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Living With Stalin's Ghost by Bruce C. Daniels - a new understanding of post-Communist Russia

Part political commentary, part journalism, part comparative history, and part an observant friend, this memoir will entertain readers and give them a new understanding of post-Communist Russia. Bruce C. Daniels is the Gilbert M. Denman Endowed Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences VOICES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC Connecticut Towns 1800-1832 Volume I: What They Said Volume II: What We Think CHRISTOPHER P. BICKFORD and HOWARD R. LAMAR, Editors   CAROLYN C. COOPER and SANDRA L. RUX, Associate Editors Now available for shipping! A unique two-volume source book for Connecticut history. This publication contains fresh and vivid material, and brings Connecticut's past alive! Funded with grants from the Connecticut Humanities Council and private donations. In the first decades after winning independence from Great Britain, Americans sought to describe their new republic both to themselves and to others. To gather information for that effort, the newly chartered Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences sent a questionnaire to the state's 107 towns in 1800.    Here are the town's responses and interpretations of them by present-day essayists. More detailed description Volume I Table of Contents Volume II Table of Contents Editors' Biographies Essayists' Biographies Volume I: What They Said ISBN 1-878508-24-5 493 pp., cloth, 8.5 x 11, illus., $31.95 Volume II: What We Think ISBN 1-878508-25-3 338 pp., cloth, 8.5 x 11, illus., $31.95   ORDER FORM