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Christopher Read et. al. (eds.)

RGWR V3 B4: Reintegration-The Struggle for the State

For soldiers on the Great War’s Western Front the term home front suggested a degree of coziness, a place of retreat from the horrors of battle visualized by the poet Rupert Brooke in idyllic terms shortly before the war, a place where the...

Christopher Read et. al. (eds.)

RGWR V3 B3: National Disintegration

For soldiers on the Great War’s Western Front the term home front suggested a degree of coziness, a place of retreat from the horrors of battle visualized by the poet Rupert Brooke in idyllic terms shortly before the war, a place where the...

Adele Lindenmeyer et al. (eds.)

RGWR V3 B2: The Experience of War and Revolution

This book presents original research by an international group of scholars on the social history of Russia across the period of World War I, the 1917 revolutions, and the Civil War. The essays document how the inhabitants of Russia’s multinational...

Lohr et al.(eds.)

RGWR V2. B1: The Empire & Nationalism at War

This volume brings together a group of prominent scholars from Russia, Europe, and the United States to examine how the cataclysmic clash of the Russian Empire with its three imperial neighbors and its aftermath changed the empire and spurred the rapid...

Frame et al. (eds.)

RGWR V1, B2: Political Culture, Identities, Mentalities, and Memory

This book is one of a two-part collection of original essays on the cultural history of Russia from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 to the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922. The chapters in both parts of Russian Culture in War and...

Frame et al. (eds.)

RGWR V1, B1: Popular Culture, the Arts, and Institutions

This book is one of a two-part collection of original essays on the cultural history of Russia from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 to the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922. The chapters in both parts of Russian Culture in War and...

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...

Kotlerman, Ber

Disenchanted Tailor in “Illusion”

A simple tailor, the protagonist of the great Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem’s last theatrical drama, suddenly becomes rich, but loses his money on account of an obscure cinema deal. The author’s son-in-law and assistant, Y.D. Berkowitz,...

Shrager, Miriam et al. (eds.)

Studies in Accentology & Slavic Linguistics in Honor of Ronald F. Feldstein

This volume presents eleven articles on Slavic linguistics and accentology in honor of Professor Emeritus Ronald F. Feldstein of Indiana University. Ronald Feldstein has been a leading practitioner in historical and comparative Slavic linguistics, with a...

Gribble, Charles E.

Reading Bulgarian Through Russian 2nd ed.

The second revised edition of this innovative book teaches the user to read Bulgarian by taking advantage of the similarities between Bulgarian and Russian. Fifty-one sections explaining the structure of the Bulgarian language are reinforced by...