Engelstalige boeken / English language books

A critical analysis of the economic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, which claims that the Soviet leader did little to counter the nation's overindulgence in heavy industry or to combat a burgeoning budget deficit. The resultant…

One of the most brilliant and illuminating interpreters of modern eastern Europe ...a wonderfully vivid writer ...He reaches the parts that others do not reach. -Richard Davy, The Times The best single account of what happened-and…

Power politics inside the Kremlin from Brezhnev to Gorbachev.

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Auteur : Dusko Doder
Artikelnummer : BF4898
Categorie : Politiek / Engelstalige boeken
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Published in association with the Strategic Management Society, The Wiley Strategic Management Series aims to illustrate the a best in global strategic management for academics, business practitioners and consultants. This book…

From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev´s birth. Here we meet Shalev´s…

"Dietary fats and carbohydrates represent some 80 - 90% of food energy uptake in man; fatty acids play a critical role in human development, health and disease. In affluent populations high fat consumption contributes to heart…

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Auteur : Archie Brown
Artikelnummer : BF9006
Categorie : Sociologie / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 9780199282159
Uitgever : Oxford…

Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and the withdrawal of Soviet control…

The Russians in the Soviet Union.

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Auteur : Geoffrey Hosking
Artikelnummer : BF9008
Categorie : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
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The inexorable rise of Communism was the most momentous political phenomenon of the first half of the twentieth century. Its demise in Europe and its decline elsewhere have produced the most profound political changes of the last…

In Russia's Revolution: Essays 1989-2006 American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Leon Aron brings together his observations of the last great revolution of the twentieth century, which began with the collapse of the Soviet…

Between 1925 and 1936 - a dramatic period of transformation within the Soviet Union - Josef Stalin wrote frequently to his trusted friend and political colleague Viachestav Molotov, Politburo member, Chairman of the USSR Council…

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Auteur : Iurii Vladimirovich Got'e; bewerkt door Terence Emmons
Artikelnummer : BF7463
Categorie : Biografieën/waargebeurd / Engelstalige boeken
Taal :…

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Auteur : Herbert J. Ellison
Artikelnummer : BF 7461
Categorie : Biografieën/waargebeurd / geschiedenis / politiek /…

Drawing on his own diary as well as secret documents and transcripts of high-level meetings, Anatoly Chernyaev recounts the drama that swept the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1991. As Gorbachev's chief foreign policy aide for most…

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Auteur : Eugenia Ginzburg
Artikelnummer : BF7458
Categorie : Oorlog / geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 0002623668 /…

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Auteur : Richard Stites
Artikelnummer : BF7457
Categorie : Oorlog / geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 0195055365 /…

The private lives of a broad section of Russians who lived during Stalin's purge are revealed in this book. The nine diaries here capture the day-to-day thoughts of these people, and represent a vast selection of opinions, from…

For five years following the Bolshevik victory in 1917, the Russian revolution inspired a brilliant outburst of theory and criticism among Russian intellectuals struggling to comprehend their country's vast social upheaval. Much…

Countering the powerful myth that the civil war in Russia was largely between the "Whites" and the "Reds," Vladimir Brovkin views the struggle as a multifaceted social and political process. Brovkin focuses not so much on armies…

Khrushchev: A Political Life traces the rise and fall of the late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Drawing on newly available archival materials and a wealth of recently published Russian and Ukrainian sources, this standard…