Examines the 1917 Russian Revolution, including Lenin's rise to power, the killing of the Romanovs, and the famine of 1921.
Examines the 1917 Russian Revolution, including Lenin's rise to power, the killing of the Romanovs, and the famine of 1921.
"This new edition of Edward A. Allworth's The Tatars of Crimea, has been extensively updated. Five new chapters examine the situation of Crimean Tatars since the breakup of the USSR in 1991 and detail the continuing struggle of the Tatars to find peace and acceptance in a homela…
Hilton chronicles her remarkable childhood that took her from the purges of Stalinist Russia and postwar Germany to the cotton fields of Jim Crow Mississippi before granting her access to the American dream. Publisher Marketing: Hilton chronicles her remarkable childhood that to…
Examines the rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s, and its decline after 1991. This book argues that anti-nuclear activism was a surrogate for nationalism, and a means o…
The book presents a model of interaction effects between policymakers and the media which can shed light on the former's ability to enhance democratic legitimacy in foreign policy decision-making. Three types of interaction effects between the media and policymakers are identifi…
Role Quests in the Post-Cold War Era examines foreign policy change through a comparative analysis of the reaction of the Great Powers to transformations in international relations after the Cold War. Contributors describe and explain the efforts of the United States, the Soviet…
Recent Social Trends in Russia reveals remarkable similarities between emerging trends in Russia and in Western countries during the last thirty-five years. Russian society shows a strong tendency toward modernization, although the speed of change is sometimes slower than in Wes…