Forthcoming

Edited by Aaron B. Retish, Julia Safronova, Konstantin Tarasov, and Murray Frame

Boundaries of the Political in Russia

This book present the papers, commentaries, and discussions from the 12th International Colloquium in Russian History, held in June 2023 with the participation of scholars from Britain, Canada, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, and the United States. ...

Stoyan Tchaprazov

The Misunderstood Civilization

Stoyan Tchaprazov's translation from the Bulgarian of Dobri Voinikov's Криворазбраната Цивилизация (The Misunderstood Civilization) received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant in 2023.   From the judges' citation: "A caustic satire from 1871, Dobri...

Dmitry Grigorovich, Translated by Michael R. Katz

Anton the Hapless

Dmitry Grigorovich (1822–1900) was born a member of the Russian landed gentry. A schoolmate of Dostoevsky's, he contributed several short stories to the influential almanac The Physiology of Petersburg (1845). His single most...

John W. Steinberg, Maria Carlson, Anthony J. Heywood, Alex Marshall, and David MacLaren McDonald

RGWR V5 B5: The Wider War, Strategy, Planning and Leadership, 1914-22

These two books (Volume 5, Books 4 and 5) address the operations of the ImperialRussian army in the First World War from the outbreak of hostilities in 1914 until theBolsheviks’ Declaration of Peace shortly after their seizure of power in 1917...

Charles H. Arndt III

"Our Common People Are a Vagrant Before Anything": Wanderer-Pilgrims in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Literary Landscape

Challenging the stereotype of Russian imperial society as static and immobile, the mid- to late nineteenth century witnessed the portrayal in literature of a unique representative of the country’s Orthodox Christian asceticism—the wanderer...

Eva Eckert

Letters in Chronicling Migration and Integration

The Přibyl brothers were joined by thousands of other migrantsfrom the Frenštát region in Moravia hoping to rebuild their homesin Texas in the 1870s and 1880s. Prior to integrating to America,they set up a safety net in an enclave of the...

Edited by Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya

Dislocation

This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.  Divided into thematic clusters, the book delves into the death, despair, displacements, and dislocations brought on by the war, as...

Shahzoda Samarqandi- translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega

Mothersland

  "I don't remember exactly whether my youth ended, and then the USSR, or if it was the other way around.  But I do know that those two things are connected.  Now I'm left here between two truths: the truth of the land, and the truth of...