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“gale stokes”

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  • The Walls Came Tumbling Down : The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe

    The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe

    by Gale Stokes ...
    The rapid and unexpected collapse of the Communist systems of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe continues to mystify scholars and citizens alike. The recent flood of books on this topic (many of them excellent) poses special problems for librarians who will need to choose carefully not only as to quality but also coverage. Stokes's work which covers Poland Germany Czechoslovakia Hungary Bulgaria ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Annual Survey of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: 1998

    Holding the Course

    by Peter Rutland, Gale Stokes ...
    Annual Survey at Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union 1998 provides an overview of developments in one of the most rapidly changing regions of the world. It covers useful historical background, as well as foreign policy issues, and profiles of key personalities in these regions. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Politics as Development

    The Emergence of Political Parties in Nineteenth-Century Serbia

    by Gale Stokes ...
    Nineteenth-century Serbia was an economically and socially backward country with an urban population of approximately 3 percent and a literacy rate in the countryside of less than 10 percent. Still, during that century it created a functioning democracy with a constitution, independent courts, political parties, and civil liberties. The Serbian experience challenges the view that political ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Wheel of Fortune

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  • Petrostate

    Putin, Power, and the New Russia

    by Marshall I. Goldman ...
    In the aftermath of the financial collapse of August 1998, it looked as if Russia's day as a superpower had come and gone. That it should recover and reassert itself after less than a decade is nothing short of an economic and political miracle. Based on extensive research, including several interviews with Vladimir Putin, this revealing book chronicles Russia's dramatic reemergence on the world ... Read more

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  • The Influence of Soros

    Politics, Power, and the Struggle for Open Society

    by Emily Tamkin ...
    A seasoned journalist probes one of the right-wing's favorite targets, Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist George Soros, to explore the genesis of his influence and the truth of the conspiracies that surround him.For years, hedge fund tycoon George Soros has been demonized by GOP politicians, fringe outlets, and right-wing media personalities, who claim Soros often manipulates the ... Read more

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  • Putinomics

    Power and Money in Resurgent Russia

    by Chris Miller ...
    When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin’s economic policies? What patterns can be discerned? In this new analysis of Putin’s Russia, Chris Miller examines its economic policy ... Read more

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  • Korea A History

    by Bong-youn Choy ...
    This detailed, scholarly history of Korea is a comprehensive political and socioeconomic history from 57 B.C. to modern times, including North and South Korea.Specializing in Korean industrial structure, economic planning, and administration, the author presents a concise yet readable historical approach to a greater understanding of Korea's position in East Asia. The author, a political scholar ... Read more

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  • The Firebird

    The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy

    by Andrei Kozyrev ...
    Series series Russian and East European Studies
    Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, he was present when tanks moved in to seize the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin famously stood on a tank to address the crowd assembled. He then departed to Paris to muster international support and, if needed, to form ... Read more

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  • South Korea since 1980

    by Uk Heo, Terence Roehrig ...
    Series series The World Since 1980
    This 2010 book examines the changes in politics, economics, society, and foreign policy in South Korea since 1980. Starting with a brief description of its history leading up to 1980, this book deals with South Korea's transition to democracy, the stunning economic development achieved since the 1960s, the 1997 financial crisis, and the economic reforms that followed and concludes with the North ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • No Place for Russia

    European Security Institutions Since 1989

    by William Hill ...
    Series series Woodrow Wilson Center Series
    The optimistic vision of a “Europe whole and free” after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has given way to disillusionment, bitterness, and renewed hostility between Russia and the West. In No Place for Russia, William H. Hill traces the development of the post–Cold War European security order to explain today’s tensions, showing how attempts to integrate Russia into a unified Euro-Atlantic ... Read more

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