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Soviet Military Power, 1984

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The Cold War

Josepha Sherman

Chronicles the Cold War, from its origins in the Soviet Revolution as the twentieth century began to the collapse of the Soviet Union as the century closed.

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Life Under Soviet Communism

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Mikhail Gorbachev

This book presents eighteen articles on the life and political career of Mikhail Gorbachev, who led the USSR from 1985 to 1991.

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The Cold War

Earle Rice

This book presents a history of the tense, often combative, relations between Soviet Russia and the United States from the end of World War II to the fall of communism in 1989.

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The Harvest of Sorrow

Robert Conquest

Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants; abolished privately held land and forced the remaining peasantry into

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Koba the Dread

Martin Amis

British novelist Martin Amis describes the harsh realities--including slave labor and famine--of the Soviet Union in the early and mid-twentieth century, and examines the beliefs of Communist apologis

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Gulag

Anne Applebaum

Chronicles the history of the Soviet concentration camp system--the Gulag--examining its creation, its purposes, the process of prisoner arrest and trial, daily life in the camps, and the reasons the

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The Furies

Arno J. Mayer

A comparatiave study of violence and terror in the French and Russian revolutions, looking at the similarities between the 1789 and 1917 uprisings, and considering the role of vengeance, resistance, a

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Flight and Rescue

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