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  • The Little Big Number

    How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do About It

    by Dirk Philipsen ...
    The story of GDP and why we need a better measurement of growthIn one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP only measures output. It ignores central facts such as quality, costs, or purpose. ... Read more

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  • We Were the People

    Voices from East Germany’s Revolutionary Autumn of 1989

    by Dirk Philipsen ...
    On the night of November 9, 1989, an electrified world watched as the Berlin Wall came down. Communism was dead, the Cold War was over, and freedom was on the rise—or so it seemed. We Were the People tells the story behind this momentous event. In an extraordinary series of interviews, the key actors in the drama that transformed East Germany speak for themselves, describing what they did, what ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • 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 Soviet Century

    by Moshe Lewin ...
    This classic Soviet Union history traces the USSR from 1917 to its fall, offering “a master class in understanding the structures and intricate workings of the Soviet system” (Ian Kershaw, historian and Hitler biographer).Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Russian Revolution

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpatrick takes the story from 1917, through Stalin's 'revolution from above', to the great purges of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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  • Communism

    A History

    by Richard Pipes ...
    Series Book 7 - Modern Library Chronicles
    From one of our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world's most fateful idea.With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice.At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Socialism Betrayed

    Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

    by Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny ...
    "A fresh multi-faceted look at the overthrow of the Soviet State, the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, and the campaign to introduce capitalism from above. Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny have given us a clear and powerful Marxist analysis of the momentous events which most directly shaped world politics today, the destruction of the USSR, the 'Superpower' of socialism."-Norman Markowitz, author ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Soviet Tragedy

    A History of Socialism in Russia

    by Martin Malia ...
    "The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution. He has written the history of a utopian illusion and the tragic consequences it had for the people of the Soviet Union and the world."-- David Remnick, The New York Review of Books"In Martin ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Soviet Union

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Lovell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture at the time. Stephen Lovell examines aspects ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Out of Ashes

    A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

    by Konrad H. Jarausch, Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction—and abiding promiseA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise.Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued ... Read more

    $21.99 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

    $38.59 USD

  • German History in Modern Times

    Four Lives of the Nation

    by William W. Hagen ...
    This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture and political power, contrasting German with Western patterns. Rather than treating 'the Germans' as a collective whole whose national history amounts to a cumulative biography, the book presents the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD