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  • av Sergey Gandlevsky
    380,-

    The author is widely recognized as one of the leading living Russian poets and prose writers. In this title, his story radiates out, relaying the poet's personal history through 1994, including his unique perspective on the 1991 coup by Communist hardliners resisted by Boris Yeltsin.

  • - Stories and Essays
    av Valentin Rasputin
    346,-

  • - A Muscovite in Early Modern Europe
    av Peter Tolstoi
    670,-

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    710,-

    Focusing on the lived experience of individuals in Russia and Ukraine, these essays explore continuity and change comparatively and in the context of larger interpretative issues, such as popular culture, mentality, and religious belief.

  • - The Man Whose Ideas Delivered Russia from Communism
    av Richard Pipes
    1 886,-

    A significant political figure in twentieth-century Russia, Alexander Yakovlev was the intellectual force behind the processes of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) that liberated the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from Communist rule between 1989 and 1991. Yet, until now, not a single full-scale biography has been devoted to...

  • av Theodore R. Weeks
    476,-

    The inhabitants of Vilnius, the present-day capital of Lithuania, have spoken various languages and professed different religions while living together in relative harmony over the years. The city has played a significant role in the history and development of at least three separate cultures-Polish, Lithuanian, and Jewish-and until very...

  • av Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
    330,-

    How did enlightened Russians of the eighteenth century understand society? And how did they reconcile their professed ideals of equality and justice with the authoritarian political structures in which they lived? Historian Elise Wirtschafter turns to literary plays to reconstruct the social thinking of the past and to discover how...

  • - A True Story in 21 Kilometers
    av Jasmina Kozina Praprotnik
    370,-

    Anthropologist Jasmina Praprotnik met Helena Zigon while running. Over the course of an icy Slovenian winter, the two marathon runners got together frequently, and Zigon told Praprotnik about her life. Here, Praprotnik tells Zigon's captivating story in Zigon's own voice. Each chapter is marked by a kilometer of the half-marathon Zigon ran...

  • - An Uncommon Journey of a Journalist
    av Milan Kubic
    490,-

    After spending his childhood in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and witnessing the Communist takeover of his country in 1948, a young journalist named Milan Kubic embarked on a career as a Newsweek correspondent that spanned thirty-one years and three continents, reporting on some of the most memorable events in the Middle East. Now, Kubic tells...

  • - Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin
    av Rebecca Reich
    490 - 1 466,-

    State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death.

  • - Stories by Yenta Mash
    av Yenta Mash
    240,-

    A Yiddish Book Center Translation In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash traces an arc across continents, across upheavals and regime changes, and across the phases of a woman's life. Mash's protagonists are often in transit, poised "on the landing" on their way to or from somewhere...

  • - The "Jewish Question" in Poland, 1850-1914
    av Theodore R. Weeks
    580,-

    The large number of Jews living in Polish lands had lived as a separate estate from the Poles until the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on many long-term factors and one major event - the Revolution of 1905 - this book traces Poland's failed attempts to integrate its Jewish communities into the country's social fabric.

  • - Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny
    av Valeria Sobol
    380 - 1 466,-

  • - The Political Culture of Early Modern Russia
    av Daniel B. Rowland
    410 - 1 466,-

  • av Marek Hlasko
    289 - 450,-

    Offers a firsthand account of the life of Marek Hlasko, a young writer whose iconoclastic way of life became an inspiration in 1950s Poland. Detailing relationships with such giants of Polish culture as the filmmaker Roman Polanski and the novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski, this memoir recounts his adventures and misadventures abroad in the postwar era.

  • - Memoirs of the Underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia
     
    1 466,-

  • - The Shared Lives and Art of Anton Chekhov and Isaac Levitan
    av Serge Gregory
    460,-

    Antosha and Levitasha is the first book in English devoted to the complex relationship between Anton Chekhov and Isaac Levitan, one of Russia's greatest landscape painters. Outside of Russia, a general lack of familiarity with Levitan's life and art has undermined an appreciation of the cultural significance of his friendship with Chekhov...

  • - A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism
    av Thomas Gaiton Marullo
    346 - 1 466,-

  • - Memoirs of a Young Jewish Woman in the Russian Empire
    av Anna Pavolovna Vygodskaia
    380,-

    Describes the unprecedented social opportunities, as well as the many political and personal challenges, that young Jewish women and men experienced in the Russia of the 1870s and 1880s. This autobiography, originally published in 1938, is an historical account of Jewish childhood and young adult life in tsarist Russia.

  • - Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925
    av Joshua A. Sanborn
    430 - 1 886,-

  • - The Historical-Spiritual Destinies of Russia and the West
    av Lee Congdon
    516,-

    This study of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his writings focuses on his reflections on the religiopolitical trajectories of Russia and the West, understood as distinct civilizations. What perhaps most sets Russia apart from the West is the Orthodox Christian faith. The mature Solzhenitsyn returned to the Orthodox faith of his childhood...

  • - Memoirs of the Underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia
     
    356,-

  • - Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia
    av Nikolaos Chrissidis
    666,-

    The first formally organized educational institution in Russia was established in 1685 by two Greek hieromonks, Ioannikios and Sophronios Leichoudes. Like many of their Greek contemporaries in the seventeenth century, the brothers acquired part of their schooling in colleges of post-Renaissance Italy under a precise copy of the Jesuit...

  • - Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918-1988
    av Catriona Kelly
    715,-

    In Russia, legislation on the separation of church and state in early 1918 marginalized religious faith and raised pressing questions about what was to be done with church buildings. While associated with suspect beliefs, they were also regarded as structures with potential practical uses, and some were considered works of art. This engaging...

  • - Mikhail Katkov and the Great Russian Novel
    av Susanne Fusso
    420 - 593,-

    Fathers and Sons by Turgenev. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. These are a few of the great works of Russian prose that first appeared in the Russian Herald, a journal founded and edited by Mikhail Katkov. Yet because of his conservative politics and intrusive editing practices, Katkov has been either ignored or...

  • - The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite
    av Andrei Zorin & Andreas Schoenle
    524,-

    Throughout the eighteenth century, the Russian elite assimilated the ideas, emotions, and practices of the aristocracy in Western countries to various degrees, while retaining a strong sense of their distinctive identity. In On the Periphery of Europe, 1762-1825, Andreas Schoenle and Andrei Zorin examine the principal manifestations of...

  • - Representing and Reconstructing Masculinity in Soviet Visual Culture, 1945-1965
    av Claire McCallum
    720,-

    The Fate of the New Man traces the dramatic changes in the representation of the Soviet man in the postwar period. It focuses on the two identities that came to dominate such depictions in the two decades after the end of the war: the Soviet man's previous role as a soldier and his new role in the home once the war was over.

  • av Paul Robinson
    330 - 540,-

    Paul Robinson's Russian Conservatism examines the history of Russian conservative thought from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. As he shows, conservatism has made an underappreciated contribution to Russian national identity, to the ideology of Russian statehood, and to Russia's social-economic development. Robinson...

  • - New Studies in Russian Artistic Culture
    av Margaret Samu
    580,-

    Presenting research on the Russian art of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, this title features thirteen essays that examine this area of intellectual and popular appeal while showcasing various topics of inquiry in Russian art.

  • - Exile, 1935-1937
    av Oddvar Hoidal
    506,-

    One of the greatest Marxist philosophers of the Bolshevik Revolution and an integral force in the creation of the Red Army, Lev Trotsky was expelled from the Party by Joseph Stalin in 1927 and deported in 1929, first to France, then Turkey, and Norway soon after. This title offers an account of Trotsky's time in Oslo.

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