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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-01 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
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Language: en
Pages: 544
Pages: 544
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-08 - Publisher: Basic Books
On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had
Language: en
Pages: 262
Pages: 262
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-13 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this hap
Language: en
Pages: 140
Pages: 140
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-01 - Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Chronicles the years of Joseph Stalin's iron-fisted reign in the Soviet Union, from the time of Lenin's death to the dawn of World War II.
Language: en
Pages: 514
Pages: 514
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-11 - Publisher: A&C Black
In this authoritative book John Grainger explores the foundations of Alexander's empire and why it did not survive after his untimely death in 323 BC.