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Song of the Forest
Russian Forestry and Stalinist Environmentalism, 1905–1953
Häftad, 2011
682 kr
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The Soviets are often viewed as insatiable industrialists who saw nature as a force to be tamed and exploited. Song of the Forest counters this assumption, uncovering significant evidence of Soviet conservation efforts in forestry, particularly under Josef Stalin. In his compelling study, Stephen …
Roads Not Taken
An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt
Häftad, 2017
397 kr
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A journalist, diplomat, and writer, William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967) negotiated with Lenin and Stalin, Churchill and de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek and Goering. He took part in the talks that ended World War I and those that failed to prevent World War II. While his former disciples led American …
Nicholas Roerich
The Artist Who Would Be King
Inbunden, 2022
530 kr
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Russian painter, explorer, and mystic Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) ranks as one of the twentieth century’s great enigmas. Despite mystery and scandal, he left a deep, if understudied, cultural imprint on Russia, Europe, India, and America. As a painter and set designer Roerich was a key figure in …
Soviet Space Mythologies
Public Images, Private Memories, and the Making of a Cultural Identity
Häftad, 2015
705 kr
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Winner, 2021 Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award | Shortlist, 2016 Historia Nova PrizeFrom the start, the Soviet human space program had an identity crisis. Were cosmonauts heroic pilots steering their craft through the dangers of space, or were they mere passengers riding safely …
Bolsheviks Survive
Petrograd 1919
Häftad, 2026
519 kr
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Petrograd, the imperial capital and the urban stage upon which virtually the entire Russian Revolution was enacted, in 1919 struggled through a year of civil war, hunger, social upheaval, and political and economic challenges. Based on exhaustive research in previously closed Russian archives, …
Holocaust in Croatia
Av Ivo Goldstein, Slavko Goldstein
Häftad, 2026
829 kr
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The Holocaust in Croatia recounts the history of the Croatian Jewish community during the Second World War, with a focus on the city of Zagreb. Ivo Goldstein and Slavko Goldstein grounded their study in extensive research in previously closed archives, aided by the memories of survivors to …
Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture
Av Karl-Eugen Wädekin, George F. Karcz
Häftad, 1973
632 kr
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The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture by Karl-Eugen Wadekin provides a deep and meticulous analysis of a paradox within the Soviet economic system: the enduring role of private agricultural production in a system ostensibly built on complete collectivization. Through extensive research, Wadekin …
Russian Central Asia 1867-1917
A Study in Colonial Rule
Häftad, 1960
632 kr
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Russian Central Asia, 1867–1917: A Study in Colonial Rule by Richard A. Pierce surveys the half-century between the creation of the Governor-Generalship of Turkestan and the fall of the Romanovs, treating the region as a “laboratory” of late-imperial colonial rule. Pierce maps the terrain—vast …
Revolution in Perspective
Essays on the Hungarian Soviet Republic
Av Andrew C. Janos, William B. Slottman
Häftad, 1971
515 kr
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Revolution in Perspective: Essays on the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, edited by Andrew C. Janos and William B. Slottman, brings together a distinguished group of scholars to reassess one of modern Europe’s most enigmatic revolutions. Arising in the tumultuous aftermath of World War I, the …
Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture
Av Karl-Eugen Wädekin, George F. Karcz
Inbunden, 1973
847 kr
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The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture by Karl-Eugen Wadekin provides a deep and meticulous analysis of a paradox within the Soviet economic system: the enduring role of private agricultural production in a system ostensibly built on complete collectivization. Through extensive research, Wadekin …
Russian Central Asia 1867-1917
A Study in Colonial Rule
Inbunden, 1960
1190 kr
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Russian Central Asia, 1867–1917: A Study in Colonial Rule by Richard A. Pierce surveys the half-century between the creation of the Governor-Generalship of Turkestan and the fall of the Romanovs, treating the region as a “laboratory” of late-imperial colonial rule. Pierce maps the terrain—vast …
Revolution in Perspective
Essays on the Hungarian Soviet Republic
Av Andrew C. Janos, William B. Slottman
Inbunden, 1971
1190 kr
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Revolution in Perspective: Essays on the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, edited by Andrew C. Janos and William B. Slottman, brings together a distinguished group of scholars to reassess one of modern Europe’s most enigmatic revolutions. Arising in the tumultuous aftermath of World War I, the …
Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity
Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
Inbunden, 2011
946 kr
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Eastern European prefabricated housing blocks are often vilified as the visible manifestations of everything that was wrong with state socialism. For many inside and outside the region, the uniformity of these buildings became symbols of the dullness and drudgery of everyday life. Manufacturing a …
History of Liberalism in Russia
Inbunden, 2012
876 kr
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Foreword by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe influence of liberalism in tsarist Russia is deeply problematic to most historians. In this highly original study, Victor Leontovitsch offers a reinterpretation of liberalism in a uniquely Russian form. He documents the struggles to develop civil society and …
Workers' State
Industrial Labor and the Making of Socialist Hungary, 1944–1958
Inbunden, 2012
876 kr
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In 1956, Hungarian workers joined students on the streets to protest years of wage and benefit cuts enacted by the Communist regime. Although quickly suppressed by Soviet forces, the uprising led to changes in party leadership and conciliatory measures that would influence labor politics for the …
Soviet Gulag
Evidence, Interpretation, and Comparison
Inbunden, 2016
919 kr
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Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent archival revolution, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous "literary investigation" The Gulag Archipelago was the most authoritative overview of the Stalinist system of camps. But modern research is developing a much more thorough and nuanced …
Kosovo and Serbia
Contested Options and Shared Consequences
Av Leandrit I. Mehmeti, Branislav Radeljic
Inbunden, 2016
850 kr
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Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the road fundamentally altered the material and social fabric of this former Soviet outpost on the border with Afghanistan …
Nature and the Iron Curtain
Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945-1990
Av Astrid Kirchhof, John McNeill
Inbunden, 2019
734 kr
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In Nature and the Iron Curtain, the authors contrast communist and capitalist countries with respect to their environmental politics in the context of the Cold War. Its chapters draw from archives across Europe and the U.S. to present new perspectives on the origins and evolution of modern …
Ivan the Terrible
Free to Reward and Free to Punish
Inbunden, 2019
463 kr
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Ivan the Terrible is infamous as a sadistic despot responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people, particularly during the years of the oprichnina, his state-within-a-state. Ivan was the first ruler in Russian history to use mass terror as a political instrument. However, Ivan’s actions …
Pope in Poland
The Pilgrimages of John Paul II, 1979-1991
Inbunden, 2020
437 kr
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John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope in over 500 years, and the first Slavic pontiff in history. Shortly after his election to the papacy in 1978, he launched a series of visits to his native Poland, then in the midst of dramatic social changes that heralded the end of Communism. In this …
Rising Subjects
The 1905 Revolution and the Origins of Modern Polish Politics
Inbunden, 2020
805 kr
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Rising Subjects explores the change of the public sphere in Russian Poland during the 1905 Revolution. The 1905 Revolution was one of the few bottom-up political transformations and general democratizations in Polish history. It was a popular rebellion fostering political participation of the …
German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century
Av Christopher Molnar, Myrna Zakic
Inbunden, 2020
663 kr
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Explores the history and memory of Germany’s fateful push for power in the Balkans.
Tarantas
Impressions of a Journey
Inbunden, 2020
383 kr
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Translated by Michael R. KatzIn this 19th century Russian social novella, two contrasting characters—one a western-educated intellectual, the other a hidebound country squire—find themselves thrown together on a long cross country journey in a primitive but sturdy carriage—a tarantas. Their shared …
Magnetic Woman
Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic
Inbunden, 2020
1585 kr
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Part art book and part biography, Magnetic Woman examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová, 1902–80), a founding member of the Prague surrealist group, and focuses on her construction of gender and eroticism. Toyen’s early life in Prague enabled her to become a force in three …
Victory Banner Over the Reichstag, The
Film, Document and Ritual in Russia's Contested Memory of World War II
Av Jeremy Hicks
Inbunden, 2020
734 kr
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In one of the most iconic images from World War II, a Russian soldier raises a red flag atop the ruins of the German Reichstag on April 30, 1945. Known as the Victory Banner, this piece of fabric has come to symbolize Russian triumph, glory, and patriotism. Facsimiles are used in public …
Three Cities After Hitler
Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders
Inbunden, 2021
946 kr
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Winner, 2023 SAH Alice Davis Hitchcock Book AwardThree Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes: Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wrocław (formerly Breslau) …
Not a Hero
A Novel
Inbunden, 2021
358 kr
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Translated by Michael R. KatzBetween 1890 and 1893, Ignaty Potapenko published a number of works in which he presented the Russian intelligentsia with a new role model, the “mediocre, but common-sensical man,” whose diligence and steady devotion to the improvement of society are depicted as being …
Imperial Russian Rule in the Kingdom of Poland, 1864-1915
Av Malte Rolf
Inbunden, 2021
946 kr
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Translated by Cynthia KlohrAfter crushing the Polish Uprising in 1863–1864,Russia established a new system of administration and control. Imperial Russian Rule in the Kingdom of Poland, 1864–1915 investigates in detail the imperial bureaucracy’s highly variable relationship with Polish society over …
Slovak Question
A Transatlantic Perspective, 1914–1948
Inbunden, 2022
805 kr
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The so-called Slovak question asked what place Slovaks held—or should have held—in the former state of Czechoslovakia. Formed in 1918 at the end of World War I from the remains of the Hungarian Empire, and reformed after ceasing to exist during World War II, the country would eventually split into …
Secret Police and the Soviet System
New Archival Investigations
Av Michael David-Fox, Michael David-Fox
Inbunden, 2023
805 kr
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Even more than thirty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the role of the secret police in shaping culture and society in communist USSR has been difficult to study, and defies our complete understanding. In the last decade, the opening of non-Russian KGB archives, notably in Ukraine …
