4,254円 This book explores how the communist cult of the individual was not just a Soviet phenomenon but an international one. When Stalin died in 1953, the communists of all countries united in mourning the figure that was the incarnation of their cause. Though its international character was one of the...

1,800円 'Ik dwaal nog één keer door de stad. De mist trekt langzaam op. Het vriest niet meer maar het voelt kouder dan toen het min tien was, ik word ingehaald door haastige mensen, op weg naar een warm metrostation of een trolleybus. Ik neem een brede straat en dan een smalle, ik loop langs de bochtige ...

12,154円 This book discusses the reunification of Germany and the negative impacts that this had on East German intellectuals. The book is an ethnographic account of how the intellectuals of East Germany reacted to the demise of their nation, their “dream” of a socialist world, and unification with capita...

1,350円 Tel un héros de conte russe, cet ancien petit paysan devenu aviateur côtoie les tsars de son temps en exhibant son éternel sourire. Pourtant, il n’ignore rien des souffrances endurées par les protagonistes de la conquête russe de l’espace, et surtout par Sergueï Korolev (1907-1966), son mentor et...

1,856円 A seminal introduction to the rise of Central Asia following the collapse of Tsarist Russia, this book has been out of print for two decades and is now more relevent than ever. The Resurgence of Central Asia is Ahmed Rashid’s seminal study of the states that emerged in the aftermath of the breaku...

394円 Der Russe Michail Vasil'evi? Lomonosov (1711-1765) zählt zu dem bekanntesten europäischen Gelehrtenpersönlichkeiten. Seine wissenschaftliche Karriere begann zu einer Zeit, als die russische Wissenschaftsentwicklung noch ganz am Anfang stand und überwiegend von ausländischen Gelehrten - zum großen...

13,369円 This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states. This volume shows how these “short” wars profoundly changed the sociopolitical situation in the B...

13,319円 Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were gove...

3,241円 Soviet Jews lived through a record number of traumatic events: the Great Terror, World War II, the Holocaust, the Famine of 1947, the Doctors' Plot, the antisemitic policies of the postwar period, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. But like millions of other Soviet citizens, they married, rais...

10,348円 Contrary to the prevailing opinion, the idea of Ukrainian independence did not emerge at the end of the nineteenth-century. In Brothers and Enemies, Johannes Remy reveals that the roots of Ukrainian independence were planted fifty years earlier. Remy contextualizes the Ukrainian national movement...

3,895円 A focus on Jewish officials of the Russian state who assumed a central role in the bureaucratic procedures of Jewish policymaking and were a driving force behind the transformation of Russian Jewry. Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds examines the phenomenon of Jewish bureaucracy in the Russian empi...

5,432円 Native soil was a mid-nineteenth-century Russian reaction against materialism and positivism. It emphasized the need for people to live their lives and develop themselves naturally, so that class difference might be reconciled, the achievements of the West fused with the communalism and Christian...