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  • Belarus

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by David R. Marples, Veronica Laputska ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Recent events have thrust Belarus into the international spotlight, but for years after declaring independence in 1991, Belarus remained a little-known republic in the West, despite its important geostrategic position between Poland and Russia, and as a conduit for Russian energy supplies to central Europe. In the late Soviet period, it was best known as a victim of the 1986 nuclear accident at ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Russia in the Twentieth Century

    The quest for stability

    by David R. Marples ...
    The history of Russia, as the natural successor to the Soviet Union, is of crucial importance to understanding why communism ultimately lost out to Western democracy and the free market system. David Marples presents a balanced overview of 20th century Russian history and shows that although contemporary Russia has retained many of the practices and memories of the Soviet period, it is not about ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Joseph Stalin

    A Reference Guide to His Life and Works

    by David R. Marples, Alla Hurska ...
    Series series Significant Figures in World History
    The figure of Stalin continues to intrigue, fascinate, and repel historians into the 21st century, while in the Russian Federation, he has returned to the status of a figure to be respected, principally as the leader who led his country through industrialization and militarization, enabling it to defeat Nazi Germany in the Second World War, thereby saving Europe and much of the world from the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991

    by David R. Marples ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    Why did the Soviet Union collapse in 1991?The collapse of the Soviet Union has widely been seen as the result of the arms race and Cold War, and the failure of the Soviet side to keep pace with new technology. This book argues that the disintegration was mainly a result of two interrelated factors: the rise of the Soviet national republics, and the manipulation of the new Russian presidency by ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts

    by Aya Fujiwara, Atsuko Shigesawa, Yuko Shibata, James Keeley, Frederick Mills, Mayako Shimamoto, Tomoko Masumoto, William Beard, Ritsuko Komaki, Susan Smith0, Jordan Vincent1, Chris Reyns-Chikuma2, Jin Hamamura3, David R Marples5 ...
    75 years after the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group of international scholars offers new perspectives on this event and the history, development, and portrayal of the utilization of atomic energy: in military and civilian industries, civil nuclear power, literature and film, and the contemporary world. What lessons have ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Motherland

    Russia in the Twentieth Century

    by David R. Marples ...
    Motherland tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. From Lenin's virtual coup in November 1917 to Boris Yeltsin's ruthless takeover of power in 1991, the book culminates with a new view of the Yeltsin years.David Marples focuses on the evolution of Russia during the Soviet period, and the attempt to harness Russian nationalism to the avowed Soviet mission of promoting ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Nuclear Energy And Security In The Former Soviet Union

    by David R Marples ...
    Only several years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, nuclear security issues are again at the forefront of international concern. This timely collection addresses issues of cleanup at Chernobyl and other sites of nuclear disasters, nuclear smuggling, safety concerns in the Ukrainian and Russian nuclear industries, and Ukraine’s negotiations with Russia and the West regarding the transference ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Lenin's Revolution

    Russia, 1917-1921

    by David R. Marples ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    This study examines one of the key events in history, the Russian Revolution. Since the late Gorbachev period, a wealth of new material has become available to historians that has triggered intense scholarly debate on the nature of revolution. This timely new book takes account of the new scholarship, including - for example - the role of Lenin. It is argued that the intial flexibility of Lenin ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • An Unsettled Nation: Moldova in the Geopolitics of Russia, Romania, and Ukraine

    With a foreword by John Paul Himka and David R. Marples

    by Eduard Baidaus, Andreas Umland ...
    Series Book 252 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    This book investigates state-building, distorted identities, and separatism in the Republic of Moldova. It presents research on the historical preconditions and spread of the secessionist movement in Transnistria, the war in the Dniester River valley, and the diplomatic deadlock of the Transnistrian problem. It examines the conflicting positions that political parties, the public, and experts have ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • 'Our Glorious Past': Lukashenka's Belarus and the Great Patriotic War

    by Andreas Umland, David R Marples ...
    Series Book 124 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    This timely book examines how the regime of President Aliaksandr Lukashenka has used the ‘Great Patriotic War’ (1941-45) as a key element in state and identity formation in Belarus. The campaign was discernible from 2003 and intensified after a rift with Russia that led to a re-examination of the earlier policy of close political and economic partnership. David R. Marples focuses in particular on ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Ukraine’s Euromaidan:

    Analyses of a Civil Revolution

    by Marta Dyczok, Olesya Khromeychuk, Svitlana Krasynska, Taras Kuzio, Nataliia Otrishchenko, Frederick Mills, Anna Susak, William Risch, Olga Onuch, Uladzimir Padhol0, Aya Fujiwara1, David R Marples3 ...
    Series Book 138 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    The papers presented in this volume analyze the civil uprising known as Euromaidan that began in central Kyiv in late November 2013, when the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych opted not to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union, and continued over the following months. The topics include the motivations and expectations of protesters, organized crime, nationalism, gender issues, ... Read more

    $21.99 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

    $16.19 USD