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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $16.20
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Manufacturer: Hoover Institution Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Toivo U. Raun
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Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
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Edition: 2 Updated
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947.98
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Publication Date: 2002-02
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: In this comprehensive survey of Estonian history, Toivo Raun places recent events into historical perspective with up-to-date information on the era of glasnost and perestroika (1985-1991), analyzing the striking process of rebirth, renewal, and de-Sovietization. He stresses the role of Estonia's strategic geopolitical location and the small number of ethnic Estonians as crucial factors that have shaped the history of the area and its inhabitants. Since prehistoric times Estonia has been a crossroads of northeastern Europe where the major powers of the region have struggled for influence. Estonia and the Estonians offers a balanced topical survey covering political history, the economy, social and demographic developments, and cultural life. Attention is also paid to historiography and to differing interpretations of major issues; throughout the book the history of Estonia is viewed in the larger context of northern and eastern Europe.
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Price: $110.00
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Sale: $84.91
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Julia von Dannenberg
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327.43047
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Publication Date: 2008-03-15
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Reading Level: 260
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Description: Based on recently released archival sources, this book is the first systematic analysis of the German-Soviet negotiations leading to the conclusion of the Moscow Treaty of August 1970. This treaty was the linchpin of the 'New Ostpolitik' launched by Chancellor Willy Brandt's government as a policy of reconciliation and an attempt to normalize relations with the countries of the Eastern bloc.
Focusing on the decision-making processes, both within the German domestic political system as well as within the international context, this study offers a new interpretation of the shift from confrontational to detente politics at this time, arguing that the Moscow Treaty was the product of various interrelated domestic and external factors.
As Dannenberg shows, the change of government to a Social-Liberal coalition was the first important precondition for Ostpolitik, while the speedy conclusion of the Moscow Treaty owed much to the high degree of secrecy and centralization that characterized Brandt's policy-making and that of his small coterie of advisors. However, Brandt's predominance in the decision-making process does not mean that he alone determined the direction of policy. His room for manoeuvre was, amongst other things, constrained by his coalition's narrow parliamentary majority as well as the Western Allies' special rights. On the other hand, German-Soviet trade expansion, public opinion, and the emerging international interest in detente in the mid-1960s were crucial factors favouring Ostpolitik.
It was in this configuration of circumstances that Brandt placed himself at the forefront of the movement towards detente between East and West by introducing his bold diplomatic design - one that had the reunification of Germany as its ultimate goal.
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $5.97
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Andrew Meier
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 914.70486
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Publication Date: 2003-09-02
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Reading Level: 512
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Description: With the power of Lenin's Tomb and Balkan Ghosts, an illuminating portrait of contemporary Russia. A decade after the Soviet collapse, Russia remains a country in limbo, a land of vast potential struggling with an unfinished past. Journeying to Russia's five corners—Moscow, Chechnya, Norilsk, Sakhalin, and St. Petersburg—Andrew Meier presents a history of contemporary Russia. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, Meier explores Russia's unbridled market and often lethal politics. From Chechnya, where he investigates the worst single-day massacre of civilians, to Norilsk, the world's northernmost city, Meier uncovers a common theme: the need to find meaning amid the Soviet ruins. In the tradition of Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Black Earth is a penetrating view of the new Russia from a bold new voice in political journalism. 7 maps.
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Price: $36.95
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Sale: $25.95
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Manufacturer: M.E. Sharpe
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Goltz
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Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947
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Publication Date: 1999-05-01
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: This underground classic tells the story of oil-rich Azerbaijan's first years of independence from Moscow. Goltz's vivid, personal account, filled with memorable portraits of individuals in high places and low, carries the reader from the battlefront to the oilfield, the voting booth to the negotiating table, always with an astute sense of how it all fits into the geopolitical firmament. In its first years as an independent state, the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan was a prime example of post-Soviet chaos -- beset by coups and civil strife, and losing the Karabakh war of secession, with a fifth of its territory occupied by Armenian troops. Azerbaijan may be endowed with vast oil reserves, but it also bestrides one of the greatest ethnic, religious, and political faultlines in the world. Thomas Goltz became an accidental witness to Azerbaijan's inglorious history-in-the- making when he was detoured into Baku in mid-1991 -- and decided to stay. This record of his years there alternates in style between tragedy and farce. Throughout, the intensity of immediate experience is balanced by an acute awareness of contemporaneous events in Karabakh and Nakhjivan, Georgia and Armenia, Russia and Chechnya, Iran and Turkey, Washington and Houston.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $15.66
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Manufacturer: I. B. Tauris
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Markar Melkonian
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Publisher: I. B. Tauris
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947
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Publication Date: 2008-06-10
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Reading Level: 344
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Description: What do "Abu Sindi", "Timothy Sean McCormack", "Saro", and "Commander Avo" all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian. But who was Monte Melkonian? In his native California he was once a kid in cut-off jeans, playing baseball and eating snow cones. Europe denounced him as an international terrorist. His adopted homeland of Armenia decorated him as a national hero who led a force of 4000 men to victory in the Armenian enclave of Mountainous Karabagh in Azerbaijan. Why Armenia? Why adopt the cause of a remote corner of the Caucasus whose peoples had scattered throughout the world after the early twentieth century Ottoman genocides? Markar Melkonian spent seven years unraveling the mystery of his brother's road: a journey which began in his ancestor's town in Turkey and led to a blood-splattered square in Tehran, the Kurdish mountains, the bomb-pocked streets of Beirut, and finally, to the Cold War and the unraveling of the Soviet Union. Yet, who really was this man? A terrorist or a hero? My Brother's Road is not just the story of a long journey and a short life --it is an attempt to understand what happens when one man decides that terrible actions speak louder than words. |
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $19.76
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Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Anna M. Kerttula
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 957.7
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Publication Date: 2000-11
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Reading Level: 180
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Price: $35.95
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Sale: $10.86
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947.0842
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Publication Date: 2003-03-19
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Christopher Read takes students through the history of the Stalin years, covering the key points of his rule from the late 1920s to the post-war years, using post-Soviet articles which provide more balanced and scholarly assessments of the leader's time in power. Taken together with Read's own contributions, which include an up-to-date historiographic survey, they constitute a complex and dynamic history of the central features of a terrible era.
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Price: $29.50
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Sale: $13.95
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Manufacturer: Steerforth Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Mark Taplin
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Publisher: Steerforth Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 914.70486
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Publication Date: 1997-10-25
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Reading Level: 325
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Description: Mark Taplin went to Russia in 1984, a junior-level diplomat sent deep into Cold War land. He tells of the map he studied, colored green for the few cities where foreigners were allowed, and omnipresent red for "Stay Away." In 1992 Taplin returned. Russia and the U.S. had signed an "Open Lands" agreement allowing free travel, and Taplin wanted to explore the lands that taunted and haunted him from the map eight years before. The result is a book you can't put down, an informed look at a complex country. Russia requires more than a casual eye and pen to sort through the contradictions, and Taplin excels in both.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $22.76
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Manufacturer: Gomidas Institute Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Leonidas T. Chrysanthopoulos
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Publisher: Gomidas Institute Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 956.62
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Publication Date: 2002-09-19
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: A European ambassador recounts his adventures in Armenia in 1993-94 and describes European Union policy making and his dealings with government officials, fellow diplomats, and Armenians of Greek origin.
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Price: $105.00
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Sale: $100.00
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Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Headly
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327.470497
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Publication Date: 2008-09-23
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: Russia has always shown a special interest in the Balkans, especially when federal Yugoslavia violently broke apart and Russia, eager to secure its position as a major player in international diplomacy, sent its policymakers to intervene. Tensions between Russia and the West grew, however, when NATO's became involved in the region, peaking in 1999 with the bombing of Serbia. Though Valdimir Putin would later tie the conflicts in the Balkans to the wider threat of "international terrorism," arguing that Russia and the West shared a common enemy, differences remained between the two powers, particularly concerning Russia's policy toward Kosovo. Russia and the Balkans analyzes the trajectory of Russia's foreign policy, from the death of communist Yugoslavia to the conflicts in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, and Macedonia, and from the "war on terror" to contemporary disputes over the status of Kosovo. James Headley shows how both Boris Yeltsin and President Putin refused to allow Western interests to predominate in the Balkans, and he explains why Russia's political elite, as well as members of the media and academia, believe that maintaining if not expanding Russia's diplomatic and economic influence in the region is a national obligation.
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