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Material Culture in Russia and the USSR comprises some of the most cutting-edge scholarship across anthropology, history and material and cultural studies relating to Russia and the Soviet Union, fr……続きを見る

Throughout history, reform has provoked rebellion - not just by the losers from reform, but also among its intended beneficiaries. Finkel and Gehlbach emphasize that, especially in weak states, refo……続きを見る

“Ideas and Realities in Russian Literature” is a 1906 work by Russian historian and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Within it, Kropotkin presents a broad, general idea of the subject by exami……続きを見る

First published in 1887, “In Russian and French Prisons” is Peter Kropotkin's detailed critique of French and Russian prisons in the late 19th century. Within it, Kropotkin offers poignant descripti……続きを見る

In “The State - Its Historic Role”, Kropotkin explores the concept of the State and how it has influenced society throughout history. A fascinating treatise by one of the most important Russian thin……続きを見る

Located within the forgotten half of Europe, historically trapped between Germany and Russia, Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the violent conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last ……続きを見る

Though the institution of the Gulag was nominally closed over half a decade ago, it lives on as an often hotly contested site of memory in the post-socialist era. This ethnographic study takes a hol……続きを見る

Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin’s vision of a total “transformation of nature.” Intended to increase agricultural yields……続きを見る

The ruling communist parties of the postwar Soviet Bloc possessed nearly unprecedented power to shape every level of society; perhaps in part because of this, they have been routinely depicted as mo……続きを見る

This study analyzes how public bereavement became cemented into the broad geography of Russian culture with the appearance of experiential and local memorials in the 1960s after a half century of in……続きを見る

Historia de la Revolución rusa ofrece un relato sin precedentes de uno de los acontecimientos más cruciales de la historia del mundo. Este libro presenta, desde la perspectiva de uno de sus actores ……続きを見る

Debates on Stalinism introduces major debates about Stalinism during and after the Cold War. Did 'Stalinism' form a system in its own right or was it a mere stage in the overall development of Sovie……続きを見る

"Nel 1945 appena terminata la guerra, le mogli, in cerca dei loro mariti dapprima si accalcarono speranzose alle stazioni dei treni con al seguito figli e foto in mano. Poi, in preda alla disperazio……続きを見る

This exploration of Soviet communist political maneuvering was written in 1962 at the height of the Cold War by the then professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and the form……続きを見る

A very interesting investigation authored by a 1950s-era journalist attempting to demonstrate the innocence of Alger Hiss - a former important US State Department official who was accused of communi……続きを見る

Dubček, di origini provinciali, con la semplicità dei suoi modi e del suo sorriso era riuscito, nel gennaio del 1968, in piena Guerra Fredda, ad arrivare alla dirigenza della segreteria del Partito ……続きを見る

This book examines the local manifestation of the global temperance movement in the Balkans. It argues that regional histories of social movements in the modern period could not be sufficiently unde……続きを見る

Dans "Une politique européenne: la France, la Russie, l'Allemagne et la guerre au Transvaal", Étienne Grosclaude propose une analyse approfondie des relations internationales à la fin du XIXe siècle……続きを見る

Because the turbulent trajectory of Russia's foreign policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union echoes previous moments of social and political transformation, history offers a special vantage po……続きを見る

Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late ……続きを見る

An intriguing "intellectual portrait" of a generation of Soviet reformers, this book is also a fascinating case study of how ideas can change the course of history. In most analyses of the Cold War'……続きを見る

Factory of Strategy is the last of Antonio Negri's major political works to be translated into English. Rigorous and accessible, it is both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin's thoug……続きを見る

The Cold War was the longest conflict in American history, and the defining event of the second half of the twentieth century. Since its recent and abrupt cessation, we have only begun to measure th……続きを見る

When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, t……続きを見る

A quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia once again looms large over world affairs, from Ukraine to Syria to the 2016 U.S. election. Yet how power works in present-day Russiaーho……続きを見る

The Bolsheviks’ 1917 political coup caused a seismic disruption in Russian culture. Carried by the first wave of emigrants, Russian culture migrated West, transforming itself as it interacted with t……続きを見る

How the last years of Stalin’s rule led to the formation of****an imperial Soviet consciousness In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events……続きを見る

This edited volume presents new research on Russian-Asian connections by historians, art historians, literary scholars, and linguists. Of particular interest are imagined communities, social network……続きを見る

The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet science from Stalin through Gorbachev. In 2000, Russian scientist Zhores Alferov shared t……続きを見る

An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern. When have you gone into an electronics st……続きを見る