Former Soviet Republics 3

‘The Great Game’ (also referred to as the Tournament of Shadows) is a term used to describe the political and diplomatic confrontation that existed during most of the 19th Century between the Britis……続きを見る

In the archives of the Memorial International Human Rights Centre in Moscow is an extraordinary diary, a rare first-person testimony of a commander of guards in a Soviet labour camp. Ivan Chistyakov……続きを見る

In May 1992 political and social tensions in the former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan escalated to a devastating civil war, which killed approximately 40,000-100,000 people and displaced more than o……続きを見る

Structure and expressive means of the Kazakh etiquette – the first scientific-popular book from "Etiquette of Kazakh" monograph. The book is written on the base of the literature`s analysis, researc……続きを見る

The book contains a lot of coloured illustrations, reflecting the exotic grandeur of the national Kazakh jewellery art of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries from the fund of RK State Museum 0f A……続きを見る

Pan Tadeusz is an epic poem by the Polish-Lithuanian poet, writer and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz. The book was first published in June 1834 in Paris, and is considered by many to be the last great ……続きを見る

Antológiánk magyar zsidó történelemről szóló tanulmányok gyűjteménye. Összeállításunk azonban mind témájában, mind módszertanában különbözik az eddig megszokott ábrázolástól. A magyar (azaz a történ……続きを見る

When communism took power in Eastern Europe it remade cities in its own image, transforming everyday life and creating sweeping boulevards and vast, epic housing estates in an emphatic declaration o……続きを見る

Evgenii Belodubrovskii's Thirteen Coats is a recollection and meditation on Leningrad–St. Petersburg from his birth in 1941 on the eve of the German invasion to the present. Russia's twentieth centu……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 first U.S. publication of Knuts Skujenieks-one of Latvia’s foremost poets-is the author’s most important and widely-translated body of work. Convicted in 1962 of anti-Soviet sentiment, Skujenie……続きを見る

Detailing a man's mental breakdownーand his obsessions with a seductress named Lolita, the omnipresent "them," and the need to uncover what's "really going on"ーVilnius Poker is an epic, paranoid no……続きを見る

An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirte……続きを見る

A poignant collection of letters written by the Latvian poet, novelist, and newspaper editor Arsenii Formakov while interned in Soviet labor camps Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinati……続きを見る

A story of two men, a generation apart, one growing up in the shadow of the other. Peter Jirgens tells the story of his youth as the son of Arnold Jirgens, a Latvian immigrant, who struggled against……続きを見る

This timely book examines how the regime of President Aliaksandr Lukashenka has used the ‘Great Patriotic War’ (1941-45) as a key element in state and identity formation in Belarus. The campaign was……続きを見る

In this stunning biography, Josette Baer re-traces the eventful life of the Slovak politician Vavro Srobár, the principal figure in the implementation of Czechoslovak democracy in Slovakia. Spanning……続きを見る

Der lange Abschied vom totalitären Erbe Das Modell der bundesrepublikanischen Vergangenheitsbewältigung gilt als Vorbild für viele postautoritäre bzw. posttotalitäre Transformationsstaaten in Ost un……続きを見る

The Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled and legitimized by a Russian information war campaign that is unprecedented in its scope and nature. Increasingly lurid in form, sometimes su……続きを見る

Georgian Portraits chronicles everyday life in the Republic of Georgia in the decade that followed the Rose Revolution of 2003. Recent anthropological developments argue for the use of “afterlives” ……続きを見る

For millions of his fans, there is only one Yul Brynner, the most mysterious and exotic star in Hollywood history. But in fact four men were given that same name in successive generations, beginning……続きを見る

The special issue offers an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the questions of agency of less mainstream groups in protest movements in patriarchal and authoritarian societies. The themes cove……続きを見る

This double special issue investigates the experiences of Soviet Afghan veterans and the ongoing impact of the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-89); and the new and reconstituted narratives of martyrdom that……続きを見る

Oswald Spengler und Nikolaj Berdjaev gehören zu jenen Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts, deren Geschichtsdeutungen stark von den Kriegen und Krisen ihrer Gegenwart geprägt waren. Ihre Geschichtsphilosoph……続きを見る

This collection examines the forces and factors affecting rhetoric, writing, and communication expectations in the nations of the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. The entries in this collec……続きを見る

THE FARM AT NOVESTROKA is a story of two Ukrainian women and their struggle to survive during war and its aftermath. Irena Martsenyuk is a collective-farm woman whose peaceful life is shattered when……続きを見る

Six chapters in the book, like six stars in one constellation, contain the names Maria, Emma, Valentina, Gennady, Larissa and John. Maria, a Russian beauty, is a symbol of love, determination and de……続きを見る

The authors are neither professional writers nor social commentators. They have carried out this joint research in the national consciousness of Russians on the basis of their personal convictions, ……続きを見る

"A fresh multi-faceted look at the overthrow of the Soviet State, the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, and the campaign to introduce capitalism from above. Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny have given……続きを見る

In the early 17th century, Russia went through a foreign invasion and the nations first civil war a time so horrible that it acquired its own name in Russian history: The Times of Troubles. Internal……続きを見る