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Uncivil Societyby Stephen Kotkin; Jan Gross
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 11.99Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies–East Germany, Romania, and Poland–to illuminate what led Communist regimes to surrender, or to be swept away in political bank runs. This is less a story of dissidents, so-called civil society, than of the bankruptcy of a ruling class–communism’s establishment, or “uncivil society.” The Communists borrowed... more...
Stalin Eraby Philip Boobbyer
Routledge 2000; US$ 39.95A wide ranging history of every aspect of Stalin's dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. It places the man and his ideology into context both within pre-Revolutionary Russia, Lenin's Soviet Union and post-Stalinist Russia. more...
Soviet Foreign Policy Todayby Robert F. Miller
Routledge 1991; US$ 170.00Textbook presenting new Soviet thinking in the economic, political and military spheres, linking domestic and foreign policies. Part One describes the evolution of current foreign policy; Part Two, its impact on the rest of the world (by region). more...
Soviet Politics In Perspectiveby Richard Sakwa
Routledge 1998; US$ 55.95Thoroughly revised and updated edition of this key text which offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the Soviet system from its rise in 1919 to the 1991 collapse. more...
Political Thought of Joseph Stalinby Erik van Ree
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 39.95This study of Stalin's political thought makes full use of documentation that has only recently become available from the former Central Party Archive in Moscow as well as Stalin's private library with his handwritten marginal notes. more...
Dilemmas of Destalinisationby Polly Jones
RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 39.95This book provides a comprehensive history of reform in the Khrushchev era, focusing especially on social and cultural developments. more...
Russiaby Neil Robinson
Routledge 2001; US$ 47.50This invaluable text traces Russia's complex historical dveleopment in the last century, its recent political troubles and economic misfortunes and its place in the contemporary international system. more...
Struggle for Russiaby Ruslan Khasbulatov
Routledge 1993; US$ 170.00A man who has been one of the new Russia's most influential politicians presents his unique perspective on past and future in Russia politics, the events of August 1991 and his own part in resisting the attempted coup. more...
Stalinismby Sheila Fitzpatrick
Routledge 1999; US$ 36.95Stalinism is a controversial new addition to the current debates about the history of the Stalinist period. Collected together are not only the classics of the revisionist period but also new work by young scholars. more...
Red Army, 1918-1941by Earl F. Ziemke
Frank Cass 2004; US$ 39.95Supported by evidence released after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this book follows the career of the Red Army from its birth in 1918 as the vanguard of world revolution to its affiliation in 1941 with 'the citadel of capitalism', the USA. more...