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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nicholas breyfogle”
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  • Eurasian Environments

    Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History

    Edited by Nicholas Breyfogle ...
    Series series Russian and East European Studies
    Through a series of essays, Eurasian Environments prompts us to rethink our understanding of tsarist and Soviet history by placing the human experience within the larger environmental context of flora, fauna, geology, and climate. This book is a broad look at the environmental history of Eurasia, specifically examining steppe environments, hydraulic engineering, soil and forestry, water pollution, ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Peopling the Russian Periphery

    Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History

    Edited by Nicholas Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, Willard Sunderland ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    Though usually forgotten in general surveys of European colonization, the Russians were among the greatest colonizers of the Old World, eventually settling across most of the immense expanse of Northern Europe and Asia, from the Baltic and the Pacific, and from the Arctic Ocean to Central Asia. This book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the Eurasian past by examining the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Russia Against Modernity

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Putin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and digital labor. By trading oil and gas, promoting Trump and Brexit, spreading corruption, boosting inequality and homophobia, subsidizing far-right movements and destroying Ukraine, Putin’s clique aims ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Oak and the Larch

    A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires

    by Sophie Pinkham ...
    A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how forests have made—and resisted—Russia’s many empires.From the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the steppes of Central Asia, Russia’s forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world’s wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever English-language exploration of this vast expanse—a dazzling environmental history of ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • Taming the Wild Field

    Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe

    by Willard Sunderland ...
    Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Slavic settlements to ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Siberian Curse

    How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold

    by Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy ...
    Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market, democratic society? Why have so many reforms failed since the Soviet Union's collapse? In this highly-original work, Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy argue that Russia's geography, history, and monumental mistakes perpetrated by Soviet planners have locked it into a dead-end path to economic ruin. Shattering a number of myths that have long persisted in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A Century of Genocide

    Utopias of Race and Nation - Updated Edition

    by Eric D. Weitz, Eric D. Weitz ...
    Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored mass murder? Can genocide be prevented?Blending gripping narrative with trenchant analysis, Eric Weitz investigates four of the twentieth century's ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Vladimir Krajina

    World War II Hero and Ecology Pioneer

    by Jan Drabek ...
    In 1939 the botanist Vladimir Krajina joined the Czech Resistance and quickly became one of its leaders. Incredible escapes from the Gestapo followed while some 20,000 radio messages were sent by his group to London, among them those about the pending invasion of the Balkans and of the Soviet Union. As the strongest anti-Communist Party’s general secretary he escaped from the country on skis after ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Ecocide in Ukraine

    The Environmental Cost of Russia's War

    by Darya Tsymbalyuk ...
    Winner of the 2025 Kovaliv Prize in Nonfiction/HistoryWinner of the Arizona State University Humanities Institute 2026 Book AwardWinner of the American Association for Ukranian Studies Book PrizeRussia's war on Ukraine has not only destroyed millions of human lives, it has also been catastrophic for the environment. Forests and fields have been burned to the ground, animal and plant species pushed ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Peasants under Siege

    The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962

    by Gail Kligman, Katherine Verdery ...
    In 1949, Romania's fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country, following the Soviet model. Peasants under Siege provides the first comprehensive look at the far-reaching social engineering process that ensued. Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery examine how collectivization assaulted the very foundations of rural ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Russian Politics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Brian D. Taylor ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Russia is rarely out of the news. This has been particularly true since it launched the largest war in Europe since World War II when it invaded Ukraine in 2022. Yet Russian politics can be difficult to understand. It is powerfully shaped by large, impersonal forces such as geography, and Russia's place in the international political and economic system. At the same time, Russia's formal political ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Arctic Mirrors

    Russia and the Small Peoples of the North

    by Yuri Slezkine ...
    For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale. "They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people," complained a seventeenth-century Cossack. "Their actions are exceedingly rude. They do not take off their ... Read more

    $27.59 USD