|
The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
more books like this
by
Parag Khanna
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
|
|
Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan
more books like this
by
Chi Fa Lu, Rebecca White
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
|
|
Conversations with Stalin
more books like this
by
Milovan Djilas
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
|
|
How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia
more books like this
by
Anders Aslund
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
|
|
Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher's World
more books like this
by
Stuart A Herrington
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
|
|
|
Bureaucracy: A Marxist Theory
more books like this
by
Ernest Mandel
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!
|
|
|
Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba
more books like this
by
Paul Hollander
15.95
see all copies
from $10.08!
new only
from $69.95!
|
first editions
|
|
Traitors Among Us
more books like this
by
Stuart A Herrington
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
|
|
Eva Underground
more books like this
by
Dandi Daley Mackall
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
|
|
|
The Collapse of Communism
more books like this
by
Bernard Gwertzman (Editor), Michael T Kaufman (Editor)
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
|
|
|
The Red and the Green: The Rise and Fall of Collectivized Agriculture in Marxist Regimes
more books like this
by
Frederic L Pryor
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
|
|
Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy
more books like this
by
Robert R Bowie, Richard H Immerman
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
|
|
Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War
more books like this
by
Fraser J Harbutt
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
|
|
|
Merchants of Treason
more books like this
by
Thomas B Allen, Norman Polmar (Photographer)
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
|
|
Enemies of the State: Personal Stories from the Gulag
more books like this
by
Donald T Critchlow (Editor), Agnieszka Critchlow (Editor)
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
|
|
|
The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict, Revised and Enlarged Edition
more books like this
by
Zbigniew K Brzezinski
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
|
view cover
|
The Prediction of Communist Economic Performance
more books like this
by
P J D Wiles (Editor)
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
|
view cover
|
The End of Communist Power: Anti-Corruption Campaigns and Legitimation Crisis
more books like this
by
Leslie Holmes
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
|
|
|
Beyond the Wall
more books like this
by
Don Richardson, Hank Paulson
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $2.49!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
SVS
|
|
|
Power, Purpose, and Collective Choice
more books like this
by
Ellen Turkish Comisso
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $16.00!
|
first editions
|
|
|
Along the Edge of the Forest: An Iron Curtain Journey
more books like this
by
Anthony Bailey
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $17.25!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
view cover
|
Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems
more books like this
by
Nicholas Eberstadt
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
|
view cover
|
International Political Economy and Socialism
more books like this
by
Marie LaVigne, Mr. David Lambert (Translator)
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
|
|
|
Heritage of Fear: Illusion and Reality in the Cold War: A Review
more books like this
by
Richard Lawrence Miller
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $14.50!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
view cover
|
Democratic theory and post-communist change
more books like this
by
Robert D Grey (Editor)
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
|