What does the good life mean in a "backward" place?
In this wry, judiciously balanced, and thoroughly engaging book, Galya Diment explores the
The clash between scholarship and politics—between truth and propaganda—was ruthless for
How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the
This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar
An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918
The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper
Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered
The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of
In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to
This book explores the emerging politics of Eurasia from the vantage point of Kazakhstan.
The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR has been told
For 60 years, scientists from the United States and the Soviet Union
Between the founding of Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924 and the Stalinist
Jacob Gordin was the first major playwright of the "Golden Age" of New York's Yiddish
This book draws on over twenty years’ investigation of scientific archives in Europe,
Despite decades under Putin's rule, it is too simplistic to assert that authoritarianism
The Hungarian city of Sztálinváros, or "Stalin-City," was intended to be the paradigmatic
George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the
For centuries the British developed a reputation as a nation
Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia, as
In the winter of 1739, Georg Steller received word from Empress Anna of Russia that he was
Beginning with Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the
In 1913, Abraham Rechtman journeyed through the Russian Pale of Settlement on a mission to
This is the first history of Lebanon from the Ottoman Empire to the modern period. Based
In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting
Following Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union experienced a dramatic
The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia (OPE) was a
Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe argues for
This book examines the performative life reconciliation and its discontents in settler
When originally published in 1984, Revolutions and
World War II, known as the Great Patriotic War to Russians, ravaged the Soviet
From 1929 to 1958, hundreds of thousands of prisoners and exiles from across the
