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The roots of perestroika
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Sidney I. Ploss |
"With new information from Russian archives, this work examines the historical roots of Gorbachev's perestroika and the reforms that would eventually lead to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It d… |
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Russia's Cold War
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Jonathan Haslam |
The phrase "Cold War" was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: “We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stab… |
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The year I was Peter the Great
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Marvin L. Kalb |
The year 1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called "the year of the thaw"--a time when Stalin's dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that… |
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Confronting Vietnam
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Ilya Gaiduk |
"Based on extensive research in the Russian archives, this book examines the Soviet approach to the Vietnam conflict between the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and late 1963, when the overthrow … |
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Reinventing Collapse
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Dmitry Orlov |
In the waning days of the American empire, we find ourselves mired in political crisis, with our foreign policy coming under sharp criticism and our economy in steep decline. These trends mirror the … |
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