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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...

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...

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...

The book titled The Sixth Continent: Russia and Mikhail Gorbachev by the author Mark Frankland. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of one of the twentieth century's most dramatic political transformations, Politics, Society, and...

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The book titled Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin by the author Dusko Doder. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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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...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Internally sound - fair lib copy. At the heart of one of the twentieth century's most dramatic political...

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....

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. Vladimir Putin History always comes down to the details. And...

The book titled Gorbachev by the author Dev Murarka. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War's twilight, two global superpowers met in Moscow for one of the...

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...

Drawing on interviews with leading figures such as Gorbachev and senior members of the Yeltsin team, this book examines the extraordinary changes that have occurred in Russia since 1987. It...

Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and...

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,...

A probing, chilling report on the silenced peoples and republics of the Soviet Union, The Hidden Nations confronts the issue that Mikhail Gorbachev says is the single most important problem...

"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...

At a time when the USSR is in upheaval, and as Communism is swept away, this text aims to illuminate the rapid changes taking place. Organized around the assumption that...

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...

Breaking the silence that marked his 16-year exile, the voice of Alexander Solzhenitsyn has again been heard in the Soviet Union. Initially at the urging of the editors of "Komsomolskaya...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the shadow of one of the most devastating conflicts of the post-Soviet era, anthropologist Valery Tishkov offers an unflinching portrait of Chechen society fractured by...

Russians today are the world's heaviest drinkers. The consumption of alcohol permeates family life, shapes the economy, and plays an occasional but striking role in the political leadership. It was...

Boris Yeltsin is one of modern history's most dynamic and underappreciated figures. In this vivid, analytical masterwork, Herbert J. Ellison establishes Yeltsin as the principal leader and defender of Russia's...

A prominent insider describes the rise and fall of Gorbachev's Perestroika.

'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' Washington Post'Philps has an eye for detail and a heart for...

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,...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Signed by Alexander Dubček. Rear board slightly damaged - cardboard showing. Internally sound - binding remains tight. In the...

This book examines Yeltsin's past, measuring his own autobiographical recollections against the record. It illuminates his rise as a political maverick who provokes contradictory feelings among Russians and foreigners alike....

'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' This declamation by president Ronald Reagan when visiting Berlin in 1987 is widely cited as the clarion call that brought the Cold War to...

A revelatory biography of Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, from renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich. Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. But how did this club-footed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the inner sanctums of the Kremlin to the terrifying heights of the Cold War, Khrushchev Remembers presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the height of the Cold War, one man's words held the power to reshape the global order — and Khrushchev Speaks...

Author: Alan PhilpsFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 340g, 464 pagesPublished: Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom, 2024'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates...

An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West, by former Kremlin insider and now vocal Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. 'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually...