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  • Russo-Japanese Relations, 1905-17

    From enemies to allies

    by Peter Berton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    One surprising outcome of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 was that, although Russia was humiliatingly defeated, by 1916 Russia and Japan had become allies. This book provides a detailed analysis of how this remarkable turnaround came about. It traces the evolution of relations between the two powers through the conclusion of three public and secret agreements in 1907, 1910, and 1912, and the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Japanese Communist Party

    Permanent Opposition, but Moral Compass

    by Peter Berton, Sam Atherton ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This book provides an historical overview of the Japanese Communist Party from its foundation to the present. It outlines the development of the party, explores its stance on key issues and discusses how the party has set a high moral tone, avoiding compromising coalitions with other parties, being intolerant of corruption within its own ranks, and frequently and consistently opposing the ruling ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000

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    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

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  • 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

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  • The War That Ended Peace

    The Road to 1914

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and MailFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Restless Empire

    China and the World Since 1750

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world, the contradictions of its ... Read more

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  • Japan 1941

    Countdown to Infamy

    by Eri Hotta ...
    A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific.When Japan launched hostilities against the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. Drawing on material little known to Western ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • SS: Hitler's Foreign Divisions

    Foreign Volunteers in the Waffen-SS 1940–45

    by Chris Bishop ...
    Series series World War II Germany
    The divisions of the Waffen-SS were the elite of Hitler’s armies in World War II, but the most fanatical of them were not even German. The book offers a comprehensive examination of every foreign Waffen-SS formation, including well-known divisions such as Wiking, Nord, and Prinz Eugen, notoriously brutal units such as the Kaminski Brigade and the British-recruited Britisches Freikorps. Each unit's ... Read more

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  • Near Abroad

    Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus

    by Gerard Toal ...
    Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad" - newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the geopolitical contest that created it did not. Six years later, the spectre of a revanchist Russia ... Read more

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  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989

    Edited by Jeffrey A. Engel ...
    The fall of the Berlin Wall sent shock waves around the world. It was, quite literally, a world-changing event. Now, more than two decades after the Wall's collapse, this book brings together leading authorities who offer a fresh look at how leaders in four vital centers of world politics--the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and China--viewed the world in the aftermath of this momentous ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Russian Revolution

    A New History

    by Sean McMeekin ...
    From an award-winning scholar, this definitive history reveals the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution.“McMeekin writes muscular history. His Russian Revolution grips the reader.” —Niall FergusonIn The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolskeviks into power, and introduced communism to the world.... ... Read more

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  • Should We Fear Russia?

    by Dmitri Trenin ...
    Series series Global Futures
    Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, there has been much talk of a new Cold War between the West and Russia. Under Putin’s authoritarian leadership, Moscow is widely seen as volatile, belligerent and bent on using military force to get its way.In this incisive analysis, top Russian foreign and security policy analyst Dmitri Trenin explains why the Cold War analogy is misleading. Relations ... Read more

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