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A Social History Of The Russians And Their Army Since 1690

by Professor Roger R. (Texas A&M University, Usa) Reese

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 A social history of the Russian army spanning three centuries which examines its sometimes-precarious, sometimes-elevated, and sometimes-discredited place in Russian society.
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A Social History Of The Russians And Their Army Since 1690

by Professor Roger R. (Texas A&M University, Usa) Reese

~~17,56€~~ 15,80€ 10% OFF

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 A social history of the Russian army spanning three centuries which examines its sometimes-precarious, sometimes-elevated, and sometimes-discredited place in Russian society.
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Russiaâ€™S Arctic - Climate Change, Domestic Policy, And Geopolitics

by Professor Marlene (Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy) Laruelle

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 An exploration of Russiaâ€™s Arctic policies and the strategic development of Russiaâ€™s regions and the Northern Sea Route since the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Russiaâ€™S Arctic - Climate Change, Domestic Policy, And Geopolitics

by Professor Marlene (Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy) Laruelle

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 An exploration of Russiaâ€™s Arctic policies and the strategic development of Russiaâ€™s regions and the Northern Sea Route since the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Racism In Modern Russia - Revised Edition - From The Romanovs To Putin

by Associate Professor Eugene M. (University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Usa) Avrutin

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 A comprehensive exploration of racialization and racism in Russia that spans the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods.
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Soviet Internment - Memory, Nostalgia, And The Pow Experience

by Dr Maria Cristina (College Of William & Mary, Usa) Galmarini

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 An exploration of life as a Second World War POW through the extensive firsthand accounts of the former Italian prisoner, Umberto Montini.
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Soviet Internment - Memory, Nostalgia, And The Pow Experience

by Dr Maria Cristina (College Of William & Mary, Usa) Galmarini

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 An exploration of life as a Second World War POW through the extensive firsthand accounts of the former Italian prisoner, Umberto Montini.
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How Russia Got Big - A Territorial History

by Professor Paul W. (University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Usa) Werth

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 An exploration of two crucial questions for the history of Eurasia and the wider world: What territory did Russia occupy at different stages of its historyâ€"and why?
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How Russia Got Big - A Territorial History

by Professor Paul W. (University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Usa) Werth

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 An exploration of two crucial questions for the history of Eurasia and the wider world: What territory did Russia occupy at different stages of its historyâ€"and why?
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Russian Culture Under Putin

by Eliot Borenstein

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 This timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia''s media and culture industry had enjoyed nearly a decade of almost unrestricted freedom and yet, by the time he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia''s independent media was crushed, while the few viable opposition figures were either imprisoned, exiled, or dead under mysterious circumstances. Eliot Borenstein looks at the manufactured cult of Putin, the competing models of Russianness put forth in the media, the obsession with nostalgia and the limits on imagining the future, the rise of aggressive patriotism and the myth of ancient Russian ''traditional'' values, the significance of the fight against ''gay propaganda'', and the absurdist strategies used by the opposition in the face of increasing restrictions on free speech. Though the book''s title invokes Putin, Russian Culture under Putin does not cast the Russian leader as an all-knowing genius pursuing a master plan. The culture of the past twenty years, both official and independent, has been largely improvisational. 21st-century Russia, as Borenstein demonstrates so masterfully, has not been frog-marched into unfreedom, but has in fact lurched back and forth on a dimly-lit path.
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Russian Culture Under Putin

by Eliot Borenstein

~~15,49€~~ 13,94€ 10% OFF

 This timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia''s media and culture industry had enjoyed nearly a decade of almost unrestricted freedom and yet, by the time he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia''s independent media was crushed, while the few viable opposition figures were either imprisoned, exiled, or dead under mysterious circumstances. Eliot Borenstein looks at the manufactured cult of Putin, the competing models of Russianness put forth in the media, the obsession with nostalgia and the limits on imagining the future, the rise of aggressive patriotism and the myth of ancient Russian ''traditional'' values, the significance of the fight against ''gay propaganda'', and the absurdist strategies used by the opposition in the face of increasing restrictions on free speech. Though the book''s title invokes Putin, Russian Culture under Putin does not cast the Russian leader as an all-knowing genius pursuing a master plan. The culture of the past twenty years, both official and independent, has been largely improvisational. 21st-century Russia, as Borenstein demonstrates so masterfully, has not been frog-marched into unfreedom, but has in fact lurched back and forth on a dimly-lit path.
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Gulag Fiction - Labour Camp Literature From Stalin To Putin

by Polly Jones

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 This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus. The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, scattered across the vast Soviet territory and affecting millions of Soviet citizens directly and indirectly. As Gulag Fiction shows, its legacies remain palpable today, though survivors of the camps are now increasingly scarce, and successive Soviet and post-Soviet leaders have been reluctant to authorise a full working through of the Gulag past. This is the first book to compare Soviet, samizdat and post-Soviet literary prose about the Gulag as penal system, carceral experience and traumatic memory. Polly Jones analyses prose texts from across the 20th and 21st centuries through the prism of key themes in contemporary Soviet historiography and Holocaust literature scholarship: selfhood and survival; perpetration and responsibility; memory and post-memory.
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Gulag Fiction - Labour Camp Literature From Stalin To Putin

by Polly Jones

~~15,49€~~ 13,94€ 10% OFF

 This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus. The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, scattered across the vast Soviet territory and affecting millions of Soviet citizens directly and indirectly. As Gulag Fiction shows, its legacies remain palpable today, though survivors of the camps are now increasingly scarce, and successive Soviet and post-Soviet leaders have been reluctant to authorise a full working through of the Gulag past. This is the first book to compare Soviet, samizdat and post-Soviet literary prose about the Gulag as penal system, carceral experience and traumatic memory. Polly Jones analyses prose texts from across the 20th and 21st centuries through the prism of key themes in contemporary Soviet historiography and Holocaust literature scholarship: selfhood and survival; perpetration and responsibility; memory and post-memory.
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Soviet Gulag - History And Memory

by Jeffrey S. Hardy

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 A vivid account of the Gulag, the Soviet Union''s infamous penal system, this book charts how Bolshevik visions of a humane alternative to Tsarist exile and Western penitentiaries became a chaotic and violent system of mass incarceration that bore a tragic human toll. As the first concise history in the English language, The Soviet Gulag: History and Memory provides an illuminating account of the Gulag from 1917, through to the end of the Soviet Union and the contested memory of the Gulag that persists today. Beginning with their conception, during the various penal experiments of the 1920s, their expansion, during the campaigns against perceived enemies of the Soviet regime in the 1930s, and their decline in the years proceeding Stalin''s death, Jeffrey S. Hardy explores how many facets of Gulag life endured right up until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. He addresses both the intentions of administrators and the experience of inmates, as well as covering the main scholarly debates surrounding these issues, Crucially, the book also examines the post-Soviet era. You discover how politicians, nongovernmental organizations, and Gulag survivors have debated how or even if to commemorate the victims of the Gulag. Hardy reveals that despite numerous monuments and museum displays emerging out of these discussions, the Gulag''s legacy remains hotly contested in Russia today
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Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov And Others

by Angela Brintlinger

~~15,49€~~ 13,94€ 10% OFF

 For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, yes, even crime and punishment; readers across the globe have found in Russian writing a substantial measure of intellectual provocation, aesthetic pleasure, emotional resonance, and personal solace. Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature explores the familiar names of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov to connect readers with these experiences. With a lively, jargon-free style and insightful analyses of thought-provoking texts, this concise volume helps you to understand more fully the pleasure to be found in reading, and re-reading. By identifying what readers seek and find in Russian books-from aesthetically pleasing descriptions to apt psychological renderings-Angela Brintlinger aims to enhance the gratification of reading, giving armchair travelers an excuse to embark on a series of fascinating journeys. Drawing on Brintlinger''s experiences as a scholar, teacher, and reader of literature, the book is informed by a deep cultural understanding of Russia and Russians. It reveals this through engaging literary meditations that connect Russian literature to the losses, ironies, and ambiguities that define the human condition. Exploring authors'' imagined readers as well as authors themselves, Brintlinger argues that it is these readers, from all over the world, who get to decide what literary works are worth reading. As a bonus, she offers an appendix with more names and titles, familiar and perhaps utterly new-books that show the ways in which Russian literature remains vital today.
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Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov And Others

by Angela Brintlinger

~~15,49€~~ 13,94€ 10% OFF

 For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, yes, even crime and punishment; readers across the globe have found in Russian writing a substantial measure of intellectual provocation, aesthetic pleasure, emotional resonance, and personal solace. Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature explores the familiar names of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov to connect readers with these experiences. With a lively, jargon-free style and insightful analyses of thought-provoking texts, this concise volume helps you to understand more fully the pleasure to be found in reading, and re-reading. By identifying what readers seek and find in Russian books-from aesthetically pleasing descriptions to apt psychological renderings-Angela Brintlinger aims to enhance the gratification of reading, giving armchair travelers an excuse to embark on a series of fascinating journeys. Drawing on Brintlinger''s experiences as a scholar, teacher, and reader of literature, the book is informed by a deep cultural understanding of Russia and Russians. It reveals this through engaging literary meditations that connect Russian literature to the losses, ironies, and ambiguities that define the human condition. Exploring authors'' imagined readers as well as authors themselves, Brintlinger argues that it is these readers, from all over the world, who get to decide what literary works are worth reading. As a bonus, she offers an appendix with more names and titles, familiar and perhaps utterly new-books that show the ways in which Russian literature remains vital today.
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Russian Food Since 1800 - Empire At Table

by Catriona Kelly

~~15,49€~~ 13,94€ 10% OFF

 A concise history of food in Russia which reveals telling complexities and a wealth of fascinating contradictory associations.
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Russian Food Since 1800 - Empire At Table

by Catriona Kelly

~~15,49€~~ 13,94€ 10% OFF

 A concise history of food in Russia which reveals telling complexities and a wealth of fascinating contradictory associations.
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Jews Under Tsars And Communists - The Four Questions

by Robert Weinberg

~~15,49€~~ 13,94€ 10% OFF

 Tracing the evolving nature of popular and official beliefs about the purported nature of the Jews from the 18th century onwards, Russia and the Jewish Question explores how perceptions of Jews in late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union shaped the regimes'' policies toward them. In so doing Robert Weinberg provides a fruitful lens through which to investigate the social, economic, political, and cultural developments of modern Russia. Here, Weinberg reveals that the ''Jewish Question'' - and, by extension anti-Semitism - emerged at the end of the 18th century when the partitions of Poland made hundreds of thousands of Jews subjects of the Russian crown. He skillfully argues the phrase itself implies the singular nature of Jews as a group of people whose religion, culture, and occupational make-up prevent them from fitting into predominantly Christian societies. The book then expounds how other characteristics were associated with the group over time: in particular, debates about rights of citizenship, the impact of industrialization, the emergence of the nation-state, and the proliferation of new political ideologies and movements contributed to the changing nature of the ''Jewish Question''. Its content may have not remained static, but its purpose consistently questions whether or not Jews pose a threat to the stability and well-being of the societies in which they live and this, in a specifically Russian context, is what Weinberg examines so expertly.
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Jews Under Tsars And Communists - The Four Questions

by Robert Weinberg

~~15,49€~~ 13,94€ 10% OFF

 Tracing the evolving nature of popular and official beliefs about the purported nature of the Jews from the 18th century onwards, Russia and the Jewish Question explores how perceptions of Jews in late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union shaped the regimes'' policies toward them. In so doing Robert Weinberg provides a fruitful lens through which to investigate the social, economic, political, and cultural developments of modern Russia. Here, Weinberg reveals that the ''Jewish Question'' - and, by extension anti-Semitism - emerged at the end of the 18th century when the partitions of Poland made hundreds of thousands of Jews subjects of the Russian crown. He skillfully argues the phrase itself implies the singular nature of Jews as a group of people whose religion, culture, and occupational make-up prevent them from fitting into predominantly Christian societies. The book then expounds how other characteristics were associated with the group over time: in particular, debates about rights of citizenship, the impact of industrialization, the emergence of the nation-state, and the proliferation of new political ideologies and movements contributed to the changing nature of the ''Jewish Question''. Its content may have not remained static, but its purpose consistently questions whether or not Jews pose a threat to the stability and well-being of the societies in which they live and this, in a specifically Russian context, is what Weinberg examines so expertly.
ENGLISH

Soviet Gulag - History And Memory

by Jeffrey S. Hardy

15,49€ + 10% CARD

 A vivid account of the Gulag, the Soviet Union''s infamous penal system, this book charts how Bolshevik visions of a humane alternative to Tsarist exile and Western penitentiaries became a chaotic and violent system of mass incarceration that bore a tragic human toll. As the first concise history in the English language, The Soviet Gulag: History and Memory provides an illuminating account of the Gulag from 1917, through to the end of the Soviet Union and the contested memory of the Gulag that persists today. Beginning with their conception, during the various penal experiments of the 1920s, their expansion, during the campaigns against perceived enemies of the Soviet regime in the 1930s, and their decline in the years proceeding Stalin''s death, Jeffrey S. Hardy explores how many facets of Gulag life endured right up until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. He addresses both the intentions of administrators and the experience of inmates, as well as covering the main scholarly debates surrounding these issues, Crucially, the book also examines the post-Soviet era. You discover how politicians, nongovernmental organizations, and Gulag survivors have debated how or even if to commemorate the victims of the Gulag. Hardy reveals that despite numerous monuments and museum displays emerging out of these discussions, the Gulag''s legacy remains hotly contested in Russia today
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Russian Food Since 1800 - Empire At Table

by Professor Catriona (University Of Cambridge, Uk) Kelly

~~62,19€~~ 55,97€ 10% OFF

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 A concise history of food in Russia which reveals telling complexities and a wealth of fascinating contradictory associations.
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History Of Birobidzhan - Building A Soviet Jewish Homeland In Siberia

by Gennady Estraikh

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 Gennady Estraikh''s book explores the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ''Jewish question'', arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and entitlements in the Soviet world. Estraikh brings together a broad range of Russian and Yiddish sources, including archival materials, newspaper articles, travelogues, memoirs, belles-letters, and scholarly publications, as he describes and analyses the project and its realization not in isolation, but rather in the context of developments in both domestic and international life. As well as offering an assessment of the Birobidzhan project in the contexts of Soviet and Jewish history, the book also focuses on the contemporary ''Jewish'' role of the region which now has only a few thousand Jewish occupants amongst its residents.
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History Of Birobidzhan - Building A Soviet Jewish Homeland In Siberia

by Gennady Estraikh

15,49€ + 10% CARD

 Gennady Estraikh''s book explores the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ''Jewish question'', arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and entitlements in the Soviet world. Estraikh brings together a broad range of Russian and Yiddish sources, including archival materials, newspaper articles, travelogues, memoirs, belles-letters, and scholarly publications, as he describes and analyses the project and its realization not in isolation, but rather in the context of developments in both domestic and international life. As well as offering an assessment of the Birobidzhan project in the contexts of Soviet and Jewish history, the book also focuses on the contemporary ''Jewish'' role of the region which now has only a few thousand Jewish occupants amongst its residents.
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