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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...

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...

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The book titled Gorbachev by the author Dev Murarka. 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...

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.

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: 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...

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

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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"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...

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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...

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...

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....

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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...

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: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of ideology and transformation, USSR: Reorganisation and Renewal presents a compelling insider's account 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...

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...

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...

The book titled The Waking Giant: Soviet Union Under Gorbachev by the author Martin Walker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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....

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...

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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,...

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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...

With the advent of Gorbachev's glasnost era, Russians have been forced to redefine their society and polity. Journalists, academics and politicians all needed a new language in which to articulate...

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,...

This book is written in English in the style of part-fictionalized autobiography. Vitaliev investigates Mafia-organized crime, prostitution (which does not "officially" exist), corrupt special shops for the party elite, and...

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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA landmark collection of political and literary nonfiction, Articles and Pamphlets gathers Maxim Gorky's most incisive essays and polemical writings,...

Author: Nikita S. KhrushchevBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson of London, 1960Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book is a collection of speeches, articles, and interviews by Nikita S. Khrushchev,...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the iron curtain, a literary giant waged a silent war against the most powerful state apparatus in the world — and the Kremlin kept...

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...