Writing History in Late Imperial Russia

Frances Nethercott

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• It is commonly held that a strict divide between literature and history emerged in the 19th century, with the latter evolving into a more serious disc... Lees meer

Soviet Americana

Sergei Zhuk

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shapi... Lees meer

The Tsar's Armenians

Onur Önol

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• In 1903 Tsar Nicholas II issued a decree allowing the confiscation of Armenian Church property, marking the low point in relations between imperial Ru... Lees meer

Building Stalinism

Cynthia A Ruder

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• Today the 80-mile-long Moscow Canal is a source of leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and provides the city with more than 60% of its pota... Lees meer

Criminal Subculture in the Gulag

Mark Vincent

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• Despite growing academic interest in the Gulag, our knowledge of the camps as a lived experience remains relatively incomplete. Criminal Subculture in... Lees meer

Fascism in Manchuria

Susanne Hohler

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• The history of the Russian fascist movement in Harbin, Manchuria during the 1930s has become increasingly relevant to our understanding of modern Russ... Lees meer

Russia in the Time of Cholera

John P Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• As the nineteenth century drew to a close and epidemics in western Europe were waning, the deadly cholera vibrio continued to wreak havoc in Russia, o... Lees meer

The Idea of Russia

Vladislav Zubok

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• Dmitry Likhachev (1906-1999) was one of the most prominent Russian intellectuals of the twentieth century. His life spanned virtually the entire centu... Lees meer

Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia

Vicky Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• The 1943 battle to free the Soviet Black Sea port of Novorossiisk from German occupation was fought from the beach head of Malaia zemlia, where the yo... Lees meer

Publishing in Tsarist Russia

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• According to Benedict Anderson, the rapid expansion of print media during the late-1700s popularised national history and standardised national langua... Lees meer

The Old Believers in Imperial Russia

Peter T de Simone

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• 'Two Romes have fallen. The third stands. And there will be no fourth.' So spoke Russian monk Hegumen Filofei of Pskov in 1510, proclaiming Muscovite ... Lees meer

Human Rights in Russia

Mary McAuley

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• Today Russia and human rights are both high on the international agenda. Since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, domestic developments--from t... Lees meer

Stalin's Economic Advisors

Kyung Deok Roh

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• Soviet foreign policy in the Stalin era is commonly assumed to have been a direct product of either Marxist ideology or the leader's whims. Both assum... Lees meer

New Drama in Russian

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• How and why does the stage, and those who perform upon it, play such a significant role in the social makeup of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus? In... Lees meer

Nomads and Soviet Rule

Alun Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• Winner of The Alexander Nove Prize 2018 The nomads of Central Asia were already well accustomed to life under the power of a distant capital when the ... Lees meer

The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• How did a regime that promised utopian-style freedom end up delivering terror and tyranny? For some, the Bolsheviks were totalitarian and the descent ... Lees meer

Building Stalinism

Cynthia A Ruder

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• Today the 80-mile-long Moscow Canal is a source of leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and provides the city with more than 60% of its pota... Lees meer

The Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations

Lee A Farrow

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• Constantin Catacazy whipped up scandal in Washington after his appointment there as Russian Ambassador in 1869, ignoring diplomatic protocol and defyi... Lees meer

Gender and Survival in Soviet Russia

Ludmila Miklashevskaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• This first-hand witness account - originally written by Ludmila Miklashevskaya in 1976 and here translated into English by historian Elaine MacKinnon ... Lees meer

Fascism in Manchuria

Susanne Hohler

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• The history of the Russian fascist movement in Harbin, Manchuria during the 1930s has become increasingly relevant to our understanding of modern Russ... Lees meer

Translating England Into Russian

Elena Goodwin

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• From governesses with supernatural powers to motor-car obsessed amphibians, the iconic images of English children's literature helped shape the view o... Lees meer

Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union

Barbara Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• How was it possible to write history in the Soviet Union, under strict state control and without access to archives? What methods of research did thes... Lees meer

The Tsar's Armenians

Onur Önol

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• In 1903 Tsar Nicholas II issued a decree allowing the confiscation of Armenian Church property, marking the low point in relations between imperial Ru... Lees meer

Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia

Vicky Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Russia
• The 1943 battle to free the Soviet Black Sea port of Novorossiisk from German occupation was fought from the beach head of Malaia zemlia, where the yo... Lees meer