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31 produkter
Russia’s Arctic
Climate Change, Domestic Policy, and Geopolitics
Av Marlene Laruelle, Jean Radvanyi m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
252 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of Russia’s Arctic policies since the 2022 war with Ukraine began. Covering geopolitical transformations, domestic evolutions and the role of climate change, it traces how, for around two decades, Russia has renewed its strategic interest in the Arctic …
Soviet Gulag
History and Memory
Av Jeffrey S. Hardy, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
196 kr
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A vivid account of the Gulag, the Soviet Union’s infamous penal system, this book charts how Bolshevik visions of a humane alternative to Tsarist exile and Western penitentiaries became a chaotic and violent system of mass incarceration that bore a tragic human toll.As the first concise history in …
Gulag Fiction
Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin
Av Polly Jones, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
194 kr
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This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus.The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, …
Revolution Rekindled
The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography
Av Polly Jones
E-bok, 2019
1708 kr
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Towards the end of the Khrushchev era, a major Soviet initiative was launched to rekindle popular enthusiasm for the revolution, which eventually gave rise to over 150 biographies and historical novels ( The Fiery Revolutionaries / Plamennye revoliutsionery series), authored by many key …
Revolution Rekindled
The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography
Av Polly Jones
E-bok, 2019
1708 kr
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Towards the end of the Khrushchev era, a major Soviet initiative was launched to rekindle popular enthusiasm for the revolution, which eventually gave rise to over 150 biographies and historical novels ( The Fiery Revolutionaries / Plamennye revoliutsionery series), authored by many key …
Revolution Rekindled
The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography
Av Polly Jones
Inbunden, 2019
1894 kr
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Towards the end of the Khrushchev era, a major Soviet initiative was launched to rekindle popular enthusiasm for the revolution, which eventually gave rise to over 150 biographies and historical novels (The Fiery Revolutionaries/Plamennye revoliutsionery series), authored by many key post-Stalinist …
Myth, Memory, Trauma
Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70
Av Polly Jones
Inbunden, 2013
957 kr
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Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities’ initiation and management of the de-Stalinization process and …
Dilemmas of De-Stalinization
Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era
Av Polly Jones
Inbunden, 2005
2512 kr
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The Khrushchev era is increasingly seen as a period in its own right, and not just as 'post-Stalinism' or a forerunner of subsequent 'thaws' and 'reform from within'. This book provides a comprehensive history of reform in the period, focusing especially on social and cultural developments. Since …
Dilemmas of De-Stalinization
Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era
Av Polly Jones
Häftad, 2009
772 kr
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The Khrushchev era is increasingly seen as a period in its own right, and not just as 'post-Stalinism' or a forerunner of subsequent 'thaws' and 'reform from within'. This book provides a comprehensive history of reform in the period, focusing especially on social and cultural developments. Since …
Dilemmas of De-Stalinization
Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era
Av Polly Jones
E-bok, 2006
890 kr
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The Khrushchev era is increasingly seen as a period in its own right, and not just as ''post-Stalinism'' or a forerunner of subsequent ''thaws'' and ''reform from within''. This book provides a comprehensive history of reform in the period, focusing especially on social and cultural developments. …
Dilemmas of De-Stalinization
Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era
Av Polly Jones
E-bok, 2006
890 kr
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The Khrushchev era is increasingly seen as a period in its own right, and not just as ''post-Stalinism'' or a forerunner of subsequent ''thaws'' and ''reform from within''. This book provides a comprehensive history of reform in the period, focusing especially on social and cultural developments. …
Russia's History Painters
Vasily Surikov, Viktor Vasnetsov, and the Remaking of the Past
Av Stephen M. Norris, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Inbunden, 2030
574 kr
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Beginning with the 1881 Itinerant Art Exhibition, this book examines the history of modern Russia through the paintings of Vasily Surikov and Viktor Vasnetsov, two of the most important Russian painters of the period. By placing specific paintings and their artists alongside the historical myths …
Russia's History Painters
Vasily Surikov, Viktor Vasnetsov, and the Remaking of the Past
Av Stephen M. Norris, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Häftad, 2030
171 kr
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Beginning with the 1881 Itinerant Art Exhibition, this book examines the history of modern Russia through the paintings of Vasily Surikov and Viktor Vasnetsov, two of the most important Russian painters of the period. By placing specific paintings and their artists alongside the historical myths …
Jews under Tsars and Communists
The Four Questions
Av Robert Weinberg, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
189 kr
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Tracing the evolving nature of popular and official beliefs about the purported nature of the Jews from the 18th century onwards, Russia and the Jewish Question explores how perceptions of Jews in late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union shaped the regimes’ policies toward them. In so doing Robert …
Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise
Av Brigid O'Keeffe, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
207 kr
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This book is the first to offer a concise, accessible overview of the evolution of the Soviet Union as a multiethnic empire. It reflects on how the Soviet Union was home to many ethnic minorities, and how their fates, and that of the USSR itself, were bound to the question of how the Soviet state …
Social History of the Russians and Their Army since 1690
Av Roger R. Reese, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
194 kr
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This book skilfully probes the conflicted relationship that the Russian peoples have had with their army, most often seeing service as a burden to the individual and family, yet a necessary one to defend the interests of the nation/empire. Roger R. Reese reflects on the fact that even from before …
Gulag Fiction
Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin
Av Polly Jones, Stephen M. Norris
Inbunden, 2024
662 kr
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This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus.The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, …
Gulag Fiction
Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin
Av Polly Jones
E-bok, 2024
204 kr
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This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus. The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, …
Gulag Fiction
Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin
Av Polly Jones
E-bok, 2024
209 kr
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This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus. The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, …
Black Encounters with the Soviet Union
Hope Meets Promise
Av Maxim Matusevich, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
352 kr
Kommande
This book draws on the latest scholarship and archival research to examine the story of the Soviet Union and race. It looks at how the Soviet Union’s antiracist campaigns attracted interest from Black radicals, activists, and intellectuals and how many of these individuals sought to experience the …
Black Encounters with the Soviet Union
Hope Meets Promise
Av Maxim Matusevich, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
998 kr
Kommande
This book draws on the latest scholarship and archival research to examine the story of the Soviet Union and race. It looks at how the Soviet Union’s antiracist campaigns attracted interest from Black radicals, activists, and intellectuals and how many of these individuals sought to experience the …
Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia
The Origins of an Icon of the American Right
Av Derek Offord, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
207 kr
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This book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), which Rand considered her definitive statement about the need for an unregulated free market in which superior humans could fully realize themselves by living for no-one …
How Russia Got Big
A Territorial History
Av Paul W. Werth, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
193 kr
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How Russia Got Big accounts for Russia's changing physical scope over some seven centuries.Even people who know little about Russia know that it is big. This concise book tells the story of how it became so. Beginning with the small principality of Moscow in the early 14th century, Paul W. Werth …
Russian Culture under Putin
Av Eliot Borenstein, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
193 kr
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This timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia's media and culture industry had enjoyed nearly a decade of almost unrestricted freedom and yet, by the time he launched his illegal …
Soviet Internment
Memory, Nostalgia, and the POW Experience
Av Maria Cristina Galmarini, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
250 kr
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Using a microhistory based on a unique set of life-writing sources, this book provides an unparalleled insight into the Soviet POW experience during the Second World War. It reconstructs key moments in the life of former Italian POW Umberto Montini, who was captured by the Soviet Army in 1942, …
Women, Gardens, and Agency in Imperial Russia
Empress Maria Feodorovna's Pavlovsk Park
Av Ekaterina Heath, Stephen M. Norris m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
662 kr
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This book draws on the rich historical record of the Russian royal court to demonstrate how green spaces have been used as an instrument of diplomatic and political influence. Ekaterina Heath convincingly argues that parks like Pavlovsk are a fruitful new primary source, here revealing the …
Colonizing the Armenian Past
From the Romanov Empire to the Ussr, 1828-1953
Av Ivan Foletti, Stephen M Norris m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
792 kr
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This book examines how Armenian cultural heritage was used (and misused) by Imperial Russian and Soviet authorities to marginalize and control the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. It does this through an analysis of scholarly writings, artistic production, personal stories, and …
Slavonic & East European Review (96
1) January 2018: Writing Russian Lives: The Poetics and Politics of Biography in Modern Russian Culture
Av Polly Jones
Häftad, 2018
1141 kr
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Writing Russian Lives
The Poetics and Politics of Biography in Modern Russian Culture
Av Polly Jones
Häftad, 2018
275 kr
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Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70
Av Polly Jones
Häftad
181 kr
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