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  • Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay

    Sex, Crime, Violence, and Nightlife in the Modern City

    by Professor Mark D. Steinberg ...
    Using public storytelling as driving force, this book explores everyday social moralities relating to stories of sex, crime, violence, and nightlife in the 1920s city space. Focusing on capitalist New York, communist Odessa, and colonial Bombay, Mark D. Steinberg taps in to the global dimension of complex everyday moral anxiety that was prevalent in a vital and troubled decade.Moral Storytelling ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Russian Utopia

    A Century of Revolutionary Possibilities

    by Professor Mark D. Steinberg ...
    Series series Russian Shorts
    Winner of the 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitlesMark D. Steinberg explores the work of individuals he recognizes as utopians during the most dramatic period in Russian and Soviet history. It has long been a cliché to argue that Russian revolutionary movements have been inspired by varieties of 'utopian dreaming' – claims which, although not wrong, are too often used uncritically. For the ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Valeria Sobol, Mark D. Steinberg ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    Bringing together important new work by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe approaches emotions as a phenomenon complexly intertwined with society, culture, politics, and history. The stories in this book involve sensitive aristocrats, committed revolutionaries, aggressive nationalists, political leaders, female ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Cultures in Flux

    Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia

    Edited by Stephen P. Frank, Mark D. Steinberg ...
    The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. Stephen Frank and Mark Steinberg have gathered here a diverse collection of essays by Western and Russian scholars who question conventional interpretations and recall neglected stories about popular behavior, politics, and culture. What emerges is a new picture of lower-class life, in which traditions and ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    A History of Russia

    9th Edition

    by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg ...
    Narrated by Rich Miller ...

    Unabridged

    33 hours 16 min

    Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history—political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural—with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance, and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

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    Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed. With the abolition of the market, shortages of food, clothing, and all kinds of consumer goods ... Read more

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  • Fear

    Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz

    by Jan Gross ...
    An astonishing and heartbreaking study of the Polish Holocaust survivors who returned home only to face continued violence and anti-Semitism at the hands of their neighbors“[Fear] culminates in so keen a shock that even a student of the Jewish tragedy during World War II cannot fail to feel it.”—Elie WieselFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ... Read more

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  • Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin

    by Michel Eltchaninoff ...
    The Russian president's landmark speeches, interviews and policies borrow heavily from great Russian thinkers past and present, from Peter the Great to Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn. They offer powerful visions of strong leaders and the Russian nation: they value conservatism and the Slavic spirit. They root morality in Orthodoxy, and Russian identity in the historic struggle with the West. Today, ... Read more

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  • Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Secondhand Time with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, a collection of personal testimonies from people who lived through the demise of the Soviet Union and the subsequent establishment of the Russian Federation. The accounts gathered in the book span two ... Read more

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  • 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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russian Literature

    by Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ilya Vinitsky ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. The medieval period, as well as the brilliant tradition of Russian lyric poetry ... Read more

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  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    "[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too." — The EconomistAfter Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense ... Read more

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