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  • Queer Tolstoy

    A Psychobiography

    by Javier Sethness Castro ...
    Queer Tolstoy is a multidimensional work combining psychoanalysis, political history, LGBTQ+ studies, sexology, ethics, and theology to explore the life and art of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.Using a psychobiographical framework, Sethness Castro uncovers profoundly queer dimensions in Tolstoy’s life experiences and art. Deftly contributing to the progressive and radical analysis of gender and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Tolstoy's Search for the Kingdom of God

    Gender and Queer Anarchism

    by Javier Sethness Castro ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Building on its predecessor, Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography (2023), this book uncovers queer-anarchist dimensions of the second half of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's life (1828–1910) and of the Russian writer's later art-works. It features queer-friendly readings of Anna Karenina (1875–1877), The Gospels In Brief (1881), “The Death of Ivan Ilych” (1886), “The Kreutzer Sonata,” (1889), “Master ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • I am Action

    Literary and Combat Articles, Thoughts, and Revolutionary Chronicles

    by Praxedis G. Guerrero ...
    Translated by Javier Sethness-Castro ...
    “Praxedis was one of the purest, worthiest, most intelligent, self-denying and bravest men that ever espoused the cause of the disinherited.” —Ricardo Flores MagónBorn into a wealthy family in Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1882, there was little indication that Praxedis G. Guerrero would evolve into a celebrated revolutionary. After a short stint in the military, from 1904-1910 he lived in the US, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Burden of the Past

    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper ...
    Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture: "A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory." —Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus UniversityIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms ... Read more

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  • Internal Colonization

    Russia's Imperial Experience

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of colonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizing one’s own people as well as others, is crucial for scholars of empire, colonialism ... Read more

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  • Russia's People of Empire

    Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present

    by Stephen M. Norris, Willard Sunderland ...
    "A fresh and lively approach to understanding how the various Russian empires have worked." — Slavic ReviewA fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes and economies. For six centuries this diversity was contained within the sprawling territories of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and it ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy

    Edited by Donna Tussing Orwin ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned essays in The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy do justice to the sheer volume of Tolstoy's writing. Key ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe

    Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations

    by Serhiy Bilenky ...
    Series series Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
    This book explores the political imagination of Eastern Europe in the 1830s and 1840s, when Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian intellectuals came to identify themselves as belonging to communities known as nations or nationalities. Bilenky approaches this topic from a transnational perspective, revealing the ways in which modern Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian nationalities were formed and refashioned ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • A History of Russian Thought

    Edited by William Leatherbarrow, Derek Offord ...
    The history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This history examines important intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the ... Read more

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  • Wonder Confronts Certainty

    Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter

    by Gary Saul Morson ...
    An Air Mail Editor’s PickA Spectator Book of the Year“[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”—*Wall Street Journal *“Wise and authoritative…As the best Russian literature teaches, the emancipation of the human will from all limits and restraints is the path of individual and collective perdition. We should all be grateful to Gary Saul Morson for drawing ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

    Edited by Evgeny Dobrenko, Marina Balina ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and ... Read more

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