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  • Changes In Soviet Policy Towards The West

    by Gerhard Wettig ...
    This book is a study on the Soviet foreign policy when the task of renovating the country was placed on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's (CPSU) political agenda. It discusses Gorbachev's new approach to foreign policy and the political change that reshaped Soviet and European history. ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in International History

    by Martin Kofler, Ol’ga Pavlenko, Georges-Henri Soutou, Ingrid Bauer, Timothy Naftali, Vladimir Pechatnov, Manfred Wilke, Viktor Sukhodrev, Michail Prozumenshchikov, Peter Ruggenthaler, Richard D. Williamson, Jennifer Lynn Walton, Sir Lawrence Freedman, Anne Deighton, David Reynolds, Ted Sorensen, Gerhard Wettig ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    At the beginning of June 1961, the tensions of the Cold War were supposed to abate as both sides sought a resolution. The two most important men in the world, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, met for a summit in Vienna. Yet the high hopes were disappointed. Within months the Cold War had become very hot: Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall and a year later he sent missiles to Cuba to threaten ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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    This classic Soviet Union history traces the USSR from 1917 to its fall, offering “a master class in understanding the structures and intricate workings of the Soviet system” (Ian Kershaw, historian and Hitler biographer).Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to ... Read more

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  • The Russian Revolution

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpatrick takes the story from 1917, through Stalin's 'revolution from above', to the great purges of ... Read more

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  • Communism

    A History

    by Richard Pipes ...
    Series Book 7 - Modern Library Chronicles
    From one of our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world's most fateful idea.With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice.At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive ... Read more

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  • Socialism Betrayed

    Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

    by Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny ...
    "A fresh multi-faceted look at the overthrow of the Soviet State, the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, and the campaign to introduce capitalism from above. Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny have given us a clear and powerful Marxist analysis of the momentous events which most directly shaped world politics today, the destruction of the USSR, the 'Superpower' of socialism."-Norman Markowitz, author ... Read more

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  • Soviet Tragedy

    A History of Socialism in Russia

    by Martin Malia ...
    "The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution. He has written the history of a utopian illusion and the tragic consequences it had for the people of the Soviet Union and the world."-- David Remnick, The New York Review of Books"In Martin ... Read more

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  • The Soviet Union

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Lovell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture at the time. Stephen Lovell examines aspects ... Read more

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  • Out of Ashes

    A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

    by Konrad H. Jarausch, Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction—and abiding promiseA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise.Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued ... Read more

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  • A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to Its Legacy

    by Peter Kenez ...
    This concise yet comprehensive textbook examines political, social, and cultural developments in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet period. It begins by identifying the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in Russia's government, from the turn of the century to the revolution of 1917. Peter Kenez presents this revolution as a crisis of authority that the ... Read more

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  • A History of Germany 1918 - 2008

    The Divided Nation

    by Mary Fulbrook ...
    The third edition of A History of Germany traces the dramatic social, cultural, and political tensions in Germany since 1918.Offers a persuasive interpretation of the dynamics of twentieth-century German historyTreats German history from 1918-2008 from the perspective of division and reunification, covering East and West German history in equal depthCovers the self-destructive Weimar Republic, the ... Read more

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  • May Man Prevail?

    An Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy

    by Erich Fromm ...
    New York Times –Bestselling Author: A study of the turmoil and uncertainty in the early 1960s when the threat of nuclear holocaust loomed around the world.The early 1960s were a time of existential unease across the world. The constant threat of a nuclear bomb—and of mutually assured destruction—led to a palpable sense that nuclear holocaust could occur any day. It was in this Cold War environment ... Read more

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