Dealing with Dictators: The United States, Hungary, and East Central Europe, 1942-1989 by Laszlo Borhi 9780253019394
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $95.89Dealing 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... -
Gorbachev: The Man and His Era by Prof. William Taubman 9781471147951
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, the most comprehensive portrait of the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev,... -
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $20.35A 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,... -
Russia'S Dead End: An Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin by Andrei A. Kovalev
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59Elite-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... -
Survival: April - May 2022: War in Europe by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $42.29Survival, 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... -
Russia Under Yeltsin and Putin: Neo-Liberal Autocracy by Boris Kagarlitsky 9780745315027
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $55.23Russia has undergone more seismic changes over the last 100 years than almost any other country. The 1917 Revolution, the rapid industrialisation of the 1930s, the following devastation of the Second... -
Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War Jeff Colvin 9781803411989
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.70Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War tells the little-known story of the worldwide scientists' boycott of the Soviet Union that set in motion an astonishing sequence of... -
Key Debates in the Translation of Advertising Material: Special Issue of the Translator (Volume 10/2, 2004) by Beverly Adab
Booksplease Price: $118.10Much has been written about the marketing aspects of promotional material in general, and several scholars (particularly in linguistics) have addressed questions relating to the structure and... -
The Reminiscence Puzzle Book: 1930s-1980s Robin Dynes 9780863883484
Booksplease Price: $76.90Spanning the years 1930 to 1989, this is a highly practical and enjoyable puzzle book. It covers events, people, entertainment and everyday life and is designed to encourage group participation to... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.46The 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... -
Opinion Polls and Volatile Electorates: Problems and Issues in Polling European Societies by Matt Henn
Booksplease Price: $21.97Published in 1998, Opinion Polls and Volatile Electorates presents a comparative overview of the development of opinion polling in late-capitalist and post-communist societies. The author considers... -
The Soviet Union And The Gulf In The 1980s by Carol R Saivetz
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $182.26This study focuses on the impact of Soviet policy toward the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, discussing Soviet interpretations of the Iranian revolution and evaluations of the potent impact of the... -
What Is at Stake Now – My Appeal for Peace and Freedom Cloth by Gorbachev
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.77Thirty 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... -
In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas by Bruce Grant
Booksplease Price: $97.21At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the decades that... -
Diplomats in Tracksuits: How Sport Helped Ease Cold War Tensions by Joseph Tudor 9781836801405
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64Fascinating and engaging study of the relationship between sport and politics during the Cold War.By the author of the widely acclaimed Synthetic Medals: East German Athletes' Journey to Hell... -
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham 9781501134630
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $30.70Apologies 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 Hig -
The Russian People and Foreign Policy: Russian Elite and Mass Perspectives, 1993-2000 by William Zimmerman 9780691091686
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $81.75Since the fall of communism, public opinion in Russia, including that of a now more diverse elite, has become a substantial factor in that country's policymaking process. What this opinion might be... -
Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator by Heather Schwartz 9781425850760
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.87Dive deep into your study of US presidents with this biography of Ronald Reagan that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique... -
Manifesto for the Earth: Action Now for Peace, Global Justice and a Sustainable Future Mikhail S. Gorbachev 9781905570027
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.86For 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... -
The Withering away of the Totalitarian State... and Other Surprises by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick 9780844737287
Booksplease Price: $22.53These essays track the dramatic developments set in motion by the "perestroika revolution" of Mikhail Gorbachev, whose goal is the transformation of Soviet style communism from within. This... -
Primary Source Readers: Changing Geography of the 20th Century by Teacher Created Materials 9781425850739
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.87Learn how 20th century history changed world geography with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students... -
The Soviet High Command, 1967-1989: Personalities and Politics by Dale R. Herspring 9780691604268
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $93.56The recent transformations in the USSR are nowhere more evident than in the Soviet military. Top-level military officers have been relieved of their positions, Gorbachev has warned of lean times for... -
As Moscow Sees Us: American Politics and Society in the Soviet Mindset by Richard M. Mills 9780195062601
Booksplease Price: $18.29As perestroika has dramatically altered the political climate in the Soviet Union, so too has Mikhail Gorbachev's agenda of reform modified America's disposition towards its superpower rival. Yet how... -
Cold War Era by Monika Davies 9781425850746
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.48Two nations. Two ideologies. One Cold War. From 1947 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an open rivalry known as the Cold War. Dive deep into your exploration of history with... -
Great Speeches of Our Time: Speeches that Shaped the Modern World Hywel Williams 9781780877464
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfil themselves.' These powerful words, spoken by Nelson Mandela in his inaugural address as the new president of... -
The Collapse of Communism by Lee Edwards
Booksplease Price: $42.38Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and eight years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, experts continue to debate one of the most important political questions of the twentieth... -
Kolyma Tales by Varlan Shalanov
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these... -
The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy by Andrei Kozyrev
RRP: $37.70Booksplease Price: $33.77Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, he was present when tanks... -
An Impossible Dream: Reagan, Gorbachev, and a World Without the Bomb Guillaume Serina 9781785905278
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Picture the scene: the Republican President of the United States credited with christening the Soviet Union an `Evil Empire', and that country's own President, the General Secretary of the Communist... -
The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age by Archie Brown
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87* UPDATED WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR *CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders', dominant individual wielders of power,... -
Speeches That Changed the World by Quercus
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and...