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Adamishin and Schifter were, respectively, the senior Soviet and U.S. negotiators on human rights during the critical years 1987-90. Together, not only did they play instrumental roles in ending Soviet human rights abuses, but in the process they also developed a deep mutual respect.
Clunan does something unusual in this book: she both intervenes in an academic debate over international relations theory and produces fresh insight into the wellsprings of contemporary Russian foreign policy.
The impulse behind the recent assertiveness of Russia's foreign policy, Mankoff argues, is nothing new -- only its expression and its context are.
No one knows the story that the Soviet archives tell of Stalin's rise better than Khlevniuk. He has toiled over these materials longer and more extensively than anyone else.
Drawing on return visits to Barnaul, his boyhood city, near the Chinese and Kazakh borders, Oushakine paints a profound psychological tableau of coping.
Never, Cohen stresses, was the Soviet Union the historically predetermined tragedy that so many in the West have come to assume.
The near torrent of works attempting to reconstruct and rectify the historical record of the Stalin era continues, and this one is a worthy example.
Verhoeven argues that the real forerunner was the psychologically unbalanced, self-imagined revolutionary Dmitry Karakozov, who in 1866 committed the until-then-unthinkable public act of attempting to shoot the tsar.
This book is a pulsing, full-bodied history of people and trends that were only glimpsed in detached pieces at the time.
Cheterian argues that nationalism did not destroy the Soviet Union; the collapse of the Soviet Union allowed national grievances and anxieties to flourish.
Among books deeply critical of contemporary Russia, this may be the hardest of the hard -- partly because it finds so little inspiration in all of Russian history.
Brent has overseen Yale University Press' exceedingly ambitious project to expose the hidden details of the Stalin period contained in the Soviet archives.
As it redesigns U.S. policy toward Russia, the Obama administration needs to set far more ambitious goals than it has so far -- it needs to start a comprehensive strategic dialogue.
This book details the Iranian-Russian relationship in all its complexity and is utterly timely, given the deep U.S. concern over the prospect of a nuclear Iran and the grief this generates in U.S.-Russian relations at a time when Moscow seems more a part of the problem than a part of any solution.
In this book, Feifer adds remarkable and wrenching texture to the account of how the Soviet war in Afghanistan played a pivotal role both in the Cold War's endgame and in the Soviet Union's last gasps of life.
Gregory here argues that Joseph Stalin, as other tyrants before him, rationally calculated both the utility and the limits of terror as a means of buttressing his and his regime's power and furthering its agenda.
Few histories of this ancient region more deftly cut through the archaeology of layered civilizations -- Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Slavic, European -- that have left their imprints but not their full forms on the peoples of this area.
There cannot be a better measure of the lavish and murky wheeling and dealing that characterized Russia's coarse path from public to private property than what happened in the oil sector.
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