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    Stalin, Vol. I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

    Stephen Kotkin

    In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political…

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    Documenting Communism

    Charles G. Palm, Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Kotkin

    In 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Hoover Institution began a historic twelve-year effort to microfilm and publish the records of the Soviet Communist Party and State-…

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    Documenting Communism

    Charles G. Palm, Stephen Kotkin, Condoleezza Rice

    "A memoir of the project to microfilm and publish ten million pages of Soviet Archives, bringing worldwide access to a Russian history that had been closed for nearly a century"--

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    Steeltown U. S. S. R.

    Stephen Kotkin

    Offers the reader a portrait of daily life in the Gorbachev era. From the formation of ‘informal’ political groups to the start-up of fledgling businesses in the new cooperative sector…

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    Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

    Stephen Kotkin

    Building and running a dictatorship, with power of life or death over hundreds of millions, in conditions of capitalist self-encirclement, made Stalin the person he became. This is the story…

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    Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

    Stephen Kotkin

    A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world

    The product of a decade of intrepid research, Stalin is a landmark achievement. Stephen Kotkin offers a…

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    Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

    Stephen Kotkin

    Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler’s Germany that is the signal event of…

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    Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization

    Stephen Kotkin

    Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin’s decision to transform the predominately agricultural nation into a…

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    Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment

    Stephen Kotkin (Princeton University)

    The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. In one of history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two scholars of Eastern European and Soviet…

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    Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe

    This book takes stock of arguments about the historical legacies of communism that have become common within the study of Russia and East Europe, more than two decades after communism’s…

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    Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East: Siberia and the Russian Far East

    Stephen Kotkin,David Wolff

    This work presents a trans-Siberian expedition to rediscover the peoples, cultures and riches of Russia’s eastern frontiers. It addresses such questions as: who are the people of the region?; have…

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    Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China: An International History

    Bruce Elleman,Stephen Kotkin

    The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to explore this fascinating history.

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    Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China: An International History

    Bruce Elleman,Stephen Kotkin

    The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to explore this fascinating history.

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    Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East: Siberia and the Russian Far East

    Stephen Kotkin,David Wolff

    This work presents a trans-Siberian expedition to rediscover the peoples, cultures and riches of Russia’s eastern frontiers. It addresses such questions as: who are the people of the region?; have…

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    Mongolia in the Twentieth Century

    Stephen Kotkin,Bruce Allen Elleman

    Examines Mongolia’s history over the past century, with attention to the competing influences of Russia, China, and Japan.

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    Beijing’s Power and China’s Borders: Twenty Neighbors in Asia

    Bruce Elleman,Stephen Kotkin,Clive Schofield

    This book brings together historians, geographers, political scientists, and legal scholars to examine each of China’s twenty land or sea borders. Each chapter details the history and status of boundary…

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    Beijing’s Power and China’s Borders: Twenty Neighbors in Asia

    Bruce Elleman,Stephen Kotkin,Clive Schofield

    This book brings together historians, geographers, political scientists, and legal scholars to examine each of China’s twenty land or sea borders. Each chapter details the history and status of boundary…

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    Armageddon Averted: Soviet Collapse since 1970 Updated Edition

    Stephen Kotkin (Professor of European and Asian History, Professor of European and Asian History, Princeton University)

    Combining historical and geopolitical analysis with an absorbing narrative, Kotkin draws upon extensive research, including memoirs by dozens of insiders and senior figures, to illuminate the factors that led to…

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    Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000

    Stephen Kotkin (Professor of European and Asian History, Professor of European and Asian History, Princeton University)

    This is the story of the structural factors behind the Soviet Collapse, and the relation of the structural to the great personalities such as Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. This…

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    Mongolia in the Twentieth Century

    Stephen Kotkin,Bruce Allen Elleman,Neil Hamilton

    The remote vastness of Mongolia has remained somewhat of a mystery to most Westerners - no less so in the 20th century. This volume examines Mongol history over the past…

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    The Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels

    Using the authorized English translation, edited and annotated by Engels, this edition features an extensive and provocative Introduction by historian Malia and a new Afterword by Kotkin. Revised reissue.

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    The Cultural Gradient: The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789D1991

    Is there a sharp dividing line separating Europe into East and West ? This volume brings together scholars to examine the evolution of the conception of Europe over the two…

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    Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia

    Charles K. Armstrong (Columbia University),Gilbert Rozman (Princeton University, United States of America),Samuel S. Kim,Stephen Kotkin

    Illuminating the role of the Korean peninsula in three modern historical periods, this volume offers a fresh appraisal of Korea as the key to the coalescence of a broad, open…

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    Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia

    Charles K. Armstrong (Columbia University),Gilbert Rozman (Princeton University, United States of America),Samuel S. Kim,Stephen Kotkin

    Illuminating the role of the Korean peninsula in three modern historical periods, this volume offers a fresh appraisal of Korea as the key to the coalescence of a broad, open…

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