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The Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989

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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009

The fall of the Berlin Wall sent shock waves around the world. It was, quite literally, a world-changing event. Now, more than two decades after the Wall's collapse, this book brings together leading authorities who offer a fresh look at how leaders in four vital centers of world politics--the United...
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by Hedrick Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Russians, a “lively and provocative”* analysis of the Soviet Union in its twilight years. *The New York Times Book Review Even from afar, the transformation in the Soviet Union held a special fascination...
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by John Prados
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010

The Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of global events and foreign policy. The reasons for the...
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The Other Side of the Mountain

Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War

by Ali Ahmad Jalali, Lester W. Grau
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012

This book tells the story of the Soviet-Afghan war in the words of the Mujahideen guerrillas themselves. For ten years the Mujahideen fought a military superpower that had invaded their homeland. Outnumbered and outgunned, they used clazzic guerrilla tactics to gradually wear down and finally defeat...
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by Walter Richmond
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

Circassia was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea. For no reason other than ethnic hatred, over the course of hundreds of raids the Russians drove the Circassians from their homeland and deported them to the Ottoman Empire. At least 600,000 people lost their lives...
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by Edward Dennis Sokol
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

During the summer of 1916, approximately 270,000 Central Asians—Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks—perished at the hands of the Russian army in a revolt that began with resistance to the Tsar’s World War I draft. In addition to those killed outright, tens of thousands of men, women,...
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Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians

History, Politics, and Identity

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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011

Ukrainian immigrants to Canada have often been portrayed in history as sturdy pioneer farmers cultivating the virgin land of the Canadian west. The essays in this collection challenge this stereotype by examining the varied experiences of Ukrainian-Canadians in their day-to-day roles as writers, intellectuals,...
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No Less Than Mystic

A History of Lenin and the Russian Revolution for a 21st-Century Left

by John Medhurst
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017

Published in the centenary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, No Less Than Mystic is a fresh and iconoclastic history of Lenin and the Bolsheviks for a generation uninterested in Cold War ideologies and stereotypes. Although it offers a full and complete history of Leninism, 1917, the Russian...
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Goodbye to All That?

The Story of Europe Since 1945

by Dan Stone
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013

In the decade after 1945, as the Cold War freeze set in, a new Europe slowly began to emerge from the ruins of the Second World War, based on a broad rejection of the fascist past that had so scarred the continent's recent history. In the East, this new consensus was enforced by Soviet-imposed Communist...
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Gebirgsjäger vs Soviet Sailor

Arctic Circle 1942–44

by David Greentree
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018

In 1941–44, Nazi Germany's Gebirgsjäger - elite mountain troops - clashed repeatedly with land-based units of the Soviet Navy during the mighty struggle on World War II's Eastern Front. Formed into naval infantry and naval rifle brigades, some 350,000 of Stalin's sailors would serve the Motherland...
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by Henry Sakaida
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012

The Great Patriotic War began on 22 June 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Over 10 million Soviet soldiers took part in the war and of those about 12,600 earned the Soviet Union's highest military award the Hero of the Soviet Union for deeds of great daring and self sacrifice. This...
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by Martin Dies
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

In this shocking book leading anti-communist Martin Dies reveals the revelations that he uncovered in his quest to rid American of socialism. “In the seven years during which I headed the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, the so-called Dies Committee,...
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by Alex Shishin
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2006

Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era is a poignant sketch of the Soviet Union prior to its disastrous invasion of Afghanistan. It is also a bittersweet tale of an American coming to terms with his Russian roots. One summer in the late 1970s, author Alex Shishin travels through the USSR on...
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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler

The Age of Social Catastrophe

by Robert Gellately
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009

A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War. In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet...
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