Russia's Hero Cities. From Postwar Ruins to the Soviet Heroarchy, Paperback - Ivo Mijnssen

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The book covers the author's time reporting from the former Soviet Union not long after the fall of communism.

Julius Evola's masterful overview of the political and social manifestations of our time, the "age of decline" known to the Hindus as the Kali Yuga...

Argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the hi...

DescriptionAs the seat of Hitler's government, Berlin was the most frequently targeted city in Germany for Allied bombing campaigns during World Wa...

Drawing on literature, legal texts, epigraphic evidence, and the narratives embodied in monuments and painting, Broken Cities is an expansive and n...

Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city man...

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The first book by Russian photographer and Instagram sensation Arseniy Kotov. The images showcase surviving Soviet Modernist architecture from acro...

Money did not become obsolete under Communism. The ruble remained a key feature of Soviet life. After World War II, money became an essential tool ...

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Reducere. Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy. It is not unusual fo...

The technological innovation and unprecedented physical growth of the cold war era permeated American life in every aspect and at every scale. From...

Reducere. DescriptionAt over 2, 500 years old, Rome is more than the capital of Italy. It is the center of artistic creativity and a cultural complex that ar...

A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Vrasidas (University of Sydney, Australia) KaralisIllustration(s): 26 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Co...

Repression, control, manipulation and elimination of enemies assisted in the establishment of the Soviet state, and helped maintain it in power, bu...

DescriptionFederico Fellini's distinct style delighted generations of film viewers and inspired filmmakers and artists around the world. In Fellini...

Reducere. DescriptionOn Colorado's Western Slope, Parachute Creek joins the mighty Colorado River in its journey to the Gulf of California. Ute Indians hunte...

Reducere. A first-ever book on the subject, New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond offers a deep dive into the blues ve...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Mike AmezcuaIllustration(s): 32 halftonesNumber of pages: 320Collection: Historical Studies of...

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Publisher: Manchester University PressAuthor(s): Catharine RossiIllustration(s): Illustrations, black & whiteNumber of pages: 240Collection: Studie...

DescriptionThe fifty-ton British Centurion tank, developed during the darkest days of the Second World War, was designed to outgun and outperform t...

Experimental cinema, as well as experimental video practices, have always been art forms widely explored by women. Yet, while the field of cinema s...

DescriptionThe Soviet Union left behind a vast design heritage that is largely unknown in the West. Unlike Soviet-era architecture and graphic desi...

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Re-tells the history of the past 2 centuries from an Asian point of view, showing how a remarkable, disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radic...

Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonAuthor(s): Mikhail SuslovNumber of pages: 302Collection: Soviet and Post-Soviet Polit...

To understand current sociopolitical dynamics on a planetary level, we need to have two mental maps in mind: the state-centered map and the nonstat...

Reducere. In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science...

Reducere. The Lou Conter Story: From USS Arizona Survivor to Unsung American Hero tells the incredible story of one of the last remaining survivors of the US...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Przemyslaw BudzbonIllustration(s): Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8pp of colour illustrat...

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New in paperback - A unique account of old London with all its energy, filth and splendour before the city's destruction by the Great Fire in 1666....

Earthquake Children is the first book to examine the origins of modern Japan's infrastructure of resilience. Janet Borland vividly demonstrates tha...