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  • Historical Dictionary of Latvia

    by Andrejs Plakans, Professor Aldis Purs ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Europe
    Latvia is located on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. After a brief period of independence between the two World Wars, Latvia was annexed by the USSR in 1940. It reestablished its independence in 1991 following the breakup of the Soviet Union. Although the last Russian troops left in 1994. Latvia continues to revamp its economy for eventual integration into various Western European political ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Legacies of Totalitarian Language in the Discourse Culture of the Post-Totalitarian Era

    The Case of Eastern Europe, Russia, and China

    by Matthew H. Ciscel, Fengyuan Ji, Ekaterina Levintova, Andrejs Plakans, Marek Skovajsa, Norina Solomon, Magda Stroinska, Cosmina Tanasoiu, Rossen Vassilev, Marius Dragomir ...
    This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and fairly detailed look into the lingering legacies of the communist totalitarian modes of thought and expression in the new discourse forms of the post-totalitarian era. The book gives also new and interesting insights into the ways the new, presumably democratically-minded political elites in post ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • A Concise History of the Baltic States

    by Andrejs Plakans ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    The Baltic region is frequently neglected in broader histories of Europe and its international significance can be obscured by separate treatments of the various Baltic states. With this wide-ranging survey, Andrejs Plakans presents an integrated history of three Baltic peoples - Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians - and draws out the common threads to show how it has been shaped by their location ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Latvia - A Work in Progress?

    100 Years of State- and Nationbuilding

    by Matthew Kott, Andreas Umland, Andrejs Plakans, Marina Germane, Deniss Hanovs, Valdis Teraudkalns, Geoffrey Swain, Irena Saleniece, Ieva Zake, Una Bergmane, Li Bennich-Björkman, Peteris Timofejevs Henriksson, Daina S Eglitis, Alfs Vanags, Aldis Purs ...
    Series Book 142 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    A quarter century after the formation of the Popular Front and a decade since joining the EU, processes of state- and nation-building in Latvia are still on-going. Issues such as citizenship, language policy, minority rights, democratic legitimacy, economic stability, and security all remain objects of vigorous public discussion. The current situation also reflects longer-standing debates on the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment

    by Stephen Kotkin, Jan Gross ...
    Series Book 32 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies–East ... Read more

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  • Croatia: A Nation Forged in War

    by Marcus Tanner ...
    From the ashes of former Yugoslavia an independent Croatian state has arisen, the fulfillment, in the words of President Franjo Tudjman, of the Croats' "thousand-year-old dream of independence." Yet few countries in Europe have been born amid such bitter controversy and bloodshed: the savage war between pro-independence forces and the Yugoslav army left about one-third of the country in ruins and ... Read more

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  • History of the Russian Revolution

    by Leon Trotsky ...
    During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. You will not find another such sharp turn in history especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 150 million people. ... Read more

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  • Germany Ascendant

    The Eastern Front 1915

    by Prit Buttar ...
    A detailed and absorbing narrative of the campaigns fought on the 'forgotten' Eastern Front of the Great War, vividly illustrating that these campaigns were no less costly, tragic and important than the catastrophes of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele.The massive offensives on the Eastern Front during 1915 are too often overshadowed by the events in Western Europe, but the scale and ferocity of ... Read more

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  • Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Rasputin

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Discusses the legends of Rasputin's life and death*Includes pictures of Rasputin and important people and places in his life.*Includes a Table of ContentsA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors Russian Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of Russias ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    A City & Its People at War

    by Sir Rodric Braithwaite ...
    The story of the invasion of Moscow, told through its people.Fought over a territory the size of France, the Battle of Moscow in 1941 cost the Russians as many casualties as the British lost in WW1. It marked the first strategic defeat of the Wehrmacht and halted their seemingly unstoppable advance across Europe. This is the story of that battle - and the ordinary men and women who fought it.Based ... Read more

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  • Blood Red Snow White

    by Marcus Sedgwick ...
    There never was a story that was happy through and through.When writer Arthur Ransome leaves his unhappy marriage in England and moves to Russia to work as a journalist, he has little idea of the violent revolution about to erupt. Unwittingly, he finds himself at its center, tapped by the British to report back on the Bolsheviks even as he becomes dangerously, romantically entangled with Trotsky's ... Read more

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  • Stalin

    New Biography of a Dictator

    by Oleg V. Khlevniuk ...
    An engrossing biography of the notorious Russian dictator by an author whose knowledge of Soviet-era archives far surpasses all others.Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were ... Read more

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