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1	The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order more books like this by Parag Khanna 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 $3.29! new only from $3.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan more books like this by Chi Fa Lu, Rebecca White 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 $1.99! new only from $8.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia more books like this by Anders Aslund 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 $14.44! new only from $20.10! \| SVS
4	Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher's World more books like this by Stuart A Herrington 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
5	Conversations with Stalin more books like this by Milovan Djilas 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 $4.41! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Collapse of Communism more books like this by Bernard Gwertzman (Editor), Michael T Kaufman (Editor) 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
7	Traitors Among Us more books like this by Stuart A Herrington 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 $2.00! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy more books like this by Robert R Bowie, Richard H Immerman 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 $6.00! new only from $14.61! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba more books like this by Paul Hollander add to wishlist 15.95 see all copies from $8.83! new only from $69.95! \| first editions
10	Bureaucracy: A Marxist Theory more books like this by Ernest Mandel 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! new only from $99.00!
11	Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society more books like this by Paul Hollander (Introduction by) add to wishlist In this major study, Paul Hollander seeks to understand why so many distinguished Western intellectuals of the 20th century admired the various communist systems, o ften in their most repressive historical phases. ' see all copies from $21.58! new only from $23.90! \| SVS
12	Eva Underground more books like this by Dandi Daley Mackall 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 $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Merchants of Treason more books like this by Thomas B Allen, Norman Polmar (Photographer) 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
14	The Red and the Green: The Rise and Fall of Collectivized Agriculture in Marxist Regimes more books like this by Frederic L Pryor 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
15	Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War more books like this by Fraser J Harbutt 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 $8.20! new only from $39.11! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Enemies of the State: Personal Stories from the Gulag more books like this by Donald T Critchlow (Editor), Agnieszka Critchlow (Editor) 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 $5.36! \| SVS
17	The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict, Revised and Enlarged Edition more books like this by Zbigniew K Brzezinski 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 $15.90! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Prediction of Communist Economic Performance more books like this by P J D Wiles (Editor) 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 $4.19! new only from $31.17! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Along the Edge of the Forest: An Iron Curtain Journey more books like this by Anthony Bailey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
20	Beyond the Wall more books like this by Don Richardson, Hank Paulson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Democratic theory and post-communist change more books like this by Robert D Grey (Editor) 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 $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions
22 view cover	Called to Suffer more books like this by Herbert Schlossberg, Allan Janssen (Editor), Steve Halliday (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.01! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Prospects for Liberal Nationalism in Post-Leninist State more books like this by Cheng Chen add to wishlist The fall of communism in the Soviet Union led many to hope and expect that liberal democracy would immediately take root across postcommunist states, marking what Francis Fukuyama famously referred to as the "end of history." Since then, however, a very different picture has emerged, most notably in the form of nationalist sentiments that have ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $17.50! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	World Order After Leninism more books like this by Vladimir Tismaneanu (Editor), Rudra Sil (Editor), Marc Morje Howard (Editor) add to wishlist "World Order after Leninism" examines the origins and evolution of world communism and explores how its legacies have shaped the post-Cold War world order. The lessons of Leninism continue to exert a strong influence in contemporary foreign affairs - most visibly in Poland and other post-communist states of the former Soviet Union, but also in ... see all copies from $13.74! new only from $23.50!
25 view cover	Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems more books like this by Nicholas Eberstadt 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

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