William E. Odom, a retired Lt. General with a Ph.D. from Columbia, served as a top advisor in both the Carter and Reagan administrations (including a stint director of the National Security Agency). He writes surprisingly well about the quiet disintegration of the Soviet armed forces: "In a mere six years, the world's largest and arguably most powerful military melted like the spring ice in Russia's arctic rivers as it breaks up, drifts in floes, and slowly disappears." He also offers key insights, particularly in his analysis of Soviet war philosophy, including the reasons Marxist theory made a huge military almost inevitable and why Gorbachev's attempt to reduce its size posed a threat to the whole Communist system; he also traces the influence of von Clausewitz's thinking on Lenin. But this is all by way of introduction to Odom's discussion of what happened when Mikhail Gorbachev foisted perestroika on the Soviet Union and its armed forces. Odom personally interviewed many of the participants, lending considerable detail to his chronicle of Russia's 1991 August Crisis and the rise of Boris Yeltsin.

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Anders Uhlin - Post-Soviet Civil Society Democrati zation in Russia and the Baltic States (2006).jpg

The development of civil society has varied greatly across the former Soviet Union. The Baltic states have achieved a high level of integration with the West and European Union membership, while some regions in Russia lag far behind.

Now for the first time there is a comparative study of civil society and democratization across post-Soviet national borders. Acknowledging the enormous variation throughout the region, the book offers unique data on developments in Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Applying an innovative analytical framework derived from theories of democratization, civil society, social movements and transnational relations, the researchers have formulated broader comparisons and generalisations without neglecting the specific post-Soviet context. The book provides a systematic comparison across sectors as well as nations, and includes chapters on NGOs, the state and conflict, and transnationalisation. Quantitative survey data is combined with qualitative interviews and case study research to both confirm previous findings about the weakness of post-communist civil society and to qualify previous research.
About the Author

Anders Uhlin is associate professor of political science at Lund University, Sweden. His main fields of research are democratization, civil society and transnational relations. Previous publications include Indonesia and the ‘Third Wave of Democratisation’ (1997) and Transnational Activism in Asia (2004) (co-edited with Nicola Piper).

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Vojtech Mastny - The Cold War and Soviet Insecurit y. The Stalin Years (1998).jpg

In this long-awaited sequel to his acclaimed Russia's Road to the Cold War (1979), Vojtech Mastny offers a thorough history of the early years of the Cold War, drawing upon his extensive research in newly opened Soviet archives. Just as the earlier volume offered the definitive portrait of Joseph Stalin's foreign policy during World War II, The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity affords readers an equally superb account of Stalin's foreign policy during his last years. Combining important new data with the fascinating insights of one of our leading authorities on Soviet affairs, this book illuminates a crucial period in recent world history.

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Marina Balina - Politicizing Magic, An Anthology o f Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales (2005).jpg

We were born to make fairy tales come true. As one of Stalinism's more memorable slogans, this one suggests that the fairy tale figured in Soviet culture as far more than a category of children's literature. How much more-and how cannily Russian fairy tales reflect and interpret Soviet culture, especially in its utopian ambitions-becomes clear for the first time in Politicizing Magic, a compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical texts that demonstrate the degree to which ancient fairy-tale fantasies acquired political and historical meanings during the catastrophic twentieth century.
Introducing Western readers to the most representative texts of Russian folkloric and literary tales, this book documents a rich exploration of this colorful genre through all periods of Soviet literary production (1920-1985) by authors with varied political and aesthetic allegiances. Here are traditional Russian folkloric tales and transformations of these tales that, adopting the didacticism of Soviet ideology, proved significant for the official discourse of Socialist Realism. Here, too, are narratives produced during the same era that use the fairy-tale paradigm as a deconstructive device aimed at the very underpinnings of the Soviet system. The editors' introductory essays acquaint readers with the fairy-tale paradigm and the permutations it underwent within the utopian dream of Soviet culture, deftly placing each-from traditional folklore to fairy tales of Socialist Realism, to real-life events recast as fairy tales for ironic effect-in its literary, historical, and political context.

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Judith Deutsch Kornblatt - Doubly Chosen, Jewish I dentity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russia n Orthodox Church (2004).jpg

Communism - Books - Judith Deutsch Kornblatt - Doubly Chosen, Jewish I...elligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church 2004.jpg

Doubly Chosen provides the first detailed study of a unique cultural and religious phenomenon in post-Stalinist Russia-the conversion of thousands of Russian Jewish intellectuals to Orthodox Christianity, first in the 1960s and later in the 1980s. These time periods correspond to the decades before and after the great exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union. Judith Deutsch Kornblatt contends that the choice of baptism into the Church was an act of moral courage in the face of Soviet persecution, motivated by solidarity with the values espoused by Russian Christian dissidents and intellectuals. Oddly, as Kornblatt shows, these converts to Russian Orthodoxy began to experience their Jewishness in a new and positive way.Working primarily from oral interviews conducted in Russia, Israel, and the United States, Kornblatt underscores the conditions of Soviet life that spurred these conversions: the virtual elimination of Judaism as a viable, widely practiced religion; the transformation of Jews from a religious community to an ethnic one; a longing for spiritual values; the role of the Russian Orthodox Church as a symbol of Russian national culture; and the forging of a new Jewish identity within the context of the Soviet dissident movement.

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Alexander Rabinowitch - The Bolsheviks in Power, T he First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd (2007).jpg

A major contribution to the historiography of the world in the 20th century, "The Bolsheviks in Power" focuses on the fateful first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd. It examines events that profoundly shaped the Soviet political system that endured through most of the 20th century. Drawing largely from previously inaccessible Soviet archives, it demolishes standard interpretations of the origins of Soviet authoritarianism by demonstrating that the Soviet system evolved ad hoc as the Bolsheviks struggled to retain political power amid spiraling political, social, economic, and military crises. The book covers issues such as the rapid fall of influential moderate Bolsheviks, the formation of the dreaded Cheka, the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, the Red Terror, the national government's flight to Moscow, and the subsequent rivalry between Russia's new and old capitals.

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Johan Swinnen, Scott Rozelle - From Marx and Mao t o the Market, The Economics and Politics of Agricu ltural Transition (2006).jpg

Communism - Books - Johan Swinnen, Scott Rozelle - From Marx and Mao t...mics and Politics of Agricultural Transition 2006.jpg

Studying agrarian transition in more than 25 countries from Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and East Asia, this book is the first effort to analyze the economics and politics of the reforms in agriculture by comparing the reform processes, their causes and their effects across this vast region.

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Klaus-Ulrich Keubke - Uniformen der Nationalen Vol ksarmee der DDR 1956-1986 (1990).jpg

Als die Mitglieder der obersten Volksvertretung der DDR am 18. Januar 1956 mit der Drucksache Nr.63 das «Gesetz über die Schaffung der Nationalen Volksarmee und des Ministeriums für Nationale Verteidigung» berieten und einstimmig verabschiedeten, hatten sie auch die Uniformen der ersten sozialistischen deutschen Armee zu bestätigen. Dieser Entscheidung ging eine ungewöhnliche Maßnahme voraus - eine Modenschau. Im Länderkammersaal der Volkskammer besichtigten die Abgeordneten die Uniformen, die für die Angehörigen der Arbeiter-und-Bauern-Armee bestimmt waren. Keine Frage, die Vorführung dieser militärischen Bekleidung stieß bei ihnen auf großes Interesse. Die Volkskammerabgeordneten stimmten am Nachmittag dieses 18.Januar einmütig auch der Drucksache Nr. 64, dem «Beschluß über die Einführung der Uniform für die Nationale Volksarmee», zu.

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Klaus-Ulrich Keubke - Uniformen der Nationalen Vol ksarmee der DDR 1956-1986 (1990).pdf

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A. Kemp-Welch - Poland under Communism, A Cold War History (2008).jpg

This is the first English-language history of Poland from the Second World War until the fall of Communism. Using a wide range of Polish archives and unpublished sources in Moscow and Washington, Tony Kemp-Welch integrates the Cold War history of diplomacy and inter-state relations with the study of domestic opposition and social movements. His key themes encompass political, social and economic history; the Communist movement and its relations with the Soviet Union; and the broader East-West context with particular attention to US policies. The book concludes with a first-hand account of how Solidarity formed the world's first post-Communist government in 1989 as the Polish people demonstrated what can be achieved by civic courage against apparently insuperable geo-strategic obstacles. This compelling new account will be essential reading for anyone interested in Polish history, the Communist movement and the course of the Cold War.

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David Smallbone - Entrepreneurship and Small Busin ess Development in the Former Soviet Bloc (2008).jpg

This book examines entrepreneurship and small business in Russia and key countries of Eastern Europe, showing how far small businesses have developed, and discusses how far 'market reforms' and a market mentality have been taken up by ordinary people in the real everyday economy. For each of the countries examined - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Estonia - the book reviews the progress of market reforms within the wider context of social and economic transformation, surveys the development of entrepreneurship and small firms so far, and assesses the role of government in the process, and the strengths and weaknesses of the small business sector.

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Cheng Chen - The Prospects for Liberal Nationalism in Post-Leninist State (2007).jpg

The fall of communism in the Soviet Union led many to hope and expect that liberal democracy would immediately take root across postcommunist states, marking what Francis Fukuyama famously referred to as the 'end of history.' Since then, however, a very different picture has emerged, most notably in the form of nationalist sentiments that have steered many postcommunist countries in an illiberal direction, even in regimes committed to market reforms and formally democratic institutions.

Cheng Chen examines this phenomenon in comparative perspective, showing that the different pathways of nation-building under Leninism affected the character of Leninist regimes and, later, the differential prospects for liberal democracy in the postcommunist era. In China and Russia, Chen shows, liberalism and nationalism were more difficult to reconcile because Leninism was indigenous and had a more significant impact on nation-building. In Hungary and Romania, by contrast, Leninism was a foreign import and had less of an effect on traditional national identity. As we witness the struggle to establish democracy in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq, a study that examines the salience of historical legacies seems particularly timely.

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John Quigley - Soviet Legal Innovations and the La w of the Western World (2007).jpg

This book explains an interaction between Soviet Russia and the West that has been overlooked in much of the analysis of the demise of the USSR. Legislation strikingly similar to the Marxist-inspired laws of Soviet Russia found its way into the legal systems of the Western world. Even though Western governments were at odds with the Soviet government, they were affected by the ideas it put forth. Western law was transformed radically during the course of the twentieth century, and much of that change was along lines first charted in Soviet law.

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Martin Malia - History's Locomotives, Revolutions and the Making of the Modern World (2006).jpg

This masterful comparative history traces the West’s revolutionary tradition and its culmination in the Communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Unique in breadth and scope, History’s Locomotives offers a new interpretation of the origins and history of socialism as well as the meanings of the Russian Revolution, the rise of the Soviet regime, and the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union. History’s Locomotives is the masterwork of an esteemed historian in whom a fine sense of historical particularity never interfered with the ability to see the large picture. Martin Malia explores religious conflicts in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe, the revolutions in England, American, and France, and the twentieth-century Russian explosions into revolution. He concludes that twentieth-century revolutions have deep roots in European history and that revolutionary thought and action underwent a process of radicalization from one great revolution to the next. Malia offers an original view of the phenomenon of revolution and a fascinating assessment of its power as a driving force in history.

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Steph Barisitz - Banking in Central and Eastern Eu rope 1980-2006, From Communism to Capitalism (200 7).jpg

Communism - Books - Steph Barisitz - Banking in Central and Eastern Eu...ope 1980-2006, From Communism to Capitalism 2007.jpg

Comparative in structure and covering an extensive number of transition countries in its survey, this comprehensive book overviews the development of the banking systems in Central and Eastern European since the communist era until the present time. Taking in a range of countries including Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Barisitz - an economist with the Central Bank of Austra - analyzes the evolution of legal foundations, banking supervision, banks' major sources of assets, liabilities, earnings and related changes, banking crises, restructuring, rehabilitation programs, the role of foreign-owned banks and FDI. A significant publication, it is fascinating reading for all those studying and working in the areas of transition economy, macro and monetary economy and economic history.

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Steph Barisitz - Banking in Central and Eastern Eu rope 1980-2006, From Communism to Capitalism (200 7).pdf

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Stephen J. Lee - Lenin and Revolutionary Russia (2 003).jpg

Lenin and Revolutionary Russia examines the background to and the course of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Lenin's regime. It explores all the key aspects such as the development of the Bolsheviks as a revolutionary party, the 1905 Revolution, the collapse of the Tsarists, the Russian Civil War and historical interpretations of Lenin's legacy to Russian history.

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Viktor Kuznetsov - NKVD protiv gestapo (2009).jpg

В 30-40-е гг. прошлого века шла ожесточенная, полная драматизма борьба между двумя сильнейшими разведками мира - советской и германской. Во многом от исхода этой борьбы зависело само существование СССР или гитлеровской Германии. У советской госбезопасности был действительно грозный и очень опасный противник - тем не менее он был полностью разбит на фронтах "невидимой войны"...
Автор данной книги, собирая материал, работал в основном с иностранными источниками. Благодаря этому ему удалось достать уникальные сведения о нашей разведке, действовавшей в Германии и ее сателлитах перед войной и в военные годы. Впервые вы узнаете достоверные сведения о заданиях наших агентов, способах передачи информации, шифрах и о многом другом из "тайной кухни" советской внешней разведки.

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Frederick C. Teiwes, Warren Sun - The End of the M aoist Era, Chinese Politics During the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976 (2007).jpg

Communism - Books - Frederick C. Teiwes, Warren Sun - The End of the M...ilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976 2007.jpg

This book launches an ambitious reexamination of the elite politics behind one of the most remarkable transformations in the late twentieth century. As the first part of a new interpretation of the evolution of Chinese politics during the years 1972-82, it provides a detailed study of the end of the Maoist era, demonstrating Mao's continuing dominance even as his ability to control events ebbed away. The tensions within the "gang of four," the different treatment of Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, and the largely unexamined role of younger radicals are analyzed to reveal a view of the dynamic of elite politics that is at odds with accepted scholarship. The authors draw upon newly available documentary sources and extensive interviews with Chinese participants and historians to develop their challenging interpretation of one of the most poorly understood periods in the history of the People's Republic of China.

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