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  • Spartak Moscow

    A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State

    by Robert Edelman ...
    In the informative, entertaining, and generously illustrated Spartak Moscow, a book that will be cheered by soccer fans worldwide, Robert Edelman finds in the stands and on the pitch keys to understanding everyday life under Stalin, Khrushchev, and their successors. Millions attended matches and obsessed about their favorite club, and their rowdiness on game day stood out as a moment of relative ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Whole World Was Watching

    Sport in the Cold War

    Edited by Robert Edelman, Christopher Young ...
    Series series Cold War International History Project
    In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but also in the realm of culture—and perhaps nowhere more so than the cultural phenomenon of sports, where the symbolic capital of athletic endeavor held up a mirror to the global contest for the sympathies of citizens worldwide. The Whole World Was Watching ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–1985

    by Kate Brown, Dominic Boyer, Larisa Honey, Olga Livshin, Anna Paretskaya, Benjamin M. Sutcliffe, Sergei I. Zhuk, Robert Edelman ...
    What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist citizens. However, the socialist state was not simply an oppressive institution that dictated how to live and what to think—it also ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Proletarian Peasants

    The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest

    by Robert Edelman ...
    In this book, conceived and written for the general reader as well as the specialist, Robert Edelman uses a case study of peasant behavior during a particular revolutionary situation to make an important contribution to one of the major debates in contemporary peasant studies. Edelman's subject is the peasantry of the right-bank Ukraine, and he uses local and regional archives seldom available to ... Read more

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    by Karl Marx ...
    Translated by Frederick Engels, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling ...
    This book is a critical analysis of political economy, meant to reveal the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a famous German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and ... Read more

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  • Sundays Will Never Be the Same

    Racing, Tragedy, and Redemption--My Life in America's Fastest Sport

    by Darrell Waltrip ...
    From the former NASCAR champion and current Fox Sports announcer, an intimate account of one of the most dramatic and tragic days in the history of NASCAR: the 2001 Daytona 500—the day that racing legend Dale Earnhardt, Sr. died.In Sundays Will Never Be the Same, former NASCAR champion and current FOX Sports racing analyst Darrell Waltrip provides an intimate account of one of the most dramatic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Russian History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Geoffrey Hosking ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Spanning the divide between Europe and Asia, Russia is a multi-ethnic empire with a huge territory, strategically placed and abundantly provided with natural resources. But Russia's territory has a harsh climate, is cut off from most maritime contact with the outside world, and has open and vulnerable land frontiers. It has therefore had to devote much of its wealth to the armed forces, and the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Why Not Socialism?

    by Gerald A. Cohen ...
    A compelling case for why it's time for socialismIs socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated.There are times, G. A. Cohen notes, when we all behave like socialists. On a camping trip, for example, ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Napoleon's Invasion of Russia

    by George Nafziger ...
    “An impressive source book on the conflict, high on information and data.”—Journal of the Society for Army Historical ResearchSeptember 7, 1812, is by itself one of the most cataclysmic days in the history of war: 74,000 casualties at the Battle of Borodino. And this was well before the invention of weaspons of mass destruction like machine guns or breech-loading rifles.In this detailed study of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Rasputin File

    by Edvard Radzinsky ...
    From the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philanderer whose role in the demise of the Romanovs and the start of the revolution can only now be fully known.For almost a century, historians could only speculate about the role Grigory Rasputin played in the downfall of tsarist Russia. But in 1995 a lost ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • At the Altar of Speed

    The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt

    by Leigh Montville ...
    He was The Intimidator. A nightmare in the rear-view mirror. A unique winner in the boardroom. A seven-time Winston Cup champion. A driver whose personal success story and dedication inspired the adoration of millions of fans. Then on February 18, 2001, just seconds from the Daytona 500 finish line, the world of stock-car racing suffered a devastating loss as Dale Earnhardt fatally careened into a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Main Enemy

    The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB

    by James Risen, Milt Bearden ...
    A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them.Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA officers as they dodge surveillance and walk into violent ... Read more

    $4.99 USD