A History of Russia and the Soviet Union
From the capricious reign of Catherine the Great and Alexander I to the provocative leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, the author concentrates on the interplay between interests and ideologies in the relationship between the United States and ...
Distinguished by its brevity and amply supplemented with useful images and suggested readings, this essential text provides balanced coverage of all periods of Russian history and incorporates economic, social, and cultural developments as ...
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Catherine A. Fitzpatrick (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993). 2. Stephane Courtois et al., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999). 3. Most notable are Djilas's The New ...
22 Michael Cole , Vera John - Steiner , Sylvia Scribner , and Ellen Souberman ( eds . ) , Mind in Society : The Development of Higher Psychological Processes - L. S. Vygotsky ( Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press , 1978 ) ...
This is a vitally important book for any student of Stalin's Russia keen to know more about the human history of this complex period of dictatorship.
Fukuyama F., Koniec historii, trans. T. Bieroń, M. Wichrowski, Poznań 1996. [Fukuyama F., The End of History and the Last Man, New York 1992]. Gellner E., Narody i nacjonalizm, trans. T. Hołówka, Warszawa 1991.
Approaching race as an ideology, this book illuminates the complicated and sometimes contradictory intersection between ideas about race and racializing practices.
This is the first work to set one of the great bloodless revolutions of the twentieth century in its proper historical context.