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1	The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order more books like this by Parag Khanna $3.37 (new hardcover, see detail) add to wishlist Khanna takes readers on a thrilling global tour, one that shows how America's dominant moment has been suddenly replaced by a geopolitical marketplace where the European Union and China compete with the United States to shape world order on their own terms. see all copies from $3.24! new only from $3.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan more books like this by Chi Fa Lu, Rebecca White $7.50 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Tells the story of the author's struggles after being orphaned at the age of three and how he held on to his dream of coming to the United States as he passed from one relative to another and was even sold to a Communist couple. see all copies from $3.78! new only from $8.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Conversations with Stalin more books like this by Milovan Djilas $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.79! \| first editions \| SVS
4	How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia more books like this by Anders Aslund $9.00 (new softcover, see detail) add to wishlist Anders Aslund foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union in his book Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform (1989). He depicted the success of Russia's market transformation in How Russia Became a Market Economy (1995). After Russia's financial crisis of 1998, Aslund insisted that Russia had no choice but to adjust to the world market (Building ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $9.00! \| SVS
5	Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher's World more books like this by Stuart A Herrington $2.01 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist In the tradition of "The Falcon and the Snowman" an top Army counter-intelligence officer presents remarkable true stories of catching spies and rooting out traitors. 32 photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.00! \| first editions
6	Bureaucracy: A Marxist Theory more books like this by Ernest Mandel $10.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Analyses of bureaucratic power and privilege have an academic pedigree but have also long preoccupied socialists. The collapse of Communist rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe puts to a new test the classical theories concerning the relationship between bureaucracy and class. Power and Money is a timely contribution to this renewal theory, ... see all copies from $10.00!
7	Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba more books like this by Paul Hollander $36.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 15.95 see all copies from $10.08! new only from $69.95! \| first editions
8	Traitors Among Us more books like this by Stuart A Herrington $5.10 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist As director of the elite Foreign Counterintelligence Activity, author Stuart Herrington was the U.S. Army's top counterintelligence officer. In this thrilling and informative account he details one of the most damaging and delicate cases of espionage ever committed against the United States. Between 1972 and 1988, thousands of highly classified ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $18.09! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Eva Underground more books like this by Dandi Daley Mackall $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist In 1978, Eva Lott has an active social life and a lot to look forward to . . . until her dad decides they're moving to Communist Poland to help with a radical underground movement. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Collapse of Communism more books like this by Bernard Gwertzman (Editor), Michael T Kaufman (Editor) $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 1989 saw Communist regimes crumble under the weight of change. The Collapse of Communism brilliantly captured these events--and has become a work now used in colleges coast to coast. This updated edition, expanded by more than a third, brings into focus the crucial events of the 1990s, including the reunification of Germany, the independence moves ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Red and the Green: The Rise and Fall of Collectivized Agriculture in Marxist Regimes more books like this by Frederic L Pryor $2.49 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Reorganizing the agricultural sector into large-scale state and collective farms was the most radical transformation of economic institutions implemented by Marxist governments. Frederic Pryor provides perspective on this experiment by comparing in a systematic fashion the changes in the organization of agriculture in all of the world's Marxist ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $13.96! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy more books like this by Robert R Bowie, Richard H Immerman $14.16 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's 'New Look' programme of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy. Though the Cold War itself and the idea of containment originated under Truman, it was left to Eisenhower to develop the first coherent and ... see all copies from $4.15! new only from $34.36! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War more books like this by Fraser J Harbutt $10.43 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This study of the origins of the Cold War in the immediate post-war period demonstrates how great was Churchill's influence in diplomatic relations between the US, Britain, and the USSR, with his 'Iron Curtain' speech at Fulton seen as a key event. The speech not only set forth the basic ideology of the East-West struggle but triggered action by ... see all copies from $8.73! new only from $33.61! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14	Merchants of Treason more books like this by Thomas B Allen, Norman Polmar (Photographer) $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Two of America's top experts in the field provide this comprehensive analysis of how and why America is losing the back-alley war of counter-espionage--and show what must be done to turn the tide. "Demonstrates a detailed understanding of intelligence work".--Washington Post Book World. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Enemies of the State: Personal Stories from the Gulag more books like this by Donald T Critchlow (Editor), Agnieszka Critchlow (Editor) $2.44 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Long before Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (1962) shocked the Western world with its frightening description of a typical day in a forced-labor camp during the Stalin era, some readers in the West already knew of prison life in the Soviet Union, the Eastern bloc, and other Communist countries. A powerful genre of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| SVS
16	The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict, Revised and Enlarged Edition more books like this by Zbigniew K Brzezinski $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist When this book was first published in 1960 "The New York Times"commented: "[Mr.] Brzezinski...is uniquely qualified to sift the scattered and often seemingly contradictory data on this subject...the volume is marked by unusual insight, richness of information, and stimulating thought." Mr. Brzezinski who is on leave from his post as Professor and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.79! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Prediction of Communist Economic Performance more books like this by P J D Wiles (Editor) $5.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This study represents attempts dating from 1967, by nine experts on Communist economics, to forecast the performance of individual Communist countries. These predictions provide a great deal of comparable information and make experimental use of elementary econometrical techniques, which have rarely been applied to these countries before. The book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.17! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The End of Communist Power: Anti-Corruption Campaigns and Legitimation Crisis more books like this by Leslie Holmes $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist The collapse of communist power may well be seen by future historians as the most significant event of the late twentieth century. It directly affected approximately twenty countries in three continents and brought about the eventual end of the Cold War. Yet there are very few comparative and theoretical analyses of the 1989-91 revolutions; this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.83! \| SVS
19	Beyond the Wall more books like this by Don Richardson, Hank Paulson $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	Power, Purpose, and Collective Choice more books like this by Ellen Turkish Comisso $7.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.00! \| first editions
21	Along the Edge of the Forest: An Iron Curtain Journey more books like this by Anthony Bailey $3.19 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems more books like this by Nicholas Eberstadt $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This text challenges the current trend of blaming social problems on expanding populations. The author argues that problems attributed to demographic trends are actually rooted in political and ethical situations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
23 view cover	International Political Economy and Socialism more books like this by Marie LaVigne, Mr. David Lambert (Translator) $42.46 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist International Political Economy and Socialism is a revised and updated version of Professor Marie Lavigne's best seller Economie Internationale des Pays Socialistes. It is a most timely revision in which she presents a comprehensive view of the strategies and achievements in the international trade of the Soviet Union, the GDR, Czechoslovakia, ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $49.54! \| first editions
24	Heritage of Fear: Illusion and Reality in the Cold War: A Review more books like this by Richard Lawrence Miller $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Democratic theory and post-communist change more books like this by Robert D Grey (Editor) $2.95 (new softcover, see detail) add to wishlist Broad in scope and current in focus, this text brings together specialists in political institutions, mass political behaviour, law, ethnic politics, economics, and international politics to consider how these areas affect the possibility of successful democratization of the post-communist world. It combines explanations of the relevant theories ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $2.95! \| first editions

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