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  • Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model

    A legacy for Gorbachev

    by Kristian Gerner, Stefan Hedlund ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model assumes that since the October Revolution the development of the Soviet Union has essentially been a process of trial and error. Economic rationality has been sacrificed to political expedients, and the cultural sphere has been put to use as a legitimating and rationalizing device. This book analyses the internal logic of this ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • The Baltic States and the End of the Soviet Empire

    by Kristian Gerner, Stefan Hedlund ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: World Empires
    First published in 1993. How is it possible for the three tiny Baltic republics to gain their freedom from the Soviet Union, without a single shot being fired or a single stone thrown at the oppressor?The topic of this book is the implosion of the Soviet empire. It tells the parallel stories of how the three Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania struggled successfully to gain their ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

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    Baltic Sea, The

    A Geopolitical History

    by Tobias Boestad, Axel Boltenberg, Hugo Bromley, Christian Bueger, Bogusław Dybaś, Kjell Engelbrekt, Tuomas Forsberg, Kristian Gerner, Peter Haldén, Martin Hall, Mats Hallenberg, Jonas Kjellén, Peter Krönvik, Henrik Meinander, Magnus Petersson, Johan Rönnby, Brendan Simms, Veronika Slakaityte, Izabela Surwillo, Peteris Vanags, Jurgita Verbickiené, Kurt Villads Jensen, Rolf Fabricius Warming, Justyna Wubs Mrozewicz, Rasmus Glenthoj, Morten Nordhagen Ottosen ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 3 min

    The Baltic Sea is more than an inland sea – it is a historic geopolitical stage. From maritime travel in the Viking era toa NATO-dominated region, this brackish inland sea has been a lifeline for people and countries in northern Europe. The Baltic Sea has served as a hub for economic and political relations – with the dominance of the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages, the Great Power Battles ... 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

    $19.99 CAD

  • 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

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 1, World Revolution and Socialism in One Country 1917–1941

    Edited by Silvio Pons, Stephen A. Smith ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Communism
    The first volume of The Cambridge History of Communism deals with the tumultuous events from 1917 to the Second World War, such as the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the revolutionary turmoil in post-World War I Europe, and the Spanish Civil War. Leading experts analyse the ideological roots of communism, historical personalities such as Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky and the development of the ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Goodbye to All That?

    The Story of Europe Since 1945

    by Dan Stone ...
    In the decade after 1945, as the Cold War freeze set in, a new Europe slowly began to emerge from the ruins of the Second World War, based on a broad rejection of the fascist past that had so scarred the continent's recent history. In the East, this new consensus was enforced by Soviet-imposed Communist regimes. In the West, the process was less coercive, amounting more to a consensus of silence. ... Read more

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  • Russia and the Idea of the West

    Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War

    by Robert English ...
    An intriguing "intellectual portrait" of a generation of Soviet reformers, this book is also a fascinating case study of how ideas can change the course of history. In most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are treated largely as incidental to the broader considerations of power—as gloss on what was essentially a retreat forced by crisis and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Shadow of War

    Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the present

    by Stephen Lovell ...
    Series Book 8 - Blackwell History of Russia
    Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War II as a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union and Russia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach to modern Soviet and Russian history.Presents one of the only histories of the Soviet Union and Russia that begins with World War II and goes beyond the Soviet collapse through to the early twenty-first ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • A Normal Totalitarian Society

    How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed

    by Vladimir Shlapentokh ...
    Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-communist decade. Without overlooking its repressive character, he treats the USSR as a "normal" system that employed both socialist and nationalist ideologies for the purposes of technological and military modernization, ... Read more

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  • The Soviet Century

    by Moshe Lewin ...
    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

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The State and Revolution

    by Vladimir Lenin ...
    Translated by Robert Service ...
    In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The State and Revolution. This powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime and a wealth of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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