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Michail Chodorkovskij, imprigionato nel 2003 con l'accusa di frode fiscale e liberato nel dicembre 2013 con un provvedimento di grazia, è diventato un simbolo della lotta per la libertà nella Russia……続きを見る

Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, this new edition of Russia's Long Twentieth Century is an accessible textbook that encourages students to star……続きを見る

The bitter separation of Ukraine's Orthodox churches is a microcosm of its societal strife. From 1917 onward, church leaders failed to agree on the church's mission in the twentieth century. The cor……続きを見る

Throughout the eighteenth century, the Russian elite assimilated the ideas, emotions, and practices of the aristocracy in Western countries to various degrees, while retaining a strong sense of thei……続きを見る

Rita Hill was born in Russia during the time its dictator Stalin was purging the country of possible traitors. During World War II, her family was evacuated to Germany, where they were housed in a r……続きを見る

The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process – in the words of those who experienced it first hand. It helps to identify the ways in whi……続きを見る

This book analyzes the process of national identity formation and identification of children born into formal and informal Polish-German relationships in Poland and Germany, and how that process is ……続きを見る

The British Army's involvement in the Crimean War of 1854-56 is often remembered only for the ill-advised 'charge of the Light Brigade' during the battle of Sevastopol as memorialized in Tennyson's ……続きを見る

Consisting of 12 chapters, the book presents the rise and development of environmentalism, environmental history as a discipline, and the history of environmental movements in the Central and South ……続きを見る

This comprehensive and original survey of Russian theater in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first encompasses the major productions of directors such as Meyerhold, Stanislavsky, Tovostono……続きを見る

This ground-breaking book provides a compelling account of the social sciences in post-war Central and Eastern Europe. The first English-language monograph to analyse the history of sociology in Pol……続きを見る

Addressing the impact of the Russian Revolution and change and continuity in diplomacy during the transition from Empire to Soviet Union, this book examines how Russia's diplomacy was conducted, the……続きを見る

Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, the borders hitherto separating Greek culture and society from its contiguous Balkan polities came down, and Greeks had to reorient themselves toward ……続きを見る

La famosa teoria della "piramide rovesciata", enunciata da Borochov, sembra raffigurare il problema dell'ebraismo diasporico novecentesco: quello di essere troppo "aleatorio" e poco "radicato" a ter……続きを見る

Der Untergang der Sowjetunion wird mit der "Nichtreformierbarkeit des Systems" erklärt. Ligatschows differenzierte Betrachtung der achtziger Jahre in der Sowjetunion, die mit dem Staatsstreich 1991 ……続きを見る

Dalla viva voce di una diplomatica russa, un'eccezionale testimonianza che illustra la posizione di Mosca sul conflitto siriano e i retroscena legati alla liberazione di Aleppo. IL LIBRO: Ad Aleppo,……続きを見る

Siberian Passage, first published in 1949, is a fascinating look at the land and peoples of far northern Russia in the early 1900s. The author was a member of a Russian scientific expedition which e……続きを見る

This book examines the contention that current US-Russia relations have descended into a ‘New Cold War’. It examines four key dimensions of the original Cold War, the structural, the ideological, th……続きを見る

When Nikita Khrushchev toured America in 1959ーthe first Russian leader ever to set foot in the Western Hemisphere, let alone the United Statesーthe country was enjoying a period of unprecedented pr……続きを見る

Russia has a rich, huge, unwieldy cultural tradition. How to grasp it? This classroom reader is designed to respond to that problem. The literary works selected for inclusion in this anthology intro……続きを見る

Russia in World History uses a comparative framework to understand Russian history in a global context. The book challenges the idea of Russia as an outlier of European civilization by examining sel……続きを見る

St. Petersburg – heute die Partnerstadt von Hamburg – ist eine junge Stadt. Im Mai 1703 von Zar Peter I. scheinbar gegen jede Vernunft und gegen erheblichen Widerstand im sumpfigen Delta der Newa am……続きを見る

Presenting the history of an unexplored yet significant institution in East Germany, this book analyses the development of the Parteihochschule Karl Marx (PHS), a training institute for Communist pa……続きを見る

Based on a broad array of sources from Russian and Austrian archives, this collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the Soviet occupation of Austria from 1945 to 1955. The contributors cover ……続きを見る

With the coming of glasnost to the Soviet Union, filmmakers began to explore previously forbidden themes, and distributors released films that were suppressed by pre-glasnost-era censors. Soviet cin……続きを見る

This study looks at the reform process in Sakha and at a one hundred year history of economic development. The research revealed that Sakha's progress has always been determined by the export of key……続きを見る

Russia has long been a major player in the international relations arena, but only by examining the whole century can Russian foreign policy be properly understood, and the key questions as to the i……続きを見る

The unexpected end of the protracted conflict has been a sobering experience for scholars. No theory had anticipated how the Cold War would be terminated, and none should also be relied upon to expl……続きを見る

The Life and Thought of Filaret Drozdov, 1782–1867: The Thorny Path to Sainthood is an intellectual biography of the foremost historical figure in the religious world of nineteenth-century Russia. T……続きを見る

“Ancient Russian Ecclesiastical Embroideries” is a fascinating treatise looking at the history and development of embroidery in Russia, with a special focus on that which is related to the church. D……続きを見る