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1	Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire more books like this by David Remnick add to wishlist This work is a narrative of the most momentous event in the post-war world - the end of communism and the subsequent break-up of the Soviet Union. Seen, in some aspects, as a battle between good (personified by Sakharer) and evil (in the form of the Communist Party), the author breathes life into Gorbachev and Yeltsin who are seen as Carylean ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev more books like this by Vladislav Zubok add to wishlist This book features the Cold War from the Soviet side. In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites ... see all copies from $7.38! new only from $7.38! \| SVS
3	Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects more books like this by Dmitry Orlov add to wishlist In the waning days of the American Empire the US administration finds itself mired in political crisis; foreign policy has come under sharp criticism and the economy is in steep decline. These trends mirror the experience of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. "Reinventing Collapse" examines the circumstances of the demise of the Soviet ... see all copies from $10.93! new only from $10.93! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Memoirs more books like this by Professor Mikhail Gorbachev add to wishlist In this memoir by the former leader of the Soviet Union and the architect of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev looks back on the defining moments of his political career, staying close to agendas rather than personal matters. He recounts life under Stalin, his rise within the party, and his elevation to Premier of the U.S.S.R. His efforts to change ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $79.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire more books like this by Michael Dobbs add to wishlist The fall of Communism was one of the great human dramas of our century, as great as the original Bolshevik revolution. "Washington Post" correspondent Michael Dobbs met almost all of the principal players in this drama, and paints an unforgettable portrait of an empire in its death throes. Nominated for the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Through the Eyes of the Enemy: The Autobiography of Stanislav Lunev more books like this by Stanislav Lunev, Staanislov Lunev, Ira Winkler add to wishlist The Cold War -- is it really over? Col. Stanislav Lunev suggests that it may not be. In his compelling autobiography Through the Eyes of the Enemy, Col. Lunev reveals how Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the KGB to double its corporate, government, and military espionage against the U.S. Col. Lunev's story is significant. He knows some of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $35.16! \| first editions
7	The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire more books like this by John Dunlop add to wishlist This is the first work to set one of the great bloodless revolutions of the twentieth century in its proper historical context. John Dunlop pays particular attention to Yeltsin's role in opposing the covert resurgence of Communist interests in post-coup Russia, and faces the possibility that new institutions may not survive long enough to sink ... see all copies from $2.89! new only from $9.76! \| first editions
8	The Gorbachev Factor more books like this by Professor Archie Brown add to wishlist 'To understand this singular man, the reader can do no better than to turn to Archie Brown's astute and lucid book. There have been several excellent works on Mr Gorbachev ...but none examines the subject as thoroughly as this volume ...a rich study, as impressive in its sweep as in its details.' Abraham Brumberg, New York Times 'Archie Brown's ... see all copies from $5.06! new only from $33.46! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Russia Since 1980: Wrestling with Westernization more books like this by Steven Rosefielde, Stefan Hedlund add to wishlist Russia Since 1980 recounts the epochal political, economic, and social changes that destroyed the Soviet Union, ushering in a perplexing new order. Two decades after Mikhail Gorbachev initiated regime-wrecking radical reforms, Russia has reemerged as a superpower. It has survived a hyperdepression, modernized, restored private property and ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $15.06! \| SVS
10	Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union more books like this by Jack F Matlock, Jr. add to wishlist First posted to Moscow in 1962, Jack Matlock was America's man on the scene for most of the Cold War. Filled with portraits of the major players, including Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Reagan, and Bush, this dramatic, eyewitness account of those momentous years contains many new revelations and insights into the decisions of American policymakers. of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Why Lenin? Why Stalin? Why Gorbachev?: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet System more books like this by Theodore H Von Laue add to wishlist This interpretive essay puts the rise and fall of the Soviet system into global perspective and offers the most inclusive overview available of the course of events from the collapse of the tsarist regime to the dissolution under Gorbachev of the empire built by tsars and soviets. @CONTENTSBEG see all copies from $2.27! new only from $16.68! \| SVS
12	Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World more books like this by Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev add to wishlist Perestroika, which means "restructuring", is Mikhail Gorbachev's own account of the policies he is currently implementing in the USSR. Created 70 years after the October Revolution, perestroika constitutes a revolution in ideas, attitudes and practice that entails a radical alteration of Russian domestic and foreign policy. Frank in his criticism ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Communism and Its Collapse more books like this by Stephen White add to wishlist The Russian revolution of 1917 was a turning point in the twentieth century. The revolutions that swept through the USSR and Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s marked another turning point. Communism and its Collapse surveys the course of communism and addresses the many intriguing questions that the experience of communism has raised. ... see all copies from $8.02! new only from $24.78! \| SVS
14 view cover	Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives more books like this by Donald J Raleigh (Editor) add to wishlist "Russia's Sputnik Generation" presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42 in the Russian city of Saratov. Born in 1949/50, these four men and four women belong to the first generation conceived during the Soviet Union's return to 'normality' following World War II. Well educated, articulate, and loosely networked even today, ... see all copies from $9.97! new only from $21.90! \| SVS
15 view cover	Parting with Illusions more books like this by Vladimir Pozner add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Flames of Heaven more books like this by Ralph Peters add to wishlist Revolves around the intensely physical relationship between Sasha Leskov, an artist, and Shirin Talala, the beautiful and mysterious daughter of Ali Talala, an Uzbek mafia chieftain. Their liaison is doomed from the start by their uncontrollable passions which blind them to reason. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17	The Crisis of Leninism and the Decline of the Left: The Revolutions of 1989 more books like this by Daniel Chirot (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.20! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Forbidden Zone more books like this by Michael Hetzer add to wishlist In the dying days of the Cold War, two astrophysicists working on a joint U.S.-Soviet science project fall dangerously in love, and every step Anton takes to help American Katherine Sears find her imprisoned brother pits him against his fellow communistsand his mother, a high-ranking Soviet ministe see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Man Who Changed the World: The Lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev more books like this by Gail Sheehy add to wishlist Mikhail Gorbachev's influence on recent events in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the entire world is nothing short of astounding. But, until now, very little has been known about Gorbachev the man. Gail Sheehy presents the most intimate, comprehensive, and lively account ever published about this intriguing world figure. 16 pages of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	Boris Yeltsin more books like this by John Morrison add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Politics of Transition: Shaping a Post-Soviet Future more books like this by Stephen White, Darrell Slider (Editor), Graeme J Gill (Editor) add to wishlist The Soviet system has undergone a dramatic transformation: from communist monopoly to multiparty politics, from marxism to competing values, from centralisation to fragmentation, and from state ownership to a mixed economy. This book, by three of the West's leading scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, traces the politics of transition in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Against the Grain: An Autobiography more books like this by Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Out of the Cold: New Thinking for American Foreign and Defense Policy in the 21st Century more books like this by Professor Robert S McNamara add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Underwriting Democracy: Encouraging Free Enterprise and Democratic Reform Among the Soviets and in Eastern Europe more books like this by George Soros add to wishlist Now back in print: George Soros on funding and supporting the kind of grassroots democratic movements that helped bring down oppressive governments throughout the Communist bloc. George Soros has done more for open societies than any other private citizen in the world. In Underwriting Democracy he describes his experiences helping to bring about ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
25	Moscow Spring more books like this by William Taubman add to wishlist Here is the remarkable story of how two Americans found themselves in the center of Gorbachev's Soviet revolution--a time as important, they believe, as John Reed's ten days that shook the world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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