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COMRADES! A HISTORY OF WORLD COMMUNISM (OBEEI) by SERVICE Robert
$48.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Almost two decades after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR, leading historian Robert Service examines the history of communism throughout the world. "Comrades!" moves from Marx and Lenin to Mao and Castro and beyond to trace communism from its beginnings to the present day. Offeri ...Show more
Comrades : Communism - A World History by Robert Service
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Almost two decades have passed since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Robert Service, one of our finest historians of modern Russia, sets out to examine the history of communism throughout the world. His uncomfortable conclusion - and an important message for the twenty-first ce ...Show more
Comrades - Communism : A World History by Robert Service
$80.00 AUD
Category: History
From Marx to Mao, from Engels to Allende, from Lenin and Stalin to Ceaucescu and Castro, "Comrades" tells the story of communism from its inception to the present day. It offers a succession of incisive pen-portraits of outstanding leaders and decisive events and spans the nineteenth and twenty-first ce ...Show more
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
$49.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012. When Mi ...Show more
Kremlin Winter - Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012.Putin's ...Show more
Stalin by Robert Service
$28.00 AUD
Category: History
In this acclaimed biography, Robert Service brings us closer than ever to an understanding of one of the most notorious figures in world history. Drawing on unpublished material from the Moscow archives, personal testimonies and private papers, Stalin illuminates the man as well as the dictator, placing ...Show more
The End of the Cold War by Robert Service
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the stand-off between the two superpowers - after decades of struggle over every aspect of security, politics, economics and ideas - would end in their lifetimes. E ...Show more
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The acclaimed account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. ...Show more
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of that revolution, Robert Service, the eminent historian of Russia, examines Nicholas's reign i ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern Russia - From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century by Robert Service
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change. In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2015, Robert Service provides a superb panoramic viewpoint on Russia, exploring the complex, changing interaction between ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century, Fifth Edition by Robert Service
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Revised and updated with a new introduction and new final chapter.Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change and upheaval.In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2009, Robert Service provides a superb panor ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century by Robert Service
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change and upheaval. In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2009, Robert Service provides a superb panoramic viewpoint on Russia, exploring the complex, changing interac ...Show more