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Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Narrating Post/Communism: Colonial Discourse and Europe s Borderline Civilization (Paperback)

The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in history political science and literature - on the fostering of new identities across... more

Russian and East European Studies: Equality and Revolution : Women’s Rights in the Russian Empire 1905–1917 (Paperback)

Ruthchild’s study reveals that Russian feminists were an integral force for revolution and social change particularly during the monumental uprisings of 1905-1917. She analyzes the backgrounds motivations methods activism and organizational networks... more

Eurospan Russian & East European Studies Cat: Ruling Russian Eurasia : Khans Clans and Tsars (Paperback)

An interpretative history of the Russian Empire from 1700 to 1917 in the larger Eurasian context of the Mongols Muscany and the Soviet Union. It explains how a westernizing oligarchy tried to transform an enigma of clan societies into modern nation... more

Anthem Russian East European and Eurasian Studies: Russian Language Studies in North America: New Perspectives from Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Hardcover)

Russian Language Studies in North America: New Perspectives from Theoretical and Applied Linguistics offers a unique collection of research papers representing current directions in Russian language studies in Canada and the United States.... more

Russian and East European Studies: Other Animals : Beyond the Human in Russian Culture and History (Paperback)

Other Animals examines the interaction of animals and humans in Russian literature art and life from the eighteenth century until the present. The chapters explore the unique nature of the Russian experience in a range of human-animal relationships... more

Studies in Russian and East European History and Society: Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History (Paperback)

This collection presents views on key aspects of Russian/Soviet history such as the non-Slavic sources of Russian statehood; tsarist penal systems; the pre-evolutionary technological level; the famine of 1931-3; patronage practices in Stalin s Russia;... more

Anthem Russian East European and Eurasian Studies: Russia s Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich s Sakhalin (Hardcover)

Russia s Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich s Sakhalin is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich s 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russia s largest penal colony Sakhalin in... more

Slavic Blood: The Vampire in Russian and East European Cultures (Paperback)

Eight hundred years before Bram Stoker gave us the West s most memorable literary vampire in Dracula and long before the historical exploits of Vlad Tepes The Impaler horrified Europe the Russian Primary Chronicles wrote of a Novgorodian priest as upyr... more

Anthem Russian East European and Eurasian Studies: Petrified Utopia: Happiness Soviet Style (Hardcover)

The pursuit of collective happiness was considered a utopian ideal that structured many aspects of Soviet culture a fact recognized by numerous scholars in various disciplines ranging from cultural and literary studies to sociology and political... more

Anthem Russian East European and Eurasian Studies: Petrified Utopia: Happiness Soviet Style (Paperback)

The pursuit of collective happiness was considered a utopian ideal that structured many aspects of Soviet culture a fact recognized by numerous scholars in various disciplines ranging from cultural and literary studies to sociology and political... more

Studies in Russian and East European His Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era (Paperback)

Russian rethinking of the past has immense political significance. The author of the acclaimed Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution now examines the impact of the collapse of Communism and of the subsequent disillusionment with capitalism on... more

Anthem Russian East European and Eurasian Studies: Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938: The Birth of Sociological Linguistics (Hardcover)

Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938 provides ground-breaking research into the complex interrelations of linguistic theory and politics during the first two decades of the USSR. The work examines how the new Revolutionary regime... more

Anthem Russian East European and Eurasian Studies: The Non-Geometric Lenin (Hardcover)

This collection of eleven essays deals with Lenin s life in western European emigration in the years before the First World War. The first five essays explore Lenin s efforts to build a purely Bolshevik Party through the creation of a unique school for... more

Anthem Russian East European and Eurasian Studies: Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938: The Birth of Sociological Linguistics (Paperback)

Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938 provides ground-breaking research into the complex interrelations of linguistic theory and politics during the first two decades of the USSR. The work examines how the new Revolutionary regime... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East European Studies: Constitutional Bargaining in Russia 1990-93: Institutions and Uncertainty (Paperback)

The years 1990-93 were a critical moment in Russia s political development. This book provides a systematic explanation of outcomes of constitutional bargaining processes in Russia which radically reshaped the institutions of the Russian state:... more

Russian and East European Studies: Stalin s Railroad : Turksib and the Building of Socialism (Paperback)

Matthew Payne details the building and impact of the Turkestano-Siberian Railroad one of the major construction projects of Stalin’s first Five Year Plan. more

Russian and East European Studies: Tarantas : Impressions of a Journey (Hardcover)

Translated by Michael R. Katz In this 19th century Russian social novella two contrasting characters--one a western-educated intellectual the other a hidebound country squire--find themselves thrown together on a long cross country journey in a... more

Pre-Owned Essays on Russian and East European Music 9780193112087 Used

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Russian and East European Studies: Russia s Factory Children : State Society and Law 1800–1917 (Paperback)

The first English-language account of the changing role of children in the Russian workforce from the onset of industrialization until the Communist Revolution of 1917 and profiles the laws that would establish children s labor rights. more

Anthem Russian East European and Eurasian Studies: Rent from the Land: A Political Ecology of Postsocialist Rural Transformation (Paperback)

After decades of isolation Albania was catapulted into capitalism in 1991. Until then ideological hardliners had run the country and denounced their former Soviet and Eastern Bloc allies as revisionists for falling away from Stalinist principles. Yet... more

Russian and East European Studies: After Hitler Before Stalin : Catholics Communists and Democrats in Slovakia 1945-1948 (Series #233) (Paperback)

Examines the crucial postwar period in Slovakia following Nazi occupation and ending with the Communist coup of February 1948. Centered on the major political role of the Catholic Church and its leaders it offers a fascinating study of the... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East European Studies: Television and Culture in Putin s Russia: Remote control (Paperback)

This book examines television culture in Russia under the government of Vladimir Putin. In recent years the growing influx into Russian television of globally mediated genres and formats has coincided with a decline in media freedom and a ratcheting up... more

Russian and East European Studies: Building Socialism in Bolshevik Russia : Ideology and Industrial Organization 1917-1921 (Paperback)

Remington profiles the Bolshevik project of social transformation and political centralization known as War Communism. He argues that the effort to institute a centrally planned and administered economy shapedthe ideology of the regime the relations... more

Russian and East European Studies: Big Business in Russia : The Putilov Company in Late Imperial Russia 1868–1917 (Paperback)

A highly original study of the Putilov works—the most famous industrial conglomerate in the Russian Empire during the late 19th century and a major challenge to conventional wisdom on the nature of the Russian economy in the years before the... more

Russian and East European Studies: Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (Paperback)

An international group of writers explore conceptualizations of what defined “East� and “West� in Eastern Europe imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. The contributors analyze the effects of transnational interactions on ideology politics and... more

Anthem Russian East European and Eurasian Studies: Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts (Hardcover)

Vladimir Voinovich s Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by one of the most famous Soviet dissidents who was also sometimes called 20th Century Russia s greatest living satirist.... more

Russian and East European Studies: The Disabled in the Soviet Union : Past and Present Theory and Practice (Paperback)

The essays in this collection chronicle the responses of the Soviet state and society to a variety of disabled groups and disabilities. more

Russian and East European Studies: Religious Freedom in Modern Russia (Hardcover)

Despite Russia’s religiously diverse population and the strong connection between the Russian state and the Orthodox Church the problem of religious freedom has been a driving force in the country’s history. This volume gathers leading scholars to... more

Russian and East European Studies: Celebrating Women : Gender Festival Culture and Bolshevik Ideology 1910–1939 (Paperback)

Choi Chatterjee analyzes both Bolshevik attitudes towards women and the invented state rituals surrounding Women’s Day to demonstrate the ways these celebrations helped construct gender notions in the Soviet Union. more

Russian and East European Studies: Perceptions and Behavior in Soviet Foreign Policy (Paperback)

This book discerns Soviet leaders views of the United States and sees them in relation to foreign policy statements and actions. more

Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies (Paperback): Brezhnev s Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism (Paperback)

Heralded by Soviet propaganda as the Path to the Future the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM) represented the hopes and dreams of Brezhnev and the Communist Party elite of the late Soviet era. Begun in 1974 and spanning approximately 2 000 miles after... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe The Baltic States from the Soviet Union to the European Union (Hardcover)

The Baltic States are unique in being the only member-states of the EU to have fought to regain their sovereignty from the Soviet Union only then to cede it to Brussels in certain key areas. Similarly no member-states have had to struggle as hard as... more

Russian and East European Studies: Factory and Community in Stalin’s Russia : The Making of an Industrial Working Class (Paperback)

Kenneth Straus contemplates the question: Was there social support for the Stalin regime among the Soviet working class during the 1930s and if so why? In his well-researched answer he analyzes the daily lives of Soviet workers and compares the... more

Russian and East European Studies: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture (Series #31) (Paperback)

Acting as an important historical archive for the Jews of eastern Europe The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture examines the progress of Yiddish culture from its origins in Tsarist and inter-war Poland to its apex with the founding of the Yiddish... more

Russian and East European Studies: Yugoslavia : Oblique Insights and Observations (Paperback)

This volume presents the most significant reports from American Universities Field Staff member Dennison Rusinow on the major political developments and life in Yugoslavia during the Cold War. more

Russian and East European Studies: Troubled Waters : Origins of the 1881 Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Russia (Paperback)

Aronson refutes the widely-held belief that the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1881 in Russia were supported by the Czar or those within his inner circle. Aronson instead looks to social economic and political forces of the time and recounts the fateful events... more

Russian and East European Studies: Exile and Identity : Polish Women in the Soviet Union during World War II (Paperback)

Katherine Jolluck tells the story of thousands of Polish women exiled to the Soviet Union in 1939-41 and examines the ways in which their efforts to maintain their identities as respectable women and patriotic Poles helped them survive. more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History (Paperback)

Though usually forgotten in general surveys of European colonization the Russians were among the greatest colonizers of the Old World eventually settling across most of the immense expanse of Northern Europe and Asia from the Baltic and the Pacific and... more