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A Little War That Shook the Worldby Ronald D. Asmus
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 12.99The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out of the blue. Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Ronald Asmus contends that it was a conflict that was prepared and planned for some time by Moscow, part of a broader strategy to send a message to the United States. more...
Magnetic Mountainby Stephen Kotkin
University of California Press 1997; US$ 39.95This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly agricultural nation into a "country of metal." With unique access to previously untapped archives and interviews, Kotkin forges a vivid and compelling account of the impact of industrialization on a single urban community. Kotkin argues that Stalinism offered itself as an opportunity for enlightenment. The utopia it proffered, socialism, would be a new civilization based on the repudiation of capitalism. The extent to which the citizenry participated... more...
Russia 2010by Daniel Yergin; Thane Gustafson
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1994; US$ 11.95From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, The Prize, this book analyzes one of the most important events of the 20th and 21st centuries - what comes next after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It uses the management technique of scenario planning to build four stories of the future. more...
Testimony of Livesby Vieda Skultans
Routledge 1997; US$ 59.95In 1944 Skultans left Latvia as a refugee. In 1990 she returned for the first time. This book is both a personal account of a homecoming, and an anthropology of a nation trying to come to terms with its past and facing an uncertain future. more...
Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asiaby Robert Lewis
Routledge 1992; US$ 224.00In a unique survey, based on new census data, this book highlights the region's geographic, economic and ecological problems since 1945. more...
Ukraineby Taras Kuzio
Routledge 1998; US$ 218.00This book explores the transformation of Soviet Ukraine into an independent state. It finds that state building is an integral part of the transition process, as much as democratization and the establishment of a market economy. more...
Japanese-Soviet/Russian Relations since 1945by Kimie Hara
Routledge 1998; US$ 190.00Explores the problems underlying foreign policy decision-making between Japan and Russia since 1945, including the infamous 'Northern Territories dispute'. more...
Together and Apart in Brzezanyby Shimon Redlich
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 23.95"... by reconstructing the history/experience of Brzezany in Jewish, Ukrainian, and Polish memories [Redlich] has produced a beautiful parallel narrative of a world that was lost three times over.... a truly wonderful achievement." -- Jan T. Gross, author of Neighbors Shimon Redlich draws on the historical record, his own childhood memories, and interviews with Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians who lived in the small eastern Polish town of Brzezany to construct this account of the changing relationships among the town's three ethnic groups before, during, and after World War II. He details the history of Brzezany from the prewar ... more...
Russian Far Eastby Susan F. Davis
Routledge 2002; US$ 160.00A comprehensive introduction to the contemporary Russian Far East (RFE) offering an argument about federal relations and power in the state. It is the only easily available, single volume book to examine the RFE in such depth. more...
The Ukrainian Diasporaby Vic Satzewich
Routledge 2002; US$ 198.00The author looks at the ways the Ukranian Diaspora has retained its identity, at the different factions within it and its response to the war crimes trials of the 1980s. more...









