Brezhnev's Folly

Christopher Ward

• Hardcover | Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
• Heralded by Soviet propaganda as the 'Path to the Future', the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM) represented the hopes and dreams of Brezhnev and the... Lees meer

Varieties of Marxist Humanism

James H. Satterwhite

• Hardcover | Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
• A comparative study which traces the growth of the Marxist humanism movement. It focuses on Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia - the four ... Lees meer

How the Soviet Man Was Unmade

Lilya Kaganovsky

• Hardcover | Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
• Exposes the paradox behind the myth of the indestructible Stalinist-era male. This book examines the recurring theme of the mutilated male body, which... Lees meer

The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel

Aviezer Tucker

• Hardcover | Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
• A critical study of the philosophy and politics of the Czech dissident movement Charter 77. Aviezer Tucker examines how the political philosophy of Ja... Lees meer

Russia's Factory Children

Boris B. Gorshkov

• Hardcover | Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
• Offers an account of the changing role of children in the Russian workforce, from the onset of industrialization until the Communist Revolution of 191... Lees meer

Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions

• Hardcover | Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
• Demonstrates that transitions to democracy, capitalism, and nation-statehood, which scholars thought were likely to undermine one another, were facili... Lees meer

The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics

Zvi Y. Gitelman

• Hardcover | Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
• An examination of the political, social, and cultural dimensions of Zionism and Bundhism, the two major political movements among East European Jews d... Lees meer

The End of Peasantry?

Grigory Ioffe, Tatyana Nefedova, Ilya Zaslavsky

• Hardcover | Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
• Historically, Russian farmers have encountered difficulties relating to the sheer abundance of land, the vast distances between population centers, an... Lees meer

Yugoslavia

Dennison Ivan Rusinow

• Hardcover | Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
• Presents the reports on life in Yugoslavia and the country's major political developments. This title includes essays that explore such diverse topics... Lees meer

After Hitler, Before Stalin

James Ramon Felak

• Hardcover | Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
• Examines the crucial postwar period in Slovakia, following Nazi occupation and ending with the Communist coup of February 1948. Centering his work aro... Lees meer

Stalinist Confessions

Igal Halfin

• Hardcover | Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
• Investigates the phenomenon of a mass surrender to the will of the state. This book deciphers the skillfully rendered discourse through which Stalin d... Lees meer

Intimate Enemies

Igal Halfin

• Hardcover | Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
• Presents a study of the transformation of Bolshevik Party ideology, language, and power relations during the crucial period leading up to Stalin's sei... Lees meer

Provincial Landscapes

• Hardcover | Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
• The closed nature of the Soviet Union led to a one-dimensional view of Soviet history. The opening of former Soviet archives allowed the historians in... Lees meer