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  • Russia's People of Empire

    Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present

    "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 ... Leer más

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  • Museums of Communism

    New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edición de Stephen M. Norris ...
    How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed museums dedicated to chronicling their experiences. Museums of Communism explores the complicated intersection of history, commemoration, and victimization made evident in these museums constructed after 1991. While contributors from a diverse range ... Leer más

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  • Preserving Petersburg

    History, Memory, Nostalgia

    "Goscilo and Norris' innovative anthology provides Slavic scholars with a panoramic view of the city's literary, pictorial and social manifestations." — Europe-Asia StudiesFor more than three centuries, St. Petersburg, founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as Russia's westward-oriented capital and as a visually stunning showcase of Russia's imperial ambitions, has been the country's most mythologized ... Leer más

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  • Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema

    "Examines in a remarkably rich and varied way the construction of otherness and foreignness within this complexly 'national' cinema tradition." —John MacKay, Yale UniversityIdentifying who was "inside" and who was "outside" the Soviet/Russian body politic has been a matter of intense and violent urgency, especially in the high Stalinist and post-Soviet periods. It is a theme encountered ... Leer más

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  • The Future of the Soviet Past

    The Politics of History in Putin's Russia

    In post-Soviet Russia, there is a persistent trend to repress, control, or even co-opt national history. By reshaping memory to suit a politically convenient narrative, Russia has fashioned a good future out of a "bad past."While Putin's regime has acquired nearly complete control over interpretations of the past, The Future of the Soviet Past reveals that Russia's inability to fully rewrite its ... Leer más

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  • The Akunin Project

    The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author

    The Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful writers in post-Soviet Russia. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Chkhartishvili published over sixty books under the pen names Anatolii Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, Akunin-Chkhartishvili, and, most commonly, Boris Akunin. His series featuring the ... Leer más

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  • Blockbuster History in the New Russia

    Movies, Memory, and Patriotism

    Seeking to rebuild the Russian film industry after its post-Soviet collapse, directors and producers sparked a revival of nationalist and patriotic sentiment by applying Hollywood techniques to themes drawn from Russian history. Unsettled by the government's move toward market capitalism, Russians embraced these historical blockbusters, packing the American-style multiplexes that sprouted across ... Leer más

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  • Colonizing Christianity

    Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade

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  • The Burden of the Past

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