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  • The Battle for the Past

    How Politics Rewrites History

    by Ivan Kurilla ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is about the dramatic changes that the world is witnessing in its attitude toward the past. For the first time in many generations, ordinary citizens around the globe have burst into disputes about history that were previously the province of politicians and scholars. These people are demolishing monuments, creating new myths for themselves and restoring the memory of names long ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Trailing the Bolsheviki

    Twelve Thousand Miles with the Allies in Siberia

    by CARL W. ACKERMAN ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Americans in Revolutionary Russia
    A special correspondent of The New York Times, Carl W. Ackerman traveled from Vladivostok to Irkutsk to Omsk to Ekaterinburg in the fall of 1918 in the midst of the Russian Civil War. He met with officers of the American and Japanese expeditionary forces, with members of the Czecho-Slovak corps fighting the Red Army, with ministers of the democratic Russian government in Omsk, and with military ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies

    A History of American-Russian Relations

    by David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla, Victoria I. Zhuravleva ...
    This bold, sweeping history of the turbulent American-Russian relationship is unique in being written jointly by American and Russian authors. David Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla and Victoria Zhuravleva together reveal how and why America and Russia shifted from being warm friends and even tacit allies to being ideological rivals, geopolitical adversaries, and demonic foils used in the construction or ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Future of the Soviet Past

    The Politics of History in Putin's Russia

    by Kiril Feferman, Johanna Dahlin, Boris Noordenbos, Stephen M. Norris, Nikolay Koposov, George Soroka, Štěpán Černoušek, Ivan Kurilla, Nikita Petrov, Steven A. Barnes ...
    In post-Soviet Russia, there is a persistent trend to repress, control, or even co-opt national history. By reshaping memory to suit a politically convenient narrative, Russia has fashioned a good future out of a "bad past."While Putin's regime has acquired nearly complete control over interpretations of the past, The Future of the Soviet Past reveals that Russia's inability to fully rewrite its ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The New World Disorder

    Challenges and Threats in an Uncertain World

    by David Andersen-Rodgers, Robert C. Austin, J. L. Black, Yann Breault, Brett Buchanan, Christopher J. Fettweis, Michael Johns, Ivan Kurilla, Aurélie Lacassagne, Tolan M. Pica0, Amy Pate1, Michèle Rioux2, Jeff Sahadeo3, Alanda D. Theriault4 ...
    The new world order as it stood after the apparent end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR was greeted with enthusiasm and optimism almost everywhere, but especially in the West. Less than a quarter century later that optimism has faded dramatically, with the rise of populism, nationalism, religious extremism and civil discord disrupting political and social norms around the world. This ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia

    Mutual Representations in Academic Projects

    by Olga Yu. Antsyferova, Marina B. Bulanova, David C. Engerman, Milla Fedorova, Vladimir Gel'man, Mark Kramer, Alexander I. Kubyshkin, Vladimir V. Noskov, Alexander B. Okun, Norman E. Saul, Iana V. Shchetinskaia0, Vladimir V. Sogrin1, Ivan Tsvetkov2, William B. Whisenhunt3, Sergei I. Zhuk4, Richard T. De George5, Ivan Kurilla6, Victoria I. Zhuravleva8 ...
    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 the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests were typically determined by the political and social debates in scholars’ native countries. In this book, ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

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  • Russia's War

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    In the early hours of 24 February 2022, Russian forces attacked Ukraine. The brutality of the Russian assault has horrified the world. But Russians themselves appear to be watching an entirely different war – one in which they are the courageous underdogs and kind-hearted heroes successfully battling a malign Ukrainian foe.Russia analyst Jade McGlynn takes us on a journey into this parallel ... Read more

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  • Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin

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    The Russian president's landmark speeches, interviews and policies borrow heavily from great Russian thinkers past and present, from Peter the Great to Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn. They offer powerful visions of strong leaders and the Russian nation: they value conservatism and the Slavic spirit. They root morality in Orthodoxy, and Russian identity in the historic struggle with the West. Today, ... Read more

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  • The Burden of the Past

    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

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  • Memory Makers

    The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia

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    Why aren't ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin's own historical propaganda narratives, Russia's invasion of Ukraine makes complete sense. From its World War II cult to anti-Western conspiracy theories, the Kremlin has long used myth and memory to legitimize repression at home and imperialism abroad, its patriotic history resonating with and persuading ... Read more

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    Unraveling Propaganda East and West

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