Fyodor Dostoevsky--In the Beginning (1821-1845)

Thomas Gaiton Marullo

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• More than a century after his death in 1881, Fyodor Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers and reviewers. Countless studies of his writing have bee... Lees meer

Between God and Tsar

Isolde Thyret

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Challenging traditional interpretations of the roles of royal women in patriarchal Muscovite society, Between God and Tsar opens a new approach to und... Lees meer

Space, Place, and Power in Modern Russia

Mark Bassin

• Paperback | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Exploring the creation, transformation, and imagination of Russian space as a lens through which to understand Russia's development over the centuries... Lees meer

Trepanation of the Skull

Sergey Gandlevsky

• Paperback | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Sergey Gandlevsky is widely recognized as one of the leading living Russian poets and prose writers. His autobiographical novella Trepanation of the S... Lees meer

Tsar's Happy Occasion

Russell E Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• The Tsar's Happy Occasion shows how the vast, ornate affairs that were royal weddings in early modern Russia were choreographed to broadcast powerful ... Lees meer

The Enemy on Trial

Julie Anne Cassiday

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Attempting to indoctrinate the public into a new society, the Bolsheviks staged show trials--legal trials that incorporated theatrical elements such a... Lees meer

From Empire to Eurasia

Sergey Glebov

• Paperback | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• The Eurasianist movement was launched in the 1920s by a group of young Russian émigrés who had recently emerged from years of fighting and destruction... Lees meer

Fyodor Dostoevsky--The Gathering Storm (1846-1847)

Thomas Gaiton Marullo

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• This second book in a three-volume work on the young Fyodor Dostoevsky is a diary-portrait of his early years drawn from letters, memoirs, and critici... Lees meer

Notes of a Plenipotentiary

G N Trubetskoi

• Paperback | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• A prince in one of Russia's most exalted noble families, Grigorii N. Trubetskoi was a unique and contradictory figure during World War I. A lifelong c... Lees meer

Disenchanted Wanderer

Glenn Cronin

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Disenchanted Wanderer is the first comprehensive English-language study in over half a century of the life and ideas of Konstantin Nikolaevich Leontie... Lees meer

Solzhenitsyn

Lee Congdon

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• In this examination of Solzhenitsyn and his work, Lee Congdon explores the consequences of the atheistic socialism that drove the Russian revolutionar... Lees meer

Double Deception

James Barros

• Paperback | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Exploying the interplay of intelligence and foreign policy in the events leading up to the invasion known as Operation Barbaross, Barros and Gregor ma... Lees meer

Love and Conquest

Douglas Smith, Empress Catherine II Of Russia

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Of all of history's great romances, few can compare with that of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin. Their turbulent and complicated rela... Lees meer

Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism

Irina Mukhina

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Little has been known, acknowledged, or studied about the shuttle trade, one of the major manifestations of new Russian life of the 1990s . The term i... Lees meer

Gender and National Identity

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Combining concepts and methodologies from anthropology, history, linguistics, literature, music, cultural studies, and film studies, this collection o... Lees meer

Working the Rough Stone

Douglas Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Using a wealth of archival sources previously unavailable to scholars, Smith examines the forces that attracted many social and intellectual leaders o... Lees meer

Besieged Leningrad

Polina Barskova

• Paperback | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• During the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to January 1944), the city's inhabitants were surrounded by the military forces of Nazi ... Lees meer

Stuck on Communism

Lewis H Siegelbaum

• Paperback | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century--from the 1950s when Lewis Siegel... Lees meer

Chronicles in Stone

Victoria Donovan

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Chronicles in Stone is a study of the powerful and pervasive myth of the Russian Northwest, its role in forming Soviet and Russian identities, and its... Lees meer

Soviet Samizdat

Ann Komaromi

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Soviet Samizdat traces the emergence and development of samizdat, one of the most significant and distinctive phenomena of the late Soviet era, as an ... Lees meer

Russia Gathers Her Jews

John Doyle Klier

• Paperback | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Klier's analysis of the motivations behind government policies and attitudes is well documented and convincing.... [An] important and well-researched ... Lees meer

Nobility and Privilege in Late Imperial Russia

Seymour Becker

• Paperback | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• The transformation of the Russian nobility between 1861 and 1914 has often been attributed to the anachronistic attitudes of its members and their fai... Lees meer

Becoming Metropolitan

Nathaniel D Wood

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• The "Age of Great Cities" erupted in East Central Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as migrants poured into imperial and regional c... Lees meer

Toward the Rising Sun

David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye

• Hardcover | Engels | Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• What drove Russia to its disastrous war with Japan in 1904? Was it corruption at the highest levels, ignorance of Japan's naval capabilities, or overc... Lees meer