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“christopher j ward”

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  • The Routledge Handbook of the History of Moscow

    Edited by Christopher J. Ward ...
    This timely handbook of recent scholarship on Moscow moves beyond today’s headlines to present a broad spectrum of methodological and historiographic perspectives on the city’s historical and contemporary significance.In the over 30 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the history of Moscow has been explored through focused approaches including academic and architectural histories, ... Read more

    $325.00 USD

  • Russia

    A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus' to the Present

    by Christopher J. Ward, John M. Thompson ...
    This lucid account of Russian and Soviet history presents major trends and events from Kievan Rus’ to Vladimir Putin’s presidency in the twenty-first century.Directly addressing controversial topics, this book looks at issues such as the impact of the Mongol conquest, the paradoxes of Peter the Great, the “inevitability” of the 1917 Revolution, the Stalinist terror, and the Gorbachev reform effort ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc

    Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe

    by Jonathyne Briggs, Kate Gerrard, Sandor Horvath, Gregory Kveberg, Polly McMichael, David Tompkins, Gleb Tsipursky, Dean Vuletic, Christopher J. Ward, Sergei I. Zhuk, Tom Junes ...
    Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the rise of youth as consumers of popular culture and the globalization of popular music in Russia and Eastern Europe. This collection of essays challenges assumptions that Communist leaders and Western-influenced youth cultures were inimically hostile to one another. While initially banning Western cultural trends like jazz and rock-and-roll, Communist ... Read more

    $55.99 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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  • 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

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Ukrainians

    Unexpected Nation, Fourth Edition

    by Andrew Wilson ...
    The most acute, informed, and up-to-date account available today of Ukraine and its people, now in its fourth edition.   “An interesting and provocative read, which will, one hopes, contribute to the Western understanding of what Ukraine is and why it matters.”—Volodymyr Kulyk, Harvard Ukrainian Studies “A spirited and eminently learned investigation of who Ukranians say that they are, how they ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Baltic Facades

    Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1945

    by Aldis Purs ...
    Series series Contemporary Worlds
    The three so-called ‘Baltic states’ – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania – are commonly regarded by outsiders as a single entity. But in reality they are quite distinct countries, each one struggling to find its own place within Europe while preserving a personal identity and local traditions.Baltic Facades presents a radical new reading of these states, with a fresh and up-to-date examination of their ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Modern Tyrants

    by Daniel Chirot ...
    Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, our century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of mankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current references to “ethnic cleansing” remind us that tyranny persists in our own age and shows no sign of abating. Daniel Chirot offers an important and timely study of modern tyrants, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Red Flag

    A History of Communism

    by David Priestland ...
    "The best and the most accessible one-volume history of communism now available . . . A far-reaching, vividly written account." — Foreign AffairsIn The Red Flag, Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across two hundred years, from its birth after the French Revolution to its ideological maturity in nineteenth-century Germany ... Read more

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  • The Gates of Europe

    A History of Ukraine

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    A New York Times BestsellerThe definitive history of Ukraine from antiquity to today.**“An admirable new history.... In his elegant and careful exposition of Ukraine’s past, Mr. Plokhy has also provided some signposts to the future.” ―**EconomistAs Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independen... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Rise and Fall of Communism

    by Archie Brown ...
    "A work of considerable delicacy and nuance….Brown has crafted a readable and judicious account of Communist history…that is both controversial and commonsensical."—Salon.com"Ranging wisely and lucidly across the decades and around the world, this is a splendid book."—William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His EraThe Rise and Fall of Communism is the definitive ... Read more

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  • Everyday Stalinism

    Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed. With the abolition of the market, shortages of food, clothing, and all kinds of consumer goods ... Read more

    $18.99 USD