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The Legacy of Tolstoy
Alexandra Tolstoy and the Soviet Regime in the 1920s
Drawing on extensive research in Russian archives, Robert Croskey examines how Alexandra Tolstoy, the youngest daughter of Russian writer Lev (Leo) Tolstoy, sought to preserve the work of her father after the Bolshevik Revolution in...
ISBN: 9780295988771
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Red Autobiographies
Initiating the Bolshevik Self
In Red Autobiographies, Igal Halfin reads admission records of the Soviet Communist Party cells in the 1920s for what they reveal about the politics of self-representation in Bolshevik political culture. He identifies ways of speaking...
ISBN: 9780295991122
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War in a European Borderland
Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914-1918
War in a European Borderland examines the many regime changes that took place in occupied Ukraine during World War I. The decimation of people living between Austria-Hungary and the Russian empire – specifically Poles, Jews,...
ISBN: 9780295987538
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Plays of Expectations
Intertextual Relations in Russian Twentieth-Century Drama
Expectation is an integral part of the reading experience. As we read a text, we begin to classify it and compare it to others with which it seems to share a family resemblance. Drama is...
ISBN: 9780295986470
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Perils of Pankratova
Some Stories from the Annals of Soviet Historiography
Renowned Russian historian Reginald E. Zelnik’s final manuscript is a biography of Anna Pankratova, a woman from Odessa who became a leading labor historian and academic administrator in the Soviet Union from the 1920s to...
ISBN: 9780295985206
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