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One Steppe Beyond
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2011; US$ 11.99Travelling across the former Soviet Union is a challenge at the best of times but in a dilapidated VDub thats got to be plain daft... hasnt it?A chance job offer at a timber yard in Estonia gives Thom and his old pal Jo a taste for the unknown. So when Uncle Tony asks them to drive to Vladivostok for another job, they cant... more...
A Hedonist's Guide to Baku
Hg2 2010; US$ 12.00Once the richest oil city in the world, several decades of Soviet occupation left the capital of Azerbaijan leagues behind the competition. Now a new wave of oil money and development has fed Baku?s growth into one of the most excitingly developing cities on the globe. In this, the first English language guide to Baku in the world, Hg2 unveils a city... more...
Russia in Search of its Future
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 34.00The contributors to this book analyse a Russia which is searching for its future amid a maelstrom of complex forces - political, economic, socio-cultural, and international. more...
Putin
Troubador Publishing Ltd 2012; Not AvailablePutin is the highly personal biography of Russia?s leader, a man many regard as the world?s most interesting politician. Intelligent books about him have been few and far between because, of all the world leaders, he has managed to remain a mystery. This book goes some way to revealing the man behind the enigma. more...
Interviewliteratur zum Leben in der DDR
De Gruyter 2001; US$ 133.00Little research interest has been directed so far toward the way in which interviews represent a specific form of documentary literature. The study looks at a large, but entirely assimilable collection of texts qualifying as interview literature, stemming from autobiographical accounts by 'ordinary' East German citizens and reflecting life in the GDR... more...
Russia and the World
Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 159.00The collapse of communism and the disintegration of the USSR, created a new geopolitical reality, a new international environment, and a new set of international relations. This book is about Russia's foreign relations. It examines the factors that determine Russia's foreign policy, such as the economy and domestic politics. It devotes special attention... more...
Russia's Foreign Policy
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2013; US$ 38.99Now fully updated and revised, this clear and comprehensive text explores the past quarter-century of Soviet/Russian international relations, comparing foreign policy formation under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin, and Medvedev. Drawing on an impressive mastery of both Russian and Western sources, Andrei P. Tsygankov shows how Moscow?s policies have... more...
Russia 2010
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...
Russian Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 155.00In the first comprehensive treatment of its kind, Bobo Lo examines the course of Russian foreign policy in the decade following the Soviet collapse. Adopting a conceptual approach, he identifies the principal ideological and institutional factors that have influenced the thinking of decisionmaking behind the policies. Bobo Lo challenges many of the... more...
Chechnya
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95This book illuminates one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective--that of a prominent Russian intellectual. Valery Tishkov, a leading ethnographer who has also served in several important political posts, examines the evolution of the war in Chechnya that erupted in 1994, untangling the myths, the long-held resentments, and... more...









