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Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs by Mikhail Gorbachev
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Mikhail 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... -
On My Country and the World by Mikhail Gorbachev
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail... -
The New Russia Mikhail Gorbachev 9781509503872
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.93After 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... -
The New Russia Mikhail Gorbachev 9781509523610
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.86After 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... -
On My Country and the World by Mikhail Gorbachev 9780231194891
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail... -
Global Studies Encyclopedic Dictionary by Mikhail Gorbachev 9789042038554
Booksplease Price: £50.33This 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... -
Gorbachev: On My Country and the World by Mikhail Gorbachev 9780231115155
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail... -
What Is at Stake Now: My Appeal for Peace and Freedom Mikhail Gorbachev 9781509543229
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.55Thirty 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 The United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward...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 Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR by Chris Miller
Booksplease Price: £33.91For half a century the Soviet economy was 'inefficient' but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader... -
Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism by Mikhail Gorbachev 9780231118644
Booksplease Price: £86.33Mikhail 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... -
The Nobel Book of Answers: The Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, a by Various 9781442421936
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95IF YOU COULD ASK A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ANYTHING YOU WANTED... Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has honored the world's great geniuses in the most important fields: physics, chemistry, medicine, literature,... -
Ending War: The Force of Reason by M. Bruce 9780333774823
Booksplease Price: £45.31World-renowned political thinkers and scientists write on nuclear weapons and war in the twenty-first century. The contributors include Mikhail Gorbachev, who first declared 'A nuclear war cannot be... -
Reagan's Soviet Rhetoric: Telling the Soviet Redemption Story by Mark LaVoie 9781793647986
Booksplease Price: £75.81How did Ronald Reagan go from calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire" in his first term as president to saying the US had "forged a satisfying new closeness" with the Soviets by the end of his... -
Russian Nationalism and the Politics of Soviet Literature: The Case of Nash sovremennik , 1981-1991 by Simon Cosgrove 9780333802038
Booksplease Price: £46.28Russian nationalism, increasingly important as the Russian Federation finds its place in the world, is not a new phenomenon. Who were the Russian nationalists before the creation of today's Russia?... -
The Fall of Soviet Communism, 1986-1991 by Jeremy Smith 9781403916020
Booksplease Price: £30.87The fall of communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states in December 1991 was one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. In the last years of Soviet... -
Soviet Policy towards Syria since 1970 by Efraim Karsh 9781349114849
Booksplease Price: £41.37An examination of the nature of Soviet policy towards Syria during the last two decades, which seeks to assess Moscow's objectives and the means of achieving those objectives. The study argues that... -
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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.79Gorbachev'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... -
A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam by Vassily Klimentov 9781501773808
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.02A Slow Reckoning examines the Soviet Union's and the Afghan communists' views of and policies toward Islam and Islamism during the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989). As Vassily Klimentov demonstrates,... -
Transforming the World: Global Political History since World War II by Keith Robbins 9780333772003
Booksplease Price: £36.82An ambitious and engaging narrative survey that charts the history of the world from a political perspective, from 1937 to the post-9/11 era. Providing a wide-ranging assessment of global... -
The Ambassador's Wife's Tale by Julia Miles 9781903070901
Booksplease Price: £10.53Who 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... -
Russia, France and the Idea of Europe by Julie M. Newton 9780333721001
Booksplease Price: £90.86Julie M. Newton's analysis of Franco-Russian relations brings to light fundamental questions of international relations. Analysing the relationship from 1958 to the present day, the author highlights... -
European Communism: 1848-1991 by Ronald I. Kowalski 9780333684597
Booksplease Price: £36.82The course of modern European History has been influenced greatly by the challenge of Communism. In theory it promised equality and freedom for all. In practice it spawned inegalitarian,... -
Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of the United States: Press, Politics and Identity in Transition by Jonathan A. Becker 9780333643143
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book examines changing Soviet and Russian press coverage of the United States from the emergence of Mikhail Gorbachev through the presidency of Vladimir Putin. A new afterword focuses on recent... -
National Security Issues of the USSR by Murray Feshbach 9789024735532
Booksplease Price: £90.86LORD CARRINGTON Secretary General, North Atla/ltic Treaty Orga/lisation In providing a foreword to this volume, I have to declare an interest. I was, and am still, an enthusiastic advocate of the... -
The Kremlin and the High Command: Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin by Dale R. Herspring
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.10Throughout its existence, the Red Army was viewed as a formidable threat. By the end of the Cold War, however, it had become the weakest link in the Soviet Union's power structure. Always subordinate... -
Ronald Reagan: Revolution Betrayed by Richard C. Thornton 9781680539189
Booksplease Price: £114.92The point of departure for distinguished historian Richard C. Thornton's insightful new assessment of the Reagan administration is Reagan's overwhelming re-election in 1984. His first-term policies... -
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The End of the Cold War: 1985 - 1991 by Robert Service 9780330517294 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.34The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the stand-off between the two superpowers - after decades... -
The End of the Cold War: 1985 - 1991 by Robert Service 9780330517294
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.22The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the stand-off between the two superpowers - after decades... -
Economic Policy Making And Business Culture: Why Is Russia So Different? by David A. Dyker 9781848167827
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £91.86This book addresses one of the fundamental problems in Russian society, and in Russia's relations with the rest of the world. Why do Russians tend to react differently from 'us' in given diplomatic... -
Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780268105013
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.23Russian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures-and perhaps the most important writer-of the last century. To celebrate the... -
A Woman Loved by Andreï Makine 9781848668867
Booksplease Price: £20.70Catherine the Great's life seems to have been made for the cinema. Countless love affairs and wild sexual escapades, betrayal, revenge, murder - there is no shortage of historical drama. But Oleg... -
Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR by Isaac McKean Scarborough 9781501771026
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.20Moscow's Heavy Shadow tells the story of the collapse of the USSR from the perspective of the many millions of Soviet citizens who experienced it as a period of abjection and violence. Mikhail... -
Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground by Joanna Stingray
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.01A memoir by an American who almost single-handedly introduced Soviet rock to the free world, [...] Stingray, who wrote this memoir with her daughter, Madison, nicely captures her daring amid an... -
Ending the Cold War: Interpretations, Causation and the Study of International Relations by Richard K. Herrmann 9781403963833
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... -
The Gulf War: George H. W. Bush and American Grand Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era Spencer D. Bakich 9780700636884
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68President George H. W. Bush assumed office at a critical juncture, as the Cold War came to an end and the world shifted to a new era of international relations. In The Gulf War, Spencer Bakich argues... -
The Gulf War: George H. W. Bush and American Grand Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era Spencer D. Bakich 9780700636877
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £62.89President George H. W. Bush assumed office at a critical juncture, as the Cold War came to an end and the world shifted to a new era of international relations. In The Gulf War, Spencer Bakich argues... -
Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780268105020
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.51Russian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures-and perhaps the most important writer-of the last century. To celebrate the... -
The Myth of Triumphalism: Rethinking President Reagan's Cold War Legacy by Beth A. Fischer 9780813178172
Booksplease Price: £32.30Did President Reagan's hawkish policies destroy the Soviet Union and enable the United States to win the Cold War? Many Americans believe this to be the case. In this view -- known as "triumphalism"... -
Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe: The Cold War's End and the Soviet Union's Fall Reappraised by Dick Combs 9780271033563
Booksplease Price: £32.96Much ink has been spilled by scholars, journalists, and former government officials from both the United States and the Soviet Union in efforts to explain how the Cold War came to an end and the... -
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...