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22 produkter
Exiled to Palestine
The Emigration of Soviet Zionist Convicts, 1924-1934
Häftad, 2013
919 kr
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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 build Jewish society, the backbone of left-wing parties, and the powerful trade union movement.These leading authors bring to light …
Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia
Legacies and Prospects
Av Ben Eklof, Larry E. Holmes m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
797 kr
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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 proclaimed education a top priority of state policy. Yet the economic decline which accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union dealt a crippling blow …
Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1991
A Retrospective
Häftad, 1994
934 kr
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A comprehensive assessment of Soviet relations with the West, set in the context of the emergence of a new Russia. This volume anlayzes the formulation of foreign policy during the period from the first decade of the Bolshevik Revolution, through the gradual erosion of ideological differences.
In Pursuit of Military Excellence
The Evolution of Operational Theory
Av Shimon Naveh
Häftad, 1997
844 kr
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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 evolution of operational awareness and its culmination in a full-fledged theory. The author, a Brigadier General (ret.) in the …
Russian Organized Crime
Häftad, 1997
820 kr
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First Published in 1997. During the 1990s transnational criminal organizations of all kinds have received increased scrutiny from law enforcement agencies, intelligence analysts, and academic researchers. While there are many differences of both interpretation and assessment regarding a whole range …
1956 War
Collusion and Rivalry in the Middle East
Av David Tal
Häftad, 2001
1248 kr
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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, Israeli involvement, the plot which sparked off hostilities, and the Egyptian losses and gains are analyzed.
Russia at a Crossroads
History, Memory and Political Practice
Häftad, 1998
575 kr
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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 group memories which have broken loose, this collection focuses on several new voices which have never been heard in Russia in this way …
Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1953-1967
From Confrontation to Disruption
Av Yosef Govrin
Häftad, 1998
457 kr
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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. His work analyses the era from the month preceding Stalin's death to the weeks following the Six Day War - one of severance, resumption …
Envoy to Moscow
Memories of an Israeli Ambassador, 1988-92
Av Aryeh Levin
Inbunden, 1996
2658 kr
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The personal memoir of Aryeh Levin, Israel's first Ambassador to Russia since the severance of relations between the two countries in 1967.Aryeh Levin's four-year tenure as Ambassador to Moscow coincided with great upheavals in the life and times of both Israel and Russia. He was witness to the …
In Pursuit of Military Excellence
The Evolution of Operational Theory
Av Shimon Naveh
Inbunden, 1997
2578 kr
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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 evolution of operational awareness and its culmination in a full-fledged theory. The author, a Brigadier General (ret.) in the …
Russian Organized Crime
Inbunden, 1988
3055 kr
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First Published in 1997. During the 1990s transnational criminal organizations of all kinds have received increased scrutiny from law enforcement agencies, intelligence analysts, and academic researchers. While there are many differences of both interpretation and assessment regarding a whole range …
Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East
Av Efraim Inbar, Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Inbunden, 1997
2504 kr
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This collection offers a political analysis of religious radicalism in the Greater Middle East - comprising the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. The contributors present various conceptual perspectives including international relations, Middle East studies and political sociology.
Political Organization in Central Asia and Azerbaijan
Sources and Documents
Av Vladimir Babak, Demian Vaisman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
2504 kr
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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 Soviet Union. The book covers primarily the period from 1991 to 1994, which can be characterized as the first stage in the …
Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1953-1967
From Confrontation to Disruption
Av Yosef Govrin
Inbunden, 1998
762 kr
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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. His work analyses the era from the month preceding Stalin's death to the weeks following the Six Day War - one of severance, resumption …
Democracy and Pluralism in Muslim Eurasia
Av Yaacov Ro'i
Inbunden, 2004
2504 kr
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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), both those that have acquired full independence and those remaining within the Russian Federation. The nineteen Western academics and scholars …
Language and Revolution
Making Modern Political Identities
Av Igal Halfin
Inbunden, 2002
3894 kr
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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, the present volume asks what it meant to define oneself in terms of one's class origins, gender, national belonging or racial origins.
Russia Between East and West
Russian Foreign Policy on the Threshhold of the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2003
2818 kr
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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 social and political entity taking shape at home.
Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia
Legacies and Prospects
Av Ben Eklof, Larry E. Holmes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
3078 kr
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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 proclaimed education a top priority of state policy. Yet the economic decline which accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union dealt a crippling blow …
Language and Revolution
Making Modern Political Identities
Av Igal Halfin
Häftad, 2002
934 kr
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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, the present volume asks what it meant to define oneself in terms of one's class origins, gender, national belonging or racial origins.
Russia Between East and West
Russian Foreign Policy on the Threshhold of the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2003
949 kr
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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 social and political entity taking shape at home.
Democracy and Pluralism in Muslim Eurasia
Av Yaacov Ro'i
Häftad, 2016
747 kr
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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), both those that have acquired full independence and those remaining within the Russian Federation. The nineteen Western academics and scholars …
Political Organization in Central Asia and Azerbaijan
Sources and Documents
Av Vladimir Babak, Demian Vaisman m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
770 kr
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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 Soviet Union. The book covers primarily the period from 1991 to 1994, which can be characterized as the first stage in the …
