Collapse & Aftermath of the Soviet Union

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The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin 4.07 avg rating — 5,471 ratings
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Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR
Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Sale of the Century: Russia's Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism
Sale of the Century: Russia's Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism 4.13 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Moscow, December 25th, 1991
Moscow, December 25th, 1991 4.12 avg rating — 662 ratings
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All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin 4.29 avg rating — 6,245 ratings
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War 4.02 avg rating — 1,863 ratings
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Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union
Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Georgia: A Political History Since Independence
Georgia: A Political History Since Independence 4.22 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era
Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era 4.18 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia 4.19 avg rating — 6,913 ratings
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Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus
Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus 3.87 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Causes and Lessons: For the Revolutionary Revival of the International Communist Movement
The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Causes and Lessons: For the Revolutionary Revival of the International Communist Movement really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia
Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism 4.40 avg rating — 8,489 ratings
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Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 3.79 avg rating — 1,395 ratings
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The Sources of Russia's Great Power Politics: Ukraine and the Challenge to the European Order
The Sources of Russia's Great Power Politics: Ukraine and the Challenge to the European Order 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Russia: Experiment with a People
Russia: Experiment with a People 3.88 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism 3.90 avg rating — 16,808 ratings
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Revisionism and the Demise of the USSR
Revisionism and the Demise of the USSR 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy
Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy 4.05 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia 3.97 avg rating — 11,441 ratings
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The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States
The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States 3.89 avg rating — 446 ratings
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The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse
The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse 4.31 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? 3.89 avg rating — 972 ratings
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice 4.44 avg rating — 104,275 ratings
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The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia 4.16 avg rating — 1,059 ratings
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The Post-Soviet Wars: Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus
The Post-Soviet Wars: Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus 4.07 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union 4.02 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Ethnic Relations in Post-Soviet Russia: Russians and Non-Russians in the North Caucasus (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)
Ethnic Relations in Post-Soviet Russia: Russians and Non-Russians in the North Caucasus (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia
Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia 4.25 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West 4.17 avg rating — 9,023 ratings
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The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy
The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy 4.03 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev
The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev 3.76 avg rating — 129 ratings
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From Leningrad to St. Petersburg: Democratization in a Russian City
From Leningrad to St. Petersburg: Democratization in a Russian City 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Russia's Battle with Crime, Corruption and Terrorism
Russia's Battle with Crime, Corruption and Terrorism 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Georgia: Pawn in the New Great Game
Georgia: Pawn in the New Great Game 3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia
Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia 4.27 avg rating — 418 ratings
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The Politics of Ethnic Separatism in Russia and Georgia
The Politics of Ethnic Separatism in Russia and Georgia 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Trump/Russia: A Definitive History
Trump/Russia: A Definitive History 3.70 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Conflict Resolution and Status: The Case of Georgia and Abkhazia (1989–2008)
Conflict Resolution and Status: The Case of Georgia and Abkhazia (1989–2008) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold
The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold 3.95 avg rating — 77 ratings
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War and Revolution in the Caucasus: Georgia Ablaze
War and Revolution in the Caucasus: Georgia Ablaze 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities: Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change (Studies in the Circumpolar North, 2)
Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities: Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change (Studies in the Circumpolar North, 2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus
Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus 4.05 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary
Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary 3.98 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Guns of August 2008
The Guns of August 2008 3.75 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Twenty-Five Sides of a Post-Communist Mafia State
Twenty-Five Sides of a Post-Communist Mafia State 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Post-Soviet Russia
Post-Soviet Russia 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings
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A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia and the Future of the West
A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia and the Future of the West 3.90 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Why Cold War Again?: How America Lost Post-Soviet Russia
Why Cold War Again?: How America Lost Post-Soviet Russia 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Conflict in the Caucasus: Georgia, Abkhazia and the Russian Shadow
Conflict in the Caucasus: Georgia, Abkhazia and the Russian Shadow 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State 4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings
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From Washington to Moscow: US-Soviet Relations and the Collapse of the USSR
From Washington to Moscow: US-Soviet Relations and the Collapse of the USSR 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Chechen Struggle: Independence Won and Lost
The Chechen Struggle: Independence Won and Lost 4.47 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Lonely Power: Why Russia Has Failed to Become the West and the West is Weary of Russia
Lonely Power: Why Russia Has Failed to Become the West and the West is Weary of Russia liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States
Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Global Emerging Market in Transition: Articles, Forecasts, and Studies
The Global Emerging Market in Transition: Articles, Forecasts, and Studies 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The History of the Civil War in Tajikistan
The History of the Civil War in Tajikistan 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin 3.82 avg rating — 11,842 ratings
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Claws of the crab: Georgia and Armenia in crisis
Claws of the crab: Georgia and Armenia in crisis 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped 4.04 avg rating — 3,437 ratings
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Transcaucasian Boundaries
Transcaucasian Boundaries 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West
From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West 4.29 avg rating — 2,645 ratings
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A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin
A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin 3.95 avg rating — 809 ratings
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Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin
Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin
by: Ben Judah
4.09 avg rating — 455 ratings
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Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution
Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution 3.89 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Putinism: The Ideology
Putinism: The Ideology 4.04 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism
The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism 4.25 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Russia After the Global Economic Crisis
Russia After the Global Economic Crisis 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia
How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia 3.62 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed
Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed 3.81 avg rating — 31 ratings
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How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy
How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough
Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough 3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc
Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Last Shall Be the First: The East European Financial Crisis
The Last Shall Be the First: The East European Financial Crisis 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Russia Balance Sheet
The Russia Balance Sheet 3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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How Latvia Came Through the Financial Crisis (Peterson Institute for International Economics: Special Report)
How Latvia Came Through the Financial Crisis (Peterson Institute for International Economics: Special Report) 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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How Russia Became a Market Economy
How Russia Became a Market Economy 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Economic Reform in Ukraine: The Unfinished Agenda
Economic Reform in Ukraine: The Unfinished Agenda did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Russia After Communism
Russia After Communism it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin
The Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin 3.49 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands
Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands 3.87 avg rating — 248 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 4.09 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair
Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Putin: Russia's Choice
Putin: Russia's Choice 3.72 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Chechnya: From Past to Future (Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies)
Chechnya: From Past to Future (Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies) 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession
The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Experience of Democratization in Eastern Europe: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995
The Experience of Democratization in Eastern Europe: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia
Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos Affair
The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos Affair 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Putin's Wars: The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism
Putin's Wars: The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism 3.87 avg rating — 271 ratings
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The Crimean Nexus: Putin’s War and the Clash of Civilizations
The Crimean Nexus: Putin’s War and the Clash of Civilizations 3.94 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Putin's War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism, and Crime
Putin's War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism, and Crime 3.81 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Russia: Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies
Russia: Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies 3.57 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality
Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality 3.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009 (Essential Histories, 78)
Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009 (Essential Histories, 78) 3.69 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West 3.80 avg rating — 617 ratings
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Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union: Russia's Power, Oligarchs' Profits and Ukraine's Missing Energy Policy, ... Series on Russian and East European Studies)
Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union: Russia's Power, Oligarchs' Profits and Ukraine's Missing Energy Policy, ... Series on Russian and East European Studies) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure (Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy)
Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure (Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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