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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “professor christopher read”
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  • The Russian Intelligentsia

    From the Monastery to the Mir Space Station

    by Professor Christopher Read ...
    Series series The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series
    The Russian Intelligentsia is the first single-volume history of a small but tremendously influential group of Russian intellectuals who achieved world renown in a variety of spheres. While previous accounts have addressed the history of individuals within this collective, Christopher Read offers the first explanation of the intelligentsia as a group. Read traces the vast debates that broke out ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569�1999

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s), and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Everyday Stalinism:Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

    Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed. With the abolition of the market, shortages of food, clothing, and all kinds of consumer goods ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Stalin's Genocides

    by Norman M. Naimark ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Fear

    Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz

    by Jan Gross ...
    An astonishing and heartbreaking study of the Polish Holocaust survivors who returned home only to face continued violence and anti-Semitism at the hands of their neighbors“[Fear] culminates in so keen a shock that even a student of the Jewish tragedy during World War II cannot fail to feel it.”—Elie WieselFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Soviet Union

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Lovell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture at the time. Stephen Lovell examines aspects ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Stalin's Library

    A Dictator and his Books

    by Geoffrey Roberts ...
    A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal libraryIn this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Soviet Tragedy

    A History of Socialism in Russia

    by Martin Malia ...
    "The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution. He has written the history of a utopian illusion and the tragic consequences it had for the people of the Soviet Union and the world."-- David Remnick, The New York Review of Books"In Martin ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Ukraine

    The Forging of a Nation

    by Yaroslav Hrytsak ...
    A “pioneering and fundamental” (Timothy Snyder) new history of Ukraine from one of its leading public intellectualsWhen Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the “creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society” that is contemporary Ukraine. In this timely and original history, a bestseller in Ukraine, the historian Yaroslav Hrytsak tells the sweeping story of ... Read more

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  • The Burden of the Past

    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper ...
    Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture: "A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory." —Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus UniversityIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin

    by Michel Eltchaninoff ...
    The Russian president's landmark speeches, interviews and policies borrow heavily from great Russian thinkers past and present, from Peter the Great to Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn. They offer powerful visions of strong leaders and the Russian nation: they value conservatism and the Slavic spirit. They root morality in Orthodoxy, and Russian identity in the historic struggle with the West. Today, ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Soviet Sixties

    by Robert Hornsby ...
    The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet UnionBeginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the “sixties” era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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