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Ukrainian Literature
A Wartime Guide for Anglophone Readers
Häftad, 2025
336 kr
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Ukrainian Literature: A Wartime Guide for Anglophone Readers is an introduction for general readers and students to Ukrainian literature in English translation. It takes as its starting point the responses of Ukrainian poets and prose writers to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and …
The Fate of the Soviet Bloc's Military Alliance
Reform, Adaptation, and Collapse of the Warsaw Pact, 1985-1991
Av Mark Kramer
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the Warsaw Pact was a robust military alliance. It was capable of waging a large-scale war in Europe and was an instrument of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, keeping orthodox Communist regimes in power. The alliance over the …
Ukraine not 'the' Ukraine
Av Marta Dyczok
Häftad, 2024
311 kr
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This Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraine's twenty-first-century rock star president Volodymyr Zelensky. It presents Ukraine as an actor, not a pawn, in international history. And it focuses on people. In the past, historians …
Making National Diasporas
Soviet-Era Migrations and Post-Soviet Consequences
Av Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Leslie Page Moch
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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This Element explains the historical conditions for the seemingly anomalous presence of people outside of 'their own' Soviet republic and the sometimes-fraught consequences for them and their post-Soviet host countries. The authors begin their inquiry with an analysis of the most massive …
Environment and Society in Soviet Estonia, 1960-1990
An Intimate Cultural History
Av Epp Annus
Häftad, 2025
301 kr
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Russia's twenty-first-century military aggression has inspired calls for re-thinking the Soviet era and its aftermath - in particular, for drawing attention to the non-Russian parts of the (former) USSR. At the same time, the present era of anthropogenic climate change urges us to consider the …
Ukraine not 'the' Ukraine
Av Marta Dyczok
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraine's twenty-first-century rock star president Volodymyr Zelensky. It presents Ukraine as an actor, not a pawn, in international history. And it focuses on people. In the past, historians …
Central Asia - Russia's Near Abroad or Crossroads of Asia?
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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This Element assesses the claim that Central Asian countries hold a special position as Russia's near abroad. The region has been important for millennia, and only after conquest in the second half of the nineteenth century did Russia become important for Central Asia. This connection became …
Central Asia - Russia's Near Abroad or Crossroads of Asia?
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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This Element assesses the claim that Central Asian countries hold a special position as Russia's near abroad. The region has been important for millennia, and only after conquest in the second half of the nineteenth century did Russia become important for Central Asia. This connection became …
Russian Grand Strategy
The Quest for Major Power Status and a Multipolar World Order
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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Why has Russia embraced a global foreign policy after 1991, despite its limitations when compared to the Soviet Union? What distinguishes the current moment from the long-standing Russian quest for major power status is the particular grand strategy adopted by Moscow since the mid-1990s. Here, the …
Russian Grand Strategy
The Quest for Major Power Status and a Multipolar World Order
Häftad, 2026
276 kr
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Why has Russia embraced a global foreign policy after 1991, despite its limitations when compared to the Soviet Union? What distinguishes the current moment from the long-standing Russian quest for major power status is the particular grand strategy adopted by Moscow since the mid-1990s. Here, the …
Environment and Society in Soviet Estonia, 1960-1990
An Intimate Cultural History
Av Epp Annus
Inbunden, 2025
854 kr
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Russia's twenty-first-century military aggression has inspired calls for re-thinking the Soviet era and its aftermath - in particular, for drawing attention to the non-Russian parts of the (former) USSR. At the same time, the present era of anthropogenic climate change urges us to consider the …
The Fate of the Soviet Bloc's Military Alliance
Reform, Adaptation, and Collapse of the Warsaw Pact, 1985-1991
Av Mark Kramer
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
Lägg i varukorg
When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the Warsaw Pact was a robust military alliance. It was capable of waging a large-scale war in Europe and was an instrument of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, keeping orthodox Communist regimes in power. The alliance over the …
Ukrainian Literature
A Wartime Guide for Anglophone Readers
Inbunden, 2025
945 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Ukrainian Literature: A Wartime Guide for Anglophone Readers is an introduction for general readers and students to Ukrainian literature in English translation. It takes as its starting point the responses of Ukrainian poets and prose writers to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and …
Decolonizing Russia?
Disentangling Debates
Av Adam Lenton
Inbunden, 2025
854 kr
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Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 radically changed the way many viewed the nature of the Russian state. The centrality of resentment and imperial nostalgia in Russian narratives led many to argue that Russian imperialism was a key force behind the invasion. By extension, …
Decolonizing Russia?
Disentangling Debates
Av Adam Lenton
Häftad, 2025
275 kr
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Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 radically changed the way many viewed the nature of the Russian state. The centrality of resentment and imperial nostalgia in Russian narratives led many to argue that Russian imperialism was a key force behind the invasion. By extension, …
The Iron Curtain
A Short History of Socialist Borders
Häftad, 2026
284 kr
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The Iron Curtain remains an iconic representation of the Cold War. But what was it really on the ground? Fortified borders to prevent citizens from leaving emerged first in the interwar USSR and then in socialist post-WW II Europe. Fortifications occurred both at borders between socialist states …
The Iron Curtain
A Short History of Socialist Borders
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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The Iron Curtain remains an iconic representation of the Cold War. But what was it really on the ground? Fortified borders to prevent citizens from leaving emerged first in the interwar USSR and then in socialist post-WW II Europe. Fortifications occurred both at borders between socialist states …
