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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “pascal bonnabry”
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  • 1989 in the East

    Between Order and Subversion

    Edited by Pascal Bonnard, Carole Sigman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    1989 in the East revisits the processes that led to the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the USSR. This disintegration appeared to be the result of complex mobilisations where the repertoires of action, the institutional and non-institutional ties, the ideological preferences, and the identities of the actors, including the most official ones, have been ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

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  • Communism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leslie Holmes ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. At its peak, more than a third of the world's population had lived under communist power. What is communism? Where did the idea come from and what attracted people to it? What is the future for communism? This Very Short Introduction considers these questions and more in the search to explore and understand ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Russia Against Modernity

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Putin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and digital labor. By trading oil and gas, promoting Trump and Brexit, spreading corruption, boosting inequality and homophobia, subsidizing far-right movements and destroying Ukraine, Putin’s clique aims ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Russia Against the Rest

    The Post-Cold War Crisis of World Order

    by Richard Sakwa ...
    In this book Richard Sakwa provides a new analysis of the end of the Cold War and the subsequent failure to create a comprehensive and inclusive peace order in Europe. The end of the Cold War did not create a sustainable peace system. Instead, for a quarter of a century a 'cold peace' reflected the tension between cooperative and competitive behaviour. None of the fundamental problems of European ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Maoism and the Chinese Revolution

    A Critical Introduction

    by Elliott Liu ...
    Series series Revolutionary Pocketbooks
    The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it—often referred to as “Maoism”—resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what do they offer activists today, who seek to transform capitalist society at its very foundations?Maoism and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Changing Transatlantic Security Relations

    Do the U.S, the EU and Russia Form a New Strategic Triangle?

    Edited by Jan Hallenberg, Håkan Karlsson ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere.This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the use of the notion of the triangle: does the EU ... Read more

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  • Towards the Abyss

    Ukraine from Maidan to War

    by Volodymyr Ishchenko ...
    **"Nuanced, melancholy, sophisticated and gratifyingly intimate."–Yanis Varoufakis, author of TechnofeudalismUkrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world**Towards the Abyss presents searching analysis of a decade of war and upheaval in Ukraine. Volodymyr Ishchenko has been among the left’s most significant commentators on Ukraine since 2014, when pro ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism

    Edited by S. A. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the opening of state, party, and diplomatic archives of the former Eastern Bloc has released a flood of new documentation. The thirty-five essays in ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Living in Interesting Times: Curse or Chance?

    Recollections of an International Lawyer – Participant and Observer

    by Rein Müllerson ...
    These are the memoirs and reflections on the most acute issues of the contemporary world by a boy from the Estonian countryside who, through accident and pure ambition, ended up as a professor at Moscow University and adviser to President Gorbachev on matters of international law. After a stint as head of Estonian diplomacy at crucial moments in the restoration of its independence, he later became ... Read more

    $6.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy

    Edited by Andrei Tsygankov ...
    Providing a comprehensive overview of Russia’s foreign policy directions, this handbook brings together an international team of scholars to develop a complex treatment of Russia’s foreign policy. The chapters draw from numerous theoretical traditions by incorporating ideas of domestic institutions, considerations of national security and international recognition as sources of the nation’s ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Putin Redux

    Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia

    by Richard Sakwa ...
    This book builds on the strengths of the previous volumes by the same author to provide the most detailed and nuanced account of the man, his politics and his profound influence on Russian politics, foreign policy and society.However, this is not a new edition of the earlier books but is an entirely new work. The focus now is on the dilemmas of power since 2008. There is a brief biographical ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949–Present

    by Tina Mai Chen, Izabella Goikhman, Guiha Guan, Donghui He, Xiaojia Hou, You Ji, Hanbing Kong, Lorenz Luthi, Elizabeth McGuire, Gregory Rohlf, Laurence Schneider, Douglas Stiffler, Péter Vámos, Miin-ling Yu, Jian Zang, Shengfa Zhang, Minglang Zhou, Thomas P. Bernstein, Gilbert Rozman ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    It is well known that the Soviet Union strongly influenced China in the early 1950s, since China committed itself both to the Sino-Soviet alliance and to the Soviet model of building socialism. What is less well known is that Chinese proved receptive not only to the Soviet economic model but also to the emulation of the Soviet Union in realms such as those of ideology, education, science, and ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD