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Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War
Between or Within the Blocs?
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book sheds new light on the foreign policies, roles, and positions of neutral states and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the global Cold War.
The volume places the neutral states and the NAM in the context of the Cold War and demonstrates the links between the East, the West, and the...
For the Soul of Mankind
The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did that happen? What caused the cold war in the first place, and why did it last as long as it did?
The...
Empowering Revolution
America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
*As the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in understanding the end of the Cold War. During the 1980s, both the United States and the Soviet Union vied for influence over Poland's politically tumultuous...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The Cold War in the Third World explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Those two distinct but overlapping phenomena placed a powerful stamp on world history throughout the second half of the twentieth century....
Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911-1924
Buddhism, Socialism and Nationalism in State and Autonomy Building
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The governance arrangements put in place for Siberia and Mongolia after the collapse of the Qing and Russian Empires were highly unusual, experimental and extremely interesting. The Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic established within the Soviet Union in 1923 and the independent Mongolian...
by William Taubman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2004
Shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Award: "The book is a gift, as fascinating as it is important."—Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs
The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex...
The Haunted Land
Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
The Man with the Poison Gun
A Cold War Spy Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinsky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination case of the entire Cold War. The publicity stirred up by the Stashinsky case forced the KGB to change...
The Victims Return
Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Stalin's Reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Between 1945 and 1991, tension between the USA, its allies, and a group of nations led by the USSR, dominated world politics. This period was called the Cold War – a conflict that stopped short to a full-blown war.
Benefiting from the recent research of newly open archives, the Encyclopedia...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Cold War: The Essential Reference Guide is intended to introduce students to the tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States that dominated international affairs in the second half of the 20th century. A comprehensive overview essay, plus separate essays on the causes and consequences...
True Believer
Stalin's Last American Spy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
“Kati Marton’s True Believer is a true story of intrigue, treachery, murder, torture, fascism, and an unshakable faith in the ideals of Communism….A fresh take on espionage activities from a critical period of history” (Washington Independent Review of Books).
True Believer reveals...
by Robert W. Pringle
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence is the only volume that lays out how Russian and Soviet intelligence works and how its operations have impacted Russian history. It covers Russian intelligence from the imperial period to the present focusing in greatest...
Michael Beschloss on the Cold War
The Crisis Years, Mayday, and At the Highest Levels
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Riveting accounts of the Cold War power struggles from the New York Times–bestselling author and “nation’s leading presidential historian” (Newsweek).
The Crisis Years: A national bestseller on the complex relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev,...