When the United States and the Soviet Union signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks accords in 1972 it was generally seen as the point at which the USSR achieved parity with the United States. Less than twenty years later the Soviet Union had collapsed, confounding experts who never expected it to happen during their lifetimes. In From Washington to Moscow veteran US Foreign Service officer Louis Sell traces the history of US–Soviet relations between 1972 and 1991 and explains why the Cold War came to an abrupt end. Drawing heavily on archival sources and memoirs—many in Russian—as well as his own experiences, Sell vividly describes events from the perspectives of American and Soviet participants. He attributes the USSR's fall not to one specific cause but to a combination of the Soviet system's inherent weaknesses, mistakes by Mikhail Gorbachev, and challenges by Ronald Reagan and other US leaders. He shows how the USSR's rapid and humiliating collapse and the inability of the West and Russia to find a way to cooperate respectfully and collegially helped set the foundation for Vladimir Putin’s rise.
Автор: Jonathan Brunstedt Название: The Soviet Myth of World War II ISBN: 1108498752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108498753 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5702.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides a bold new interpretation of the Soviet myth of World War II from its Stalinist origins to its emergence as arguably the supreme myth of state under Brezhnev. Jonathan Brunstedt offers a timely historical investigation into the roots of the revival of the war`s memory in Russia today.
Описание: In an essay on the future of jazz penned in 1955, Duke Ellington suggested that the new music called rock ‘n’ roll “is the most raucous form of jazz, beyond a doubt.” So why did jazz and rock become separate genres when they shared so many similar musical and cultural characteristics? The rift between jazz and rock - and jazz and rock scholarship - is based on a set of received assumptions as to why jazz and rock are different. In When Genres Collide, Matt Brennan argues that there are other ways popular music history could have been written (and has been written) that call the oppositional representation of jazz and rock into question. The book challenges the traditional divide between jazz and rock by going back to how they were first covered in the two oldest surviving and most influential jazz and rock periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. It examines afresh the critical moments in history when the trajectories and meanings of jazz and rock intersected, overlapped, or collided in dramatic ways. Ultimately, the book shows how music critics gradually constructed a divide between the two genres that would be replicated for decades to come in both music journalism and music scholarship. This book will be valuable to the fields of both popular music studies and jazz studies, and in fact aims to bridge a gap between these two musical worlds.
Описание: This book is a historical reinterpretation of the Cold War in the broadest sense from the viewpoint of the late 1980s. Dukes contends that the rivalry of the USA and Soviet Union, like the Great Game between Britain and Imperial Russia, can be understood only by analysing their relationship over centuries. He adopts the explanatory model of French historian Fernand Braudel - the concepts of event, conjuncture and structure – and examines the super-power relationship in an historical context stretching back to the medieval period. He argues that the political and cultural gaps between Western and Soviet approaches at key events have stemmed from widely different experiences of these events, as well as from long-embedded traditions.
Автор: Moskoff Название: The Bread of Affliction ISBN: 0521374995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521374996 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15680.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book tells how the Soviet Union fed itself after the invasion by the Germans in 1941. As well as making extensive use of American and German archives from the war period, the author interviewed more than thirty Soviet emigres who survived the war.
Автор: Baker Catherine Название: Gender in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe and the USSR ISBN: 1137528028 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137528025 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 4725.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A concise and accessible introduction to the gender histories of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century. These essays juxtapose established topics in gender history such as motherhood, masculinities, work and activism with newer areas, such as the history of imprisonment and the transnational history of sexuality. By collecting these essays in a single volume, Catherine Baker encourages historians to look at gender history across borders and time periods, emphasising that evidence and debates from Eastern Europe can inform broader approaches to contemporary gender history.
Автор: Frederick Kirk Название: Write That Down! the Comedy of Male Actress Charles Pierce ISBN: 0982285388 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780982285381 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2533.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Beam Philip C. Название: Winslow Homer at Prout`s Neck ISBN: 1608933482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781608933488 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is a lively, intimate, and immensely readable portrait of the artist that throws a new light on Homer`s life and puts it in fresh perspective. It concentrates on Homer`s years at Prout`s Neck on Maine`s rugged coast, where he would create his finest paintings, from 1883 until his death in 1920.
Описание: The Stakhanovite movement in the Soviet Union commemorated the mining of 102 tons of coal by Aleksei Stakhanov on August 30-1, 1935, and it was an important symbol by which the state urged workers to achieve greater productivity. As Lewis Siegelbaum demonstrates, Stakhanovism can be used to explore the social relations within Soviet industry at a critical stage in its development.
Автор: Stoddart Название: Facing Down the Soviet Union ISBN: 1137440317 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137440310 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Facing Down the Soviet Union reveals for the first time the historic deliberations regarding the Chevaline upgrade to Britain`s Polaris force, the decisions to procure the Trident C-4 and then D-5 system from the Americans in 1980 and 1982. It also details the decision to base Ground Launched Cruise Missiles in the UK in 1983.
Автор: William N Hess Название: ‘Down to Earth` Strafing Aces of the Eighth Air Force ISBN: 184176437X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841764375 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This title covers the Eighth Air Force, which was the only fighting arm in World War II to give ground skills the same classification as aerial victories. It shows just how important a document "Down to Earth" was to the teaching of tyro fighter pilots in heading for action in the ETO. More leading aces were lost to flak whilst ground strafing than to German fighters.
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