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  • Stalinist Restructuring in Estonia

    From Market to Command Economy

    de Olaf Mertelsmann, Olaf Mertelsmann ...
    Series Libro 7 - Tartu Historical Studies
    In 1940, Estonia was first occupied and then annexed by the Soviet Union. The process of Sovietization started immediately and was accompanied by a thorough reconstruction of the economy. This monograph looks in detail at the different stages of economic restructuring of a country to be remodeled according to the Soviet example. Exploitation, violence, and declining living standards formed part of ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • The Second World War and the Baltic States

    Edición de James S. Corum, Olaf Mertelsmann, Kaarel Piirimäe ...
    Series Libro 4 - Tartu Historical Studies
    This volume places the history of the Second World War and the Baltic states into a multidisciplinary and international perspective. It includes contributions from the fields of diplomacy, strategy, military operations, intelligence and propaganda. It presents not only a multi-layered interpretation of a region affected by total war, but also reveals a great deal about the nature of that conflict. ... Leer más

    $90.99 USD

  • The Baltic States and the End of the Cold War

    Edición de Kaarel Piirimäe, Olaf Mertelsmann ...
    Series Libro 6 - Tartu Historical Studies
    This book examines the role of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the downfall of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War. It includes groundbreaking, archives-based research on important facets of the Soviet collapse like, for example, politics of history, Soviet Atheism, economic reforms, the military and the use of force. The authors place the Baltic struggle for independence in the context ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

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  • The Red Flag

    A History of Communism

    de David Priestland ...
    "The best and the most accessible one-volume history of communism now available . . . A far-reaching, vividly written account." — Foreign AffairsIn The Red Flag, Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across two hundred years, from its birth after the French Revolution to its ideological maturity in nineteenth-century Germany ... Leer más

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  • The Rise and Fall of Communism

    de Archie Brown ...
    "A readable and judicious account of Communist history . . . that is both controversial and commonsensical." — SalonThe Rise and Fall of Communism is the definitive history from the internationally renowned Oxford authority on the subject. Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University, Archie Brown examines the origins of the most important political ideology of the 20th century, its ... Leer más

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  • Uncivil Society

    1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment

    de Stephen Kotkin, Jan Gross ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • A Failed Empire

    The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Gorbachev Factor

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to Its Legacy

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • From Peoples into Nations

    A History of Eastern Europe

    de John Connelly ...
    A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast and disparate possessions, but his action had the opposite effect, catalyzing the emergence of competing nationalisms among his Hungarian, ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • The Great Fear

    Stalin's Terror of the 1930s

    de James Harris ...
    Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great Terror', it is also among the most misunderstood moments in the history of the twentieth century. The Terror gutted the ranks of factory directors ... Leer más

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