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It has been Gorky's great misfortune to be remembered mostly for the wrong things - for his apparent support of the Stalin regime; for his direct involvement in the foundation...
The New Russia
After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking...
Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs
When Gorbachev came to power in 1985, the globe was still divided into two armed camps - one for each superpower - as it had been ever since 1945. The...
Next Stop Execution
Oleg Gordievsky was the highest-ranking KGB officer working in Britain in the heart of the Soviet system. His escape, meticulously planned and executed with the help of the British, is...
I Hope
The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR,...
Gorbachev in Power
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Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs
Mikhail Gorbachev is the man who changed everything. It was Gorbachev's initiative that raised the Iron Curtain; his actions that resulted in one of the era's most symbolic events, the...
Gorbachev: Making of the Man Who Shook the World
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Soviet Foreign Policy Today: Gorbachev and the New Political Thinking
"Soviet Foreign Policy Today" focuses on the highly personal nature of Gorbachev's leadership and the links between his domestic and foreign policy. To place Gorbachev's radical alternatives to Soviet policy...
Kgb: The Inside Story
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Author: Christopher Andrew And Oleg GordievskyBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper Collins, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling work of non-fiction,...
Perestroika: Our Hopes for Our Country and Our World
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Comrade Chairman: Soviet Succession And The Rise Of Gorbachov
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Author: Richard OwenBinding: HardbackPublished: Arbor House, New York, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis incisive political history, Comrade Chairman: Soviet Succession And The Rise Of Gorbachov, chronicles the...
Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series): **AS HEARD ON BBC
The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history The great Russian 20th-century novel...
From Gorky to Pasternak: Six Modern Russian Writers
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Condition remarks: Binding: Hardcover; appears structurally sound, showing expected shelf wear commensurate with age. Jacket: Dust jacket present; light edge wear and minor age-toning. Pages: Generally clean and bright, maintaining...
After Gorbachev
Dramatic and confusing changes in what used to be the Soviet Union have transformed the world in which we live. Communist rule has given way to multiparty politics; a command...
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise "A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite,...
K. G. B.: The Inside Story
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Boris Godunov: Transpositions Of A Russian Theme
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Russian cultural history have proven as enduringly magnetic as Boris Godunov — the ambitious tsar whose dramatic rise and fall has...
Gorky
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Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev, and the Mirage of Democracy
Here is an eyewitness account of the six years of turbulent change from the Soviet Union to Russia. Jonathan Steele's three decades as a journalist covering that eternal nation have...
Donbas: A Novel
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Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: FEP missingCondition remarks: Worn boards. Pages yellowed. Clean text. In the heart of Soviet Ukraine, amid the...
Maxim Gorky The Writer: An Interpretation
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFew figures in modern literature embody the turbulent contradictions of an entire nation quite like Alexei Maximovich Peshkov — the...
Can Gorbachev Change The Soviet Union?: The International Dimensions Of Political Reform
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of Cold War politics and the twilight of Soviet power, Can Gorbachev Change the Soviet Union?: The International Dimensions of...
Oblomov
Goncharov's powerful - and frequently very funny - novelistic denunciation of Russian serfdom. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he...
Boris Godunov: The Tragic Tsar
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Author: Ian GreyBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Union, Newton Abbot, 1974Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical biography, Boris Godunov: The Tragic Tsar, chronicles...
Musorgsky and His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure
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Through Russia: A Book Of Stories
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark of Russian literature, Through Russia is a...
Portraits Without Frames: Selected Poems
Author: Lev Ozerov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Lev Ozerov's finest book, Portraits Without Frames comprises fifty intimate, skilfully crafted accounts of meetings with important figures, ranging from fellow...
Borisov-Musatov: Russian Painters Series
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Author: Alla RusakovaBinding: HardbackPublished: Aurora Art Publishers., 1975Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner's name inscribed in first three pages, tears to DJ and some yellowing....
Safe Conduct: An Early Autobiography And Other Works
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA landmark work of Russian literary autobiography and prose, Safe Conduct presents Boris Pasternak's lyrical account of his...
Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union
The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future....
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary
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By the authors of the national bestseller Wittgenstein's Poker, a riveting account of the legendary 1972 chess match between Boris Spassky, the world champion from the Soviet Union, and the...
An Essay In Autobiography
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Boris Pasternak, one of the twentieth century's...
General B.O.
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerA work of Russian émigré historical biography, General B.O. by Roman...