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  • A Frozen State

    Experiencing Cold in Russian History and Culture

    by Alison K. Smith, Tricia Starks, Matthew P. Romaniello ...
    Cold runs through Russian history and culture as an enemy, an opportunity, an adventure, and a metaphor. Drawing on the expertise of a broad range of scholars, this volume offers new insights into Russia’s sensational history.Early modern European travelers and thinkers found Russia’s cold bewildering as something to experience and something to explain. In the nineteenth century, Russians began to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • A Frozen State

    Experiencing Cold in Russian History and Culture

    by Alison K. Smith, Tricia Starks, Matthew P. Romaniello ...
    Cold runs through Russian history and culture as an enemy, an opportunity, an adventure, and a metaphor. Drawing on the expertise of a broad range of scholars, this volume offers new insights into Russia’s sensational history.Early modern European travelers and thinkers found Russia’s cold bewildering as something to experience and something to explain. In the nineteenth century, Russians began to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Life Cycle of Russian Things

    From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600 - Present

    Edited by Professor Matthew P. Romaniello, Professor Alison K. Smith, Professor Tricia Starks ...
    The Life Cycle of Russian Things re-orients commodity studies using interdisciplinary and comparative methods to foreground unique Russian and Soviet materials as varied as apothecary wares, isinglass, limestone and tanks. It also transforms modernist and Western interpretations of the material by emphasizing the commonalities of the Russian experience.Expert contributors from across the United ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Cabbage and Caviar

    A History of Food in Russia

    by Alison K. Smith ...
    Series series Foods and Nations
    When people think of Russian food they generally think either of opulent luxury, signified above all by caviar, or of poverty and hunger – of cabbage and potatoes and porridge. Both of these visions have a basis in reality, but both of them are incomplete. The history of food and drink in Russia includes hunger and it includes plenty, it includes scarcity and, for some, at least, abundance. It ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being

    Social Estates in Imperial Russia

    by Alison K. Smith ...
    Every subject of the Russian Empire had an official, legal place in society marked by his or her social estate, or soslovie. These sosloviia (noble, peasant, merchant, and many others) were usually inherited, and defined the rights, opportunities, and duties of those who possessed them. They were also usually associated with membership in a specific geographically defined society in a particular ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • Russian History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Geoffrey Hosking ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Spanning the divide between Europe and Asia, Russia is a multi-ethnic empire with a huge territory, strategically placed and abundantly provided with natural resources. But Russia's territory has a harsh climate, is cut off from most maritime contact with the outside world, and has open and vulnerable land frontiers. It has therefore had to devote much of its wealth to the armed forces, and the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • What's So Eastern About Eastern Europe?

    Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    by Leon Marc ...
    Leon Marc gives the reader the big picture of Eastern Europe—its political, economic, social and cultural history, the nature of changes there and of the issues at stake in the political and economic transition—while putting the fall of the Berlin Wall and the EU enlargement into a broader perspective of general European history. Three key strands of Eastern Europe—Central Europe, Eastern Europe ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Soviet Century

    Archaeology of a Lost World

    by Karl Schlögel ...
    Translated by Rodney Livingstone ...
    An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Soviet Union, ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The Essential Guide to Being Polish

    50 Facts & Facets of Nationhood

    by Anna Spysz, Marta Turek ...
    Being Polish is no joke. For ten million people of Polish ancestry in the United States, as well as many who have settled in the UK since the fall of communism, it is a heartfelt matter⎯and amid all the travel guides and guides to Polish language, folklore, and customs, there is no single, comprehensive, reader-friendly and yet ever-informative reference on what it means to be Polish.Enter The ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Waltz on the Danube

    The Ethnic German Genocide in History and Memory 1944-1948

    by Ali Botein-Furrevig, Ph.D. ...
    The forgotten ethnic cleansing--the grand scale genocide--of some two million innocent ethnic German citizens living for over 400 years along the Danube River has been long shrouded in silence. Dr. Ali Botein first discusses the horrific story of Tito's 1944-1948 barbarous revenge against the Danube Swabians, most of whom had never even been to Germany. In the 18th century following the return of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Russian Moment in World History

    by Marshall T. Poe ...
    Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union's demise and Russia's ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. In this provocative and elegantly written short history of Russia, Marshall Poe takes us well beyond the Soviet haze deep into the nation's fascinating--not at all inevitable, and in key respects remarkably successful- ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Vladimir Krajina

    World War II Hero and Ecology Pioneer

    by Jan Drabek ...
    In 1939 the botanist Vladimir Krajina joined the Czech Resistance and quickly became one of its leaders. Incredible escapes from the Gestapo followed while some 20,000 radio messages were sent by his group to London, among them those about the pending invasion of the Balkans and of the Soviet Union. As the strongest anti-Communist Party’s general secretary he escaped from the country on skis after ... Read more

    $12.99 USD