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  • The Soviet Union

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture at the time. Stephen Lovell examines aspects ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • How Russia Learned to Talk

    A History of Public Speaking in the Stenographic Age, 1860-1930

    Series series Oxford Studies in Modern European History
    Russia in the late nineteenth century may have been an autocracy, but it was far from silent. In the 1860s, new venues for public speech sprang up: local and municipal assemblies, the courtroom, and universities and learned societies. Theatre became more lively and vernacular, while the Orthodox Church exhorted its priests to become better preachers. Although the tsarist government attempted to ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Destination in Doubt

    Russia since 1989

    Series series Global History of the Present
    The enormously complex changes triggered by the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe were nowhere more ambiguous than in the heartland of the Soviet bloc, Russia itself. Here the population was divided on all the most fundamental questions of post-communist transition: economic reforms, the Communist Party, the borders of the state, even the definition of the Russian 'nation' itself. Russians ... Leer más

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  • Summerfolk

    A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000

    Series series
    The dacha is a sometimes beloved, sometimes scorned Russian dwelling. Alexander Pushkin summered in one; Joseph Stalin lived in one for the last twenty years of his life; and contemporary Russian families still escape the city to spend time in them. Stephen Lovell's generously illustrated book is the first social and cultural history of the dacha. Lovell traces the dwelling's origins as a villa ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Shadow of War

    Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the present

    Series Libro 8 - Blackwell History of Russia
    Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War II as a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union and Russia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach to modern Soviet and Russian history.Presents one of the only histories of the Soviet Union and Russia that begins with World War II and goes beyond the Soviet collapse through to the early twenty-first ... Leer más

    $42.00 USD

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    The Soviet Union

    A Very Short Introduction

    Narrado por Rich Miller ...

    Completo

    4 hora 53 minutos

    The Soviet Union at its height occupied one sixth of the world's land mass, encompassed fifteen republics, and stretched across eleven different time zones. More than twice the size of the United States, it was the great threat of the Cold War until it suddenly collapsed in 1991. Now, almost twenty years after the dissolution of this vast empire, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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    Plato

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Julia Annas ...

    Completo

    2 hora 56 minutos

    This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the listener into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with philosophical problems in a variety of ways, rather than a philosopher with a fully worked-out system. It includes a brief account of Plato's life and ... Leer más

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  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Postwar

    A History of Europe Since 1945

    de Tony Judt ...
    **Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal“Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe**Almost a ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Communism

    de Archie Brown ...
    "A readable and judicious account of Communist history . . . that is both controversial and commonsensical." — SalonThe Rise and Fall of Communism is the definitive history from the internationally renowned Oxford authority on the subject. Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University, Archie Brown examines the origins of the most important political ideology of the 20th century, its ... Leer más

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  • Uncivil Society

    1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment

    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Communism

    A History

    de Richard Pipes ...
    Series Libro 7 - Modern Library Chronicles
    From one of our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world's most fateful idea.With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice.At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive ... Leer más

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