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Roger R. Reese
A Social History of the Russians and Their Army since 1690

Russian Shorts

This book skilfully probes the conflicted relationship that the Russian peoples have had with their army, most often seeing service as a burden to the individual and family, yet a necessary one to defend …

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Roger R. Reese
A Social History of the Russians and Their Army since 1690

This book skilfully probes the conflicted relationship that the Russian peoples have had with their army, most often seeing service as a burden to the individual and family, yet a necessary one to defend …

lieferbar ab 19.2.2026.

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Michel Krielaars,
The Sound of Utopia

"Revelatory and poignant" stories of suppression and freedom, told through the artists trying to make music in the dangerous time of Stalin's purges (The Guardian)."Krielaars testifies to a…

lieferbar ab 15.1.2026.

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In the Shadow of the Holocaust

" In the Shadow of the Holocaust is a collection of newly translated short fiction written in the aftermath of one of the most significant Jewish tragedies of the 20th century. In these works, Jewish…

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In the Shadow of the Holocaust

" In the Shadow of the Holocaust is a collection of newly translated short fiction written in the aftermath of one of the most significant Jewish tragedies of the 20th century. In these works, Jewish…

lieferbar ab 10.2.2026.

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Taras Prokhasko,
Earth Gods

Earth Gods: Writings from before the War collects in one book for the first time the early writings of Taras Prokhasko, one of Ukraine's most prominent contemporary writers. It spans genres and includes A…

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Taras Prokhasko,
Earth Gods

Earth Gods: Writings from before the War collects in one book for the first time the early writings of Taras Prokhasko, one of Ukraine's most prominent contemporary writers. It spans genres and includes A…

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Andrew M. Nedd
History and Myth in Pictorial Narratives of the Russian 'Patriotic War', 1812-1914

This book reveals that the visual narrative of the events of the Russian campaign of 1812 was inextricably linked to Russia's search for national identity and helped to form competing definitions of 'Russ…

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Filip Kovacevic
KGB Literati

Once out of active service, many former spies have turned to writing spy fiction. They drop the dagger and pick up the pen. Some are very successful, like James Bond's creator Ian Fleming or the novelists…

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Olga Dubrovina
The Soviet Space Program and International Collaboration during Perestroika, 1985-1991

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

This book explores the evolution of the Soviet space sector during the period of perestroika, presenting it as a revealing mirror of the broader political, economic, and social transformations that reshap…

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Yana Skorobogatov
Fate in My Hands

A striking examination of the death penalty in the Soviet Union that documents in heart-rending detail how its citizens, hopeful for a new life post-Stalin, lost faith that their transgressions could be f…

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John Berger
Art and Revolution

The Essential John Berger

A wrenching portrait of the Russian sculptor and a tribute to the potential of political art

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Eliot Borenstein
The Politics of Fantasy

What happened when J. K. Rowling's mega-blockbuster--born in the United Kingdom and launched to global heights by Hollywood and the full force of Western marketing--came knocking on President Putin's door…

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Osip Mandelstam,
Stone

"Invaluable. . . . [What] comes across in these translations is the verve and immediacy of the poems' occasions."---Seamus Heaney A groundbreaking translation of the brilliant first book by one …

lieferbar ab 24.3.2026.

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Jeremy Dauber
The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem

Part of the Jewish Encounters seriesThe first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, the collection of stories that inspired Fiddler on …

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Jonathan Walker
Churchill's Third World War

A haunting study of the war that so nearly was, Walker offers a fascinating insight into the upheaval as the Second World War drew to a close and the Allies' mistrust of the Soviet Union that would blosso…

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Melissa Frazier
Signs of the Material World

Signs of the Material World traces the literary effects of nineteenth-century materialism that includes the mind and body within a multifaceted "living life." The book examines a range of scient…

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John Lechner
Death Is Our Business

"Extraordinary."-CHRIS MILLER, author of Chip War"Incredible." -ANNIE JACOBSEN, author of Nuclear War, via XFrom John Lechner, "an amazingly bold reporter" (Adam Hochschild),…

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Apollon Grigoryev,
My Literary and Moral Meanderings

My Literary and Moral Meanderings was written in response to a challenge from the Dostoevsky brothers Fyodor and Mikhail; they asked Apollon Grigoryev to write an autobiography that included his childhood…

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Richard Breitman
A Calculated Restraint

Why did the Allied leaders-Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin-largely keep quiet about the Holocaust? Richard Breitman examines the competing political and military considerations that drove their responses…

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