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- Includes all core and non-core political ideas, with key thinkers integrated throughout the text - Builds confidence by highlighting key terms and explaining links between different topics in the specification - Provides opportunities to test your progress with quick knowledge-check questions. - Develops analysis and evaluation skills with 'stretch and challenge' activities and suggestions for targeted further reading. - Features practice questions with answer guidance online at www.hoddereducation.co.uk.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrative Material -- Preface -- The structure of the book -- What is new to the third edition? -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Russia: Continuity and Change -- 1: Studying Russian Government and Politics -- Why we study Russia -- Russia as a country -- Location, size, and geopolitics -- Regional power -- Military power -- Economic and energy power -- Cultural hub -- A multiethnic state -- Russia and the world -- How we study Russia -- Official reports -- Documents, letters, and communiqués -- Intelligence reports -- Memoirs and eyewitness sources -- Media reports -- Surveys -- Views of Russia and its politics -- On facts and theory in studying Russia -- Domestic politics and views of Russia -- Critical thinking in studying Russia -- Emotions and judgments -- Differences in perception -- Multiple causes of events -- Political pressure -- Conclusion -- 2: The Roots: The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union -- Early Russian states -- Mongol rule -- The strengthening of Moscow -- Russia as an empire -- Reforms of Peter the Great -- Becoming a major power -- The reforms of the 1860s-70s -- The revolutions -- The revolution of 1905-07 -- The revolutions of 1917 -- The events of February 1917 -- The events of October and November 1917 -- The development of the Soviet state -- The civil war -- Industrialization -- Agricultural policies -- Government bureaucracy -- Foreign policy -- Political repression -- Political mobilization -- Josef Stalin (1878-1953) -- World War II -- The Soviet Union during the Cold War -- The postwar reconstruction -- The thaw -- The stagnation period -- Critical thinking about Russia's history -- The imperial-moralistic tradition -- The critical-liberal tradition -- The "unique experience" models -- The old and new Sovietologists -- Conclusion -- 3: The Soviet Transformation, 1985-91.

The relationship between business and politics is crucial to understanding Mexican history, and Pesos and Politics explores this relationship from the mid-nineteenth century dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz through the Mexican Revolution (1876-1940). Historian Mark Wasserman argues that throughout this era, over the course of successive regimes, there was an evolving enterprise system that had to balance the interests of the Mexican national elite, state and local governments, large foreign corporations, and individual foreign entrepreneurs. During and after the Revolution these groups were joine

The 2016 edition of Pacific ways follows up on the success of the original 2009 book by the same title. It provides an introduction to the political structures and institutions of 27 territories and states of the Pacific island region. Its range includes the major metropolitan countries of Australia and New Zealand as well as the contested provinces of Indonesia that are commonly referred to as West Papua. The collection also includes material on Timor- Leste, one of the world's youngest countries (a new addition, along with West Papua). Its main focus, however, is the island Pacific which includes some of the world's smallest countries, whether in terms of landmass or population size. The coverage that the collection provides is sufficiently wide to allow the reader to gain a sense of the diversity of the region, even without a detailed consideration of culture, language and ethnicity. ; N/A