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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... -
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... -
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... -
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 The United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward...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 Ambassador's Wife's Tale by Julia Miles 9781903070901
RRP: £12.99Booksplease 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... -
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... -
People You Need To Know: Peacemakers Susanna Wright 9781526305978
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Be inspired by 20 of the world's most famous advocates for peace. Discover the lives of ten female and ten male peace-makers from throughout history and from around the world. This book is the... -
We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin by Chris Miller 9780674292147
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.96"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... -
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy 9781780746463
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84BY 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... -
Russia'S Dead End: A Kremlin Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin by Andrei A. Kovalev 9781612348933
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.50Elite-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: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.66Dealing 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38SHORTLISTED 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.22A 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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Elite-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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.14Survival, 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... -
The Soviet Union As An Asianpacific Power: Implications Of Gorbachev's 1986 Vladivostok Initiative by Ramesh Thakur 9780367311612
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.34This volume provides a useful analysis of the domestic dimension of Soviet foreign policy in Asia/Pacific. It considers the implications of Gorbachev's 1986 Vladivostok Initiative on Northeast Asia,... -
Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War Jeff Colvin 9781803411989
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.19Avoiding 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... -
Russia Under Yeltsin and Putin: Neo-Liberal Autocracy by Boris Kagarlitsky 9780745315027
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30Russia 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... -
The Reminiscence Puzzle Book: 1930s-1980s Robin Dynes 9780863883484
Booksplease Price: £36.62Spanning 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... -
Key Debates in the Translation of Advertising Material: Special Issue of the Translator (Volume 10/2, 2004) by Beverly Adab
Booksplease Price: £56.24Much 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... -
Opinion Polls and Volatile Electorates: Problems and Issues in Polling European Societies by Matt Henn
Booksplease Price: £10.46Published 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... -
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 Union And The Gulf In The 1980s by Carol R Saivetz
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £86.79This 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... -
Gorbachev And The Decline Of Ideology In Soviet Foreign Policy by Sylvia Babus Woodby 9780367163013
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book examines the ways in which Mikhail Gorbachev has modified the ideology of Soviet foreign policy and offers a tentative assessment of the prospects and potential impact of these changes. It... -
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... -
Diplomats in Tracksuits: How Sport Helped Ease Cold War Tensions by Joseph Tudor 9781836801405
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Fascinating 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: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.62Apologies 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: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Since 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... -
Manifesto for the Earth: Action Now for Peace, Global Justice and a Sustainable Future Mikhail S. Gorbachev 9781905570027
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84For 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... -
Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator by Heather Schwartz 9781425850760
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.51Dive 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... -
The Withering away of the Totalitarian State... and Other Surprises by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick 9780844737287
Booksplease Price: £10.73These 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... -
The Soviet High Command, 1967-1989: Personalities and Politics by Dale R. Herspring 9780691604268
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.55The 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... -
Primary Source Readers: Changing Geography of the 20th Century by Teacher Created Materials 9781425850739
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.51Learn 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... -
As Moscow Sees Us: American Politics and Society in the Soviet Mindset by Richard M. Mills 9780195062601
Booksplease Price: £8.71As 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... -
Great Speeches of Our Time: Speeches that Shaped the Modern World Hywel Williams 9781780877464
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'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... -
Cold War Era by Monika Davies 9781425850746
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.80Two 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... -
The Collapse of Communism by Lee Edwards
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £13.53Ten 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23It 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: £17.95Booksplease Price: £16.12Andrei 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... -
Smoke, Mirrors and Memories: Legacies of the Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-1989 Jeffrey W. Jones 9781487562748
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.44This book studies the complexities of the Soviet-Afghan War from several points of view, calling attention to the experiences of those involved. The late-1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...