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  • Our Man in Moscow

    A Diplomat's Reflections on the Soviet Union

    by Robert Ford ...
    Series series Heritage
    "The world is large; Russia is great; death is inevitable."Almost forty years ago Robert A.D. Ford came across this sentence in a Russian school primer. It stays with him today as an example of the Russian psyche, a psyche that Ford is better equipped to explain than most. He is the only Western diplomat to have known and dealt with all the Soviet leaders from the end of the Second World War to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Postwar

    A History of Europe Since 1945

    by Tony Judt ...
    **Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal“Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe**Almost a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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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

    $22.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stalin

    Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

    by Stephen Kotkin ...
    A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes control of the country in the aftermath of total world war, the former seminarian ruthlessly ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • 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

  • Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991

    A History

    by Orlando Figes ...
    “A primer intended for readers unfamiliar with the territory, it sparkles with ideas, vivid storytelling, poignant anecdotes, and pithy phrases . . . Fresh and dramatic.” —The Sunday Times (London)Winner of the UK's prestigious Wolfson History PrizeAn original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Struggle for Europe

    The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the Present

    by William I. Hitchcock ...
    From the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe’s peace settlement and the half century that followed, Hitchcock reveals how leaders such as Charles de Gaulle, Willy ... Read more

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  • The Cold War

    A World History

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    An essential history of the Cold War, from the author of The Penguin History of the World**.****"[A] big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent stud[y] of the cold war." -**New York Review of BooksWe think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad argues that the war must be understood as a glob ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Failed Empire

    The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev

    by Vladislav M. Zubok ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin’s pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the twentieth century. Using recently ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Haunted Land

    Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Tina Rosenberg ...
    **The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe“The definitive account of what the transition away from communism in Eastern Europe has meant in moral terms. Brilliant and impassioned.” —LA Times Book Review**In four newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe, communism’s former victims and jailers are struggling to make sense of their history—and sometimes ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The End of the Cold War

    1985 - 1991

    by Robert Service ...
    **An acclaimed examination of the latter years of the Cold War, from one of the finest historians of modern Russia.‘Absorbingly written . . . this book is destined to become a classic of Cold War historical literature’ – International Affairs**After decades of struggles between the USSR and the US over every aspect of security, economics and ideas, the Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Gorbachev Factor

    by Archie Brown ...
    Accessibly written to appeal to a wide readership, this is a meticulous study of Gorbachev by a leading Western specialist on Soviet politics. - ;Mikhail Gorbachev was arguably the most important world statesman of the second half of the twentieth century. He played the decisive role in ending the Cold War and in allowing the countries of Eastern Europe to regain their independence peacefully. He ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD