The Firebird

Andrei Kozyrev

• Hardcover | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt agai... Lees meer

Sexual Revolution in Bolshevik Russia

Gregory Carleton

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• 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 History of Liberalism in Russia

Victor Leontovitsch

• Hardcover | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• Foreword by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The influence of liberalism in tsarist Russia is deeply problematic to most historians. In this highly original stu... Lees meer

The Soviet Gulag

• Hardcover | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent archival revolution, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous "literary investigation" The Gulag Arc... Lees meer

Intimate Enemies

Igal Halfin

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• Intimate Enemies is a brilliant study of the transformation of Bolshevik Party ideology, language, and power relations during the crucial period leadi... Lees meer

Daughter of the Cold War

Grace Kennan Warnecke

• Hardcover | 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

Overtaken by the Night

Richard Robbins

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Vladimir Fedorovich Dzhunkovsky was a witness to Russia's unfolding tragedy--from Tsar Alexander II's Great Reforms, through world war, revolution, th... Lees meer

Tangible Belonging

John C Swanson

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• Tangible Belonging presents a compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twe... Lees meer

Russia's Factory Children

Boris B Gorshkov

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• At the height of the Russian industrial revolution, legions of children toiled in factories, accounting for fifteen percent of the workforce. Yet, by ... Lees meer

After Hitler, Before Stalin

James Ramon Felak

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• After Hitler, Before Stalin examines the crucial postwar period in Slovakia, following Nazi occupation and ending with the Communist coup of February1... Lees meer

The Holocaust in Croatia

Ivo Goldstein, Slavko Goldstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• The Holocaust in Croatia recounts the history of the Croatian Jewish community during the Second World War, with a focus on the city of Zagreb. Ivo an... Lees meer

Russian Central Asia 1867-1917

Richard a Pierce

• Paperback | 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

Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania

Maria Bucur-Deckard

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• Eugenics movements gained momentum throughout Eastern Europe between World Wars I and II. Maria Bucur demonstrates that the importance of the eugenics... Lees meer

Swans of the Kremlin

Christina Ezrahi

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• Classical ballet was perhaps the most visible symbol of aristocratic culture and its isolation from the rest of Russian society under the tsars. In th... Lees meer

Other Animals

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• The lives of animals in Russia are intrinsically linked to cultural, political and psychological transformations of the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Sov... Lees meer

Soviet Space Mythologies

Slava Gerovitch

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• From the start, the Soviet human space program had an identity crisis. Were cosmonauts heroic pilots steering their craft through the dangers of space... Lees meer

Red Atom

Paul Josephson

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• In the 1950s, Soviet nuclear scientists and leaders imagined a stunning future when giant reactors would generate energy quickly and cheaply, nuclear ... Lees meer

The Archaeology of Anxiety

Galina Rylkova

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• The "Silver Age" (c. 1890-1917) has been one of the most intensely studied topics in Russian literary studies, and for years scholars have been strugg... Lees meer

Hard Times

Vasily Sleptsov

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies
• Translated by Michael R. Katz Vasily Sleptsov was a Russian social activist and writer during the politically charged 1860s, known as the "era of grea... Lees meer

Nature and National Identity After Communism

Katrina Schwartz

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• In this groundbreaking book, Katrina Schwartz examines the intersection of environmental politics, globalization, and national identity in a small Eas... Lees meer

The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture

Karl-Eugen Wädekin

• 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

Portrait of a Russian Province

Catherine Evtuhov

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• Several stark premises have long prevailed in our approach to Russian history. It was commonly assumed that Russia had always labored under a highly c... Lees meer

Russia in the German Global Imaginary

James E Casteel

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• This book traces transformations in German views of Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, leading up to the disastrous German invasion of... Lees meer

Big Business in Russia

Jonathan Grant

• Paperback | Engels | Russian and East European Studies | nr. 233
• Jonathan A. Grant has written a highly original study of the Putilov works--the most famous industrial conglomerate in the Russian Empire during the l... Lees meer