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The Politics of Literary History

This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and ideology after 1990 changed the writing of national liter…

Catriona Kelly,

Russian Food since 1800

In Russia, food has a hugely important role in political, symbolic, and practical terms. In this illuminating history of Russian food in the modern age, Catriona Kelly - a leading cultural historian and k…

Weltmusik Nostalgie

Excavated Shellac: Alternate History Of The World's Music

Donald Rayfield

'A Seditious and Sinister Tribe'

With implications for the war in Ukraine, a surprising history of the Crimean Tatars from the fifteenth century to the present day. The Crimean Tatars were the Turkic-speaking native peoples of Crimea w…

James R Gibson

Hungry and Starving

Stalin's collectivization of Soviet Russia's agriculture resulted in the deaths of at least ten million people through starvation and associated diseases between 1928 and 1934. Hungry and Starving explore…

Meredith Bagby

The New Guys

The never-before-told story of NASA's 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian American, and the first gay person to fly to space. With t…

Eliot Borenstein,

Russian Culture Under Putin

This timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia's media and culture industry had enjoyed nea…

Eliot Borenstein,

Russian Culture Under Putin

This timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia's media and culture industry had enjoyed nea…

Jonathan Fink

The Dark Heart of Russia

An essential guide to the strange, sinister culture of contemporary Russia. When Jonathan Fink studied Russia in university in the 1990s he developed a passion for the country that seemed under Boris Yelt…

Nicolas Werth,

Cannibal Island

"Perhaps it is not surprising that Nicolas Werth, the French historian who cowrote The Black Book of Communism, has decided in Cannibal Island to return to an incident he merely mentioned in that vast boo…

Medievalism in Finland and Russia

Since the end of the Cold War, the Middle Ages has returned to debates about history, culture, and politics in Northern and Eastern Europe. This volume explores political medievalism in two language areas…

Victoria Harms

The Making of Dissidents

Offers New Perspectives on Local and Western Opposition to State Socialism and the Cold War Order

Peter Sarandinaki

In Search of the Romanovs

A thrilling, true-life detective story about the search for the missing members of the Romanov royal family, murdered by Bolsheviks in 1918, and one family’s involvement in the hundred-year-old forensic i…

Oleg Beyda

For Russia with Hitler

This book explores the active involvement of Russian exiles in the Second World War, with thousands of émigrés fighting alongside Hitler.

Gregory J Wallance

Into Siberia

In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance's Into Siberia is a thrilling work of history about one man's harrowing journey and the light it shone on some of history's most …

Shaun Walker

The Illegals

The definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s present-day invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history s…

Helen Rappaport

The Rebel Romanov

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of a courageous young Imperial Grand Duchess who scandalized Europe in search of freedom. In 1795, Catherine the Great of…

Ksenia Tartachenko

Soviet Sci_beria

The education and technological centre of Russia, Akademgorodok in Siberia is home to the state university, 35 research institutes, a medical academy and the House of Scientists, and generates over 17 mil…

Polly Zavadivker

A Nation of Refugees

Though the Holocaust has been documented in depth, historians and the public know very little about the experience of Eastern European Jews during the preceding world war. A Nation of Refugees tells the s…