Religious Freedom in Modern Russia

Randall A Poole, Paul W Werth

• Hardcover | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Explores the complex contours and contested meanings of religious freedom in Russia, from 1520 to the 1990s. Lees meer

Authoritarian Russia

Vladimir Gel'man

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Russia today represents one of the major examples of the phenomenon of "electoral authoritarianism" which is characterized by adopting the trappings o... Lees meer

Anguish, Anger, and Folkways in Soviet Russia

Gábor Rittersporn

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Anguish, Anger, and Folkways in Soviet Russia offers original perspectives on the politics of everyday life in the Soviet Union by closely examining t... Lees meer

Bread upon the Waters

Robert E Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Bread upon the Waters chronicles how the unparalleled effort put into the building of a wide infrastructure to support the provisioning of the newly c... Lees meer

Rising Subjects

Wiktor Marzec

• Hardcover | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Rising Subjects explores the change of the public sphere in Russian Poland during the 1905 Revolution. The 1905 Revolution was one of the few bottom-u... Lees meer

Sexual Revolution in Bolshevik Russia

Gregory Carleton

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Gregory Carleton offers a comprehensive literary and cultural history of sex and society in the Soviet Union during the 1920s. The Bolshevik Revolutio... Lees meer

The Moscovia of Antonio Possevino, S.J.

Antonio Possevino

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• This translation provides a descriptive account of the court of Tsar Ivan IV, in sixteenth-century Moscow, as seen through the eyes of papal envoy and... Lees meer

Daughter of the Cold War

Grace Kennan Warnecke

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Grace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the twentieth centur... Lees meer

Exile and Identity

Katherine R Jolluck

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Using firsthand, personal accounts, and focusing on the experiences of women, Katherine R. Jolluck relates and examines the experiences of thousands o... Lees meer

The Prince of Fire

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Winner of the 1998 Misha Djordjevic Award for the best book on Serbian culture in English. Editors Gorup and Obradovic have collected stories from thi... Lees meer

The Secret Police and the Soviet System

Michael David-Fox

• Hardcover | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• A Penetrating Exploration of the Soviet Secret Police Apparatus Even more than thirty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the role of the... Lees meer

Ivan the Terrible

Charles J Halperin

• Hardcover | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Ivan the Terrible is infamous as a sadistic despot responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people, particularly during the years of the op... Lees meer

The KGB Campaign Against Corruption in Moscow, 1982-1987

Luc Duhamel

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• The 1980s brought a whirlwind of change to Communist Party politics and the Soviet Republic. By mid-decade, Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and gl... Lees meer

Soviet Mass Festivals, 1917-1991

Malte Rolf

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Mass festivals were a trademark of twentieth-century authoritarianism, as seen in fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and elsewhere. But nowhere was this phe... Lees meer

Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity

Kimberly Elman Zarecor

• Hardcover | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Eastern European prefabricated housing blocks are often vilified as the visible manifestations of everything that was wrong with state socialism. For ... Lees meer

Perceptions and Behavior in Soviet Foreign Policy

Richard K Herrmann

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• This book discerns Soviet leaders' views of the United States and sees them in relation to foreign policy statements and actions. Lees meer

Stalin's Railroad

Matthew J Payne

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Matthew Payne details the building and impact of the Turkestano-Siberian Railroad, one of the major construction projects of Stalin's first Five Year ... Lees meer

Not a Hero

Ignaty Potapenko

• Hardcover | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Between 1890 and 1893, Ignaty Potapenko published a number of works in which he presented the Russian intelligentsia with a new role model, the "medio... Lees meer

The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931

Per Anders Rudling

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Modern Belarusian nationalism emerged in the early twentieth century during a dramatic period that included a mass exodus, multiple occupations, seven... Lees meer

Nature and National Identity After Communism

Katrina Z S Schwartz

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Winner of the 2008 First Place Book Prize from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies. Lees meer

First Films of the Holocaust

Jeremy Hicks

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Most early Western perceptions of the Holocaust were based on newsreels filmed during the Allied liberation of Germany in 1945. Little, however, was r... Lees meer

The History of Liberalism in Russia

Victor Leontovitsch

• Hardcover | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Foreword by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The influence of liberalism in tsarist Russia is deeply problematic to most historians. In this highly original stu... Lees meer

Russian Central Asia 1867-1917

Richard a Pierce

• Hardcover | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Nowa Huta

Kinga Pozniak

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• In 1949 construction of the planned town of Nowa Huta began on the outskirts of Kraków, Poland. Its centerpiece, the Lenin Steelworks, promised a secu... Lees meer