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Собрание государственных грамот и договоров хрнящихся в ...

Собрание государственных грамот и договоров хрнящихся в ...

Руссия. Министерство иностранных дел

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The Former Soviet Union in Transition

The Former Soviet Union in Transition

John P. Hardt

This edition of the Joint Economic Committee's 1993 reports on the economies of the ex-Soviet states tracks the Soviet and post-Soviet economic reform efforts, and looks at issues such as integration and developments.
Yom Kippur and After: The Soviet Union and the Middle East ...

Yom Kippur and After: The Soviet Union and the Middle East ...

Galia Golan

The Soviet Union and the Middle East Crisis Galia Golan. SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES Books in the series A. Bolitho Foreign Trade Criteria in Socialist Economies Sheila Fitzpatrick The Commissariat of Enlightenment Donald ...
Family Protection Report

Family Protection Report

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--Reviewed by Grover Glenn Norquist (Mr. Norquist is the chief speechwriter for the United States Chamber of Commerce) In 1961 Nikita Kruschev, the then dictator of the Soviet Union, confidently predicted that by 1980 the Soviet Union would ...
Bolt Action: Armies of the Soviet Union

Bolt Action: Armies of the Soviet Union

Warlord Games

This book provides Bolt Action players with all of the information they need to field the military forces of the Soviet Union.
Imperial and Soviet Russia: Power, Privilege and the ...

Imperial and Soviet Russia: Power, Privilege and the ...

David Christian

Imperial and Soviet Russia offers a coherent interpretation of the turbulent history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union during the last two centuries.
Pluralism in the Soviet Union

Pluralism in the Soviet Union

Susan Gross Solomon

Jerry F. Hough, “The Party Apparatchiki', in H. Gordon Skilling and 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Franklyn Griffiths (eds), Interest Groups in Soviet Politics ( Princeton, N.J., 1971) 87-92. Bunce and Echols, 'Soviet Politics in the Brezhnev ...
From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union: The Economic and ...

From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union: The Economic and ...

Ivan T. Berend

The Soviet Union's dramatic collapse in 1989 was a pivotal moment in the complex history of Central and Eastern Europe, and Ivan Berend here offers a magisterial new account of the dramatic transformation that culminated in ten former ...
The Limits of Detente: The United States, the Soviet Union, ...

The Limits of Detente: The United States, the Soviet Union, ...

Craig A. Daigle

218 More recently, Dima Adamsky, in three separate articles examining the Soviet intervention in the War of Attrition, has also argued that American policy makers “underestimated” Kosygin's letter. Pointing to previous Soviet actions, such as ...
Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in ...

Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in ...

Anika Walke

On young Soviet Jews' increasing distance from traditional Judaism, see for instance Anna Shternshis, Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), and Leonid ...
Ethnicity and Beyond: Theories and Dilemmas of Jewish Group ...

Ethnicity and Beyond: Theories and Dilemmas of Jewish Group ...

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David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel (Berkeley: 1998), 17– 33. Anna Shternshis, Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 248 pp. Soviet and ...
Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream

Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream

Diane P. Koenker

... see John McCannon, Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932–1939 (Oxford, 1998); see also Andy Bruno, “Making Nature Modern: Economic Transformation and the Environment in the Soviet North” ...
Changing Channels: Television and the Struggle for Power in ...

Changing Channels: Television and the Struggle for Power in ...

Ellen Propper Mickiewicz

Amy W. Knight, The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union (Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1988). 10. "From the CPSU Central Committee," Moscow News, no. 28 (1992), 7. 11. AmyW. Knight, The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union.
Changing reality: recent Soviet photography

Changing reality: recent Soviet photography

Leah Bendavid-Val

This landmark book which is the inspiration for and companion to the exhibition of the same name will feature the work of thirty-eight of the Soviet Union'sfinest photographers.
New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations

New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations

Ian Bremmer

This new edition is completely up-to-date and still the only comprehensive reference for students of the nations of the former Soviet Union.
Hunger and War: Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union during ...

Hunger and War: Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union during ...

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Roger Markwick perfectly captured the explanatory dilemma: “How could Stalin's draconian state mobilize such large numbers of Soviet citizens who were willing to give up everything in its defense?”58 Moreover, although Bordiugov's binary ...
Seventeen Moments of Spring: A Novel

Seventeen Moments of Spring: A Novel

Юлиан Семенов

During World War II, Soviet super-agent Isaev races to foil a plot by Hitler's advisors to negotiate a separate peace with the West and to create a capitalist-fascist front against the Soviet Union."
Leaving Leningrad

Leaving Leningrad

Li͡udmila Shtern

Li͡udmila Shtern. A nostalgic and humorous memoir of life under communism and capitalism. Although women writers have held a conspicuous place in the history of modern Russian literature, they have been slow to find their true voices in exile. Ludmila Shtern, a geologist/writer who immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1975, offers a completely fresh, unsentimental look at daily life in the former Soviet Union and in the United States in the second half of the ...
Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since ...

Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since ...

Stephen F. Cohen

This wide ranging volume cuts through Cold War stereotypes of the Soviet Union to arrive at fresh interpretations of that country's traumatic history and its present-day political realities.
The Destruction of the Soviet Union: A Study in Globalization

The Destruction of the Soviet Union: A Study in Globalization

D. Lockwood

Poul Funder Larsen, 'Whatever happened to the Soviet Communist Party?', International Viewpoint, No. 217, 25 May 1991, pp. 3–7 at p. 3. Larsen, 'Party?', pp. 3, 5. David Lane reports that neither the interests of the nomenklatura, nor those of ...
Soviet Jewish Aliyah, 1989-92: Impact and Implications for ...

Soviet Jewish Aliyah, 1989-92: Impact and Implications for ...

Clive A. Jones

8. Ibid., p.115. 9. Jerry Goodman, 'The Jews in the Soviet Union: Emigration and Its Difficulties', in Freedman (ed.), op. cit., p.21. 10. Mike Bowker and Phil Williams , Superpower Detente: A Reappraisal (London: Sage/RIIA, 1988), pp.196-8. 11.
The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review

The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review

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Tor SOVIET or * , POST-SOVIET * - * Rf wirw B R I LL The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 38 (2011) 63—72 brill.nl/spsr : - # Review Article Illiberal Russia and the Varieties of Slavophilism Patrick Lally Michelson Center for Russia, East ...
Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and ...

Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and ...

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

The book also includes a military history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which provoked the boycott, and an examination of the boycott's impact four years later at the Los Angeles Olympics, where the Soviet Union retaliated with its ...
The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal ...

The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal ...

Peter Tomsen

(Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1995), 377–379; Craig A. Daigle, “Why Did Sadat Throw the Soviets Out of Egypt?” Middle East Review of International Affairs, March 2004. 3. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, former Soviet deputy ...
Great Events from History: The 20th century, 1901-1940

Great Events from History: The 20th century, 1901-1940

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Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov and his pupil Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin, through their experimental work, theoretical writings, and films, brought Soviet cinema to a high level of achievement. LOCALE: Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) ...
Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World

Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World

Jeremy Friedman

This groundbreaking book is the first to explore the significance of this second Cold War that China and the Soviet Union fought in the shadow of the capitalist-communist clash.
Inside the Aquarium: the making of a top Soviet spy

Inside the Aquarium: the making of a top Soviet spy

Viktor Suvorov

Describes the author's recruitment and training inside the Aquarium, headquarters of the GRU, the Soviet Union's top-secret military intelligence organization
The Barefoot Shoemaker: Capitalizing on the New Russia

The Barefoot Shoemaker: Capitalizing on the New Russia

Vladimir Lʹvovich Kvint

"When few thought the Soviet empire could ever break ap, Vladimir Kvint predicted and advocated the withdrawal of the Russian Republic from the U.S.S.R — Kvint's articles in Forbes on events in the Soviet Union have been close to ...

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