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  • Russia and Its Northeast Asian Neighbors

    China, Japan, and Korea, 1858–1945

    by Kimitaka Matsuzato, Masafumi Asada, Shinichi Fumoto, Yoshiro Ikeda, Michiko Ikuta, Catherine Ladds, Dmitrii B. Pavlov, Andreas Renner, Yukimura Sakon, Yaroslav Shulatov0, Susumu Tsukase1 ...
    As a result of the Aigun (1858) and Beijing Treaties (1860) Russia had become a participant in international relations of Northeast Asia, but historiography has underestimated the presence of Russia and the USSR in this region. This collection elucidates how Russia's expansion affected early Meiji Japan's policy towards Korea and the late Qing Empire's Manchurian reform. Russia participated in the ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Russian Cold

    Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow

    Edited by Andreas Renner, Ingrid Schierle, Julia Herzberg ...
    Series Book 22 - Environment in History: International Perspectives
    Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history. In ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Soviet Century

    Archaeology of a Lost World

    by Karl Schlögel ...
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    An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Soviet Union, ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Moscow, 1937

    by Karl Schlögel ...
    Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin’s dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence.In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the ‘Great Terror’ during which 1 ½ million human beings lost their lives ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Burden of the Past

    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper ...
    Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture: "A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory." —Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus UniversityIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms ... Read more

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  • A Century of Genocide

    Utopias of Race and Nation - Updated Edition

    by Eric D. Weitz, Eric D. Weitz ...
    Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored mass murder? Can genocide be prevented?Blending gripping narrative with trenchant analysis, Eric Weitz investigates four of the twentieth century's ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Einstein in Bohemia

    by Professor Michael D. Gordin ...
    A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended to make Prague his home, he lived there for just sixteen months, an interlude that his biographies typically dismiss as a brief and inconsequential ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Gumilev Mystique

    Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia

    by Mark Bassin ...
    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the historian, ethnographer, and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912–1992) has attracted extraordinary interest in Russia and beyond. The son of two of modern Russia's greatest poets, Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, Gumilev spent thirteen years in Stalinist prison camps, and after his release in 1956 remained officially outcast and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Dnipro

    An Entangled History of a European City

    by Andrii Portnov ...
    Series series Ukrainian Studies
    Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History and History of Diversity in Northern EurasiaThis first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Geographies

    The Spatialities of the Third Reich

    Edited by Paolo Giaccaria, Claudio Minca ...
    Lebensraum: the entitlement of "legitimate" Germans to living space. Entfernung: the expulsion of "undesirables" to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number of powerful geostrategical concepts such as these in order to justify his imperialist expansion, exploitation, and genocide. As his twisted manifestation ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands

    Migration, Environment, and Health in the Former Sudetenland

    by Eagle Glassheim ...
    Series Book 234 - Russian and East European Studies
    In this innovative study of the aftermath of ethnic cleansing, Eagle Glassheim examines the transformation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland from the end of the Second World War, through the Cold War, and into the twenty-first century.Prior to their expulsion in 1945, ethnic Germans had inhabited the Sudeten borderlands for hundreds of years, with deeply rooted local cultures and close, if sometimes ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • In Space We Read Time

    On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics

    by Karl Schlögel ...
    Translated by Gerrit Jackson ...
    Series series Bard Graduate Center - Cultural Histories of the Material World
    History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular chronological order. But as Karl Schlögel shows in this groundbreaking book, the where of history is just as important as the when. Schlögel relishes space the way a writer relishes a good story: on a quest for a type of history that takes full account of place, he explores everything from landscapes to ... Read more

    $32.39 USD