Book Series in Military, Strategic and Security Studies
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Exiled to Palestine
The Emigration of Soviet Zionist Convicts, 1924-1934
This is the unknown story of how Zionists imprisoned by Soviet authorities were allowed to choose sentences of permanent departure to Palestine, where they helped…
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Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia
Legacies and Prospects
This volume consists of a collection of essays devoted to study of the most recent educational reform in Russia. In his first decree Boris Yeltsin… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-5705-9 (Routledge)
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Democracy and Pluralism in Muslim Eurasia
This book is devoted to the study and analysis of the prospects for democracy among the Muslim ethnicities of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS),… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-5225-2 (Routledge)
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Russia Between East and West
Russian Foreign Policy on the Threshhold of the Twenty-First Century
Gabriel Gorodetsky unravels President Putin's efforts to re-establish Russia's position as a major power, attempting to reconcile Russia's traditional national interests with the newly emerging… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8393-5 (Routledge)
Language and Revolution
Making Modern Political Identities
This work examines the role of language in forging the modern subject. Focusing on the idea of the "New Man" that has animated all revolutionaries,… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8307-2 (Routledge)
The 1956 War
Collusion and Rivalry in the Middle East
Recently declassified documents and new scholarship have prompted this reassessment of the collusion between Israel, France and England which drove the 1956 War. International aspects,… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4394-6 (Routledge)
Political Organization in Central Asia and Azerbijan
Sources and Documents
This work contains a selection of annotated documents, including party platforms and declarations of the major political groupings in the Islamic republics of the former… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-4838-5 (Routledge)
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Russia at a Crossroads
History, Memory and Political Practice
The meaning of Russia's past is in a process of continuous deconstruction, reshaping and negotiation by various social and political groupings. Of the deluge of… read more1998 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4397-7 (Routledge)
Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1953-1967
From Confrontation to Disruption
An |sraeli Ambassador's account of the longest and most tense period in Israeli-Soviet diplomatic relations, from their renewal in 1953 to their severance in 1967.… read more1998 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4427-1 (Routledge)
In Pursuit of Military Excellence
The Evolution of Operational Theory
This book offers a scientific interpretation of the field of military knowledge situated between strategy and tactics, better known as operational art', and traces the… read more1997 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4277-2 (Routledge)
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The Cummings Center Series provides a forum for a new generation of historical research based on the opening of Russian sources and channels of information. The series includes monographs by the Center's faculty, research staff and associated fellows; proceedings of conferences and round-table discussions between leading Western and Russian scholars; and a selection of outstanding Russian archival materials of interest to a wide-ranging public as well as the academic community.