Matlock, who served in the USSR for most of his career, including as ambassador during the Reagan and Bush administrations, gives this insider's look at the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
"Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores the role of ritual in a variety of archaic states and generates discussion on how the decline in a state's ability to continue in its current form affected the practices of ritual and how ritual as a cultu…
"When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotte…
"The collapse of China is unthinkable. The consequences for its people - and for the people of the world - could be catastrophic. Three times larger than the United States, China has an economy that many predict will blossom into the world biggest by 2010. The county may be Amer…
"The collapse of China is unthinkable. The consequences for its people - and for the people of the world - could be catastrophic. Three times larger than the United States, China has an economy that many predict will blossom into the world biggest by 2010. The county may be Amer…
Wer den Wind sät, wird Sturm ernten - Michael Lüders beschreibt die westlichen Interventionen im Nahen und Mittleren Osten seit der Kolonialzeit und erklärt, was sie mit der aktuellen politischen Situation zu tun haben. Sein neues Buch liest sich wie ein Polit-Thriller - nur lei…
Wer den Wind sät, wird Sturm ernten - Michael Lüders beschreibt die westlichen Interventionen im Nahen und Mittleren Osten seit der Kolonialzeit und erklärt, was sie mit der aktuellen politischen Situation zu tun haben. Sein neues Buch liest sich wie ein Polit-Thriller - nur lei…
"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…