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  • Rethinking the Gulag

    Identities, Sources, Legacies

    de Alexander Etkind, Irina Anatolievna Flige, Susan Grunewald, Jeffrey S. Hardy, Mikhail Nakonechnyi, Judith Pallot, Gavin Slade, Lynne Viola, Josephine von Zitzewitz, Sarah J. Young ...
    The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied institutions, and brought together inmates from all the Soviet Union's ethnicities, professions, and social classes?Drawing on ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Reorganizing Crime

    Mafia and Anti-Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia

    de Dr Gavin Slade ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Arising from Soviet prison camps in the 1930s, career criminals known as 'thieves-in-law' exist in one form or another throughout post-Soviet countries and have evolved into major transnational organized criminal networks since the dissolution of the USSR. Intriguingly, this criminal fraternity established a particular stronghold in the republic of Georgia where, by the 1990s, they had formed a ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

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  • The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569�1999

    de Timothy Snyder ...
    Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s), and ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Everyday Stalinism:Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

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

    de Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Stalin's Genocides

    de Norman M. Naimark ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Fear

    Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Burden of the Past

    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-39, Updated and Abridged Edition

    de J. Arch Getty, Oleg V. Naumov, Benjamin Sher ...

    $35.99 USD

  • Khrushchev's Cold Summer

    Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin

    de Miriam Dobson ...
    Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus included not only victims of past purges but also those sentenced for criminal offenses. In Khrushchev's Cold ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • A Century of Genocide

    Utopias of Race and Nation - Updated Edition

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • The Affirmative Action Empire

    Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939

    de Terry Martin ...
    Series series The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
    "Terry Martin looks at the nationalities policy of the early Soviet period and offers an insightful, detailed analysis of a problem that Soviet leaders grappled with throughout the twentieth century. As he points out, it was a problem that eventually helped to usher in the end of the USSR."— Amanda Wood Aucoin, New Zealand Slavonic JournalThe Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD