The Soviet Century, Paperback

A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and Soviet society Best known for The Master and Margarita, Mikhail ...

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Reducere. The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister is a sweeping, dramatic account of how three great figures changed the course of history. All of th...

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

Contributor(s): Author: Sheila FitzpatrickThe Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years follow...

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...

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A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today.Space...

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

Abundant, newly discovered sources shatter long-held beliefs The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 revealed, among many other things, a hidden w...

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Reducere. Here is an essential collection of essays and speeches from 1889 to 1933, long unavailable in the United States, on women's equality, labor, peace ...

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

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

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

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

From the reign of the Tsars in the early nineteenth century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a cen...

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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...

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

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"The Gimmicks is a gorgeous epic that astounds with its scope and beauty. With empathy and humor, McCormick unravels the ties between brotherhood a...

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...

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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...

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

"A fresh and fast-paced study of one of the most important crimes of the twentieth century" (The Washington Post), The Brother now discloses new in...

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

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. 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...

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Reducere. From acclaimed journalist Sophy Roberts, a journey through one of the harshest landscapes on earth--where music reveals the deep humanity and the r...

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...

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The veritable tsunami of anxieties that are affecting individual lives, the increasingly dysfunctional nature of society and the potential catastro...

Reducere. Anna Akhmatova lived through pre-revolution Russia, Bolshevism, and Stalinism. Throughout it all, she maintained an elegant, muscular style that co...

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Reducere. A companion to Oliver Stone's ten-part documentary series of the same name, this guide offers a people's history of the American Empire: "a critica...

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a...

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

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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 ...

Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a page turning, epic family saga centering on three generations of wo...

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Reducere. A legendary literary figure who initiated a one-man Beat Generation in his native Germany, Wolf Wondratschek "is eccentric, monomaniacal, romantic-...

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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. The Clever Teens' Guide to the Cold War: The perfect guide for background reading or revision. From the end of World War Two to the collapse of the...

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...

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For Westerners, the modern state of Azerbaijan may be hard to pinpoint. This small, oil-rich country in the southern Caucasus, on the southwestern ...

Reducere. A lost classic by beloved novelist Joseph Heywood that helped put the writer on the map, THE BERKUT begins at dusk as SS Colonel Gunter Brumm parac...

Reducere. Nicholas Alexandrovich Berdyaev (1874-1948) was a Russian philosopher and activist who changed the philosophical, aesthetic and religious landscape...

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

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. Discover a competition of epic proportions between the United States and the USSR during the Space Race. Find out who was the first to win, from re...

DescriptionRiga may be over 800 years old as a city, but its status as capital of an independent Latvia is only a century old, with half of that ti...

One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panor...

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...

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DescriptionMikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one wa...