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Constructing Revolution
Soviet Propaganda Posters, 1917-1947
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...
ISBN: 9781735441634
more detailsCultivating Nature
The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape
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...
ISBN: 9780295748092
more detailsCommunist Pigs
An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall
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...
ISBN: 9780295747309
more detailsRevolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx
The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights
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...
ISBN: 9780295748665
more detailsDays of Defeat and Victory
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....
ISBN: 9780295995359
more detailsThe Post-Soviet Handbook
A Guide to Grassroots Organizations and Internet Resources
Post-Soviet Handbook: A Guide to Grassroots Organizations and Internet Resources
ISBN: 9780295977942
more detailsThe Power of Song
Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution
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...
ISBN: 9780295994529
more detailsChurch Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945
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...
ISBN: 9780295994543
more detailsAll Russia Is Burning!
A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia
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...
ISBN: 9780295982090
more detailsBoris Yeltsin and Russia’s Democratic Transformation
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...
ISBN: 9780295986371
more detailsSerbia Since 1989
Politics and Society under Milosevic and After
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...
ISBN: 9780295986500
more detailsLetters from Vladivostock, 1894-1930
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...
ISBN: 9780295994536
more detailsEast Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500
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...
ISBN: 9780295972916
more detailsMoney Matters
Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850
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...
ISBN: 9780295988375
more detailsNature Protests
The End of Ecology in Slovakia
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...
ISBN: 9780295988566
more detailsThe Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918
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...
ISBN: 9780295953588
more detailsEast Central Europe between the Two World Wars
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...
ISBN: 9780295953571
more detailsThe Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920
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...
ISBN: 9780295964133
more detailsSoutheastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804
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...
ISBN: 9780295960333
more detailsRural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East
Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints
Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints
ISBN: 9780295980478
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