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  • A Century of Ambivalence

    The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present

    by Zvi Gitelman ...
    "Illuminated by an extraordinary collection of photographs that vividly reflect the hopes, triumphs and agonies of Russian Jewish life." —David E. Fishman, Hadassah MagazineA century ago the Russian Empire contained the largest Jewish community in the world, numbering about five million people. Today, the Jewish population of the former Soviet Union has dwindled to half a million, but remains ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Jewish Diaspora

    Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany

    by Zvi Gitelman, Mark Tolts, Uzi Rebhun, Marina Sapritsky, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven J. Gold, Olena Bagno-Moldavski, Yaacov Ro'i, Gur Ofer0, Eliezer Ben-Rafael1, Sveta Roberman2, Elena Nosenko-Shtein3, Nelly Elias4, Julia Lerner5, Anna Shternshis6, Mikhail Krutikov7, Stephanie Sandler8, Adrian Wanner9 ...
    In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration has made deep marks on the social, cultural, and political terrain of many countries, in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • East-West Relations and the Future of Eastern Europe

    Politics and Economics

    Edited by Morris Bornstein, Zvi Gitelman, William Zimmerman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Both domestic and foreign policy considerations led Eastern European nations in the 1970s to involve their economies more deeply with the West. This increased economic interdependence encompassed trade, technology transfer through industrial cooperation, and international credit. These growing links came as a mixed blessing as Western economic problems – inflation, recession, unemployment, energy ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $42.99 USD

  • Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine

    An Uncertain Ethnicity

    by Zvi Gitelman ...
    Before the USSR collapsed, ethnic identities were imposed by the state. This book analyzes how and why Jews decided what being Jewish meant to them after the state dissolved and describes the historical evolution of Jewish identities. Surveys of more than 6,000 Jews in the early and late 1990s reveal that Russian and Ukrainian Jews have a deep sense of their Jewishness but are uncertain what it ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • The Problem with Socialism

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    **"DiLorenzo's book is a pleasure to read and should be put in the hands of every young person in this country - and elsewhere!" —FORMER CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL"It is a worthwhile investment for parents with college-age children to buy two copies of The Problem with Socialism -one for their children and one for themselves." —WALTER E. WILLIAMS, John M Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics, ... Read more

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  • The Triumph of Broken Promises

    The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism

    by Fritz Bartel ...
    A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to impose austerity on their own people.Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel argues that the answer to these questions ... Read more

    $37.79 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

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  • Russia's Path from Gorbachev to Putin

    The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia

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    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

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  • George Soros

    A Life In Full

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    A compelling new picture of one of the most important, complex, and misunderstood figures of our time.A unique look at one of the most important figures of the 20th and 21st centuries.An important cast of writers, top experts in multiple fields, to gain a broader view of George Soros than has ever been published before.Audience: Public intellectuals, academics, journalists, and curious readers ... Read more

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  • Russian Economic Reform

    by James Leitzel ...
    Transitions from socialism to capitalism are complex, both in theory and practice. Russian Economic Reform enables the reader to come to a much better understanding of these momentous changes, by providing a clear and accessible account of the major features of transition. It argues that attempts to portray the reform process is a disaster are misconceived, because they fail to take account of ... Read more

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  • Class Theory and History

    Capitalism and Communism in the USSR

    by Stephen A. Resnick, Richard D. Wolff ...
    Class Theory and History takes an ambitious and ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class terms. Utilizing the class analytics they have developed over the last three decades, resnick and Wolff formulate the most fully developed economic theory of communism now ... Read more

    $62.99 USD