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“jasper becker”

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  • Rogue Regime

    Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea

    by Jasper Becker ...
    What happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world? In a nightmare of political theory stretched to madness, North Korea's Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god, surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two million of his subjects starved to death, Kim Jong Il roamed between palaces staffed by the most beautiful girls in the ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Why Communism Failed

    by Jasper Becker ...
    Communism was destroyed not from without, but from within-by a persistent failure to make its economic theories work in practice. But what exactly did go wrong with its central planning? Until the last moment, top western economists claimed that Communism was superior to western models. Even now, centralized Marxist planning retains its admirers, especially among the young. With the benefit of new ... Read more

    $18.99 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

  • Frontline Ukraine

    Crisis in the Borderlands

    by Professor Richard Sakwa ...
    The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity and of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Europe since 1989

    A History

    by Philipp Ther ...
    Translated by Charlotte Hughes-Kreutzmüller ...
    An award-winning history of the transformation of Europe between 1989 and todayThe year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago School achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely determined the course of the political, economic, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Russia's Path from Gorbachev to Putin

    The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia

    by David Kotz, Fred Weir ...
    Over the past few years, many of the former Communist-rule countries of Central and Eastern Europe have taken a steady path toward becoming more or less normal capitalist countries - with Poland and Hungary cases in point.Russia, on the other hand, has experienced extreme difficulties in its attempted transition to capitalism and democracy. The pursuit of Western-endorsed policies of privatization ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy

    Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR

    by Chris Miller ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s economic reforms play in the country’s dissolution? In this groundbreaking study, Chris Miller shows that Gorbachev and his allies tried to learn from the great success story of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Putin

    Russia's Choice

    by Richard Sakwa ...
    The new edition of this extremely well-received political biography of Vladimir Putin builds on the strengths of the first edition to provide the most detailed and nuanced account of the man, his politics and his profound influence on Russian politics, foreign policy and society. New to this edition:analysis of Putin's second term as Presidentmore biographical information in the light of recent ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Siberian Curse

    How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold

    by Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy ...
    Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market, democratic society? Why have so many reforms failed since the Soviet Union's collapse? In this highly-original work, Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy argue that Russia's geography, history, and monumental mistakes perpetrated by Soviet planners have locked it into a dead-end path to economic ruin. Shattering a number of myths that have long persisted in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Collapse of an Empire

    Lessons for Modern Russia

    by Yegor Gaidar ...
    ""My goal is to show the reader that the Soviet political and economic system was unstable by its very nature. It was just a question of when and how it would collapse...."" -From the Introduction to Collapse of an Empire The Soviet Union was an empire in many senses of the word-a vast mix of far-flung regions and accidental citizens by way of conquest or annexation. Typical of such empires, it ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Europe's Troubled Peace

    1945 to the Present

    by Tom Buchanan ...
    Series Book 15 - Blackwell History of Europe
    This revised second edition now extends to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, covering the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the “War on Terror” on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe following EU enlargement.Thoroughly revised and expanded, this integrated history of Europe now covers the end of the Second World War up to the ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • Situating Putin

    Why He’s Not Going Away and How That Matters

    by William Sweet ...
    This is a rather old-fashioned book of essays. Its sole objective is to describe the character of Putin's political order as accurately as possible, and to spell out why and how Putinism is worrisome. The main essay, while providing a summary account of how Putin came to power and consolidated his position as Russia's virtual dictator, evaluates Putinism in terms of the main models or metaphors ... Read more

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