History & Area Studies

Bushkovitch, Paul (ed.)

The State in Early Modern Russia: New Directions

In the last generation a large body of new empirical information has challenged the inherited views of early modern Russia. Much of this new information has been about the state, its administration, practices, and relations with society. Old ideas and...

Frary, Lucien J. (ed.)

Thresholds into the Orthodox Commonwealth: Essays in honor of Theofanis G. Stavrou

This volume is a tribute to Theofanis G. Stavrou, Professor of Russian and Near Eastern History and Director of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Minnesota. A generous and penetrating scholar, as well as an award-winning teacher and mentor,...

Gerald Janecek (ed.)

Staging the Image: Dmitry Prigov as Artist and Writer

Dmitry Prigov (1940–2007), the most prominent figure in Moscow Conceptualism, is not well known in the West because of a lack of English translations of his work and scholarship in English. This collection of articles by some of the most devoted...

Jan Novák; edited by Craig Cravens

So Far, So Good: The Mašín Family and the Greatest Story of the Cold War

This is the true story of three young Czech men whose daring exploits of anti-Communist resistance and 1953 flight to West Berlin set off the largest manhunt in the history of the Eastern Bloc. To this day, whether the Mašín brothers were...

Gwido Zlatkes et al. (eds.)

Duplicator Underground: The Independent Publishing Industry in Communist Poland, 1976-89

  “We envied the Russians their samizdat...and then we went a few steps further.” – Adam Michnik       Duplicator Underground is the first comprehensive in-depth English-language discussion of Polish...

Deborah Pearl

Creating a Culture of Revolution: Workers and the Revolutionary Movement in Late Imperial Russia

How did Russian workers develop the revolutionary outlook and the level of political consciousness and organizational experience that made them the crucial political and social force in the revolutions of 1905 and 1917? Creating a Culture of Revolution...

Pate, Alice K.

Workers and Unity: A Study of Social Democracy, St. Petersburg Metalworkers, and the Labor Movement in Late Imperial Russia, 1906-14

Workers and Unity examines the history of St. Petersburg workers, the Metalworkers’ Union, and Russian Social Democracy from 1906–14. Tracing the formation of workers’ associations and analyzing the activities of legal and SD activists...

Beizer, Michael

Relief in Time of Need

World War I’s Eastern Front was located in the midst of the Russian Pale of Settlement, where up to a third of the urban population was Jewish. The war resulted in thousands of civilian deaths and severe damage to the entire region’s economy...

Fischer et al.

The Russian Revolution of 1905 in Transcultural Perspective

This volume focuses on the Revolution of 1905 as a critical juncture in modern Russian history and offers a fresh approach by treating the revolution as a transnational and transcultural phenomenon. In five sections, “Shifting Identities,”...

Martin et al.

Dubitando: Studies in History and Culture in Honor of Donald Ostrowski

This collection of essays is offered with sincere gratitude and admiration to Donald Ostrowski, Instructor in Extension Studies at Harvard University and one of the most important scholars of Ukraine, Russia, and Eurasia in the last half century...

Melancon & Raleigh

Russia's Century of Revolutions Parties, People, Places

Alexander Rabinowitch is a towering figure among historians of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. Distinguished by an unrivaled mastery of published and archival materials, a compelling narrative style and demythologizing interpretations, his...

Danilevskii, Nikolai Iakovlevich

Russia & Europe: The Slavic World’s Political and Cultural Relations with the Germanic-Roman West

Out of print in Russia for almost a century, since 1991 Russia and Europe has appeared in at least eight new editions totaling more than 100,000 copies. As Russians have re-­‐‑evaluated their place in the world in the post-­‐‑Soviet era,...