"This book examines the role of Russian and Serbian nationalism in different modes of dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in 1991. Why did Russia's elites agree to the dissolution of the Soviet Union along the borders of Soviet republics, leaving twenty-five million R…
"State Collapse in South-Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on Yugoslavia's Disintegration is a multidisciplinary volume exploring the historical antecedents and the dynamic process of Yugoslavia's violent dissolution, drawing upon the most recently available resources. Cohen and …
Focusing on the issues of political reform, economic restructuring, the nationalities question and foreign policy, this book explores the struggle for power between radicals, reformers and conservatives in the USSR.
Pankin was Foreign Minister in the last days of the Soviet Union. This extraordinary memoir provides important new information and fresh insights into the Soviet political and diplomatic activities from August to November 1991.
"The rise of the Mongol empire transformed world history. Its collapse in the mid-fourteenth century had equally profound consequences. Four themes dominate this study of the late Mongol empire in Northeast Asia during this chaotic era: the need for a regional perspective encomp…