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The Open Media Research Institute, The OMRI Annual Survey of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union 1995: Building Democracy. Introduction by J. F. Brown. New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, xvi + 344 pp., $85.00. William Gay & T. A. Alekseeva, Capitalism with a Human Face: The Quest for a Middle Road in Russian Politics. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996, xxix + 235 pp., £21.50. Claus Offe, Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996, viii + 249 pp., £45.00 h/b, £14.95 p/b. Harald Baldersheim, Michal Illner, Audun Offerdal, Lawrence Rose & Pawel Swianiewicz (eds), Local Democracy and the Processes of Transformation in East‐Central Europe. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, xiv + 257 pp., £48.50. Neil Malcolm, Alex Pravda, Roy Allison & Margot Light, Internal Factors in Russian Foreign Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, ix + 356 pp., £40.00. Pavel K. Baev, The Russian Army in a Time of Troubles. London: Sage Publications, 1996, xiii + 204 pp., £14.95. Glen E. Schweitzer, Moscow DMZ: The Story of the International Effort to Convert Russian Weapons Science to Peaceful Purposes. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, ix + 291 pp., $21.95. The Aspen Institute, Managing Conflict in the Post‐Cold War World: The Role of Intervention. Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, 1996, v + 123 pp. Jorn Gjelstad & Olav Njolstad (eds), Nuclear Rivalry and International Order. London: Sage, 1996, x + 212 pp., £39.50. Rick Fawn & Jeremy Larkins (eds), International Society after the Cold War. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1996, xi + 302 pp., £14.99. Georg Brunner, Nationality Problems and Minority Conflicts in Eastern Europe. Gutersloh: Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers, 1996, 198 pp., DM25.00. Andrew Wilson, Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s. A Minority Faith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xvii + 300 pp., £45.00 h/b, £15.95 p/b. Ann Louise Armstrong, Thomas A. Reiner & Janusz Szymer, Transition in Land and Housing: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1996, iv + 298 pp. John R. Lampe, Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xx + 421 pp., £14.95. Jonathan Aves, Workers against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship. London: I.B. Tauris, 1996, x + 220 pp., £39.50. Francesca Gori & Sivio Pons (eds), The Soviet Union and Europe in the Cold War, 1943–53. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996, xxv + 448 pp., £45.00. Igor Lukes, Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler. The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xiii + 318 pp., £22.50. S. C. M. Paine, Imperial Rivals: China, Russia and Their Disputed Frontier. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, xxi + 417 pp., $75.00. Felix Corley, Religion in the Soviet Union: An Archival Reader. London: Macmillan, 1996, xiv + 402 pp., £45.00. Jane Ellis, The Russian Orthodox Church: Triumphalism and Defensiveness. London: Macmillan, 1996, vi + 240 pp., £40.00. John Gooding, Rulers and Subjects: Government and People in Russia 1801–1991. London: Arnold, 1996, xii + 387 pp. Richard Taylor (ed.), William Powell (trans.), S. M. Eisenstein: Selected Works. Volume III: Writings, 1934–47; Volume IV: Beyond the Stars: The Memoirs of Sergei Eisenstein. London: British Film Institute, 1996, xiv + 405 pp. (vol. III), £35.00; xxi + 889 pp. (vol. IV), £45.00. Dmitri N. Shalin (ed.), Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Paradoxes of Postcommunist Consciousness. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, ix + 341 pp., £13.50. H. Goscilo & B. Holmgren (eds), Russia. Women. Culture. Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1996, xiv + 386 pp., £19.50. Pamela Chester & Sibelan Forrester (eds), Engendering Slavic Literatures. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996, xvii + 249 pp., £15.50. John E. Bowlt & Olga Matich (eds), Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant‐Garde and Cultural Experiment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996, xvii + 359 pp., £45.00. Joshua Rubenstein, Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg. London: I. B. Tauris, 1996, xii + 482 pp., £19.50. Moskva voennaya, 1941–1945: memuary i arkhivnye dokumenty. Moscow: Mosgorarkhiv, 1995, 755 pp. Leningrad v osade: sbornik dokumentov o geroicheskoi oborone Leningrada v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny, 1941–1944. St Petersburg: Liki Rossii, 1995, 640 pp.