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Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Series

57 primary works • 57 total works
A monograph series (now discontinued) published under the auspices of Cambridge University Press and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), presenting substantial and original research on the economics, politics, sociology and modern history of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe.
The Liberation Movement in Russia 1900–1905
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4.00 · 4 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · 3 editions
Historians of the Russian Revolution naturally ten…

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    Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation
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    3.75     · 12 Ratings · published 1973 · 4 editions
    A highly original and controversial examination of…

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    The Warsaw Rising of 1944
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    4.00     · 8 Ratings · published 1974 · 14 editions
    Why did the Polish underground Home Army call for …

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    The Agrarian Policy of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party: From its Origins through the Revolution of 1905–1907
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1977 · 5 editions
    The Socialist-Revolutionary (SR) party gained an o…

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    The Precarious Truce: Anglo-Soviet Relations 1924-27
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    Lenin's death at the beginning of 1924 coincided w…

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    Soviet Book Publishing Policy
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    This book first published in 1978 provides a broad…

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    Lenin's Govrnmnt: Sovnarkom 1917-22: Sovnarkom 1917-1922
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    3.71     · 7 Ratings · published 1979 · 4 editions
    When Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks seized power …

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    Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934
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    3.88     · 17 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1979 · 3 editions
    This is a history of Soviet education policy 1921–…

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    The History of Poland Since 1863
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    This is an account of the evolution of Poland from…

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    Socialism and Democracy in Czechoslovakia: 1945-1948
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 1981 · 2 editions
    This book is about the political, social and econo…

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    Soviet Trade Unions: Their Development in the 1970s
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1981 · 4 editions
    This book, first published in 1981, represents a s…

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    From Embargo to Ostpolitik: The Political Economy of West German-Soviet Relations, 1955–1980
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    4.33     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1981 · 4 editions
    Professor Stent examines the development of Soviet…

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    The Modernization of Soviet Industrial Management: Socioeconomic Development and the Search for Viability
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    This book first published in 1982 considers the pr…

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    The Socialist Corporation and Technocratic Power (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies)
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    0.00     · published 1982 · 3 editions
    In this book Dr Woodall analyses the political imp…

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    Kronstadt 1917–1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy
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    4.14     · 14 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1982 · 6 editions
    This is the first major study of revolutionary Kro…

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    Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917–1918
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    4.28     · 36 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1983 · 4 editions
    This book explores the impact of the 1917 Revoluti…

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    Ideology in a Socialist State: Poland 1956–1983
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    Ideology in a Socialist State describes the change…

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    Russian Azerbaijan, 1905–1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community
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    Russian Azerbaijan, 1905–1920 describes the rise o…

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    Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933–1938
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    This is a study of the structure of the Soviet Com…

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    Collective Farms which Work?
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1985 · 5 editions
    This book analyses Hungarian collectivization from…

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    Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 1938–1945
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1985 · 3 editions
    This book is about the impact of war on the Soviet…

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    The Economic Organization of War Communism, 1918-1921
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    This book examines the origins, development and re…

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    East Germany and Detente: Building Authority after the Wall
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    The emergence of East Germany as one of Europe's m…

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    Materials for a Balance of the Soviet National Economy, 1928–1930
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    This book contains a full translation of a major b…

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    The Origins of Detente: The Genoa Conference and Soviet-Western Relations, 1921–1922
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    The Genoa Conference of April-May 1922 saw the fir…

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    Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement: Soviet Reality and Emigré Theories
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    4.00     · 8 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1987 · 6 editions
    This book deals with the attempt by Soviet citizen…

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    Britain, Poland and the Eastern Front, 1939
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1987 · 4 editions
    This book offers a revisionist interpretation of B…

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    The Soviet Study of International Relations
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1987 · 5 editions
    This systematic observation of foreign policy with…

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    Women in the Soviet Countryside: Women's Roles in Rural Development in the Soviet Union
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    0.00     · published 1987 · 4 editions
    This book presents the first substantive western t…

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    The Bolsheviks and the Red Army, 1918-1921
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1988 · 4 editions
    The emergence of the military agency of the Soviet…

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    The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority
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    3.00     · 3 Ratings · published 1988 · 7 editions
    This is a comprehensive and topical history of the…

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    An Algebra of Soviet Power: Elite Circulation in the Belorussian Republic 1966–86
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · published 1989 · 4 editions
    The control of office has long been regarded as th…

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    Poland's Journalists: Professionalism and Politics
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    5.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1990 · 7 editions
    Poland's Professionalism and Politics examines the…

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    Latin America through Soviet Eyes: The Evolution of Soviet Perceptions during the Brezhnev Era 1964–1982
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1990 · 3 editions
    Latin America Through Soviet Eyes provides an orig…

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    The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa: The Diplomacy of Intervention and Disengagement
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    The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa is the firs…

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    The Origins of the Stalinist Political System
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    The Origins of the Stalinist Political System offe…

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    The Foreign Policy of the GDR in Africa
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    This book presents the first comprehensive account…

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    India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer
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    This is the first comprehensive study of trading r…

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    Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland: A Critical Sociology of Soviet-Type Society
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1991 · 4 editions
    Michael Kennedy develops a theoretical conception …

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    The Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration, 1948-1967
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1991 · 3 editions
    In this important new study of Soviet Jewry, Yaaco…

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    East-West Financial Relations: Current Problems and Future Prospects
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    This is the first study to analyze the problems of…

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    Stalin, Siberia and the Crisis of the New Economic Policy
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    This book makes an important contribution to the c…

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    Patronage and Politics in the USSR
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1991 · 7 editions
    How do Soviet politicans rise to power? How are co…

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    From Ostpolitik to Reunification: West German-Soviet Political Relations since 1974
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1992 · 3 editions
    This book explores the development of relations be…

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    Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 1992 · 3 editions
    This book analyzes the precarious relationship bet…

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    Investment and Property Rights in Yugoslavia: The Long Transition to a Market Economy
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    In this book, Milica Uvalic examines the theoretic…

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    Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization: The Consolidation of the Modern System of Soviet Production Relations 1953–1964
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    4.00     · 6 Ratings · published 1992 · 4 editions
    This is the first comprehensive study of the posit…

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    The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The Role of Local Party Organs in Economic Management
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1992 · 3 editions
    Peter Rutland analyzes the role played by regional…

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    Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936
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    When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they be…

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    Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900–1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1994 · 5 editions
    This book examines the ability of the tsarist gove…

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    Soviet Policy towards South Asia since 1970
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    This book traces the evolution of Soviet thinking …

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    The Collapse of a Single-Party System: The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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    In this book Graeme Gill traces the disintegration…

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    Britain and Poland 1939-1943: The Betrayed Ally
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    3.75     · 4 Ratings · published 1995 · 6 editions
    British-Polish relations during the Second World W…

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    Accounting for War Soviet: Production, Employment, and the Defence Burden, 1940–1945
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    How did the Soviet Union compare economically with…

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    Poland's Protracted Transition: Institutional Change and Economic Growth, 1970–1994
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    In this book Kazimierz Poznanski offers an integra…

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    National Identity and Foreign Policy: Nationalism and Leadership in Poland, Russia and Ukraine
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    This book argues that the foreign policy of any co…

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    Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1995 · 13 editions
    In this book Anthony Heywood reassesses Bolshevik …

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