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Epitaph for Brezhnev

Author : Paul McLean
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398489727
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Epitaph for Brezhnev written by Paul McLean and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contained within the numerous items on display at the DDR Museum in Berlin is a brief though detailed account of a 1980 initiative on the part of the East German Politburo whereby the objective of this initiative was the seizure, by force, of West Berlin. Although the East German leader Erich Honecker and his colleagues in government were serious as regards to their incorporating West Berlin into East Germany, the Soviet Union, at that time, did not share the East German enthusiasm, due to the potential impact any invasion of West Berlin might have had on the Moscow Olympics and also because Brezhnev was conscious of Soviet presence in Afghanistan. However, two years later, with Leonid Brezhnev close to death, there are shenanigans afoot involving his would-be successors. One of the gambits is a plan by Yuri Andropov to resurrect the Erich Honecker initiative and deliver West Berlin for the Warsaw Pact. How would the West respond if this audacious Andropov power grab strategy was put into practice?

The Enigma of 1989

Author : Jacques Lévesque
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520338944
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Enigma of 1989 written by Jacques Lévesque and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

The Soviet System In Crisis

Author : Alexander Dallin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000305775
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Soviet System In Crisis written by Alexander Dallin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader is intended to fill the urgent need for up-to-date materials on the Gorbachev era and to provide scholars and students with source materials and interpretations not available in standard texts. In addition, the book will be regularly revised and updated to take account of rapidly changing events. Alexander Dallin and Gail Lapidus have brought together outstanding Western analyses, as well as Soviet documents and commentary, dealing with developments in the USSR's politics, economy, society, culture, and foreign policy since 1985. The collection covers the full spectrum of views—skeptical and enthusiastic, ideological and pragmatic—offered by journalists, politicians, observers, and participants. Introductory and concluding material by the editors provides the essential context to help students understand the myriad opinions put forth on the vast changes in the USSR and where its future may lie.

Yuri Andropov

Author : Vladimir Solovʹev
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Yuri Andropov written by Vladimir Solovʹev and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1984 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chasing the Sea

Author : Tom Bissell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030742524X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Sea written by Tom Bissell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a na•ve Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation policies. Joining up with an exuberant translator named Rustam, Bissell slips more than once through the clutches of the Uzbek police as he makes his often wild way to the devastated sea. In Chasing the Sea, Bissell combines the story of his travels with a beguiling chronicle of Uzbekistan’s striking culture and long history of violent subjugation by despots from Jenghiz Khan to Joseph Stalin. Alternately amusing and sobering, this is a gripping portrait of a fascinating place, and the debut of a singularly gifted young writer.

Internationalism and the Ideology of Soviet Influence in Eastern Europe

Author : Jonathan C. Valdez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521414388
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Internationalism and the Ideology of Soviet Influence in Eastern Europe written by Jonathan C. Valdez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valdez argues that the use of the fundamental principles of Marxism-Leninism to perform various functions ultimately brought about a change in the basic assumptions of the theory itself. This resulted in the abandonment of the previous insistence on a universal model of socialism and of the idea that the international interests of the socialist bloc must take precedence over individual national interest. Soviet influence in Eastern Europe rested on little else than these ideological principles and consequently stood little chance of surviving their re-interpretation. Finally Valdez assesses the re-interpretation of the fundamental principles of Soviet-East European relations by reformist scholars in the Soviet Union, and the response by conservative members of the party apparatus.

The Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe

Author : Jadwiga Staniszkis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520351886
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe by : Jadwiga Staniszkis

Download or read book The Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe written by Jadwiga Staniszkis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. Jadwiga Staniszkis, an influential, internationally known expert on contemporary trends in Eastern Europe, provides an insider's analysis that deserves the attention of all scholars interested in the region. Staniszkis presents the breakthrough of 1989 as a consequence not only of systemic contradictions within socialism but also of a series of chance events. These events include unique historical circumstances such as the emergence of the "globalist" faction in Mosow, with its new, world-system perception of crisis, and the discovery of the round-table technique as a productive ritual of communication, imitated all over Eastern Europe. After describing the development, collapse, and reorganization of a "new center" in Poland in 1989-1990, she discusses the first attempt at privatizing the economy. Her analysis of the dilemmas accompanying breakthrough and transition is an invaluable guide to the challenges that face both capitalism and democracy in Eastern Europe.

Survey

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Essay on the Military Career of Marshal of the Soviet Union Leonid I. Brezhnev and Some Significant Soviet Military Command Changes in 1978 and 1979

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Author : Richard Woff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book An Essay on the Military Career of Marshal of the Soviet Union Leonid I. Brezhnev and Some Significant Soviet Military Command Changes in 1978 and 1979 written by Richard Woff and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Daily Report

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Problems of Communism

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Problems of Communism written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Invasion of Afghanistan and UK-Soviet Relations, 1979-1982

Author : Richard Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136325484
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Book Synopsis The Invasion of Afghanistan and UK-Soviet Relations, 1979-1982 by : Richard Smith

Download or read book The Invasion of Afghanistan and UK-Soviet Relations, 1979-1982 written by Richard Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines British policy towards the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. The documents in this volume, many released into the public realm for the first time, describe the development of British policy towards the Soviet Union during the eventful years 1979-1982. The new Conservative government, under Margaret Thatcher, was determined to strengthen British defences against the perceived Soviet threat and advocated a strong response to the Soviet intervention. East-West relations further deteriorated following the imposition of martial law in Poland in December 1981. The dilemma facing the British government was how to express strong disapproval of Soviet actions while still attempting to maintain a constructive bilateral relationship, and at the same time keep British policy in line with the Western Alliance. The death of President Brezhnev in November 1982, after 18 years in office, brought uncertainty but also new opportunities for relations with the Soviets. This book will be of much interest to students of British politics and foreign policy, Russian history, US foreign policy, Central Asian politics, and IR in general.

Soviet Power

Author : James Sherr
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349085243
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Soviet Power written by James Sherr and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stalinism and After

Author : Alec Nove
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134868871
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Stalinism and After written by Alec Nove and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on personal experience of life in the Soviet Union Nove explains the phenomenon of Stalinism and its aftermath. In highly readable style, Professor Nove traces the origins of Stalinism, analyzes its nature and achievements, examines the process of destalinization which followed Stalin's death, and explores the evolution of the Soviet system under Krushchev and Brezhnev. Stalinism and After is not a biography; it is a study of the effect of the political personalities of one man and his successors on the development of Soviet history. It is within this context that Professor Nove examines the new thinking of Gorbachev and the now-familiar catchwords of his regime: perestroika, glasnost, demokratizatsiya, and uskoreniye.

Newsweek

Author : Raymond Moley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Newsweek written by Raymond Moley and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gorbachev Reforms Continue

Author : Joseph Laurence Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gorbachev Reforms Continue written by Joseph Laurence Black and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gorbachev: His Life and Times

Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245683
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Gorbachev: His Life and Times written by William Taubman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction The definitive biography of the transformational Russian leader by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Khrushchev. "Essential reading for the twenty-first [century]." —Radhika Jones, The New York Times Book Review When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism, and had made enemies of radicals on the right and left. By 1990 he, more than anyone else, had ended the Cold War, and in 1991, after barely escaping from a coup attempt, he unintentionally presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union he had tried to save. In the first comprehensive biography of the final Soviet leader, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy became the Soviet system’s gravedigger, how he clambered to the top of a system designed to keep people like him down, how he found common ground with America’s arch-conservative president Ronald Reagan, and how he permitted the USSR and its East European empire to break apart without using force to preserve them. Throughout, Taubman portrays the many sides of Gorbachev’s unique character that, by Gorbachev’s own admission, make him "difficult to understand." Was he in fact a truly great leader, or was he brought low in the end by his own shortcomings, as well as by the unyielding forces he faced? Drawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself, transcripts and documents from the Russian archives, and interviews with Kremlin aides and adversaries, as well as foreign leaders, Taubman’s intensely personal portrait extends to Gorbachev’s remarkable marriage to a woman he deeply loved, and to the family that they raised together. Nuanced and poignant, yet unsparing and honest, this sweeping account has all the amplitude of a great Russian novel.