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  • The Gulag Doctors

    Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps

    de Dan Healey ...
    A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditionsA byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for better rations in shocking conditions. From 1930 to 1953, eighteen million people passed through this penal-industrial empire. Many inmates, not ... Leer más

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  • Bolshevik Sexual Forensics

    Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917–1939

    de Dan Healey ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    In an effort to modernize criminal and civil investigations, early Bolsheviks gave forensic doctors—most of whom had been trained under the tsarist regime—new authority over issues of sexuality. Revolutionaries believed that forensic medicine could provide scientific and objective solutions to sexual disorder in the new society. Bolshevik Sexual Forensics explores the institutional history of ... Leer más

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  • Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi

    Examining nine 'case histories' that reveal the origins and evolution of homophobic attitudes in modern Russia, Dan Healey asserts that the nation's contemporary homophobia can be traced back to the particular experience of revolution, political terror and war its people endured after 1917.The book explores the roots of homophobia in the Gulag, the rise of a visible queer presence in Soviet cities ... Leer más

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  • Approaches to Political Thought

    Approaches to Political Thought raises three important questions concerning traditional political thought: (1) Why study the political writings and ideas of Plato, Machiavelli, and other long-dead writers? (2) Who among the writers, and which of their works, are worth studying? (3) How should they be studied? The book then explores ten contemporary approaches to understanding political thought and ... Leer más

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  • The Wedding Photo

    A visit to an abandoned Polish Jewish cemetery in 1993 launches Dan Oren’s twenty-year search to solve the mystery of "Who is buried in Sarah's tomb?" A visit with a cousin unearths a breathtaking photograph of a Berlin family wedding from 1926 and leads to discovering their unimaginable post-wedding lives. An archivist in Prague discovers a secret uncle whose celebrity-filled life takes the ... Leer más

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  • Other Voices in Soviet History

    Collected for a Devil’s Advocate

    Other Voices in Soviet History identifies Soviet historian Lynne Viola’s critical methodological and thematic interventions in the study of Soviet history and builds on them through a selection of new research trajectories inspired by her thinking.The collection’s essays are oriented around three overlapping themes: listening to subaltern voices, challenging a rigid victim-perpetrator binary, and ... Leer más

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  • Stalin's Library

    A Dictator and his Books

    A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal libraryIn this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A ... Leer más

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  • Khrushchev's Cold Summer

    Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin

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    Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus included not only victims of past purges but also those sentenced for criminal offenses. In Khrushchev's Cold ... Leer más

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  • Leon Trotsky

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