A Full–Value Ruble – The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union

Money did not become obsolete under Communism. The ruble remained a key feature of Soviet life. After World War II, money became an essential tool ...

Reducere. Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy. It is not unusual fo...

Reducere. This exploration begins by tracing the concentration of IT in Greater Silicon Valley and the resulting growth in start-ups, jobs, and wealth. This ...

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Award NameYalsa Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young AdultsAward categoryYoung Adult NonfictionExcellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults F...

"...that rare thing, a piece of careful scholarship that is also superby entertaining...Starr, who is president of Oberlin College and has been ass...

Reducere. The Full Value School provides a clear roadmap for dramatically changing the culture and climate of your classroom and school. Using highly engagin...

DescriptionAfter the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and new econom...

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Four books - Landscapes, Still Lifes, Nudes and Portraits - are opening a new series called Art of the Soviet Union. This set will examine differen...

Samizdat, the production and circulation of texts outside official channels, was an integral part of life in the final decades of the Soviet Union....

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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Eastern Front during World War 2, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one bo...

Four books - Landscapes, Still Lifes, Nudes and Portraits - are opening a new series called Art of the Soviet Union. This set will examine differen...

The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution--the product of compromises and an artifact of its time--and mad...

A German soldier's graphic first-hand account of his escape from Soviet captivity during the Red Army's offensive on the Eastern Front in 1944. Dra...

A tour d'horizon of the role Islam plays in politics and the private sphere in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

A German soldier's graphic first-hand account of his escape from Soviet captivity during the Red Army's offensive on the Eastern Front in 1944.Publ...

The First Socialist Society is the compelling and often tragic history of what Soviet citizens have lived through from 1917 to the present, told wi...

Reducere. The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had diffe...

Publisher: Old Street PublishingAuthor(s): Sheila FitzpatrickPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 225 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmec...

Reducere. This book outlines and summarizes the early years of the experience of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. "Short course" is an essential tool...

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demisePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor...

The Military History of the Soviet Union and The Military History of Tsarist Russia treat Russian military history from the rise of the Muscovite s...

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Reducere. Thrilling submarine espionage and an inside look at the U.S. Navy's "silent service" Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the ...

On the evening of her twenty-second wedding anniversary, Katherine Price can't wait to celebrate. But instead of receiving an anniversary card from...

This coursebook covers Paper 3, History of Europe, Topic 16: The Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia (1924-2000) of the History for the IB Diploma ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe almost unbelievable, but true story of a teen-age boy's survival and triumph over hardship in a Russian slave labor camp -- ending i...

Based on extensive archival research, the contributions in this collection examine the nuances of neutrality leading up to and during the Cold War....

Reducere. If you want to learn about the Russian Revolution but don't feel like reading a boring textbook, then keep reading...The Russian Revolution was the...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Cambridge Five, then keep reading... During the poverty-stricken years of the Gre...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cambridge Five, then keep reading...During the poverty-stricken years of the Great Depressio...

The book covers the author's time reporting from the former Soviet Union not long after the fall of communism.