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  • Moscow's Muslim Challenge

    Soviet Central Asia

    by Michael Rywkin ...
    A study of the history of Soviet Central Asia and the demographic, political, economic and cultural weight of the Muslims that reside there. This book examines current trends in this area which is one of Russia's most turbulent and misunderstood minority regions. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Soviet Society Today

    by Michael Rywkin ...
    A systematic overview of life in the Soviet Union, this book includes chapters on the territorial divisions and ethnic composition of the country; the governmental and party system; Russian and minority cultures; the family; education; health care; sports; military service; classes and social privilege; poverty; prices and wages; the economic system, work, and the standard of living. It concludes ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Moscow's Lost Empire

    by Michael Rywkin ...
    This volume gives an overview of the regional, ethnic and political structure of the Soviet empire from its establishment through its ultimate disintegration. It provides a corrective to the Russocentrism and Great Power bias that has marked most studies of the Soviet Union. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Putin's World

    Russia Against the West and with the Rest

    by Angela Stent ...
    **From renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent comes a dissection of how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world—and increased Russia's status on the global stage."Putin's World is the definitive guide to understanding the tangled history of post-Cold War Russia and its place in the world. Angela Stent offers a thoughtful, sober, and elegantly-written perspective that could not be more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Cold War

    A World History

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    An essential history of the Cold War, from the author of The Penguin History of the World**.****"[A] big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent stud[y] of the cold war." -**New York Review of BooksWe think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad argues that the war must be understood as a glob ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Near Abroad

    Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus

    by Gerard Toal ...
    Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad" - newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the geopolitical contest that created it did not. Six years later, the spectre of a revanchist Russia ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989

    Edited by Jeffrey A. Engel ...
    The fall of the Berlin Wall sent shock waves around the world. It was, quite literally, a world-changing event. Now, more than two decades after the Wall's collapse, this book brings together leading authorities who offer a fresh look at how leaders in four vital centers of world politics--the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and China--viewed the world in the aftermath of this momentous ... Read more

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  • Should We Fear Russia?

    by Dmitri Trenin ...
    Series series Global Futures
    Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, there has been much talk of a new Cold War between the West and Russia. Under Putin’s authoritarian leadership, Moscow is widely seen as volatile, belligerent and bent on using military force to get its way.In this incisive analysis, top Russian foreign and security policy analyst Dmitri Trenin explains why the Cold War analogy is misleading. Relations ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Central Asia

    A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present

    by Adeeb Khalid ...
    A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world eventsCentral Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the crossroads of world events. Adeeb Khalid provides the first comprehensive history of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth

    by Michael Mandelbaum ...
    In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign policy scholar Michael Mandelbaum examines that remarkable quarter century, describing how and why the peace was established and then fell apart. To be sure, wars took place in this era, but less frequently and on a far smaller scale than in previous ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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  • The Affirmative Action Empire

    Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939

    by Terry Martin ...
    Series series The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
    "Terry Martin looks at the nationalities policy of the early Soviet period and offers an insightful, detailed analysis of a problem that Soviet leaders grappled with throughout the twentieth century. As he points out, it was a problem that eventually helped to usher in the end of the USSR."— Amanda Wood Aucoin, New Zealand Slavonic JournalThe Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Fires of Hatred

    Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe

    by Norman M. Naimark ...
    Of all the horrors of the last century—perhaps the bloodiest century of the past millennium—ethnic cleansing ranks among the worst. The term burst forth in public discourse in the spring of 1992 as a way to describe Serbian attacks on the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but as this landmark book attests, ethnic cleansing is neither new nor likely to cease in our time.Norman Naimark, distinguished ... Read more

    $30.59 USD