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Collapse of the USSR
Code: 030111
Burovskii, Andrei
Zolotoi Vek" SSSR: Da Zdravstvuet "Zastoi"!
[ "The Golden age" of the USSR: Long live "stagnation"! : ]
Moscow: Iauza, Eksmo, 2012
Language: Russian | Price: $ 17.00 | | This book is intersting because it offers an alternative way to look at the period of Brezhnev`s rule called "zastoi". It includes numerous details and data about this time. | |
| | | Code: 010239
I Vremia Sobirat` Kamni
[ A time to gather stones together : ]
Moscow: Belyi Parus, 1996
Language: Russian | Price: $ 17.00 | | Iurii Skokov is the former chairman of the National Council of Kongress Russkikh Obshchin (Congress of Russian Communities). This book analyzes the political situation and ongoing reforms in Russia. | |
| | | Code: 031749
Ivanets, Oleg
Anarkhiia i Khaos: Kriminal`naia Revoliutsiia 1990-kh Godov
Istoriia Ekspropriatsii i Razboev
[ Anarchy and chaos: The criminal revolution of the 1990s : History of expropriation and robbery ]
Moscow: Common place, 2014
Language: Russian | Price: $ 16.00 | | This book is about the "daring 1990s" in Russia, the period of buying or taking over the government assets with the participation of criminals. The author tells several stories about Russian Robin Hoods. | |
| | | Code: 009798
Ivanov, Ivan
Anafema
Khronika Gosudarstvennogo Perevorota: Zapiski Razvedchika
[ Anathema : Chronicle of the government coup: notes of a spy ]
Moscow: Paleia, 1995
Language: Russian | Price: $ 16.50 | | This chronicle of the political tragedy of Octber 1993 in Russia is written by the people who protected the Russian Parliament. It is based on notes and personal witnesses collected by the assistant to general Anchalov and new documents. | |
| | | Code: 027953
Kuznetsov, V
Tak Bylo": Rasstrel
Dokumental`naia Povest`
[ And so it was: Shooting : Documentary narrative ]
Moscow: Briz, 2010
Language: Russian | Price: $ 25.00 | | This book is a personal report of a witness and participant of the Russian events of August 1991 and October 1993 - the August Coup and dispersal of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation. Viktor Kuznetsov (b. | |
| | | Code: 027837
Moroz, Oleg
Tak Kto zhe Razvalil Soiuz?
[ And who disintegrated the union? : ]
Moscow: Stolitsa, 2011
Language: Russian | Price: $ 38.00 | | Oleg Moroz (b. 1938), a correspondent of Literaturnaia Gazeta at its best (1966-2002), analyzes the events leading to the dissolution of the USSR in 1990-91 and the failure of transforming the USSR to the CIS. | |
| | | Code: 027933
Lisichkin, V.A., Shelepin, L.A
AntiRossiia: Krupneishie Operatsii Zapada XX Veka
[ Anti-Russia: The biggest operations of the West in the 20th century : ]
Moscow: Eksmo, Algoritm, 2011
Language: Russian | Price: $ 19.00 | | The authors, a sociologist and a publicist, investigated the biggest ideological operations of the West against the USSR in the 20th century, which caused its collapse. (0.225 kg.) | |
| | |  | Code: 028162
Khlobustov, O.M
Avgust 1991 God: Gde Byl KGB?
[ August 1991: Where was the KGB? : ]
Moscow: Eksmo, Algoritm, 2011
Language: Russian | Price: $ 19.00 | | How did the KGB fail to prevent the disintegration of the Soviet Union even though this was its primary mission? O. Khlobystov, a second generation Chekist, the author of hundreds of works on the history of the KGB, offers his answer. | |
| | | Code: 027019
Luk`ianov, A.I
Avgust 91-go: Byl li Zagovor?
[ August 91: Was there a conspiracy? : ]
Moscow: Eksmo, Algoritm, 2010
Language: Russian | Price: $ 23.00 | | This book is by the former chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (speaker of the last parliament of the USSR) Anatolii Luk`ianov (1930). He was an active participant in the coup d`etat of August 1991. | |
| | | Code: 025946
Przhezdomskii, A.S
Za Kulisami Putcha
Rossiiskie Chekisty protiv Razvala Organov KGB v 1991 Godu
[ Behind the Putsch : Russian Chekists against the collapse of the organs of the KGB in 1991 ]
Moscow: Veche, 2011
Language: Russian | Price: $ 25.00 | | The 1991 coup d`etat which was meant to save the country, according to the author of this book, provoked Yeltsin and his supporters the occasion to initiate the dissolution of the USSR. Przhezdomskii writes about the effort of the KGB to avoid a direct confrontation and another possible civil war in Russia. | |
| | | Code: 030928
Obolenskaia, Svetlana
Deti Bol`shogo Terrora
[ Children of the Great Terror : ]
Moscow: AGRAF, 2013
Language: Russian | Price: $ 27.00 | | This book includes autobiographical stories and essays by Svetlana Obolenskaia, the daughter of party leader Valerian Obolenskii (Osinskii) repressed in 1937. Like many children of the Great terror the author went though orphanage, wanderings, and discrimination in choosing her education. | |
| | | Code: 030706
Kashin, O.V
Razval: Deistvovavshie Litsa Svidetel`stvuiut
[ Collapse: The main personages witness : ]
Moscow: Algoritm, 2013
Language: Russian | Price: $ 19.00 | | Where are the people who made the main decisions in the El’tsin epoch now? Among them were very different people: from dissidents to the former nomenklatura. This book is a collection of thirty four stories about the former "rulers" of Russia in the 1990s: from Bakatin, Poltoranin, and Iakunin to Ivan Shevtsov and Filipp Bobkov. | |
| | | Code: 028234
Tsipko, A.S
Ispoved` Odessita-Antisovetchika
Agent "Solidarnosti" v Komande Gorbacheva: Memuary
[ Confession of an anti-Soviet Odessite : Agent of the Solidarity movement on Gorbachev`s team: Memoirs. ]
Moscow: Navona, 2011
Language: Russian | Price: $ 35.00 | | Aleksandr Tsipko (b. 1941), a well-known Russian philosopher and political scientist, an active participant in the political intellectual battles of the late 1980s-1990s, is a founder, director of research programs and political adviser to the Gorbachev Foundation. | |
| | | Code: 009961-2
Isakov, Vladimir
Gosperevorot
1992-1993
[ Coup d`etat : 1992-1993 ]
Moscow: [n/p], 1995
Language: Russian | Price: $ 21.00 | | V. Isakov was chairman of the Republic Council of the Supreme Soviet (1990-91) and a deputy in the Gosudarstvennaia Duma from the Agrarian Party of Russia. At the same time he was a columnist for the newspaper "Sovetskaia Rossiia". | |
| | | Code: 010011
Iugin, V
Gosudarstvennyi Perevorot za 16 Frankov
Prokhindiada Generala Dimy
[ Coup d`etat for 16 francs : The Cheating adventures of general Dima ]
St. Petersburg: Shans, 1995
Language: Russian | Price: $ 21.00 | | This book is about current Russian leaders, how coups d`etat happen in Russia, as well as about the notorious Dmitrii Iakubovskii, who was involved in illegal currency operations and money laundering on behalf of large former government enterprises. | |
| | | Code: 029658
D`Amato, Dzhuzeppe
Razvod po-Sovetski: Iz Sverkhderzhavy na Zadvorki Globalizatsii
[ Divorce soviet style: From the superstate to the backyard of globalization : ]
Moscow: RGGU, 2013
Language: Russian | Price: $ 17.00 | | The collapse of the Soviet Union serves as an example to the nations that still live under the pressure of dictatorship. The author focuses his attention on the trends in the postsoviet states after 1991. | |
| | | Code: 025624
Nikonov, A. P. (Aleksandr Petrovich)
Sud`ba Tsivilizatora
Teoriia i Praktika Gibeli Imperii
[ Fate of the civilizer : Theory and practice of the fall of an empire ]
Moscow-St. Petersburg: ENAS, Piter, 2011
Language: Russian | Price: $ 24.00 | | Though the author starts with the very first empires, his analysis and conclusions cover all the main ones, including so called the soviet empire, and explains the mechanism of its fall. Also available by the same author: Slivki: Portrety Vydaiushchikhsia Sovremennikov Kisti Aleksandra Nikonova (2004); Svoboda ot Ravenstva i Bratstva: Moral`nyi Kodeks Stroitelia Kapitalizma (2007); Istoriia Otmorozhennykh v Kontekste Global`nogo Potepleniia (2007). | |
| | | Code: 026663
Shevchenko, V.A
Zabytye Zhertvy Oktiabria 1993 Goda
[ Forgotten victims of October 1993 : ]
Tula: Grif i K, 2010
Language: Russian | Price: $ 30.00 | | This book is based on interviews with participants of the tragic event in the recent Russian history, dissolution of the Congress of People Deputies and the Supreme Council of Russia in October 1993 followed by mass shooting of the defenders of the building of their meetings. | |
| | | Code: 005733
Guseinov, Vagif
Ot El`tsina k …?: Khronika Tainoi Bor`by V 2-kh Knigakh
Kniga 1: Spasitel`naia Solominka. Kniga 2: P`ianiashchii Durman Vlasti
[ From El’tsin to…?; Chronicles of the clandestine struggle: In two books : Book 1: A straw to clutch. Book 2: Intoxicating emanation of power. ]
Moscow: OLMA-PRESS, 1999
Language: Russian | Price: $ 29.00 | | Now, when the struggle for the Russian presidency in 1999 is far behind, it is interesting to see what kind of prognoses were made at the time. This book, written by a former KGB general, chief of a Moscow analytical center and a member of the Russian Foreign and Defense Policy Council, analyzes the struggle for the Russian presidency: Who will become the next Russian president? Who controls the struggle and shuffles the government? Who controls the media? How does El’tsin avoid and set traps? What is behind the Union of Belarus and Russia? The first book covers the period from August ’96 to December ’97, the second from January ’98 to June ’99. | |
| | | Code: 026379-09
Gorbachevskie Chteniia: Vyp. 9
Dva Putcha i Raspad SSSR
[ Gorbachev readings: Issue 9 : Two putches and the collapse of the USSR ]
Moscow: Gorbachev-Fond, 2010
Language: Russian | Price: $ 28.00 | | The ninth issue of the Gorbachev Readings analyzes the causes of the two putsches and the collapse of the USSR. Contents: The Soviet society: Why the soviet state collapsed / A.S. Cherniaev; Preparation for and failure of the August puts / A. | |
| | | Code: 029916
Oleinik, B.I.; Pavlov, N.I.; Ryzhkov, N.I
Gorbachev: Anatomiia Predatel`stva
[ Gorbachev: Anatomy of a traitor : ]
Moscow: Algoritm, 2013
Language: Russian | Price: $ 19.00 | | Three Russian high officials knew Mikhail Gorbachev pretty well. V.I. Oleinik was the vice-chairman of one of the chambers of the Supreme Council of the USSR. N.I. Ryzhkov and V.S. Pavlov were the subsequent prime-ministers of the USSR. | |
| | | Code: 030390
Bashkirova, Valeriia; Solov`ev, Aleksandr; Dorofeev, Vladislav
Geroi 90-kh. Liudi i Den`gi
Noveishaia Istoriia Kapitalizma v Rossii
[ Heroes of the 90s. People and money : Contemporary history of capitalism in Russia ]
Moscow: Al`pina non-fikshn, 2012
Language: Russian | Price: $ 39.00 | | This book is about the roaring 1990s, the main decade for newborn Russia. The first restaurants, first stock exchange, Egor Gaidar, Boris Eltsin and the Chechen Wars, contract murders and privatization, financial crises, Boris Berezovskii, Anatolii Chubais. | |
| | | Code: 025712
Sheviakin, A.P
Zakaznoe Ubiistvo SSSR
Podlinnaia Istoriia Katastrofy
[ Hired killing of the USSR : The real history of the Catastrophe ]
Moscow: Iauza, Eksmo, 2011
Language: Russian | Price: $ 19.00 | | This book restores the history of what the author calls the Great Geopolitical Catastrophe – the collapse of the USSR. He analyzes the causes and consequences of this "premeditated" crime. (0.285 kg.) | |
| | |  | Code: 028204
Istoriia Sovremennoi Rossii
Dokumenty i Materialy (1985-1999): v 2 Ch.
[ History of modern Russia : Documents and materials (1985-1999): In 2 parts ]
Moscow: Fond sovremennoi istorii, Izd-vo Moskovskogo un-ta, 2011
Language: Russian | Price: $ 65.00 | | This is a collection of documents and materials on the "epoch of change", the last years of the USSR and the beginning of post-soviet Russia: 1985-1999. The documents are arranged into the following rubrics: The prerequisites of perestroika; Anti-crisis management by the CPSU; The new false in fight with crisis: reforms; Deeper political and economic reforms; Foreign policy; The collapse of socialistic ideology and search for new one; Collapse of the Soviet Union, etc. | |
| | | Code: 002602
Voronin, Iu.M
Strenozhennaia Rossiia
Politiko-Ekonomicheskiie Portret El`tsinizma
[ Hobbled Russia : Political and economic portrait of El`tsinism ]
Moscow: Respublika, 2003
Language: Russian | Price: $ 52.50 | | Iurii Voronin is former Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Vice-Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, a deputy of the State Duma in 1995-2000, and currently an auditor of the Schetnaia Palata. | |
| | |  | Code: 028628
Sirin, Lev
Kak Razgrabili SSSR: Pir Maroderov
[ How they ransacked the USSR: Feast of looters : ]
Moscow: Iauza-press, 2011
Language: Russian | Price: $ 25.00 | | This book continues the previous one, “1991: Izmena Rodine", and deals with the same subject – the collapse and dissolution of the USSR. The author analyzes the reports of the main actors of this social change and seeks answers to specific questions which together shed light on the hidden reasons for this catastrophe: What was the size of American help to Gaidar`s government? Why and what for did the "siloviki" train Basaev? What happened to the money collected by the Mavrodi ponzi scheme? Who betrayed the Russian army in Chechnya? Who was behind the "shock" therapy in Russia? How much homosexuality is common for the Kremlin leaders?, etc. | |
| | | Code: 015368B
Golushko, N.M
V Spetssluzhbakh Trekh Gosudarstv
[ In the intelligence services of thee countries : ]
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2012
Language: Russian | Price: $ 49.00
Special price: $ 44.00 | | This is the second edition of the book of memoirs of Nikolai Golushko (b. 1937), the chairman of the KGB of the Ukrainian Republic (1987-1991), acting minister of security of Ukraine (1991), acting minister of security of Russian Federation (1993-1994) and the director of the Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation (1993-1994). | |
| | | Code: 025962
Aksiuchits, V.V
V Tiskakh Ideala i Real`nosti
Kollizii Russkoi Istorii
[ In the press of the ideal and reality : Conflict of Russian history ]
Moscow: Traditsiia, 2011
Language: Russian | Price: $ 32.00 | | This works studies the main collisions in Russian history, the cause and forms of the major breakdown: collapse of the USSR. The author also describes new historical prospects of the nation and the state. | |
| | | Code: 029929
Makarkin, N.P
M.S. Gorbachev i Perestroika
Popytka Ob`ektivnogo Analiza
[ M.S. Gorbachev and perestroika : Attempt of objective analysis ]
Moscow: LIBROKOM, 2014
Language: Russian | Price: $ 21.00 | | This book analyzes the economic and political events of the period called "perestroika" which ended with the dissolution of the USSR. The author focuses his attention on the actions of Gorbachev in this process, his individual style of leadership which affected the process and its results. | |
| | | Code: 027161
Bezborodov, A., Eliseeva, N., Shestakov, V
Perestroika i Krakh SSSR
1985-1993
[ Perestroika and collapse of the USSR : 1985-1993 ]
St. Petersburg: Norma, 2010
Language: Russian | Price: $ 23.00 | | This book is about the period of perestroika and the collapse of the USSR. It is written by three historians (RGGU and the Institute of Russian History) and is one of very few trustworthy textbooks which analyze the recent history of Russia. | |
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