Books:
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Chapter 1: Turkey
Constantinople : City of the World's Desire 1453-1924 by Philip Mansel
The Rommel Papers by Liddell Hart
The Dawn of Peace in Europe by Michael Mandelbaum
Chapter 2: Armenia and Azerbaijan
The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century by Robert D. Kaplan
Chapter 3: Iran
The Prize by Daniel Yurgin
The Iranians, Sandra Mackey
God Has Ninety-Nine Names by Judith Miller
Chapter 4: Iraq
Republic Of Fear by Samir AlKhalil
Chapter 5: The Peoples Republic of China
The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress by Andrew J. Nathan
The Coming Conflict with China by Richard Bernstein and Ross Monro
Hungry Ghosts by Jasper Becker
Chapter 7: Russia
Das Capital by Karl Marx
The Strange Death of the Soviet Empire by David Pryce-Jones
Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire by Michael Dobbs
Afghanistan:Soviet Vietnam by Vladislav Tamarav
Without Force or Lies: Voices from the Revolution of Central Europe in 1989-90, an anthology with essays by Vaclav Havel, Andrei Sakharov, Norman Manea, and Adam Michnik. Edited by William M. Brinton and Allan Rinzler.
Lenin by Dmitri Volkogonov
The World Cultures Report: Ecocide in the USSR
The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Moscow and Beyond 1986 to 1988 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Lenin:The First Account Using All the Secret Soviet Archives by Dmitri Volkogonov
Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy. by Dmitri Volkogonov
Russia: People and Empire. by Geoffrey Hosking
Chapter 8: Threat Perception and China's Role in Asia
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc : The Dynamics of a New Empire by Willem van Kemenade
Chapter 9: The Viability of Central Asia
Requiem for Modern Politics by William Ophuls
Ecology of and the Politics of Scarcity by William Ophuls
Death by Default A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China's State Orphanages by the Human Rights Watch
Chapter 10: The Black Sea
The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century by Robert D. Kaplan
Interesting links to other Web sites:
AKA-Kurdistan
http://www.akakurdistan.com/
Contested Borders in the Caucasus
http://www.vub.ac.be/POLI/ch0101.htm
British Information Centre
http://www.britain-info.org/
United Nations
http://www.un.org/
ABC News Archive
http://archive.abcnews.com/
The World Cultures Report: Ecocide in the USSR
http://www.cpss.org/books/ecocide.htm
MAPS
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Turkey
The Middle East
Central Asia
Kazhakstan and Uzbekistan
Tajikistan and Kyrgistan
All contents © 1998 William M. Brinton