New York: William Morrow, 2018. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 006274836X; ISBN13: 978-0062748362 In his acclaimed bestseller Three Days in January, Bret Baier illuminated the extraordinary leadership of President Dwight Eisenhower at the dawn of the Cold War. Now in his highly anticipated new history, Three Days in Moscow, Baier explores the dramatic endgame of America’s long struggle...
Maryland USA: The World Federation of Free Latvians, 1985. — 207 p. On July 25 and 26, 1985 the Baltic World Conference, representing the three central Baltic organizations in the free world - the Estonian World Council, the World Federation of Free Latvians and the Supreme Committee for Liberation of Lithuania - held a tribunal against the government of the Union of Soviet...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 522 p. This 2002 study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987 - the disintegration of the Soviet state - became the seemingly inevitable by 1991, providing an original interpretation not only of the Soviet collapse, but also of the phenomenon of nationalism more generally. Probing the role of nationalist action as both...
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. — xx, 350 p. This book is a rigorously argued and lively interpretation of the transformation of the Soviet system, the disintegration of the Soviet state, the end of the Cold War, and the role of Mikhail Gorbachev. Written by a leading authority on Soviet politics, this thoroughly researched book draws on new archival sources and...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 134914407X; ISBN13: 978-1349144075 This detailed and scholarly history, based on contemporary and original sources, explains the fall of Soviet Communism by bringing into focus the process of revolution from above. It finds as its cause Gorbachev's relentless political struggle to raise himself above the collective...
Columbia University Press, 2000. - 401 p. An intriguing "intellectual portrait" of a generation of Soviet reformers, this book is also a fascinating case study of how ideas can change the course of history. In most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are treated largely as incidental to the broader considerations of power — as...
Edward Harle Ltd., 1995. — 259 p. The Perestroika Deception explains the devious secret intent behind the Leninist strategy which the 'former' Communists are pursuing under cover of fake 'reform' and 'progress towards democracy'. The immediate strategic objective is 'convergence' with the West - on their terms, not ours. The ultimate objective is Lenin's: replacement of nation...
Washington, D.C., The Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. — 206 p. Pluralism and nationalism are not irreconcilable according to the author of this in-depth study of the breakup of the Soviet Union that focuses on the ethnopolitics of Latvia. She demonstrates, using the example of Latvia, that the application of...
IUniverse, Inc., 2010. — 580 p. Two Trends in Soviet Politics The Second Economy Promise and Foreboding, 1985-86 Turning Point, 1987-88 Crisis and Collapse, 1989-91 Conclusions and Implications Epilogue A Critique of Explanations of the Soviet Collapse
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. — 364 p. — ISBN10: 0520073541; ISBN13: 978-0520073548. No one, not even Mikhail Gorbachev, anticipated what was in store when the Soviet Union embarked in the 1980s on a radical course of long-overdue structural reform. The consequences of that momentous decision, which set in motion a transformation eventually affecting the...
Routledge, 1991. — 212 p. The apparatus Marxism, Leninism and the media From theory to practice – building the Soviet media Glasnost, perestroika and Soviet journalism Expanding access and socialist pluralism Resistance and restructuring Some cases Soviet international journalism Reykjavik and Moscow: a tale of two summits The world of capital Women of the world, unite! – women...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. — 226 p. — ISBN10: 0333558278; ISBN13: 978-0333558270 — (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society) This book presents an in-depth analysis of the proceedings of the XXVIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It explores the struggle for power between radicals, reformers and conservatives, focusing on the...
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