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A comprehensive look at Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.Photographs throughout.CONTENTS:Introduction.RUSSIAN FEDERATION:The Land and the People; History; Communist Era; Stalin's Cultural Counter-Revolution of the 1930s; The Post-Stalin Era; The Brezhnev Era; Government Transition; The Gorbachëv Era; An Independent Russia is Born; The Putin Presidency; Foreign Policy; Government of the Russian Federation; Constitution of the Russian Federation; Culture; The Changing Economy.THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE INDEPENDENT STATES:Collapse of the Soviet Union; Commonwealth of Independent States; Economy under the CIS; Some Regional Problems of the CIS.WESTERN REPUBLICS:Belarus; Ukraine; Moldova.TRANSCAUCASIAN REPUBLICS:Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia.CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS:Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan. Bibliography ... Read more

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This is the first systematic study of agricultural collectivization between 1944 and 1950 in what is now the Republic of Moldavia. Gribincea makes special reference to the Russification of Romanian villages in the territories annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940. ... Read more

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Dyer´s volume is an original scholary contribution to the understanding of a Romanian-speaking people who have been subject to multiple cultural and political influences through the centuries. ... Read more

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Michael Bruchis examines traditional Russian policies toward Moldavia in their historic analysis of the historic evolution of the Moldavians east of the Prut River, and the first edition of the book looks at the impact of Gorbachev's Pestrokia on Soviet Moldavia in the post-communist period. The second section analyzes Russian policies toward Moldaliva in the post-communist period; the conclusion examines changes--if any--that occurred in the Russian treatment of Moldavia, pre and post-communism. ... Read more