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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...
Soviet Arcticby Pier Horensma
Routledge 1991; US$ 170.00The first book to consider Soviet policy in this area from an historian's point of view. Horensma assesses the significance of historical precedents for polar sovereignty. more...
Russia's Chechen Warby Tracey C. German
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 185.00This study looks closely at the Russian Federation in transition, following the collapse of the communist Soviet Union, and the implications of the 1991 Chechen Declaration of Independence in the context of Russia's democratisation project. more...
Rise and Fall of the Soviet Navy in the Baltic 1921-1940by Gunnar Aselius
Frank Cass 2003; US$ 44.95This book, based on extensive work in Russian archives, investigates how strategy, organisational rivalry and cultural factors came to shape naval developments in the Soviet Union, up to the invasion of 1941. more...
Extreme Nationalist Threat in Russiaby Thomas Parland
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 185.00In post-totalitarian Russia, the ideological climate has been gravitating more and more towards right-wing conservative values coloured by Russian nationalism. Taken as a whole, the more or less rightist attitudes in society include both moderate and pragmatic views as well as ideas of extreme nationalism. The latter include fascism and national socialism. In late 1996, Grigorii Yavlinsky1 concluded that ?a major opportunity was emerging for the spread of national socialism in Russia? (Parland 1997, 12). more...
Putinby Richard Sakwa
Routledge 2004; US$ 43.95The first study of Putin and his politics, providing the biographical and political context needed to explain his astonishing rise from anonymous KGB apparatchik to leader of one of the world's most significant and fascinating countries. more...
Chechensby Amjad Jaimoukha
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 170.00This book provides a ready introduction, and practical guide to the Chechen people and some little-known and rarely-considered aspects of Chechen culture, including customs and traditions, folklore, arts and architecture, music, and literature. more...
Russia Between East and Westby Gabriel Gorodetsky
Frank Cass 2003; US$ 53.95This volume of essays dwells on the challenge facing Russia in establishing its new identity which will have a direct bearing on the course its foreign policy is likely to steer in the future. more...
Caspian Region, Volume 1by Moshe Gammer
Routledge 2004; US$ 170.00This volume draws attention to the issues and questions facing the new states of the Caspian region following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. more...









