A Difficult Neighbourhood : (Record no. 121131)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781760460617 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781760460600 |
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| System control number | (MiAaPQ)EBC4770108 |
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| System control number | (Au-PeEL)EBL4770108 |
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| System control number | (CaPaEBR)ebr11318395 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)967110210 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
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| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DK40 .B474 2016 |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 947 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Besemeres, John. |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A Difficult Neighbourhood : |
| Remainder of title | Essays on Russia and East-Central Europe since World War II. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Canberra : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | ANU Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2016. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (538 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
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| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Intro -- List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Reclaiming the Empire -- Part 1. Twentieth-century Poland: War and Cold War -- Seven days that shook the world -- A difficult neighbourhood -- Jan Karski's valiant failures -- The worst of both worlds: Captain Witold Pilecki between Hitler and Stalin -- Speaking truth to power and prejudice -- Part 2. Poland and Russia since the fall of communism: Drawing apart -- Poland/Russia: Peace or ceasefire? -- Heading west, heading east: Impressions from Warsaw and Moscow -- Poland at the polls: A win for pragmatism -- Poland's EU presidency: Drawing the short straw -- Part 3. Turning points in Ukraine and Belarus -- Ukraine: A sharp turn eastwards? -- In Belarus, the leopard flaunts his spots -- Part 4. Russia and the former Soviet republics: Putinisation at home and abroad -- Russia and its western neighbours: A watershed moment -- Russia's elections: Leaving little to chance -- Putin's Ceauşescu moment -- Setbacks at home, successes abroad: The mixed fortunes of Vladimir Putin -- Putin's phoney war -- Re-enter Putin, weakened and resentful -- The real Mr Putin stands up -- Towards a greater Putistan? Part 1 -- Towards a greater Putistan? Part 2 -- Will Putin survive until 2018? -- Putin's re-Sovietisation project and the Ukrainian jewel -- Vladimir Putin: Geopolitical wrecking ball -- Putin's annus mirabilis -- Part 5. Putin reverts to cold war: Changing the shape of Eurasia -- Putin's last territorial demand -- Ukraine: Time to cut a deal? -- Russian disinformation and Western misconceptions -- Putin's parallel universe -- Putin's Westpolitik: Back to the USSR -- Peace in our time -- Ukraine conflict exposes Western weakness on Russia -- Bling and propaganda in an ethics-free zone -- Making nice and making enemies -- Ukraine, out of sight -- Select bibliography -- Further reading -- Index. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Map 1: Russia and its western neighbours. -- Map 2: Ethno-linguistic map of Ukraine. -- Map 3: The South Caucasian states: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Through a series of essays on key events in recent years in Russia, the western ex-republics of the USSR and the countries of the one-time Warsaw Pact, John Besemeres seeks to illuminate the domestic politics of the most important states, as well as Moscow's relations with all of them. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Russia--Relations--Europe, Eastern. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Europe, Eastern--Relations--Russia. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Russia--History. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Besemeres, John |
| Title | A Difficult Neighbourhood |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Canberra : ANU Press,c2016 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781760460600 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4770108">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4770108</a> |
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