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‘This pioneering and judicious history of foreign intervention in elections should be read by everyone who wants to defend democracy now.’ Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny The definitive account……続きを見る

At the turn of the twentieth century, the photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky undertook a quest to document an empire that was undergoing rapid change due to industrialization and the building of ra……続きを見る

The downfall of tsarism in 1917 left the peoples of Russia facing an uncertain future. Nowhere were those anxieties felt more than among the Cossacks. The steppe horsemen had famously guarded the em……続きを見る

The name of Nobel usually calls to mind Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, and the internationally prestigious prizes that bear his name. But Alfred was only one member of a creative and innovative……続きを見る

The book explores the intellectual history of Bulgaria between the 1960s and the 1980s at the intersections of the country's social and political history. Based on case studies, the research delves ……続きを見る

It is widely assumed that the “nonclassical” nature of the Russian empire and its equally “nonclassical” modernity made Russian intellectuals immune to the racial obsessions of Western Europe and th……続きを見る

In December 1917, nine months after the disintegration of the Russian monarchy, the army officer corps, one of the dynasty’s prime pillars, finally fellーa collapse that, in light of World War I and……続きを見る

The abolition of Russian serfdom in 1861 and American slavery in 1865 transformed both nations as Russian peasants and African Americans gained new rights as subjects and citizens. During the second……続きを見る

In the course of Vladimir Putin’s third presidential term, many of the doctrines and ideas associated with Eurasianism have moved to the center of public political discourses in Russia. Eurasianism,……続きを見る

Covering two centuries of Russian history, Forging a Unitary State is a comprehensive account of the creation of what is commonly known as the "Russian Empire," from Poland to Siberia. In this book,……続きを見る

This is the story of a man who tried to resurrect the spirit of democratic life. He was born into a time of chaos and absurdity, and he took it as his fate to carry a candle into the night. This is ……続きを見る

The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, d……続きを見る

Ein Kind zwischen zwei Kulturen Akhulgo, 1838: Jamalludin wächst als Sohn eines mächtigen Imams im Kaukasus auf. Als Zar Nikolaus I. die Region mit Krieg überzieht, verlangt er den Jungen als Unterp……続きを見る

»2014 kam Rüdiger von Fritsch als Botschafter nach Moskau, in einem für die russisch-europäischen Beziehungen höchst tragischen Jahr. Damals traten die verborgenen Absichten des Kremls, der von eine……続きを見る

The book "Old Football in Russia" tells about the emergence and first steps of Russian football. About how sports clubs were created, how the first international matches and tournaments with the par……続きを見る

The Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin was the world's foremost spokesman of anarchism at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The Conquest of Bread is his most det……続きを見る

Woodrow Wilson's 'The Road Away from Revolution' is a thought-provoking analysis of the factors that contributed to the prevention of revolution in the United States during a time of great social an……続きを見る

Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's totalitarianism. Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes……続きを見る

Performance art in Western Europe and North America developed in part as a response to the commercialisation of the art object, as artists endeavoured to create works of art that could not be bought……続きを見る

The twentieth century was perhaps the most dramatic in the history of humankind. Two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazi Germany and the USSR, technological revolution, and the establishment of th……続きを見る

Arkady Polishchuk came of age in Stalin's Russia, in the turbulent times before, during and after World War II. His love for the Soviet dictator persisted for years until Polishchuk, a 19-year-old J……続きを見る

Statehood examines the extending lines of development of nation-state systems in Eastern Europe, in particular considering why certain tendencies in state development found a different expression in……続きを見る

Challenges of Modernity offers a broad account of the social and economic history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century and asks critical questions about the structure and experienc……続きを見る

'Rapoport has written a remarkable family memoir about growing up in the loftiest of Soviet Kremlin medical circles, where her father (Yakov Rapoport) was a distinguished pathologist, a man of scien……続きを見る

Artur Aleksanyan, a jazz musician turned military commander in the war for the liberation of his country tells the story of life and death, war and peace, love and hatred. It would be a truly epic s……続きを見る

A visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars. In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the R……続きを見る

A fascinating study written in 1952 written by a group of scholars identified with the Center for International Studies of M.I.T led by W. W. Rostow. “To the end of determination of the practical pu……続きを見る

Focusing on the period between the revolutions of 1848-1849 and the First Vatican Council (1869-1870), The Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy explores the circumstances under which westerners, concer……続きを見る

Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century challenges widespread conceptions of Central and Eastern European countries as merely countries of origin. It she……続きを見る

“Beauty will save the world.” ー Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot 続きを見る