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Paperback. Num Pages: 277 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPL; ANF; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- McFarland & Co Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781476666648
- ISBN
- 9781476666648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.55
€ 28.55
Paperback. In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. This title investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of these Cold War civil defense exercises. Num Pages: 432 pages, 58 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JWKW; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339700
- ISBN
- 9780822339700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.05
€ 41.99
€ 37.05
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Booth-Clibborn Editions United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- illustrated ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781873968277
- ISBN
- 9781873968277
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.45
€ 54.45
Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 32 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; 3JM; AN; HBJF; HBLW3; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 257 x 30. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231166386
- ISBN
- 9780231166386
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.48€ 50.39
€ 65.48
€ 50.39
Paperback. Beginning in the 1950s, the theory of modernization emerged as the dominant paradigm of sconomic, social, and political development within the America foreign policy establishment. This collection of essays attempts to shed fresh light on the global forces that shaped the Cold War and its legacies. Editor(s): Engerman, David C.; etc.; Gilma, Nils (Postgraduate Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA); Haefele, Mark H. (Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University, USA). Series: Culture, Politics & the Cold War. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; GTF; JPA; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558493704
- ISBN
- 9781558493704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.28
€ 38.99
€ 34.28
Paperback. War-torn, virtually bankrupt, Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science. Stalin believed that science should serve the state. The human cost of this peculiar marriage between the state and its scientists was horrendous. This book makes clear what Soviet science has done for us. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571290086
- ISBN
- 9780571290086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.91
€ 17.99
€ 12.91
Paperback. Between 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to study scientific disputes and dictate academic solutions. This book demonstrates that Stalin was determined to show how scientific truth and Party doctrine reinforced one another. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138251
- ISBN
- 9780691138251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.16
€ 46.99
€ 33.16
Paperback. "To my mind, the most significant single scholarly contribution made to date, anywhere, to the history of Soviet power."-George F. Kennan Num Pages: 752 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJG; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; JPFC; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 36. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 728
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393308693
- ISBN
- 9780393308693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.99
€ 47.99
€ 39.99
Paperback. Illuminates the efforts of Russian satirists in exorcising the ghost of Stalin. Examining works from the 1917 Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, this book reveals how satirical treatments of Stalin often emphasize his otherness, distancing him from Russian culture. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AG; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299234447
- ISBN
- 9780299234447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.91
€ 34.91
Hardcover. Provides a history of the Soviet partisan movement, a people's army of irregulars fighting behind enemy lines. This work describes it as a social phenomenon and reveals how its members were both transformed by the crucible of war. It shows that people who suddenly had the autonomy to act on their own came to rethink the Stalinist regime. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700614806
- ISBN
- 9780700614806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.88
€ 60.88
Hardback. Longtime Soviet expert Albert L. Weeks has studied the newly-released information and come to a new conclusion about the Soviet Union's pre-war buildup_it was not precaution against German invasion at all. In fact, Weeks argues, the evidence now suggests Soviet mobilization was aimed at an eventual invasion of Nazi Germany. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWK; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742521919
- ISBN
- 9780742521919
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.51
€ 159.51
hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801440298
- ISBN
- 9780801440298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.35
€ 84.35
Hagenloh's vivid and monumental account is the first to show how Stalin's peculiar brand of policing-in which criminals, juvenile delinquents, and other marginalized population groups were seen increasingly as threats to the political and social order-supplied the core mechanism of the Great Terror. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPVR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 166 x 35. Weight in Grams: 796.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801891823
- ISBN
- 9780801891823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.47
€ 51.99
€ 43.47
Hardcover. This work provides an analysis of the evolution of Stalin's Red Army during the 1930s and its near decimation at the beginning of World War II. It argues that the Stalinist state largely failed in its attempt to use military service as a means to indoctrinate its citizens, especially the peasantry. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBTB; JWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 45. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700607723
- ISBN
- 9780700607723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.48
€ 55.48
Paperback. In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin uprooting and collectivization of agriculture and industry across the entire Soviet Union. This book offers an explanation yet of Stalin's power. Num Pages: 976 pages, 2 x 8 b&w plate sections. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 279 x 46. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141027944
- ISBN
- 9780141027944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 17.74
€ 26.99
€ 17.74
Paperback. Series: Routledge Historical Biographies. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 166 x 201 x 25. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415519502
- ISBN
- 9780415519502
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 48.00
€ 51.99
€ 48.00
Paperback. Translator(s): Favorov, Nora Seligman. Num Pages: 408 pages, 21 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300219784
- ISBN
- 9780300219784
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.71
€ 23.99
€ 17.71
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJH; 3JJPG; BGH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Arcturus Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848588394
- ISBN
- 9781848588394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844159345
- ISBN
- 9781844159345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.94
€ 19.99
€ 15.94
Hardcover. Num Pages: 640 pages, 510 images. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 269 x 194 x 67. Weight in Grams: 2458.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764343438
- ISBN
- 9780764343438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.18€ 57.91
€ 76.18
€ 57.91