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From your Oval Office to the pavements of Moscow, world market leaders and ordinary residents alike discuss interest and concerns about Russia. Can democracy endure there? What does the future carry for the once expansive and still powerful Russian region? Is Soviet Communism truly lifeless? They are the types of questions diplomats struggle with every day. And today, through this group of 16 incisive lectures by an acclaimed scholar of Russian background, you can commence investigating them for your own as you take a probing historical trip through the recent background and near future of an integral world ability. Whether your key interest is Russian or world background, politics theory, or international relations, you'll take away fresh knowledge and understanding as Professor Hamburg examines the improbable origins of Communist rule in Russia, the ascent of the Red Legend to its zenith, and its own decline and apparent end in the wake of 1989's situations. Using new material from previously closed Soviet archives and covering recent controversial studies by both Russian and Traditional western scholars, he starts with the failures of the czarist regime and the horrors of the First World Battle, then goes through the bloody time of Josef Stalin's purges and beyond to Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika to offer you a thoroughgoing research of the Soviet experiment.
