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Virtuosi abroad : Soviet music and imperial competition during the early Cold War, 1945/1958 / by Tomoff, Kiril

Table of Contents: “…Shostakovich and the iron curtain : intellectual property and trans-imperial integration -- Dueling pianos : imperial and national dynamics in postwar music competitions -- From the Moscow musical holiday to the first Tchaikovsky Competition -- Oistrakh on tour, Richter at home : display, control, and the style of global empire -- Oistrakh and the impresario : Soviet concert tours and trans-imperial integration.…”
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The Soviet Union and the United States rivals of the twentieth-century : coexistence and competition /

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Dominoes and bandwagons strategic beliefs and great power competition in the Eurasian rimland /

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Spatial Revolution : Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union / by Crawford, Christina E.

Table of Contents: “…Socialism means housing -- From garden cites to urban superblocks -- A plan for the proletariat -- The great debate -- Competition and visions -- Frankfurt on the steppe -- From tractors to territory -- Socialist urbanization through standardization.…”
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Rediscovering fire basic economic lessons from the Soviet experiment / by Nell, Guinevere Liberty, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The real benefits of competition -- The dynamics of unemployment and efficiency -- The holistic target : the value of profit and loss for the firm -- The rat race : the value of profit and loss for the economy -- Middlemen, trade, and the market system -- The high price of price control -- The root of all prosperity : money and the danger of centralized monetary policy -- Regulation and the institutions of a dynamic economy -- Democracy and freedom -- Corporate capitalism or the free market.…”
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The October Revolution in prospect and retrospect interventions in Russian and Soviet history / by Marot, John Eric, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The peasant-question and the origins of Stalinism: rethinking the destruction of the October Revolution -- Trotsky, the left opposition and the rise of Stalinism: theory and practice -- Class-confict, political competition and social transformation: critical perspectives on the social history of the Russian revolution -- Political leadership and working-class agency in the Russian revolution: reply to William G. …”
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