The Soviet Century, Paperback

Reducere. In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often syno...

Reducere. A fantastic cornucopia of print propaganda by Soviet Russia's avant-garde artists and writersHoused in a printed slipcase, Avant-garde and Propagan...

Contributor(s): Author: Doris L. BergenIn examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in ...

The third volume of The Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Russia and th...

A study of Communism and a history of the myth of Communism as perpetuated by its admirers. This book illuminates how the support for Communism and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert ServiceRussia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed...

Reducere. As waves of composers migrated from Russia in the 20th century, they grappled with the complex struggle between their own traditions and those of t...

Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonAuthor(s): Mikhail SuslovNumber of pages: 302Collection: Soviet and Post-Soviet Polit...

Reducere. The Holy Mountain of Athos is a self-governing monastic republic on a peninsula in Northern Greece. Standing on the shores of the Aegean Sea is one...

Reducere. DescriptionEmma Goldman is one of the most celebrated activists and philosophers of the early 20th century, admired and reviled for her anarchist i...

The renowned historian Ivan Berend discusses populist demagoguery through the presentation of 18 politicians from 12 European countries from World ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Does Capitalism Have a Future?, a global quintet of distinguished scholars cut their way through to the question of whether our capit...

The Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful writers in pos...

Reducere. The late 1920s... Convicted of murdering his father, Artiom Goriainov is serving a sentence of several years on the Solovki Archipelago. Artiom is ...

Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, cu...

This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century-from the 1950s when Lewis Sieg...

Reducere. For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why...

Reducere. A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle--not over land but over human subject...

Reducere. The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, C...

Reducere. Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after...

Reducere. Hidden in the archives of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library for more than a decade, the writings contained in Reagan, In His Own Hand redefine...

A comprehensive account of the influence of occult beliefs and doctrines on intellectual and cultural life in twentieth-century Russia.

In this startling, intensively researched book, bestselling historian Paul Kengor shines light on a deeply troubling aspect of American history: th...

DescriptionThis book captures the story of the Taratuta family and their struggle to flee the hardships of the USSR and repatriate to Israel in the...

Reducere. September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this tr...

Reducere. What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of the twentieth century? Standard narratives focus on Soviet-American rivalry ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan SmeleThis volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualization of the compendium of struggl...

Reducere. For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way ima...

What do ""Abu Sindi, "" ""Timothy Sean McCormack, "" ""Saro, "" and ""Commander Avo"" all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian...

Reducere. Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military, and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human hi...

To the surprise of many, the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991, and out of its ruins arose an independent Ukraine. This was a remarkable achieve...

Reducere. Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of ge...

Provides a window for understanding the disintegrative forces that stymied Gorbachev's reforms and eventually defeated him, undermining the country...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any unde...

Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) is now recognised as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in th...

Reducere. Last Western Empire A History of U.S. Foreign Policy by Anthony Gronowicz. The United States, founded as an extension of the British Empire, never ...

Reducere. In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. En...

Reducere. Soviet Women in Combat explores the unprecedented historical phenomenon of Soviet young women's en masse volunteering for World War II combat in 19...

Reducere. Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been...

The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was supposed to bring about the "end of history" with capitalism and liberal democ...

Reducere. DescriptionRare materials on Belarus are a potential treasure trove for the English language reader. A blank spot on the map for many, Belarus is a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert ConquestThe Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th ce...

Reducere. Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adve...

Cafferty covers the career of the brilliantly aggressive and stunningly speculative Soviet Grandmaster Boris Spassky through where he conquers Petr...

Reducere. Since the last full life of G. I. Gurdjieff appeared in 1991, a number of books have corrected received facts and disclosed new information on sele...

Reducere. A daring literary masterpiece and winner of the National Book Award. In this magnificent work of fiction, acclaimed author William T. Vollmann turn...

DescriptionThe early years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from ...

Reducere. Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongol...

Reducere. Virtually the entire Soviet effort on the Eastern Front of World War II bears the stamp of Georgy Zhukov, chief of staff of the Red Army and deputy...

Reducere. Played on frozen ponds in cold northern lands, hockey seemed an especially unlikely game to gain a global following. But from its beginnings in the...

Reducere. The Baltic region is frequently neglected in broader histories of Europe and its international significance can be obscured by separate treatments ...

Reducere. DescriptionA classic novel arising from the Soviet Union in the thirties, How the Steel Was Tempered is a fictionalized account of author Nikolai O...

The complete story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992, and how it has survived Nazi occupation, Communist rule and invas...

Reducere. DescriptionA classic novel arising from the Soviet Union in the thirties, How the Steel Was Tempered is a fictionalized account of author Nikolai O...

Reducere. DescriptionA classic novel arising from the Soviet Union in the thirties, How the Steel Was Tempered is a fictionalized account of author Nikolai O...

Reducere. DescriptionA classic novel arising from the Soviet Union in the thirties, How the Steel Was Tempered is a fictionalized account of author Nikolai O...

Reducere. An indispensable guide to how wars are fought, James F. Dunnigan's classic text has been enormously popular with citizens, professional soldiers, a...

Reducere. To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world...

Reducere. Most violent jihadi movements in the twentieth century focused on removing corrupt, repressive secular regimes throughout the Muslim world. But fol...

Reducere. The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years o...

The first volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics. Publi...

Reducere. Life is not easy in the Soviet Union at mid-20th century, especially for a factory worker who becomes an unwed mother. But Antonina is lucky to get...

Reducere. DescriptionGordon Thomas, a leading expert on the intelligence community, returns in Secret Wars to provide the definitive history of the famed MI5...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Yvonne HowellAuthor: Arkady StrugatskyAuthor: Boris StrugatskyFor over a century, most of the science fiction produced by t...

Reducere. DescriptionThis brand new translation of the famous satirical sequel to The Twelve Chairs resurrects the con man Ostap Bender, the smooth operator,...

Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intell...

Reducere. Ron Ridenour's book, The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert, a true historical page-turner, is destined to endure and inform future readers, w...

In the tradition of their Haunting of the Presidents, national bestselling authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes write The Haunting of America:...

Reducere. The final book in Ken Follett s #1 ``New York Times ``bestselling Century Trilogy following ``Winter of the World ``and`` Fall of Giants`` now in m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Arthur KoestlerThe book is the first of a trilogy, including Darkness at Noon, and Arrival and Departure, which address ide...