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Molotov Stalin's Cold Warrior
ISBN: HB: 9781574889451, Casemate, Potomac Books, December 2009
254 pp., 23x15 cm
The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalin's faithful servant; a dogmatic conservative communist of little or no imagination. Molotov was, indeed, Stalin's right-hand man while from the 1920s the two men presided over...
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£18,00
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Utopia or Auschwitz Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9781849040242, ISBN: HB: 9781849040211, Hurst Publishers, November 2009
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! One thing above all separated the radical students who demonstrated on the streets of West Berlin and Frankfurt in 1968 from their counterparts elsewhere around the world. The young Germans who became known as the 1968 generati...
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£18,99
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£45,00
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Policing Stalin's Socialism Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union (1924-1953)
ISBN: PB: 9780300149258, Yale University Press, October 2009
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
Policing Stalin's "Socialism" is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of...
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£35,00
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Idea of Communism
ISBN: HB: 9781906497262, Seagull Books, October 2009
96 pp., 18.8x11.4 cm
November 9, 2009 will mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signaled the beginning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet Union. Yet, why was this collapse of Communism considered final, but the many failure...
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£11,50
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Raven King Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library
ISBN: PB: 9780300158281, Yale University Press, August 2009
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Seizing the Hungarian throne at the age of fifteen, Matthias Corvinus, "the Raven King", was an effervescent presence on the fifteenth-century stage. A successful warrior and munificent art patron, he sought to leave as symbols of his strategic and h...
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£25,00
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Pearl A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia
ISBN: PB: 9780300158588, Yale University Press, August 2009
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus., 11 colour images, 2 family trees
Filled with a remarkable cast of characters and set against the backdrop of imperial Russia, this tale of forbidden romance could be the stuff of a great historical novel. But in fact "The Pearl" tells a true tale, reconstructed in part from archival...
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£22,00
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Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
ISBN: PB: 9780300151275, Yale University Press, June 2009
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw'...
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£16,99
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Terror by Quota State Security from Lenin to Stalin (an Archival Study)
ISBN: HB: 9780300134254, Yale University Press, January 2009
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
This original analysis of the workings of Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin addresses a series of questions that have long resisted satisfactory answers. Why did political repression affect so many people, most of them ordinary citi...
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£46,00
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Master of the House Stalin and His Inner Circle
ISBN: HB: 9780300110661, Yale University Press, January 2009
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Based on meticulous research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this compelling book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. Ol...
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£65,00
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