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  • Cold Wars

    Asia, the Middle East, Europe

    by Lorenz M. Lüthi ...
    What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of the twentieth century? Standard narratives focus on Soviet-American rivalry as if the superpowers were the exclusive driving forces of the international system. Lorenz M. Lüthi offers a radically different account, restoring agency to regional powers in Asia, the Middle East and Europe and revealing how regional and national ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Iron Curtain

    A Short History of Socialist Borders

    by Lorenz M. Lüthi ...
    Series series Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
    The Iron Curtain remains an iconic representation of the Cold War. But what was it really on the ground? Fortified borders to prevent citizens from leaving emerged first in the interwar USSR and then in socialist post-WW II Europe. Fortifications occurred both at borders between socialist states and at their external boundaries to the non-socialist world, but not in all cases. The most well-known ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • The Sino-Indian War of 1962

    New perspectives

    Edited by Amit R. Das Gupta, Lorenz M. Lüthi ...
    The Sino-Indian border war of 1962 forms a major landmark in South Asian, Asian and Cold War history. Among others, it resulted in an unresolved conflict permanently hindering rapprochement between China and India, the establishment of the Sino-Pakistani axis, the deepening of the Sino-Soviet split and had a lasting impact on Indian domestic affairs.This volume draws on new documentary evidence to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949–Present

    by Tina Mai Chen, Izabella Goikhman, Guiha Guan, Donghui He, Xiaojia Hou, You Ji, Hanbing Kong, Lorenz Luthi, Elizabeth McGuire, Gregory Rohlf, Laurence Schneider, Douglas Stiffler, Péter Vámos, Miin-ling Yu, Jian Zang, Shengfa Zhang, Minglang Zhou, Thomas P. Bernstein, Gilbert Rozman ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    It is well known that the Soviet Union strongly influenced China in the early 1950s, since China committed itself both to the Sino-Soviet alliance and to the Soviet model of building socialism. What is less well known is that Chinese proved receptive not only to the Soviet economic model but also to the emulation of the Soviet Union in realms such as those of ideology, education, science, and ... Read more

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    by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn ...
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  • The Red Web

    The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries

    by Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan ...
    A Library Journal Best Book of 2015A NPR Great Read of 2015The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both.On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of southwest Moscow, in a room occupied by the Federal Security Service (FSB), is a box the size of a VHS ... Read more

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  • Defeat is an Orphan

    How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War

    by Myra MacDonald ...
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  • The Naked Communist

    by W. Cleon Skousen ...
    This book is designed to bring the far-flung facts about Communism into a single volume. It contains a distillation of more than one hundred books and treatises—many of them written by Communist authors. It attempts to present the Communist in his true native elements, stripped of propaganda and pretense. Hence, the title, The Naked Communist.A panoramic study of Communism might easily degenerate ... Read more

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  • Cracking the China Conundrum

    Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong

    by Yukon Huang ...
    China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view of China's major economic, political, and foreign policy issues. Yukon Huang trenchantly addresses ... Read more

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  • Uyghur Nation

    Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier

    by David Brophy ...
    The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central Asia’s Muslim communities. Along this frontier, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and the revolutions that engulfed Russia and China in the early twentieth century. David Brophy explores how a community ... Read more

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  • Confucianism as a World Religion

    Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities

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    Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a world religion.The book begins at Oxford, in the late nineteenth century, when ... Read more

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  • Red at Heart

    How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution

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    Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's most crucial alliance. This is the multigenerational history of people who experienced Sino-Soviet affairs most intimately: prominent Chinese revolutionaries who traveled to Russia in their youths to ... Read more

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