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  • The Russian Economy

    by Prof. Yuval Weber ...
    Series series World Economies
    Since Tsarist times, Russia’s leaders, rather than pursue economic growth for its own sake, have sought control over economic activity as a means to manage their own support base, respond to perceived security threats and to facilitate their wider geopolitical ambitions. Balancing the needs of an authoritarian state with the tentative and inconsistent use of the market has defined Russia’s modern ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2020/2

    by Andreas Umland, George Soroka, Yevhenii Poliakov, Nataliia Belitser, Alexander Etkind0, Boris Barkanov1, Dennis Soltys2, Maryna Rabinovych3, Alina Cherviatsova4, Jeanne L. Wilson5, Yuval Weber6, Tomasz Stepniewski7, Bohdan Shumylovych8, Jan C. Behrends9, Vasily V. Gatov0, Nicolaas A. Kraft van Ermel1, Aijan Sharshenova2, Oleksii Poltorakov3, Javeed Ahwar4, Elise Westin5 ...
    Series Book 6.2 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    Special Sections: Russian Foreign Policy Towards the “Near Abroad” and Russia's Annexiation of Crimea II This special section deals with Russia’s post-Maidan foreign policy towards the so-called “near abroad,” or the former Soviet states. This is an important and timely topic, as Russia’s policy perspectives have changed dramatically since 2013/2014, as have those of its neighbors. The Kremlin ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Ukraine after Maidan

    Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security

    by George Soroka, Tomasz Stepniewski, Andreas Umland, Yuval Weber, Jussi Laine, Yuriy Matsiyevsky, Joanna Fomina, Andrzej Szabaciuk ...
    Series Book 188 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    When public protests first began in Ukraine at the end of 2013, the failed promise of the Orange Revolution was still fresh in the minds of many Ukrainians. However, unlike in the aftermath of 2004/2005, the political and military crises ignited by the Euromaidan brought profound changes not only for Ukraine, but also for neighboring states and Europe more generally. The annexation of Crimea by ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    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

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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

    $19.69 USD

  • Russia Against Modernity

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Putin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and digital labor. By trading oil and gas, promoting Trump and Brexit, spreading corruption, boosting inequality and homophobia, subsidizing far-right movements and destroying Ukraine, Putin’s clique aims ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $10.00 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

  • Russia and the New World Disorder

    by Bobo Lo ...
    The Russian annexation of Crimea was one of the great strategic shocks of the past twenty-five years. For many in the West, Moscow's actions in early 2014 marked the end of illusions about cooperation, and the return to geopolitical and ideological confrontation. Russia, for so long a peripheral presence, had become the central actor in a new global drama. In this groundbreaking book, renowned ... Read more

    $28.39 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