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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How A Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine (P.S.)
added by savvy on November 9, 2006 10:41 AM
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky,and his American challenger, Bobb...
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
added by glassysurf on November 10, 2006 11:34 AM
Steve Coll's Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 offers revealing details of the CIA's involvement in the evolution...
The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union?
added by perfectstorm on November 23, 2006 1:55 AM
Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin improvised a system of "asymmetric federalism" to help maintain its successor state, the Russian Federation. However, when sparks of indepen...
Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
added by sandi on November 29, 2006 5:37 PM
In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-cou...
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
added by success06 on November 28, 2006 2:50 AM
Most popular books about the Stalin era feature the big names and a firm narrative shape: Robert Conquest's The Great Terror; Alan Bullock's Hitler and Stalin. Some books yield their revelations a...
