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  • Historical Dictionary of the Czech State

    by Jiri Hochman, Rick Fawn ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Europe
    Czechoslovakia has been at the center of some of the most difficult-and tragic-episodes of modern European history: its sacrifice to Nazi Germany at Munich; the Communist Coup of 1948; and the military crushing of the Prague Spring. It has also enacted momentous change almost magically, as in the peaceful overthrow of communism in 1989, and then the negotiated end to the country in 1992. ... Read more

    $231.99 CAD

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  • The Ghosts of Europe

    Journeys through Central Europe's Troubled Past and Uncertain Future

    by Anne Porter ...
    One of the country’s most distinguished writers and publishers returns to her roots to explore the consequences of democracy in the former Habsburg lands.In 1989 the Berlin Wall was dismantled. Communism gave way to democracy. Since that time the former borderlands of the long defunct Hapsburg Empire and the more recently dispersed Soviet Empire have been trying to invent their own versions of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collapse

    The Fall of the Soviet Union

    by Vladislav M. Zubok ...
    A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demiseIn 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Uncivil Society

    1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment

    by Stephen Kotkin, Jan Gross ...
    Series Book 32 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies–East ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Armageddon Averted : Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000

    The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000

    by Stephen Kotkin ...
    Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse--this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account of one of the great historical events of the last fifty years. Combining historical and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Ukraine

    A History, Fourth Edition

    by Orest Subtelny ...
    In 1988, the first edition of Orest Subtelny's Ukraine was published to international acclaim, as the definitive history of what was at that time a republic in the USSR. In the years since, the world has seen the dismantling of the Soviet bloc and the restoration of Ukraine's independence - an event celebrated by Ukrainians around the world but which also heralded a time of tumultuous change for ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • 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

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defied all predictions, including their own. Scarcely a lifespan later, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed as accidentally as it arose. The decades between witnessed drama on an epic scale—the chaos and hope of revolution, famines and purges, hard-won victory in history’s most destructive war, and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Conflict in Ukraine

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Serhy Yekelchyk ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    When guns began firing again in Europe, why was it Ukraine that became the battlefield? Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's current crisis can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However this theory only obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic revolution and the conflict's crucial international ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Grand Illusion?

    An Essay on Europe

    by Tony Judt ...
    "Tony Judt's elegant essay is a good place to begin discussion of these two large postwar questions: What is Europe? And where is it going?" — Michael Mandelbaum, Johns Hopkins University*"I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $43.99 CAD

  • Russia: Putin's Playground

    Empire, Revolution, & the New Tsar

    by Anastasia Edel ...
    Empire, Revolution, and the New TsarIs Russia in the hands of a lunatic?Ever since Vladimir Putin's presidential incarnation, pundits and political analysts have asked this question with increasing frequency. Known for his aggressive politics abroad, and irresponsible despotism domestically, the leader of the world's largest nation holds seemingly limitless control over his people. But Putin is ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD