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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....

Confronting Memories of World War II

European and Asian Legacies

By Daniel Chirot, Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel Sneider

The legacy of the Second World War has been, like the war itself, an international phenomenon. In both Europe and Asia, common questions of criminality, guilt, and collaboration have intersected with history and politics on...

The New Woman in Uzbekistan

Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism

By Marianne Ruth Kamp

Winner of the Association of Women in Slavic Studies Heldt Prize

Winner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society History and Humanities Book Award

Honorable mention for the W. Bruce Lincoln Prize Book Prize from the American Association...

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...

The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India

By Paul R. Brass

Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. Paul R. Brass, one...

Modern Clan Politics

The Power of "Blood" in Kazakhstan and Beyond

By Edward Schatz

Edward Schatz explores the politics of kin-based clan divisions in the post-Soviet state of Kazakhstan. Drawing from extensive ethnographic and archival research, interviews, and wide-ranging secondary sources, he highlights a politics that poses a two-tiered...

The Found Generation

Chinese Communists in Europe during the Twenties

By Marilyn A. Levine

In contrast to the Lost Generation of youth in the West, who were disoriented and disillusioned by the First World War and its aftermath, the Chinese youth born between 1895 and 1905 not only believed...

Essential Outsiders

Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe

By Daniel Chirot, Anthony Reid

Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, like Jews in Central Europe until the Holocaust, have been remarkably successful as an entrepreneurial and professional minority. Whole regimes have sometimes relied on the financial underpinnings of Chinese business...

Can Europe Work?

Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies

By Stephen E. Hanson, Willfried Spohn

In Can Europe Work? Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies, eight scholars from the United States and Europe discuss the problems posed for European unity by the collapse of communism and the reemergence of...

Rules and Rights in the Middle East

Democracy, Law, and Society

By Ellis J. Goldberg, Resat Kasaba, Joel S. Migdal

In a series of essays by an international group of scholars and policy makers, this book provides the first sustained look at democracy and democratic movements in the Middle East. Moving beyond a concern with...

Contradictions

Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng

By Jerome Silbergeld. With Gong Jisui

Li Huasheng (b. 1944) represents the first generation of artists raised and trained in the People’s Republic of China. His career spans the painting of Maoist propaganda in the 1960s, a decade of secretly studying...