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Paperback. The war in Afghanistan (1979-1989) has been called "the Soviet Union's Vietnam War", a conflict that pitted Soviet regulars against a relentless, Afghan guerilla force. In this work, the Russian general staff takes a close critical look at the Soviet military's performance in that war. Editor(s): Grau, Lester W.; Gress, Michael A. Translator(s): Grau, Lester W.; Gress, Michael A. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 364 pages, 32 maps, 19photos. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1FCA; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBJF; HBLW3; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700611867
ISBN
9780700611867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.62

Paperback. The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture at the time. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism, political violence, poverty, and ideology; and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 168 pages, 15 b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 112 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199238484
ISBN
9780199238484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.73

hardcover. The book analyzes Soviet society as a 'hard reality', emphasizes the varying perceptions of it in the Soviet Union and the US, and insists that, while glorifications of the Soviet reality have been useful, the most accurate descriptions of this reality were critical. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JF; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2008th Edition
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230607774
ISBN
9780230607774
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.71

Hardcover. In this book specialists address the main problems facing Gorbachev and are cautiously optimistic about his chances of modernising the USSR. It is absolutely essential that results in 1986 and 1987 are good otherwise he will face failure. He has been faced with serious problems in coming to power; how has he fared? Editor(s): McCauley, Martin. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333439111
ISBN
9780333439111
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.74

Paperback. Instigator of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and author of the Brezhnev Doctrine, which governed Soviet relations with the rest of Eastern Europe, Brezhnev was the last of the Cold War warriors. This "Seminar Study" provides an introduction to a key period in the history of the USSR. Series: Seminar Studies. Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Longman
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582327191
ISBN
9780582327191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 47.16

Hardback. This collection of essays present a wide and varied picture of the period. The authors use new materials to investigate different aspects of Soviet-East European relations - party affairs, military and political co-ordination, cultural and mass media policies. Editor(s): Westad, Odd Arne; etc.; Holtsmark, Sven G. (Senior Research Associate, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Norway); Neumann, Iver B. (Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, Oslo, Norway). Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333602300
ISBN
9780333602300
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 185.28

Hardback. This is the third of four volumes detailing the history of Soviet foreign policy from the Great Depression to the Great Patriotic War. Its subject is the threat from the East posed by militaristic Japan after the latter's conquest of Manchuria in 1931-32. Series: Studies in Soviet History and Society. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; HBLW; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333300510
ISBN
9780333300510
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.43

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; JPH; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691612034
ISBN
9780691612034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.34
€ 42.11

Hardback. These essays on the Cold War between 1945 and 1953 use Soviet and Western sources to shed new light on: Stalin's aims, objectives and actions; Moscow's relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the West European Communist Parties; and the USSR's relations with Britain, France and Italy. Editor(s): Gori, Francesca; Pons, Silvio. Num Pages: 473 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 40. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
473
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333653166
ISBN
9780333653166
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.98

Paperback. The Soviet story - the revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Cold War, and the collapse under Gorbachev - looms in history syllabuses across the world. This book provides a entree to debate over humanity's momentous and tragic experiment. Series: Exeter Studies in History S. Num Pages: 448 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 756.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895811
ISBN
9780859895811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.74

Paperback. Comprises over 270 documents and is organised into four chronologically distinct parts, subdivided thematically. This book runs from the fraught diplomatic and military preamble of the Great Patriotic War to the final fracturing of the USSR along the national fault-lines of its 15 Union Republics. Translator(s): Stableford, Tom. Series: Exeter Studies in History S. Num Pages: 576 pages, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 862.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895828
ISBN
9780859895828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.74

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691604268
ISBN
9780691604268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.26
€ 46.32

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPK; JPSN2; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 799.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691633428
ISBN
9780691633428
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 176.76

Paperback. An overview of the political history of the Soviet Union from the Bolshevik Revolution to the presidency of Boris Yeltsin. The book provides an account of the achievements (and failures) of Gorbachev, as well as a survey of Yeltsin's efforts to hold together a disintegrating Commonwealth. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 281 x 212 x 16. Weight in Grams: 710.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631187769
ISBN
9780631187769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.86

Paperback. This title acquaints students with the structure and problems of the economy of the USSR. It describes the organisation of economic life, analysing the practical and theoretical problems within the institutional structure of the Soviet system and introduces the student to Soviet economic ideas and concepts. Num Pages: 654 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; KCS; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
654
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415684941
ISBN
9780415684941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.61

Hardcover. In the early 1930s Soviet authorities launched a campaign to create "socialist" retailing and also endorsed Soviet consumerism. How did the Stalinist regime reconcile retailing and consumption with socialism? This book examines the discourses that the Stalinist regime's new approach to retailing and consumption engendered. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; KNPR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230573963
ISBN
9780230573963
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.12

Hardback. Focusing on the issues of political reform, economic restructuring, the nationalities question and foreign policy, this book explores the struggle for power between radicals, reformers and conservatives in the USSR. Series: Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFC; JPH; JPL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333558270
ISBN
9780333558270
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.09

Hardcover. This is the first systematic study of the Sovietization of northern Transylvania, ceded to Hungary by the Vienna Diktat of 1940. This historiography of that transitional period fills an imortant gap in the existing research. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 1DVWR; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880334969
ISBN
9780880334969
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardback. Series: Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691649573
ISBN
9780691649573
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.82
€ 119.13

Paperback. Offers a detailed biography and a comprehensive appraisal of the literary achievement of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winning author who became one of the Soviet regime's most formidable foes. This book contains essays on a large number of Solzhenitsyn's writings. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933859583
ISBN
9781933859583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.97

Hardcover. This overview of the history of the Sokol, the Czech nationalist gymnastic organization, from its founding in 1862 until the outbreak of World War I emphasizes its role in articulating national values and facilitating mass mobilization in the political context of the multinational Habsburg state. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; 3JH; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; WSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 471.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333682982
ISBN
9780333682982
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.19

hardcover. This book offers a detailed survey of the physical, chemical and biological properties of the soils of Serbia, and their their geomorphological forms, as well as information on human-induced soil degradation due to erosion and contamination, and more. Series: World Soils Book Series. Num Pages: 362 pages, 121 black & white illustrations, 20 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYS; PSAF; RBGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 210. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9789401786591
ISBN
9789401786591
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.58

hardcover. This book offers a lively history of pedology in Croatia, providing a detailed view of the different agricultural regions of the country. Also contains useful information on different factors of soil genesis as well as soil taxonomy and classification. Series: World Soils Book Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 164 colour illustrations, 48 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: 1DVWYC; RBGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 741.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400758148
ISBN
9789400758148
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.78

Paperback. Editor(s): Siegelbaum, Lewis H. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DV; WGCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801477386
ISBN
9780801477386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 33.04

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