Former Soviet Republics category: 758 books
Gadfly in Russia
A Story of Travel, History, People, and Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
This memoir and literary travelogue from one of the UK’s most esteemed novelists offers rare insight into Cold War–era Russia.
In 1967, seeking an escape from his writing life, bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe embarks on a road trip from England to Russia via Harwich and Finland in...
Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv
Narratives, Identity, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Intelligentsia assumes the right to speak in the name of the entire nation and to extrapolate its own tastes, values and choices to it. Therefore, intelligentsia's voices have been in many ways decisive in the discussions about Ukrainian national identity, which gained momentum in the post-Soviet...
Late Stalinist Russia
Society Between Reconstruction and Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The late Stalinist period, long neglected by researchers more interested in the high-profile events of the 1930s, has recently become the focus of much new research by people keen to understand the enormous impact of the war on Soviet society and to understand Soviet life under 'mature socialism'....
Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia
Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the destiny of a great power brings into sharp focus several key episodes in Russia’s vividly ideological engagement with law and rights. Drawing on 30 years of experience of consultancy and teaching in many regions of Russia and on library research...
Socialism Betrayed
Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
"A fresh multi-faceted look at the overthrow of the Soviet State, the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, and the campaign to introduce capitalism from above. Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny have given us a clear and powerful Marxist analysis of the momentous events which most directly shaped world...
by David Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
A story of two men, a generation apart, one growing up in the shadow of the other.Peter Jirgens tells the story of his youth as the son of Arnold Jirgens, a Latvian immigrant, who struggled against discrimination to establish his family in Nowra, Australia. He shares the stories his father...
by Henry Srebrnik
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The American Jewish Communist movement played a major role in the politics of Jewish communities in cities such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, as well as in many other centers, between the 1920s and the 1950s. Making extensive use of Yiddish-language books, newspapers, periodicals,...
Life Exposed
Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed...
Myths of the Cold War
Amending Historiographic Distortions
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Myths of the Cold War: Amending Historiographic Distortions provides a corrective for the distortions and omissions of many previous domestic and foreign (including Russian) studies of the Cold War, especially those published since 2000. The “present interest” motivation in Weeks's analysis is...
by Arsenii Formakov
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
A poignant collection of letters written by the Latvian poet, novelist, and newspaper editor Arsenii Formakov while interned in Soviet labor camps Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters written by Arsenii Formakov, a Latvian Russian poet, novelist, and journalist,...
International Dimensions of Authoritarian Persistence
Lessons from Post-Soviet States
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
While the international system has been evolving in an increasingly liberal direction, the level of democratic practice within the post-Soviet region has, on the whole, declined. Two decades after the popular uprisings against communism, many governments in the region have successfully blunted both...
Black Wind, White Snow
The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe,...
by Stephen Henighan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World War II. As a Westerner in this "lost province" and former Soviet republic, Henighan feels...
King of Russia
A Year in the Russian Super League
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A revealing look inside the Russian Super League by its first Canadian coach.
Until now no Canadian had penetrated the coaching ranks of Russian hockey, but the year after the NHL lockout, Dave King became head coach of the Metallurg Magnitogorsk. From the beginning, King, Canada’s long-time...