Library of Modern Russia – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Library of Modern Russia. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
93 produkter
Criminal Subculture in the Gulag
Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps
Av Mark Vincent
E-bok, 2020
514 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Despite growing academic interest in the Gulag, our knowledge of the camps as a lived experience remains relatively incomplete. Criminal Subculture in the Gulag , in its sophisticated analysis of crime, punishment and everyday life in Soviet labour camps, rectifies this. From Gulag journals and …
Old Believers in Imperial Russia
Oppression, Opportunism and Religious Identity in Tsarist Moscow
Häftad, 2019
518 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'Two Romes have fallen. The third stands. And there will be no fourth.' So spoke Russian monk Hegumen Filofei of Pskov in 1510, proclaiming Muscovite Russia as heirs to the legacy of the Roman Empire following the collapse of the Byzantine Empire. The so-called 'Third Rome Doctrine' spurred the …
Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia
Remembering World War II in Brezhnev’s Hero City
Av Vicky Davis
Häftad, 2020
503 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The 1943 battle to free the Soviet Black Sea port of Novorossiisk from German occupation was fought from the beach head of Malaia zemlia, where the young Colonel Leonid Brezhnev saw action. Despite widespread scepticism of the state's appropriation and inflation of this historical event, the heroes …
Human Rights in Russia
Citizens and the State from Perestroika to Putin
Av Mary McAuley
E-bok, 2015
418 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Today Russia and human rights are both high on the international agenda. Since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, domestic developments (from Pussy Riot to the release of Khodorkovsky) and Russia's global role (especially in relation to Ukraine) have captured world-wide attention. It is …
Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union
From De-Stalinization to Perestroika
E-bok, 2019
530 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How was it possible to write history in the Soviet Union, under strict state control and without access to archives? What methods of research did these ''historians'' - be they academic, that is based at formal institutions, or independent - rely on? And how was their work influenced by their …
Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union
From De-Stalinization to Perestroika
E-bok, 2019
518 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How was it possible to write history in the Soviet Union, under strict state control and without access to archives? What methods of research did these ''historians'' - be they academic, that is based at formal institutions, or independent - rely on? And how was their work influenced by their …
Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations
Inbunden, 2021
1393 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Constantin Catacazy whipped up scandal in Washington after his appointment there as Russian Ambassador in 1869, ignoring diplomatic protocol and defying social mores. By 1871, President Grant and his Cabinet requested that he be recalled. But the timing of this request overlapped with the visit of …
Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations
E-bok, 2021
468 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Constantin Catacazy whipped up scandal in Washington after his appointment there as Russian Ambassador in 1869, ignoring diplomatic protocol and defying social mores. By 1871, President Grant and his Cabinet requested that he be recalled. But the timing of this request overlapped with the visit of …
Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations
E-bok, 2021
471 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Constantin Catacazy whipped up scandal in Washington after his appointment there as Russian Ambassador in 1869, ignoring diplomatic protocol and defying social mores. By 1871, President Grant and his Cabinet requested that he be recalled. But the timing of this request overlapped with the visit of …
Publishing in Tsarist Russia
A History of Print Media from Enlightenment to Revolution
Av Yukiko Tatsumi, Taro Tsurumi
Inbunden, 2020
1612 kr
Lägg i varukorg
According to Benedict Anderson, the rapid expansion of print media during the late-1700s popularised national history and standardised national languages, thus helping create nation-states and national identities at the expense of the old empires. Publishing in Tsarist Russia challenges this theory …
Publishing in Tsarist Russia
A History of Print Media from Enlightenment to Revolution
Av Yukiko Tatsumi, Taro Tsurumi
E-bok, 2020
530 kr
Lägg i varukorg
According to Benedict Anderson, the rapid expansion of print media during the late-1700s popularised national history and standardised national languages, thus helping create nation-states and national identities at the expense of the old empires. Publishing in Tsarist Russia challenges this theory …
Publishing in Tsarist Russia
A History of Print Media from Enlightenment to Revolution
Av Yukiko Tatsumi, Taro Tsurumi
E-bok, 2020
530 kr
Lägg i varukorg
According to Benedict Anderson, the rapid expansion of print media during the late-1700s popularised national history and standardised national languages, thus helping create nation-states and national identities at the expense of the old empires. Publishing in Tsarist Russia challenges this theory …
Communist Party in the Russian Civil War
A Political History
Inbunden, 2025
1808 kr
Kommande
Traditionally, the in-fighting within the communist party during the Russian Civil War has been interpreted by historians as a struggle between good and evil, between Trotsky's democratically inclined party versus the later bureaucratic Stalinist version. This the view that Trotsky himself took, …
Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution
Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41
Av Lara Douds, James Harris m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
430 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How did a regime that promised utopian-style freedom end up delivering terror and tyranny? For some, the Bolsheviks were totalitarian and the descent was inevitable; for others, Stalin was responsible; for others still, this period in Russian history was a microcosm of the Cold War. The Fate of the …
Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution
Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41
Av Lara Douds, James Harris m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1393 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How did a regime that promised utopian-style freedom end up delivering terror and tyranny? For some, the Bolsheviks were totalitarian and the descent was inevitable; for others, Stalin was responsible; for others still, this period in Russian history was a microcosm of the Cold War. The Fate of the …
Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution
Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41
Av Lara Douds, James Harris m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
456 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How did a regime that promised utopian-style freedom end up delivering terror and tyranny? For some, the Bolsheviks were totalitarian and the descent was inevitable; for others, Stalin was responsible; for others still, this period in Russian history was a microcosm of the Cold War. The Fate of the …
Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution
Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41
Av Lara Douds, James Harris m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
456 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How did a regime that promised utopian-style freedom end up delivering terror and tyranny? For some, the Bolsheviks were totalitarian and the descent was inevitable; for others, Stalin was responsible; for others still, this period in Russian history was a microcosm of the Cold War. The Fate of the …
Russia in the Time of Cholera
Disease under Romanovs and Soviets
Häftad, 2019
518 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As the nineteenth century drew to a close and epidemics in western Europe were waning, the deadly cholera vibrio continued to wreak havoc in Russia, outlasting the Romanovs. Scholars have since argued that cholera eventually fell prey to better sanitation and strict quarantine under the Soviets, …
Soviet Americana
The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists
Av Sergei Zhuk
Häftad, 2019
534 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US. To shed light onto this important, yet under-studied, academic community, Sergei Zhuk here explores the personal histories …
Writing History in Late Imperial Russia
Scholarship and the Literary Canon
Inbunden, 2019
1758 kr
Lägg i varukorg
It is commonly held that a strict divide between literature and history emerged in the 19th century, with the latter evolving into a more serious disciple of rigorous science. Yet, in turning to works of historical writing during late Imperial Russia, Frances Nethercott reveals how this was not so; …
Writing History in Late Imperial Russia
Scholarship and the Literary Canon
E-bok, 2019
530 kr
Lägg i varukorg
It is commonly held that a strict divide between literature and history emerged in the 19th century, with the latter evolving into a more serious disciple of rigorous science. Yet, in turning to works of historical writing during late Imperial Russia, Frances Nethercott reveals how this was not so; …
Writing History in Late Imperial Russia
Scholarship and the Literary Canon
E-bok, 2019
530 kr
Lägg i varukorg
It is commonly held that a strict divide between literature and history emerged in the 19th century, with the latter evolving into a more serious disciple of rigorous science. Yet, in turning to works of historical writing during late Imperial Russia, Frances Nethercott reveals how this was not so; …
Translating England into Russian
The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia
Inbunden, 2019
1758 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From governesses with supernatural powers to motor-car obsessed amphibians, the iconic images of English children’s literature helped shape the view of the nation around the world. But, as Translating England into Russian reveals, Russian translators did not always present the same picture of …
Translating England into Russian
The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia
E-bok, 2019
530 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From governesses with supernatural powers to motor-car obsessed amphibians, the iconic images of English children''s literature helped shape the view of the nation around the world. But, as Translating England into Russian reveals, Russian translators did not always present the same picture of …
Translating England into Russian
The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia
E-bok, 2019
514 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From governesses with supernatural powers to motor-car obsessed amphibians, the iconic images of English children''s literature helped shape the view of the nation around the world. But, as Translating England into Russian reveals, Russian translators did not always present the same picture of …
Family and the State in Soviet Lithuania
Gender, Law and Society
Inbunden, 2021
1466 kr
Lägg i varukorg
If the home remained a safe space for families during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, why is it that the memories of women’s domestic lives in Soviet Lithuania are so fragmented? In Family and the State in Soviet Lithuania, Dalia Leinarte deftly challenges the commonplace ‘kitchen culture’ idea …
Family and the State in Soviet Lithuania
Gender, Law and Society
E-bok, 2021
482 kr
Lägg i varukorg
If the home remained a safe space for families during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, why is it that the memories of women''s domestic lives in Soviet Lithuania are so fragmented? In Family and the State in Soviet Lithuania , Dalia Leinarte deftly challenges the commonplace ''kitchen culture'' …
Family and the State in Soviet Lithuania
Gender, Law and Society
E-bok, 2021
482 kr
Lägg i varukorg
If the home remained a safe space for families during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, why is it that the memories of women''s domestic lives in Soviet Lithuania are so fragmented? In Family and the State in Soviet Lithuania , Dalia Leinarte deftly challenges the commonplace ''kitchen culture'' …
Gender and Survival in Soviet Russia
A Life in the Shadow of Stalin’s Terror
Av Ludmila Miklashevskaya, Elaine MacKinnon
Inbunden, 2020
1662 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This first-hand witness account – originally written by Ludmila Miklashevskaya in 1976 and here translated into English by historian Elaine MacKinnon for the first time – tells the important story of one woman’s persecution under Stalin. From Miklashevskaya’s middle-class Jewish childhood in …
Gender and Survival in Soviet Russia
A Life in the Shadow of Stalin’s Terror
Av Ludmila Miklashevskaya, Elaine MacKinnon
E-bok, 2020
546 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This first-hand witness account – originally written by Ludmila Miklashevskaya in 1976 and here translated into English by historian Elaine MacKinnon for the first time – tells the important story of one woman''s persecution under Stalin. From Miklashevskaya''s middle-class Jewish childhood in …
