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  • Chernobyl Children

    A Transnational History of a Nuclear Disaster

    by Melanie Arndt ...
    Translated by Alastair Matthews ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    In the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, more than a million Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian children were sent abroad. Aided by the unprecedented efforts of transnational NGOs and private individuals, these children were meant to escape and recover from radiation exposure, but also from the increasing hardships of everyday life in post-Soviet society. Through this opening of the Soviet ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Accidental Czar

    The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin

    by Andrew S. Weiss ...
    This riveting graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin's rise from a mid-level KGB officer to the autocratic leader of Russia and reveals the truth behind the strongman persona he has spent his career cultivating.In the West’s collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe and in Ukraine. But ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Siberian Curse

    How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold

    by Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy ...
    Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market, democratic society? Why have so many reforms failed since the Soviet Union's collapse? In this highly-original work, Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy argue that Russia's geography, history, and monumental mistakes perpetrated by Soviet planners have locked it into a dead-end path to economic ruin. Shattering a number of myths that have long persisted in ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Tracing the Atom

    Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia

    Edited by Susanne Bauer, Tanja Penter ...
    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded a vast infrastructure of production and supply chains that have transformed entire regions. In following the material traces of the atomic programs, contributors pay ... Read more

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  • Rich Russians

    From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie

    by Elisabeth Schimpfössl ...
    The lives of wealthy people have long held an allure to many, but the lives of wealthy Russians pose a particular fascination. Having achieved their riches over the course of a single generation, the top 0.1 percent of Russian society have become known for ostentatious lifestyles and tastes. Nevertheless, as Elisabeth Schimpfössl shows in this book, their stories reveal a bourgeois existence that ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Producing Power

    The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry

    by Sonja D. Schmid ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    An examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear industry leading up to Chernobyl.The Chernobyl disaster has been variously ascribed to human error, reactor design flaws, and industry mismanagement. Six former Chernobyl employees were convicted of criminal negligence; they defended themselves by pointing to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Red Hangover

    Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism

    by Kristen Ghodsee ...
    In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. Ghodsee's essays and short stories reflect on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive social and economic upheavals in their lives after 1989. Ghodsee shows how recent major crises—from ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Russian Politics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Brian D. Taylor ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Russia is rarely out of the news. This has been particularly true since it launched the largest war in Europe since World War II when it invaded Ukraine in 2022. Yet Russian politics can be difficult to understand. It is powerfully shaped by large, impersonal forces such as geography, and Russia's place in the international political and economic system. At the same time, Russia's formal political ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Chauvinist Threat

    Russia's War and the West's Response

    by Sabine Fischer ...
    Translated by Catriona Corke ...
    Many attempts have been made to explain Russia’s fateful decision to invade Ukraine, but the distinguished political scientist Sabine Fischer argues that we can only fully understand Russia’s foreign policy and its aggressive war of annihilation against Ukraine by putting Russian chauvinism at the heart of our analysis. Fischer argues that Putin’s regime has long been driven by a mixture of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Mao's Little Red Book

    A Global History

    Edited by Alexander C. Cook ...
    Mao Zedong's Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao) - a compilation of the Chinese leader's speeches and writings - is one of the most visible and ubiquitous symbols of twentieth-century radicalism. Published for the first time in 1964, it rapidly became the must-have accessory for Red Guards and revolutionaries from Berkeley to Bamako. Yet, despite its worldwide circulation and enduring ... Read more

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  • Communist China VS Communist Russia!! Secrets You Never Knew

    by Capitalism one0one ...
    The China-Soviet split (1960–1989) was the worsening of political and ideological relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. In the 1960s, China and the Soviet Union were the two largest Communist states in the world. The doctrinal divergence derived from Chinese and Russiannational interests, and from the régimes' ... Read more

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  • Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe

    Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe

    Edited by Paulina Bren, Mary Neuburger ...
    Communism Unwrapped reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank, smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed and exchanged goods. These everyday experiences, the editors and contributors argue, were central to the way that communism was lived in its widely varied contexts in the region. From design, to production, to retail sales and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD