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  • The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing

    The Transformation of the German-Czech Borderlands after World War II

    by David Wester Gerlach ...
    In the wake of World War II the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, witnessing not only the expulsion of nearly three million German speakers, but also the influx of nearly two million resettlers. Yet mob violence and nationalist hatred were not the driving forces of ethnic cleansing; instead, greed, the search for power and property, and the general dislocation of post-war Central ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    Operative in the Kremlin

    by Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy ...
    Series series Geopolitics in the 21st Century
    Fiona Hill and other U.S. public servants have been recognized as Guardians of the Year in TIME's 2019 Person of the Year issue.From the KGB to the Kremlin: a multidimensional portrait of the man at war with the West.Where do Vladimir Putin's ideas come from? How does he look at the outside world? What does he want, and how far is he willing to go?The great lesson of the outbreak of World War I in ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Red Famine

    Stalin's War on Ukraine

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more—from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain."With searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to ... Read more

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  • Collapse

    The Fall of the Soviet Union

    by Vladislav M. Zubok ...
    A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demiseIn 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Armageddon Averted : Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000

    The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000

    by Stephen Kotkin ...
    Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse--this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account of one of the great historical events of the last fifty years. Combining historical and ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Last Empire

    The Final Days of the Soviet Union

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe offers “a stirring account of an extraordinary moment” in Russian history (Wall Street Journal)On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, ... Read more

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  • Imperial Gamble

    Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War

    by Marvin Kalb ...
    Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine. The United States and its Western allies immediately imposed strict sanctions on Russia and ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

    by 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 ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Conflict in Ukraine

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Serhy Yekelchyk ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    When guns began firing again in Europe, why was it Ukraine that became the battlefield? Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's current crisis can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However this theory only obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic revolution and the conflict's crucial international ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Russia: Putin's Playground

    Empire, Revolution, & the New Tsar

    by Anastasia Edel ...
    Empire, Revolution, and the New TsarIs Russia in the hands of a lunatic?Ever since Vladimir Putin's presidential incarnation, pundits and political analysts have asked this question with increasing frequency. Known for his aggressive politics abroad, and irresponsible despotism domestically, the leader of the world's largest nation holds seemingly limitless control over his people. But Putin is ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • From Peoples into Nations

    A History of Eastern Europe

    by 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, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD