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  • Russian and Soviet Education 1731-1989

    A Multilingual Annotated Bibliography

    by John T. Zepper, William W. Brickman ...
    Series series Reference Books In International Education
    Volume 9 in the series of Reference Books in International Education. This bibliography is intended to provide a reference aid to mature Russian-Soviet scholars, to those beginning a life-long study of this field, and to students in Russian-Soviet Studies and allied fields. This title provides a resource to scholars, students, and professionals seeking to understand the role played by education in ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists

    by Tarik Cyril Amar ...
    The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and fundamental transformation ethnically, linguistically, and in terms of its residents' self-perception. Against this background, Tarik Cyril Amar ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction

    by Steven Beller ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction examines and untangles the various strands of antisemitism seen throughout history, from medieval religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the 21st century. Steven Beller reveals how the phenomenon grew as a political and ideological movement in the 19th century, how it reached it its dark apogee in the worst genocide in modern history - the Holocaust - and how ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Keeping Faith with the Party

    Communist Believers Return from the Gulag

    by Nanci Adler ...
    How is it that some prisoners of the Soviet gulag—many of them falsely convicted—emerged from the camps maintaining their loyalty to the party that was responsible for their internment? In camp, they had struggled to survive. Afterward they struggled to reintegrate with society, reunite with their loved ones, and sometimes renew Party ties. Based on oral histories, archives, and unpublished ... Read more

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  • The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin

    A Study in Twentieth Century Revolutionary Patriotism

    by Erik van Ree ...
    This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. Making full use of the documentation that has recently become available, including Stalin's private library with his handwritten margin notes, the book provides many insights on Stalin, and also on western and Russian Marxist intellectual traditions. Overall, the book argues that Stalin's political thought is ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Sovietization of Eastern Europe

    New Perspectives on the Postwar Period

    Edited by Balzs Apor, Péter Apor, Rees E. A. ...
    This essay anthology offers enlightening perspectives on how East-Central Europe was transformed into the "other" Europe during the Cold War era.When the Second World War ended, a new conflict arose between world powers jockeying for supremacy. The Soviet Union pursued a policy of exporting its system of government in a process known as sovietization. But there were also governments that sought to ... Read more

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  • 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

    $36.89 USD

  • Bukharin in Retrospect

    by Theodor Bergmann, Moshe Lewin ...
    This volume is the product of an international conference held in the autumn of 1988, around the time Nikolai Bukharin was officially rehabilitated - a benchmark in the history of glasnost and the process of legitimating perestroika. Conference participants from 19 countries, including the USSR and China, took occasion to reconsider the record and legacy of Bukharin as revolutionary, economist and ... Read more

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  • Reconstructing the Cold War

    The Early Years, 1945-1958

    by Ted Hopf ...
    General answers are hard to imagine for the many puzzling questions that are raised by Soviet relations with the world in the early years of the Cold War. Why was Moscow more frightened by the Marshall Plan than the Truman Doctrine? Why would the Soviet Union abandon its closest socialist ally, Yugoslavia, just when the Cold War was getting under way? How could Khrushchev's de-Stalinized domestic ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Genocide in the Carpathians

    War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945

    by Raz Segal ...
    Series series Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
    Genocide in the Carpathians presents the history of Subcarpathian Rus', a multiethnic and multireligious borderland in the heart of Europe. This society of Carpatho-Ruthenians, Jews, Magyars, and Roma disintegrated under pressure of state building in interwar Czechoslovakia and, during World War II, from the onslaught of the Hungarian occupation. Charges of "foreignness" and disloyalty to the ... Read more

    $26.99 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

  • The Gumilev Mystique

    Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia

    by Mark Bassin ...
    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the historian, ethnographer, and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912–1992) has attracted extraordinary interest in Russia and beyond. The son of two of modern Russia's greatest poets, Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, Gumilev spent thirteen years in Stalinist prison camps, and after his release in 1956 remained officially outcast and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD