Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics
Never, Cohen stresses, was the Soviet Union the historically predetermined tragedy that so many in the West have come to assume.
Drawing on return visits to Barnaul, his boyhood city, near the Chinese and Kazakh borders, Oushakine paints a profound psychological tableau of coping.
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.
The impulse behind the recent assertiveness of Russia's foreign policy, Mankoff argues, is nothing new -- only its expression and its context are.
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.
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.
Marton, an American author and award-winning journalist, recounts the harrowing experiences of her Hungarian parents under Nazi, and then communist, rule.
