Through sources and documents, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union by Richard Sakwa places the Soviet experience in historical and comparative context. The author introduces ...

Soviet Politics in Perspective is a new edition of Richard Sakwas successful textbook Soviet Politics: an introduction. Thoroughly revised and updated it builds on the previous ...

The first major new textbook to cover the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev, Sawka's "Soviet Politics" is both a comprehensive academic text and a guide for the inquiring layperson.

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Presents a collection of primary and secondary documents offering varying opinions on the Soviet Union.

The first study of Putin and his politics, providing the biographical and political context needed to explain his astonishing rise from anonymous KGB apparatchik to leader of ...