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From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portio……続きを見る

A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belonging In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Je……続きを見る

During World War II, the Allied leaders banded together, forged a great victory--and created a new and dangerous post-war world. In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted ad……続きを見る

Russian Central Asia is the vast area, half as large as the United States, extending from the Caspian Sea to China, from Siberia to northern Iran. Ever since its conquest by Russia in the nineteenth……続きを見る

This book takes the works of Mikhail Bakhtin as its inspiration in the contemplation of the potential of dialogic scholarship for philosophy of education. While Bakhtin’s work has been widely receiv……続きを見る

This comprehensive volume observes how, after 25 years of transition and uncertainty in the countries that constituted the former Soviet Union, their political geographies remain in a state of flux.……続きを見る

This book tackles questions about the reception and production of translated and untranslated Russian theatre in post-WW2 Britain: why in British minds is Russia viewed almost as a run-of-the-mill p……続きを見る

This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, h……続きを見る

This book offers an in-depth case study of Romania’s land and agricultural reforms from mid-19th century and up to 2000, offering a historical account of agricultural reforms in post-communist Roman……続きを見る

Comparada con las civilizaciones de China, la India, el Oriente Medio y Europa, la civiliza- ción rusa es mucho más reciente. Por lo tanto, no puede hablarse de una historia antigua y es poco lo que……続きを見る

Una delle personalità ebraiche più note e famose del secolo passato, vero fondatore dello Stato di Israele e strenuo sostenitore di una visione laica dell'identità religiosa, Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotins……続きを見る

La historia de la Unión Soviética (1917-1991) se transformó de manera vertiginosa en las últimas décadas. Los historiadores, hasta hace poco limitados a usar la escasa información oficial, cuentan a……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

While it is generally acknowledged that Russia’s culture has been influenced by France, the present study goes beyond the Francophile preferences of the noble elite and examines Russian society more……続きを見る

In his third book, Children of Death, critically-acclaimed award-winning author Robert Leo Heilman pursues three unanswered questions from his childhood. Growing up in a family in which his German-s……続きを見る

Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem The Holocaust in the Soviet Union is the most complete account to date of the Soviet Jews during the World War II an……続きを見る

This study focuses on Soviet television audiences and examines their watching habits and the way they made use of television programs. Kirsten Bönker challenges the common misconception that viewers……続きを見る

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

In De verzonken kunstschatten van de Vrouw Maria reconstrueren Gerald Easter en Maria Vorhees het fascinerende verhaal van het kunstwrak. Voor de lezers van Peter Frankopan en Peter FitzSimons. De v……続きを見る

In Gronings goud volgen we Wendelmoet Boersema op haar tocht langs Groningse akkers en Siberische gasvelden. Aan de hand van bronnen en interviews vertelt ze het verhaal van het Hollandse aardgas. G……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

Russia's Entangled Embrace traces the relationship between the Romanov state and the Armenian diaspora that populated Russia's territorial fringes and navigated the tsarist empire's metropolitan cen……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