Product Description: Bulgarian Georgi Dimitrov, Stalin's close confidant and trusted ally, served as secretary general of the Communist International (Comintern) from 1934 to its dissolution in 1943. In this revealing collection of more than fifty top-secret letters, the real workings of the Comintern emerge clearly for the first time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: These stimulating essays, written by some of the field's finest historians and political scientists, invite discussion and reflection on matters of theory and practice in view of the USSR's demise.How did we study the Soviet Union before, and in what ways must we adjust our approaches and habits to take account of new opportunities and pitfalls? How do current developments in the USSR's successor states alter or deepen our understanding of the Soviet experience? These questions are explored here in thorough examinations of specific problems that arose during the contributors' recent research and writing as well as in the emergence and evolution of the field of Soviet studies and in the development of the Soviet social and political institutions themselves...read more

Product Description: Published originally as "The Soviet System in Crisis - a Reader of Western and Soviet Views", this revised edition offers a discussion of the transformation of communism under Gorbachev and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union...read more

Product Description: Russian Federation and political atmosphere

Product Description: First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This book is intended to fill the need for up-to-date material on the Gorbachev era and to provide scholars and students with source materials and interpretations not available in standard texts. In addition, the book will be regularly revised and updated to take account of rapidly changing events...read more

An analysis of the 1983 Korean airliner incident explores the possible explanations for the straying over Soviet territory, the information that supports or contradicts each other, and the handling of the incident

Product Description: Book by Dallin, Alexander

Product Description: Political Terror in Communist Systems

Product Description: Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 867 pages; Description: 867 p. 22 cm. Subjects: Communism.