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  • The Politics of Eurasianism

    Identity, Popular Culture and Russia's Foreign Policy

    Edited by Mark Bassin, Gonzalo Pozo ...
    In the course of Vladimir Putin’s third presidential term, many of the doctrines and ideas associated with Eurasianism have moved to the center of public political discourses in Russia. Eurasianism, both Russian and non-Russian, is politically active —influential and contested— in debates about identity, popular culture or foreign policy narratives.Deploying a variety of theoretical frameworks and ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Eurasia 2.0

    Russian Geopolitics in the Age of New Media

    by Vlad Strukov, Mark Bassin, Brigit Beumers, Per-Arne Bodin, Sergiy Kurbatov, Marlene Laruelle, Fabian Linde, Sirke Mäkinen, Alla Marchenko, Ryhor Nizhnikau0, Saara Ratilainen1, Hanna Smith2, Dirk Uffelmann3, Galina Zvereva4, Dr. Greg Simons5, Mikhail Suslov7, Andrei P. Tsygankov8 ...
    Series series Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Politics
    This book discusses the return of geopolitical ideas and doctrines to the post-Soviet space with special focus on the new phenomenon of digital geopolitics, which is an overarching term for different political practices including dissemination of geopolitical ideas online, using the internet by political figures and diplomats for legitimation and outreach activity, and viral spread of geopolitical ... Read more

    $55.09 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

  • Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities

    Edited by Mark Bassin, Catriona Kelly ...
    Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the ways in which cultural activities such as fiction, TV, cinema, architecture and exhibitions have addressed these questions and also describes other cultural flashpoints, from attitudes to language to ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Geopolitical Imagination

    Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia

    by Mikhail Suslov, Andreas Umland ...
    Series Book 215 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    In his timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian geopolitical culture and argues that a better knowledge of geopolitical concepts and fantasies is instrumental for understanding Russia’s policies. Specifically, he analyzes such concepts as “Eurasianism,” “Holy Russia,” “Russian civilization,” “Russia as a continent,” “Novorossia,” and others. He demonstrates that these concepts ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Between Europe and Asia

    The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism

    Edited by Mark Bassin, Sergey Glebov, Marlene Laruelle ...
    Series Book 233 - Russian and East European Studies
    Between Europe and Asia analyzes the origins and development of Eurasianism, an intellectual movement that proclaimed the existence of Eurasia, a separate civilization coinciding with the former Russian Empire. The essays in the volume explore the historical roots, the heyday of the movement in the 1920s, and the afterlife of the movement in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The first study to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    by Donnie Eichar ...
    In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes ... Read more

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  • Winter Is Coming

    Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

    by Garry Kasparov ...
    The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship-and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen.The ascension of Vladimir Putin-a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB-to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years-as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Absolute War

    Soviet Russia in the Second World War

    by Chris Bellamy ...
    In Absolute War, acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the Soviet Union of World War II's battle on the Eastern Front, one of the deadliest conflicts in history.The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945, was the greatest, most costly, and most brutal conflict on land in human ... Read more

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  • Walter Benjamin

    A Critical Life

    by Howard Eiland, Michael W. Jennings ...
    Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings—mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology—defy simple categorization. And his mobile, often improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. His writing career moved from the brilliant esotericism of ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Lenin's Tomb

    The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by David Remnick ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeOne of the Best Books of the Year: The New York TimesFrom the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. Remnick takes us through the tumultuous 75-year period of ... Read more

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  • Between East and West

    Across the Borderlands of Europe

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    In 1991, Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag, Iron Curtain and Red Famine, took a three-month road trip through the borderlands between the fallen Soviet Union and Europe—lands that became Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova. In her iconic reportage, which has become indispensable history, she captures the harrowing story of a region that is once again threatened by Russia ... Read more

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