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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Russia, 1986. In a run-down apartment block in Moscow, a nine-year-old piano prodigy practices silently for fear of disturbing the neighbors. In a factory on the outskirts of the city, his aunt makes car parts, trying to hide her dissident past. In the hospital, a surgeon immerses himself in his work to avoid facing his failed marriage. And in a rural village in Belarus, a teenage boy wakes up to a sky of the deepest crimson. Outside, the ears of...
Author
Language
English
Description
On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the USSR was officially no more and the USA had emerged as the world's sole superpower. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents a page-turning account of the preceding five months of drama, filled with failed coups d'etat and political intrigue. Honing in on this previously disregarded but crucial period and using recently declassified documents...
4) Memoirs
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxix, 769 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xvii, 245 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse-this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account of one of the great historical events of the last fifty years. Combining historical and geopolitical analysis with an absorbing narrative, Kotkin draws...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline, but remain opaque to the rest of the world - and still very dangerous. In this ever-shifting landscape, a senior KGB officer - code name GAMBIT - has approached the CIA Moscow Station chief with top secret military weapons intelligence and asked to be exfiltrated. GAMBIT demands that his handler be a former CIA officer, Alex Garin, a former KGB officer who...
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"'History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes.' One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinker's door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in the midst of one of the biggest social and cultural revolutions of our time, working as a tour operator ... with a sideline in contraband. Thirty years later, from his apartment on Tchaikovsky Street...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union-but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Coming of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends Anya and Milka try to envision a free and joyful future for themselves. They spend their summers at Anya's dacha just outside of Moscow, lazing in the apple orchard, listening to Queen songs,...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking "bulldozer," wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A highly original narrative history by The Economist's Moscow bureau chief that does for modern Russia what Evan Osnos did for China in The Age of Ambition. The end of communism and breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of euphoria around the world, but Russia today is violently anti-American and dangerously nationalistic. So how did we go from the promise of those heady days to the autocratic police state of Putin's new Russia? The Invention of...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 596 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history--the end of the Cold War--based on unprecedented access to heretofore classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers"--
"Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers, here is the untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history, the end of the Cold...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A detailed chronicle of the collapse of the Soviet Union is told through a series of episodes and vignettes to explore personal, political, and historical contributing factors as well as its ongoing repercussions.
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