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  Red Moon Rising

  Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age

  by Matthew Brzezinski

  For the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, the behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space   The spy planes were driving Nikita Khrushchev mad. Whenever America wanted to peer inside the Soviet Union, it launched a U-2, which flew too high to be shot down. But Sergei Korolev, Russia’s chief rocket designer, had a riposte: an artificial satellite that would orbit... (more)
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  A History of Twentieth-Century Russia

  by Robert Service

  This is a comprehensive overview of twentieth-century Russian history that treats the years from 1917 to 2000 as a single period and analyses the peculiar mixture of political, economic and social ingredients that made up the Soviet compound. It takes the reader from the age of communist rule to the changes that occurred in 1991 and the more uncertain world of Yeltsin and Putin.
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  K Blows Top

  A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Krushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist

  by Peter Carlson

  Khrushchev’s 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted—“a surreal extravaganza,” as historian John Lewis Gaddis called it. Khrushchev told jokes, threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed the coeds in a home economics class in Iowa, and ogled Shirley MacLaine as she filmed a dance scene in Can-Can. He befriended and offended a... (more)
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  Triumph and collapse : Russia and the USSR, 1941-1991

  by John Laver

  AQA History is the only series of resources developed with and exclusively endorsed by AQA, providing teachers with complete confidence that they have everything they need to deliver AQA's new AS History specification.
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  Soviet Policy in Africa: From Lenin to Brezhnev

  by O. Igho Natufe

  Written by Soviet politics and international relations specialist Igho Natufe, Soviet Policy in Africa offers a critical analysis of Soviet and Western foreign policies that presents a balanced perspective on the understanding and evolution of Soviet ideology and politics. Using on extensive research, Natufe traces the evolution of Soviet foreign policy from 1917 through 1980, focusing on the ideological... (more)
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  The Last Division: A History of Berlin, 1945-1989

  by Ann Tusa

  Berlin has played a major role in world politics since the Nazi era. It was made hostage in the Cold War, and continues to be in the spotlight today as the once-again great capital of Germany. Ann Tusa's book is an engaging chronicle of the partitions of this historic city, from the administrative division by the victors against Hitler, through the building and eventual destruction of the wall.
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  Khrushchev: The Years in Power (Norton Library (Paperback))

  by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev

  A unique view of the Khrushchev period as seen by two prominent Soviet dissidents. This portrait by two noted Soviet authors and dissidents of Nikita Khrushchev's years in power reveals the former leader of the Soviet Union as a decisive, even impetuous, innovator, a side of him little known before in the West. Khrushchev emerges as a man impatient to destroy Stalinism, to remedy defects in the Soviet system,... (more)
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  An Economic History of the USSR 1917-1991: Third Edition (Penguin Economics)

  by Alec Nove

  This update to "The History of the Soviet Economy" covers the period from the Bolshevik seizure of power to the aftermath of the failed coup, which speeded up the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The final chapter encompasses Gorbachev's attempt to reform the old system and the failure of that attempt. The development of "glasnost" included the opening to Russian and foreign scholars of archives and access to... (more)