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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $19.89
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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: Roman Szporluk
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Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947.0854
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Publication Date: 2000-05
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Reading Level: 437
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Description: Detailing a number of often-overlooked factors leading to the USSR's fall, renowned scholar Roman Szporluk chronicles the final two decades in the history of the Soviet Union and presents a story that is often lost in the standard interpretations of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. The key to understanding what was unimaginable in November 1989 yet became a reality in December 1991, Szporluk says, lies in understanding the relationship of Ukraine and Russia. With this in mind, he offers insightful new perspectives on many critical questions surrounding the decline and fall of the Soviet system, such as Why were the processes of Russian identity formation not yet completed by the time of the communist takeover in 1917—and what did this mean for the future of the USSR? Why did Gorbachev and his advisers so misjudge the condition of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s? How unrealistic was their sense of what the Soviet bloc represented at that time? Why did the Soviet Union fail to adjust to and take advantage of the current "scientific-technical revolution"? How did the leaders of the Soviet state perceive the problem of the nationalities in the USSR and their relations with their East European allies? Why were West Ukraine and other Baltic states—the "Soviet West"—an alien and potentially disruptive element in the Soviet body politic? Why did Soviet leaders never find a successful resolution of the problem of Russian-Ukrainian relations? Without claiming that the collapse of communism or the breakup of the Soviet Union was "caused" by any one factor, Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union makes an insightful and original contribution to the discussion surrounding one of the most significant political events of the twentieth century.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $17.98
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Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Yair Auron
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947
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Publication Date: 2004-09-27
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Reading Level: 338
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Description: The Banality of Denial examines the attitudes of the State of Israel and its leading institutions toward the Armenian Genocide. Israel's view of this issue has special significance and deserves an attentive study, as it is a country composed of a people who were victims of the Holocaust. The Banality of Denial seeks both to examine the passive, indifferent Israeli attitude towards the Armenian Genocide, and to explore active Israeli measures to undermine attempts at safeguarding the memory of the Armenian victims of the Turkish persecution. Such an inquiry into attempts at denial by Israeli institutions and leading figures of Israel's political, security, academic, and Holocaust "memory-preservation" elite has not merely an academic significance. It has considerable political relevance, both symbolic and tangible. In The Banality of Denial - as in Auron's previous work - moral, philosophical, and theoretical questions are of paramount importance. Because no previous studies have dealt with these issues or similar ones, an original methodology is employed to analyze the subject with regard to four domains: the political, the educational, the media, and the academic.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $59.99
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Manufacturer: Mazda Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George A. Bournoutian
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Publisher: Mazda Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909.0491992
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Publication Date: 2002-07
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Reading Level: 499
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Price: $125.00
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Sale: $67.75
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Manufacturer: Pennwell Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Yakov A. Gelfgat::Mikhail Y. Gelfgat::Yuri S. Lopatin
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Publisher: Pennwell Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 622.33820947
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Publication Date: 2003-03
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Reading Level: 310
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Description: Covers historical trends and two major aspects of drilling technologies - downhole motors and oil well drilling optimization (KTW-Key Technological Wells drilling method). Using a downhole motor is more efficient, especially in hard formations. Advanced drilling studies have long been conducted in the FSU and are important in reducing drilling costs in marginal reservoirs. Contents: Preface Introduction to drilling technologies for oil and gas in Russia and the FSU Downhole motor drilling technology and applications Well drilling optimization methods in the FSU Conclusions Acronyms.
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Price: $29.00
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Sale: $22.98
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Anthony Fletcher
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947
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Publication Date: 1999-03-11
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: Men and women in early modern England lived their lives within a social and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy - the social and cultural dominance of the male - has long been a fundamental feature of western civilisation, yet has only recently begun to be systematically investigated by historians. This book is the first attempt to provide a rounded portrait of its workings over a long stretch of the English past. Fletcher's account draws from a vast range of sources - literary, medical, religious and historical - to investigate the mechanisms through which men and women interpreted and understood their social worlds. He explores the early modern view of the body, of sexual desire and appetites, and of gender difference. He looks at the nature of marital relationships, and shows how subordination was implemented and consolidated through church, school, home and community. And he exposes patriarchy's tragic consequences: smothered opportunity, crushed sexuality, and a pall across many women's lives. Yet, over these three centuries, the conventional foundations of male superiority came under acute pressure. Fletcher reveals the depth of male anxiety in the face of women's volatility, verbal assertiveness and alleged vibrant sexuality, and shows how the gender system began to be transformed as men sought to detach it from its biblical foundations and inculcate gender identities on something like their modern ideological basis. This revolution in the entire premise upon which gender was grounded is fundamental to an understanding of the structure of English society today.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $26.17
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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: Stephen M. Saideman::R. William Ayres
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.540947
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Publication Date: 2008-06-06
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: The collapse of an empire can result in the division of families and the redrawing of geographical boundaries. New leaders promise the return of people and territories that may have been lost in the past, often advocating aggressive foreign policies that can result in costly and devastating wars. The final years of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, the end of European colonization in Africa and Asia, and the demise of the Soviet Union were all accompanied by war and atrocity.These efforts to reunite lost kin are known as irredentism & mdash; territorial claims based on shared ethnic ties made by one state to a minority population residing within another state. For Kin or Country explores this phenomenon, investigating why the collapse of communism prompted more violence in some instances and less violence in others. Despite the tremendous political and economic difficulties facing all former communist states during their transition to a market democracy, only Armenia, Croatia, and Serbia tried to upset existing boundaries. Hungary, Romania, and Russia practiced much more restraint.The authors examine various explanations for the causes of irredentism and for the pursuit of less antagonistic policies, including the efforts by Western Europe to tame Eastern Europe. Ultimately, the authors find that internal forces drive irredentist policy even at the risk of a country's self-destruction and that xenophobia may have actually worked to stabilize many postcommunist states in Eastern Europe.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $23.98
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Manufacturer: Scalo Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Boris Mikhailov
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Publisher: Scalo Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 770
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Publication Date: 2003-10
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: The creator of radical and poetic work, Boris Mikhailov focuses his camera on people's everyday life, capturing both the social and historical conditions in the Soviet Union and the changes that occurred after 1989, with the breakdown of order in the Ukraine. In the 1970s, Mikhailov started to photograph "life the way it is." He dealt with the "city without a main street," the anti-heroic, the incidental, the private sphere and leisure time in the Soviet Union. His book Case History, a heart-wrenching monument to the forgotten losers of system change, documented the plight of the homeless in the Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The critical aspects of his photographs, provocative performances and combinations of words and images make Mikhailov a conceptual documentary artist who creates moving images of the wounded human soul--simultaneously full of humor and seriousness. This book is dedicated to Mikhailov's entire oeuvre. Essays on individual works and periods run together with a flow of images to underline his different photographic techniques and to deepen our understanding of a rich work that intentionally seems unspectacular. Created in collaboration with Fotomuseum Winterthur. Essays by Urs Stahel, Ekaterina Dyogot, Anne von der Heiden, Michael Schischkin, Inka Schube, Helen Petrovsky and Margarita Tupitsyn. Hardcover, 7 x 9.5 in./176 pgs / 60 color 0 BW35 duotone 0 ~ Item D20311
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $14.99
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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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Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.0958
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Publication Date: 2003-12
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, former Communist Party leaders in Central Asia were faced with the daunting task of building states where they previously had not existed -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Their task was complicated by the institutional and ideological legacy of the Soviet system as well as by a more actively engaged international community. These nascent states inherited a set of institutions that included bloated bureaucracies, centralized economic planning, and patronage networks. Some of these institutions survived, others have mutated, and new institutions have been created. Experts on Central Asia here examine the emerging relationship between state actors and social forces in the region. Through the prism of local institutions, the authors reassess both our understanding of Central Asia and of the state-building process more broadly. They scrutinize a wide array of institutional actors, ranging from regional governments and neighborhood committees to transnational and non-governmental organizations. With original empirical research and theoretical insight, the volume's contributors illuminate an obscure but resource-rich and strategically significant region.
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $33.45
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Manufacturer: Steidl
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Leather Bound
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Publisher: Steidl
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Dewey Decimal Number: 759.9498
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Publication Date: 2008-04-01
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: In 1936, the youthful Nicolae Ceausescu was imprisoned for anti-Fascist agitation in Bucharest. Some 53 years later, he was tried and convicted as a dictator, for genocide and the sabotage of the Romanian economy. In that interval, Ceausescu had gone from street agitator to Communist minister, president of the State Council, President, and, ultimately author of a personality cult that was to estrange him from the most basic needs of his people--leading to his execution by firing squad in 1989. The Ceausescu following stemmed in part from a particularly powerful personal narcissism that required a great deal of iconic affirmation of itself, and CEAU gathers a selection of the hundreds upon hundreds of portraits of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu that had either been commissioned by a variety of political bodies within the Socialist Republic of Romania or had been offered to the Ministry of Culture as a gift by the artists themselves. These portraits have been preserved in the storage vaults of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest and are now collected and published for the first time, with a transcription of the 1989 trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu that brought an end to their rule.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $19.91
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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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Author: Greta Lynn Uehling
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947.7100494388
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Publication Date: 2004-11-27
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: In the final days of World War II, Stalin ordered the deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar population, nearly 200,000 people. Beyond Memory offers the first ethnographic exploration of this event, as well as the 50 year movement for repatriation. Many of the Crimean Tatars have returned in a process that involves squatting on vacant land and self-immolation. Uehling asks how they became willing to die for their national collectivity. She provides a fine-grained analysis of how "memories," sentiments, and dreams of a homeland never seen came to be shared. Uehling suggests the second-generation has a surprisingly instrumental role to play. The way children correct and intervene in parental narratives, dissidents challenge interrogators, and speakers borrow and trade lines index this social aspect of memory.
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