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  • Crucibles of Power

    Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule

    by Michael David-Fox ...
    An illuminating new history of World War II–era Smolensk, a region at the crossroads of the two great dictatorships of the twentieth century.During the Cold War, the Smolensk Archive held the only collection of Communist Party documents available to Western scholars, becoming the foundation for generations of scholarship on Soviet history. Crucibles of Power returns to the Smolensk Region with ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Secret Police and the Soviet System

    New Archival Investigations

    Edited by Michael David-Fox ...
    Series series
    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 after 2015, has allowed scholars to explore state security organizations in ways not previously ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Showcasing the Great Experiment

    Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941

    by Michael David-Fox ...
    During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "Soviet experiment" for themselves. Showcasing the Great Experiment explores the reception of these intellectuals and fellow-travelers and their cross-cultural and trans-ideological encounters in order to analyze Soviet attitudes towards ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Crossing Borders

    Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union

    by Michael David-Fox ...
    Series Book 233 - Russian and East European Studies
    Crossing Borders deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. To Michael David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactions across its borders. By reexamining conceptions of modernity, ideology, and cultural transformation, he challenges the polarizing camps of Soviet ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cold War Crossings

    International Travel and Exchange across the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s

    by Patryk Babiracki, Michael David-Fox, Nick Rutter, Elidor Mëhilli, Constantin Katsakioris, Marsha Siefert ...
    Series Book 45 - Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
    Approaching the early decades of the “Iron Curtain” with new questions and perspectives, this important book examines the political and cultural implications of the communists’ international initiatives. Building on recent scholarship and working from new archival sources, the seven contributors to this volume study various effects of international outreach—personal, technological, and cultural—on ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    Crucibles of Power

    Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule

    by Michael David-Fox ...
    Narrated by Keith Brown ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 39 min

    Prizewinning historian Michael David-Fox traces the experiences of Smolensk residents between the interwar years and the end of World War II, a period during which the city and region passed from Stalinist rule to Nazi occupation and back. The result is a revelatory examination of choice and power under dueling forms of murderous totalitarianism.Exploring the life-and-death decisions of a ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Revolution of the Mind

    Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929

    by Michael David-Fox ...
    Series series Studies of the Harriman Institute
    Using archival materials never previously accessible to Western scholars, Michael David-Fox analyzes Bolshevik Party educational and research initiatives in higher learning after 1917. His fresh consideration of the era of the New Economic Policy and cultural politics after the Revolution explains how new communist institutions rose to parallel and rival conventional higher learning from the ... Read more

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  • 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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  • 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

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  • Soviet Soft Power in Poland

    Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943-1957

    by Patryk Babiracki ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use “soft power” in order to galvanize broad support for the postwar order in the emerging Soviet bloc. Populated with compelling ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Russia and the Idea of the West

    Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War

    by Robert English ...
    An intriguing "intellectual portrait" of a generation of Soviet reformers, this book is also a fascinating case study of how ideas can change the course of history. In most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are treated largely as incidental to the broader considerations of power—as gloss on what was essentially a retreat forced by crisis and ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Dissidents among Dissidents

    Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia

    by Ilya Budraitskis ...
    How have the fall of the USSR and the long dominance of Putin reshaped Russian politics and culture?Ilya Budraitskis, one of the country's most prominent leftist political commentators, explores the strange fusion of free-market ideology and postmodern nationalism that now prevails in Russia, and describes the post-Soviet evolution of its left. He incisively describes the twists and contradictions ... Read more

    $9.99 USD