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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $34.49
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Manufacturer: Stacey International Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Stacey International Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 915
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Publication Date: 2004-03
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: This books presents authoritative coverage of the country's place in the world, bridging West and East: its spectacular landscape and its ecological challenges; its people and their patterns of life; its turbulent history and astonishing heritage of material culture; its governmental structures; contemporary society; and Kazakhstan's highly significant economy and prospects.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $28.00
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Manufacturer: East European Monographs
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Serge P. Petroff
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Publisher: East European Monographs
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Edition: 0
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Dewey Decimal Number: 957.50841
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Publication Date: 2000-09-15
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Reading Level: 260
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Description: Combining history and analysis, Petroff traces the course of the Russian Civil War that was waged east of the Volga River in Siberia. He asserts that the Russian Civil War in the east was not solely a Siberian experience, but rather influenced by various anti-Bolshevik military uprisings that acted independent of Siberia's "White" army.
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Price: $37.95
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Sale: $35.70
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Manufacturer: Pluto Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joma Nazpary
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Publisher: Pluto Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.095845
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Publication Date: 2001-07-01
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: In the 1990s, the former Soviet states of Central Asia experienced dramatic, revolutionary changes. Liberal economic reforms have affected every aspect of daily life, a new local elite of Mafia has rapidly taken power, and corruption and violence are now a fact of daily life. Focusing on Kazakhstan, A Global Brothel examines the impact of the new capitalism on the everyday lives of the people of Central Asia. The author draws on extensive interviews as well as social and political analyses to explain the extent to which people have been dispossessed. The author assesses the strategies people have used to overcome poverty and insecurity: the new hallmarks of life for nearly everybody; and illustrates well the complex and human responses to the post-Soviet chaos.
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Price: $89.00
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Sale: $26.98
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.947086
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Publication Date: 2001-10-24
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Reading Level: 576
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Description: This volume offers a multi-author survey and analysis of economic developments in the Russian Federation since the collapse of Communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1989-91. It covers the period 1991--98 and in some areas extends to 1999-2000.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Stryker-Post Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: M. Wesley Shoemaker
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Publisher: Stryker-Post Publications
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Edition: 39 Annual
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2008-08-30
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Reading Level: 287
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Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jack stoneley & a t lawto
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Publication Date: 1978-02-15
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Reading Level: 216
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $45.00
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Manufacturer: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Teresa Kaczorowska
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Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5405094727
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Publication Date: 2006-10-05
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Reading Level: 264
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Description: World War II was—and remains—one of the bloodiest wars in history. Not only did millions of soldiers die in combat but millions of civilians lost their lives—some for no greater crime than their religious heritage or their nationality. The Soviets, at first allied with the Germans, incarcerated thousands of Polish military officers and reservists in the pre-established Soviet camps of Ostashkov, Starobelsk and Kozelsk. On March 5, 1940, Joseph Stalin and his lieutenants signed an execution order for 25,700 Polish prisoners of war. After months of hardship and interrogation, 14,700 prisoners from these camps were taken to remote areas, murdered with a shot to the back of the head and buried in mass graves. Later, when Germany turned its sights on the Soviet Union, the USSR allied itself with the West. With the discovery of the first of the mass burials by the Germans in the Katyn Forest (the area from which the entire massacre gets its name), the Soviets attempted to place the blame for the atrocities on the Germans in spite of a plethora of evidence to the contrary. Only in 1990, with the fall of communism, did President Mikhail Gorbachev admit Soviet responsibility for the Katyn murders. Compiled from a series of interviews, this emotionally moving account records the stories and fates of 18 men and women, 16 of whom lost their fathers in the Katyn massacre. The author traveled to Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Canada and the United States to talk extensively with the 18, recording their thoughts, feelings, memories and experiences of the hardships during and after the war. Photographs and maps are included.
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Price: $45.95
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Sale: $45.93
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Manufacturer: Lit Verlag
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Lit Verlag
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947
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Publication Date: 2005-01-01
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Reading Level: 200
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $10.34
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Manufacturer: National Geographic
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Fen Montaigne
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Publisher: National Geographic
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.09470222
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Publication Date: 2001-11-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: On December 25, 1991, at 7:35 p.m., soldiers lowered the red Soviet flag flying over the Kremlin and raised the new blue, white and red Russian tri-color in its place. The ceremony occurred with no fanfare, witnessed only by a few dozen tourists who stood on the cobblestones of Red Square in a light snow and applauded when the hammer and sickle disappeared. It was an inglorious end for a regime that had, in many ways, defined the 20th century. Christmas, 2001, is the tenth anniversary of the demise of the Soviet Union, and National Geographic will commemorate the event with the publication of Broken Empire, a photography book that examines the turbulent first decade of Russia's rebirth. The photographs are by Gerd Ludwig, who has shot numerous stories in the Soviet Union and Russia for National Geographic magazine, including articles on the Trans-Siberian Railway, pollution in the former USSR, and Moscow. The essays are by Fen Montaigne, who, as Moscow correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer, witnessed the end of the USSR and has since returned regularly to Russia for National Geographic magazine. In photographs and words, Ludwig and Montaigne will look not only at the wrenching changes that have swept Russia in the past 10 years, but also at the direction Russian society is heading in the future. The media has paid much attention to the chaos, corruption and hardship that have accompanied the birth of the new Russia. But anyone who knows the country well also understands that there is another side to the story, and that a younger generation - particularly in the big cities - is building a new, more prosperous society. Through the eyes of ordinary Russians, Ludwig and Montaigne will portray these various facets of Russia today. They will draw on some of their previous work, as well as months of travel, now underway, as they prepare an article for National Geographic magazine on Russia today.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $19.99
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Manufacturer: Potomac Books Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ellen Elias-Bursac::Nicholas Yatromanolakis::Dimitris Keridis
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Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327
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Publication Date: 2003-04-01
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: In New Approaches to Balkan Studies, the editors have collected thirteen papers that explore issues of image and national identity in the Balkans; democracy, nationalism, and the related ethnic and political conflicts that have plagued the region; and leadership and conflict in Yugoslavia throughout the twentieth century. The contributors presented these papers at the annual Socrates Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop, which was organized by the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The contributors—international scholars in disciplines that include literature, economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, international relations, and public policy—lead the reader to a less-traveled path to the study of the Balkans.
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