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  • The Soviet Sixties

    by Robert Hornsby ...
    The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet UnionBeginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the “sixties” era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union

    by Robert Hornsby ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union explores the nature of political protest in the USSR during the decade following the death of Stalin. Using sources drawn from the archives of the Soviet Procurator's office, the Communist Party, the Komsomol and elsewhere, Hornsby examines the emergence of underground groups, mass riots and public attacks on authority as well as the ways ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    The Soviet Sixties

    by Robert Hornsby ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 29 min

    The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet UnionBeginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Stalin's War on Ukraine

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    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more—from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain."With searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to ... Read more

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  • The Red Flag

    A History of Communism

    by David Priestland ...
    "The best and the most accessible one-volume history of communism now available . . . A far-reaching, vividly written account." — Foreign AffairsIn The Red Flag, Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across two hundred years, from its birth after the French Revolution to its ideological maturity in nineteenth-century Germany ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of Communism

    by Archie Brown ...
    "A work of considerable delicacy and nuance….Brown has crafted a readable and judicious account of Communist history…that is both controversial and commonsensical."—Salon.com"Ranging wisely and lucidly across the decades and around the world, this is a splendid book."—William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His EraThe Rise and Fall of Communism is the definitive ... Read more

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  • Uncivil Society

    1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment

    by Stephen Kotkin, Jan Gross ...
    Series Book 32 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies–East ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Everyday Stalinism:Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

    Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed. With the abolition of the market, shortages of food, clothing, and all kinds of consumer goods ... Read more

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  • Stalin's Genocides

    by Norman M. Naimark ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the ... Read more

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  • A Failed Empire

    The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev

    by Vladislav M. Zubok ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin’s pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the twentieth century. Using recently ... Read more

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  • The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defied all predictions, including their own. Scarcely a lifespan later, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed as accidentally as it arose. The decades between witnessed drama on an epic scale—the chaos and hope of revolution, famines and purges, hard-won victory in history’s most destructive war, and ... Read more

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  • The Gorbachev Factor

    by Archie Brown ...
    Accessibly written to appeal to a wide readership, this is a meticulous study of Gorbachev by a leading Western specialist on Soviet politics. - ;Mikhail Gorbachev was arguably the most important world statesman of the second half of the twentieth century. He played the decisive role in ending the Cold War and in allowing the countries of Eastern Europe to regain their independence peacefully. He ... Read more

    $17.09 USD