Is the Red Flag Flying?: The Political Economy of the Soviet Union
Geoffrey Hosking traces the evolution of the Soviet political system from its revolutionary origins in 1917 to the collapse instigated by Gorbachev's perestroika.
In the early 1930s, the American Communist Party attracted support from a wide range of liberal and radical intellectuals, partly in response to domestic politics, and also in opposition to...
Designed for student research, this one-stop resource contains a wealth of information, reference material, and analysis of the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union. Combining narrative description, analytical essays,...
Elena G. Bonner, was a Soviet dissident and human-rights campaigner who endured banishment and exile along with her husband, the noted nuclear physicist and activist for disarmament, peace and human...
In 1934 Russia invited many Finnish-American couples to accept jobs in Karelia, Russia. In 1941, the Stalin purges resulted in the arrest and death of many from that community. Lauri...
"On the Brink is a gripping narrative of the Cold War, told through the stories of three men and one woman who changed history during one of the world's most...
An award-winning foreign correspondent gives us a brilliant and timely portrait of the complex man who changed world history. The author of the acclaimed Russia: The People and the Power,...
In these long-awaited memoirs, Mikhail Gorbachev looks back on a lifetime that mirrors the fate of the Russian people. From the persecution of his family under Stalin to his first...
Cry Hungary!: Uprising 1956