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  • Lending Credibility

    The International Monetary Fund and the Post-Communist Transition

    by Randall W. Stone ...
    With the end of the Cold War, the International Monetary Fund emerged as the most powerful international institution in history. But how much influence can the IMF exert over fiercely contested issues in domestic politics that affect the lives of millions? In Lending Credibility, Randall Stone develops the first systematic approach to answering this question. Deploying an arsenal of methods from a ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Satellites and Commissars

    Strategy and Conflict in the Politics of Soviet-Bloc Trade

    by Randall W. Stone ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Why did the Soviet Union squander the political leverage afforded by its trade subsidy to Eastern Europe? Why did Soviet officials fail to bargain with resolve, to link subsidies to salient political issues, to make credible commitments, and to monitor the satellites' policies? Using an unprecedented array of formerly secret documents housed in archives in Moscow, Warsaw, and Prague, as well as ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Applied Christian Ethics

    Foundations, Economic Justice, and Politics

    by Matthew Lon Weaver, Charles C. Brown, Randall K. Bush, Guyton B. Hammond, Christian T. Iosso, John C. Raines, Carol S. Robb, Samuel K. Roberts, Harlan Stelmach, Laura Stivers0, Randall W. Stone1, Ronald H. Stone2, Robert L. Stivers3, Gary Dorrien4, Edward LeRoy Long Jr.5 ...
    Applied Christian Ethics addresses selected themes in Christian social ethics. The book is divided in three parts. In the first section, “Foundation,” several contributors reveal their Christian realist roots and discuss the prophetic origins and multifarious agenda of social ethics. Thus, the names of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich come up frequently. In the second section, “Economics and ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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    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

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  • Wheel of Fortune

    The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia

    by Thane Gustafson ...
    The Russian oil industry—which vies with Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer and exporter of oil, providing nearly 12 percent of the global supply—is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through the Russian economy and worldwide. Wheel of Fortune provides an authoritative account of this vital industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. Tracking the ... Read more

    $30.49 CAD

  • Russia's Path from Gorbachev to Putin

    The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia

    by David Kotz, Fred Weir ...
    Over the past few years, many of the former Communist-rule countries of Central and Eastern Europe have taken a steady path toward becoming more or less normal capitalist countries - with Poland and Hungary cases in point.Russia, on the other hand, has experienced extreme difficulties in its attempted transition to capitalism and democracy. The pursuit of Western-endorsed policies of privatization ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

  • The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy

    Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR

    by Chris Miller ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s economic reforms play in the country’s dissolution? In this groundbreaking study, Chris Miller shows that Gorbachev and his allies tried to learn from the great success story of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Rise and Fall of the Leninist State: A Marxist History of the Soviet Union

    by Lenny Flank ...
    An economic history of the Soviet Union, from its inception in 1917 to its demise in 1991. It is in the economics of the Leninist state, not its politics or ideology, that we find the seeds of its destruction. By examining the economics of the USSR, we can see not only why the Russian Revolution took the course that it did, but why it could not have taken any other path. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collapse of an Empire

    Lessons for Modern Russia

    by Yegor Gaidar ...
    ""My goal is to show the reader that the Soviet political and economic system was unstable by its very nature. It was just a question of when and how it would collapse...."" -From the Introduction to Collapse of an Empire The Soviet Union was an empire in many senses of the word-a vast mix of far-flung regions and accidental citizens by way of conquest or annexation. Typical of such empires, it ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Situating Putin

    Why He’s Not Going Away and How That Matters

    by William Sweet ...
    This is a rather old-fashioned book of essays. Its sole objective is to describe the character of Putin's political order as accurately as possible, and to spell out why and how Putinism is worrisome. The main essay, while providing a summary account of how Putin came to power and consolidated his position as Russia's virtual dictator, evaluates Putinism in terms of the main models or metaphors ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • George Soros

    A Life In Full

    Edited by Peter L. W. Osnos ...
    A compelling new picture of one of the most important, complex, and misunderstood figures of our time.A unique look at one of the most important figures of the 20th and 21st centuries.An important cast of writers, top experts in multiple fields, to gain a broader view of George Soros than has ever been published before.Audience: Public intellectuals, academics, journalists, and curious readers ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Tainted Democracy

    Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary

    by Zsuzsanna Szelényi ...
    Hungary, once the poster-child of liberal democracy, is fast becoming an autocracy under Viktor Orbán. After winning an absolute majority in 2010, Orbán launched a series of 'reforms', fundamentally undermining the country's twenty-year, post-Cold War liberal consensus. For supporters and foes alike, the rise and rise of Hungary's prime minister is a vivid example of how democracy can be subverted ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD