The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR explores the covert world of secret police surveillance within the Soviet Union, delving into lesser-known grassroots ……続きを見る
This Element details how elites provide policy concessions when they face credible threats of revolution. Specifically, the authors discuss how the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent fo……続きを見る
The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries……続きを見る
Van vuurpeloton tot datsja: Jan Brokken schildert de bijzondere band tussen Von Wrangel en Dostojevski, tegen de achtergrond van een turbulent Rusland.
In De Kozakkentuin beschrijft Jan Brokken de b……続きを見る
This volume contributes to a growing reevaluation of the Brezhnev era, helping to shape a new historiography that gives us a much richer and more nuanced picture of the time period than the stagnati……続きを見る
The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in t……続きを見る
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia is a history and description of bark and skin boat traditions of the native peoples of Scandinavia and northern Russia. The history of northern peo……続きを見る
Strange sounds resembling the remote rumble of distant thunder were audible. Everybody understood: it was the echo of the battle for Stalingrad. . . . A heavy rain began falling.
Stalingrad’s outski……続きを見る
Zijn wandelingen roepen de geest op van dichters en dissidenten, van gekken en genieën, van wanhopigen en geliefden. Alles in de stad stemt tot kijken, herinneren, de melancholie is alom.
‘Ik dwaal ……続きを見る
Written by Lenin's wife and life companion, Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, and translated by Eric Verney from the second Russian edition published at Moscow, 1930, this is Part I of an intimate account of t……続きを見る
Written by Lenin's wife and life companion, Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, and translated by Eric Verney from the second Russian edition published at Moscow, 1930, this is Part I of an intimate account of t……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
