Böcker av David R. Marples

Using a wide selection of newspapers, journals, monographs, and school textbooks from different regions of the country, this book examines the sensitive issue of the changing perspectives on several events discussed in the narratives of the Stalin years published in the Ukraine since the late Gorbachev period until 2005.

This volume highlights the problems of the environment and industry in Ukraine from 1985 to 1990. The main theme of the book is the close link between the damage to nature and the growth of political activism and patriotism in Ukraine.

Based on the lastest research, David Marples gives an account of the Russian Revolution and the intense debates that surround it.

The collapse of the Soviet Union has widely been seen as the reult of the arms race and Cold War, and the failure of the Soviet side to keep pace with new technology. This is an accessible guide to the key events surrounding the disintegration of the USSR.

David Marples looks back at the Soviet century and examines the relationship between the Communist state and the Russian national idea. He concludes that ultimately, it was the ideal of the motherland that brought about the end of communism in Russia.

A personal interpretation of the impact of the Chernobyl disaster both in the Soviet Union and the West, examining the environmental consequences, Soviet media coverage, reconstruction of life in the disaster zone (including the city built for Chernobyl workers) and safety changes in the industry.