The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756–1775
ISBN: 9780521792691 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the third quarter of the eighteenth century, the European states-system was transformed by the military rise of Prussia and Russia. Eastern Europe became pre-eminent and during the 1770s, Poland was partitioned for the first time by its three neighbors, and two--Russia and Austria--also seized territory from the Ottoman empire. Europe's political center of gravity moved sharply eastwards, and by the later 1770s Russia was emerging as the leading continental state. Based on sources in six countries, this study provides the first survey of these crucial events.
During the third quarter of the eighteenth century, the European states-system was transformed by the military rise of Prussia and Russia. Eastern Eur...
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After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transition
ISBN: 9780521834841 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A response to the ten-year anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
A response to the ten-year anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Catherine the Great
ISBN: 9780582098039 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neither a comprehensive 'life and times' nor a conventional biography, this is an engaging and accessible exploration of rulership and monarchial authority in eighteenth century Russia. Its purpose is to see how Catherine II of Russia conceived of her power and how it was represented to her subjects. Simon Dixon asks essential questions about Catherin'es life and reign, and offers new and stimulating arguments about the Englightenment, the power of the monarch in early modern Europe, and the much-debated role of the "great individual" in history.
Neither a comprehensive 'life and times' nor a conventional biography, this is an engaging and accessible exploration of rulership and monarchial auth...
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The White Peril in the Far East: An Interpretation of the Significance of the Russo-Japanese War
ISBN: 9780595264995 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Roll Over Joe Stalin: Struggling with Post-Soviet Reform in the Caucasus
ISBN: 9780595364237 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most important events at the turn of this century, the great transformation from communism to capitalism, has led unexpectedly to economic chaos and a drop in living standards in the former Soviet Union. "Roll Over Joe Stalin" guides you through the process of reform to discover that history, culture, and geography explain how difficult it is to change societies formed by centuries of misrule.
"Roll Over Joe Stalin" introduces you to the people and the places that give the small Caucasian republic of Georgia enough strategic importance to warrant recent visits by top US... One of the most important events at the turn of this century, the great transformation from communism to capitalism, has led unexpectedly to economic ...
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Diary of a Mad Russian: A Tribute to Alexis Sommaripa 1900-1945
ISBN: 9780595380619 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alexis Sommaripa was born to minor nobility in pre-Revolutionary Russia and his diary describes the next forty years of his life. Using proceeds from his brother's stamp collection he escaped from 'Mother" Russia to Boston. There, he fell in love and married a Bostonian widow with three little daughters. Meanwhile, he changed careers, sped through Harvard with a business degree and got a job at DuPont researching textiles. Though neither alcohol nor cigarettes attracted him, this flirtatious, dashing charmer had a weakness for women that eventually destroyed his marriage. With the start of...
Alexis Sommaripa was born to minor nobility in pre-Revolutionary Russia and his diary describes the next forty years of his life. Using proceeds from ...
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The Red Fog: A Memoir of Life in the Soviet Union
ISBN: 9780595402571 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Cold War
ISBN: 9780631207061 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection brings together the most influential and commonly-studied articles on the Cold War. Together with an introduction and concise headnotes, this book provides students with easy access to seminal work and an analytical framework with which to approach their studies.
This collection brings together the most influential and commonly-studied articles on the Cold War. Together with an introduction and concise headnote...
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Terror in My Soul
ISBN: 9780674010321 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this innovative and revelatory work, Igal Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party during the decisive decades of the 1920s and 1930s. The Bolsheviks preached the moral transformation of Russians into model Communists for their political and personal salvation. To screen the population for moral and political deviance, the Bolsheviks enlisted natural scientists, doctors, psychologists, sexologists, writers, and Party prophets to establish criteria for judging people. Self-inspection became a central Bolshevik practice.... In this innovative and revelatory work, Igal Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Part... |
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Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development
ISBN: 9780674011519 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, America's experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a course of rapid industrialization. Captivated by the idea of modernization, diplomats, journalists, and scholars across the political spectrum rationalized the enormous human cost of this path to progress. In a fascinating examination of this crucial era, David Engerman underscores the key role economic development played in America's understanding of Russia and explores its profound effects on U.S. policy. American intellectuals from George... From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, America's experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a cours... |
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War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans
ISBN: 9780674012967 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An excellent study of the Nazi invasion of Russia during World War II, well reasoned and carefully argued. Illuminates the complex sequence of events and ideas that led to the development of a culture of brutality in the Wehrmacht.
An excellent study of the Nazi invasion of Russia during World War II, well reasoned and carefully argued. Illuminates the complex sequence of events ...
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258,81 zł |
The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers' Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin
ISBN: 9780674828001 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As their woefully backward economy continues to crumble, much of the Soviet population remains indifferent, if not downright hostile, to the idea of reform. This phenomenon, so different from the Solidarity movement in Poland or the velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, has been explained in terms of a "social contract"--a tacit agreement between the post-Stalin regime and the working class whereby the state provided economic and social security in return for the workers' political compliance. This book is the first critical assessment of the likelihood and implications of such a... As their woefully backward economy continues to crumble, much of the Soviet population remains indifferent, if not downright hostile, to the idea o... |
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Adam Smith Goes to Moscow: A Dialogue on Radical Reform
ISBN: 9780691000534 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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Lord and Peasant in Russia: From the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780691007649 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom--the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries--is impossible. Still, before Jerome Blum, no scholar had tackled the subject in depth. Monumental in scope and pathbreaking in its analysis, Lord and Peasant in Russia garnered immediate attention upon its publication in 1961, a year that also marked the one hundredth anniversary of the emancipation of the Russian serfs. As one reviewer remarked, "No better book on the subject exists; it is indispensable to the serious student of Russia.? On a scale... To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom--the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries--is impossible. Still, ... |
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Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Volume I: Russia Leaves the War
ISBN: 9780691008417 / Angielski / Miękka / 513 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the George Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize, this absorbing volume explores the complexities of the Soviet-American relationship between the November Revolution of 1917 and Russia's final departure in March 1918 from the ranks of the warring powers. These four months, which witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia's departure from the warring powers, set the stage for future relations between the two emerging superpowers. Volume 2 of Soviet American Relations, entitled The... Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the George Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize, this abs... |
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Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Volume II: The Decision to Intervene
ISBN: 9780691008424 / Angielski / Miękka / 513 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia. This book re-creates that unhappily memorable storythe arrival of British marines at Murmansk, the diplomatic maneuvering, the growing Russian hostility, the uprising of Czechoslovak troops in central Siberia which threatened to overturn the Bolsheviks, the acquisitive ambitions of the Japanese in Manchuria, and finally the decision by President Wilson to intervene with American troops. Of this period Kennan writes, "Never, surely, in the history of American diplomacy, has so... In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia. This book re-creates that unhappily... |
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Incentives and Institutions: The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia
ISBN: 9780691009933 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, for the first time, two of Russia's leading economists provide an authoritative analysis of the transition to a democratic market economy that has taken place in Russia since 1990. Serguey Braguinsky, a Russian economist with extensive international experience, and Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the liberal "Yabloko" party and a major public figure in Russia, focus on the institutions that are critical to a successful transition and the economic incentives needed to make these institutions work. Finally, they discuss in detail the specific components of the economic processes that are... Here, for the first time, two of Russia's leading economists provide an authoritative analysis of the transition to a democratic market economy tha... |
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693,42 zł |
Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871
ISBN: 9780691015873 / Angielski / Miękka / 539 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels--Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Devils--and two of his best novellas, The Gambler and The Eternal Husband. All these masterpieces were written in the midst of harrowing practical and economic circumstances, as Dostoevsky moved from place to place, frequently giving way to his passion for... This volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, covers the six most remarkably productive years... |
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160,02 zł |
Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe
ISBN: 9780691050409 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between Russia and Germany has been pivotal in some of the most fateful events of the twentieth century: the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the emergence of a new Europe from the ashes of communism. This is the first book to examine the recent evolution of that tense and often violent relationship from both the Russian and German perspectives. Angela Stent combines interviews with key international figures--including Mikhail Gorbachev--with insights gleaned from newly declassified archives in East Germany and her own profound understanding of Russian-German relations.... The relationship between Russia and Germany has been pivotal in some of the most fateful events of the twentieth century: the two World Wars, the C... |
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224,03 zł |
Thank You, Comrade Stalin!: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War
ISBN: 9780691088679 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thank you, our Stalin, for a happy childhood." "Thank you, dear Marshal Stalin], for our freedom, for our children's happiness, for life." Between the Russian Revolution and the Cold War, Soviet public culture was so dominated by the power of the state that slogans like these appeared routinely in newspapers, on posters, and in government proclamations. In this penetrating historical study, Jeffrey Brooks draws on years of research into the most influential and widely circulated Russian newspapers--including Pravda, Isvestiia, and the army paper Red Star--to explain... Thank you, our Stalin, for a happy childhood." "Thank you, dear Marshal Stalin], for our freedom, for our children's happiness, for life." Between... |
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