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Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx

The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights

By Jonathan I. Israel

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world’s most resolute, intellectually driven, and philosophical revolutionaries, among them the pre-Marxist Karl Marx. Yet the roots...

Cultivating Nature

The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape

By Sarah R. Hamilton. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

Winner of the 2019 Turku Book Award from the European Society for Environmental History

The Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace of paella, has long...

Communist Pigs

An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall

By Thomas Fleischman. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic’s attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita...

Constructing Revolution

Soviet Propaganda Posters, 1917-1947

By Kristina A. Toland

The eruption of the First World War, the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, and the subsequent civil war broke down established political and social structures and brought an end to the Tsarist Empire. Russia...

Days of Defeat and Victory

By Yegor Gaidar. Translated by Jane Ann Miller. Foreword by Michael McFaul

Yegor Gaidar, the first post-Soviet prime minister of Russia and one of the principal architects of its historic transformation to a market economy, here presents his lively account of governing in the tumultuous early 1990s....

The Post-Soviet Handbook

A Guide to Grassroots Organizations and Internet Resources

By M. Holt Ruffin

Post-Soviet Handbook: A Guide to Grassroots Organizations and Internet Resources

The Power of Song

Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution

By Guntis Smidchens

The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic “Singing Revolution.” When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent...

Church Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945

By Arne Hassing

Church Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945 examines the evolution of the Lutheran state Church of Norway in response to the German occupation. While German Protestant churches generally accepted Nazism and state incorporation, Norway’s churches...

All Russia Is Burning!

A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia

By Cathy A. Frierson

Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia, as Cathy Frierson shows in this first comprehensive study. Destroying almost three billion rubles’ worth of property in European Russia between...

Boris Yeltsin and Russia’s Democratic Transformation

By Herbert J. Ellison

Boris Yeltsin is one of modern history's most dynamic and underappreciated figures. In this vivid, analytical masterwork, Herbert J. Ellison establishes Yeltsin as the principal leader and defender of Russia's democratic revolution - the very...

Serbia Since 1989

Politics and Society under Milosevic and After

By Sabrina P. Ramet, Vjeran I. Pavlakovic, James B. Lyon

During their thirteen years in power, Slobodan Milosevic and his cohorts plunged Yugoslavia into wars of ethnic cleansing, leading to the murder of thousands of civilians. The Milosevic regime also subverted the nation's culture, twisted...

Letters from Vladivostock, 1894-1930

By Eleanor L. Pray. Edited by Birgitta Ingemanson. With Patricia D. Silver

In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Over the next thirty-six years — from the time of Tsar Alexander...

East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500

By Jean W. Sedlar

Although the Middle Ages saw brilliant achievements in the diverse nations of East Central Europe, this period has been almost totally neglected in Western historical scholarship. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages provides a...

Money Matters

Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850

By Richard T. Gray

In Money Matters, Richard Gray investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. The transition in Germany from an agrarian or proto-industrial economy to a...

Nature Protests

The End of Ecology in Slovakia

By Edward K. Snajdr. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, policy makers, and environmental practitioners to understand the dynamic relationship between environmental movements and...

The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918

By Piotr S. Wandycz

The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918 comprehensively covers an important, complex, and controversial period in the history of Poland and East Central Europe, beginning in 1795 when the remnanst of the Polish Commonwealth were distributed...

East Central Europe between the Two World Wars

By Joseph Rothschild

East Central Europe Between The Two World Wars is a sophisticated political history of East Central Europe in the interwar years. Written by an eminent scholar in the field, it is an original contribution to...

The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920

By Charles Jelavich and Barbara Jelavich

This highly readable and thoroughly researched volume offers an excellent account of the development of seven Balkan peoples during the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth centuries. Professors Charles and Barbara Jelavich have...

Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804

By Peter F. Sugar

Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804 provides an over-all picture of the least studied and most obscured part of Balkan history, the Ottoman period. The book begins with the early history of the Ottomans and...

Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East

Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints

By Kurt Engelmann

Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints