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Russian and Soviet History

1. After the Soviet Union: From Empire to Nations

   Timothy J. Colton, Robert Legvold

   The failed coup by Communist hardliners in Moscow in August 1991 marked the inevitable disintegration of the Soviet Union. No single event since the end of World War II will have more far-reaching effects.More

2. The Communist Manifesto

   Karl Marx, Frederic L. Bender

   Second Edition

   Karl Marx’s 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 “Arab Spring.”More

3. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

   William Taubman

   Shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Award: "The book is a gift, as fascinating as it is important."—Robert Legvold, Foreign AffairsMore

4. Khrushchev: The Years in Power

   Roy A. Medvedev, Zhores Medvedev

   A unique view of the Khrushchev period as seen by two prominent Soviet dissidents.More

5. The Legacy of Chernobyl

   Zhores Medvedev

   "A damning history of the Chernobyl affair, from its origins in the plant's primitive design and careless management to the economic and political crisis the accident precipitated." —Clenn Garelik, New York Times Book ReviewMore

6. Lost Opportunity: What Has Made Economic Reform in Russia So Difficult?

   Marshall I. Goldman

   A lucid analysis of Russia's titanic struggle to change from a centrally planned economy to a market economy.More

7. The Marx-Engels Reader

   Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. Tucker

   Second Edition

   This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.More

8. On Socialist Democracy

   Roy A. Medvedev

   From within the Soviet Union, a critique of the Soviet political system by the celebrated dissident scholar.More

9. Red Cavalry

   Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel, Peter Constantine, Et Al.

   "Amazing not only as literature but as biography."—Richard Bernstein, The New York TimesMore

10. The Soviet Political Mind: Stalinism and Post-Stalin Change

    Robert C. Tucker

    Revised Edition

    The Soviet political mind was a mosaic of ideology and pragmatism.More

11. Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941

    Robert C. Tucker

    "To my mind, the most significant single scholarly contribution made to date, anywhere, to the history of Soviet power."—George F. KennanMore

12. USSR in Crisis

    Marshall I. Goldman

    The Soviet Union in the post-Brezhnev era confronts an economic disaster on a vast scale.More

13. Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers

    Stephen F. Cohen, Katrina Vanden Heuvel

    "As intimate a portrait of Soviet politics, culture, and economics as we are likely to see."—Kirkus ReviewsMore

14. What Went Wrong with Perestroika

    Marshall I. Goldman

    Updated

    "Once again, Marshall Goldman has put his finger directly on the problems that hamper reform in the Soviet Union. Anyone who wants to understand Gorbachev's failings, the bureaucratic infighting and built-in reluctance to change will gain insights from this taut, readable book."—Hedrik SmithMore