The Culture of Samizdat: Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet Union, Hardcover - Josephine Von Zitzewitz

Samizdat, the production and circulation of texts outside official channels, was an integral part of life in the final decades of the Soviet Union....

Explores how ancient and late antique Christianity traveled through Asia by examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antiq...

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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...

Reducere. The revival of the Olympic games in 1896 and the subsequent rise of modern athletics prompted a new, energetic movement away from more sedentary ha...

"...that rare thing, a piece of careful scholarship that is also superby entertaining...Starr, who is president of Oberlin College and has been ass...

DescriptionWith over 60 per cent of the world's population living in cities, the networks beneath our feet - which keep the cities above moving - a...

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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 ...

Award NameYalsa Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young AdultsAward categoryYoung Adult NonfictionExcellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults F...

A tour d'horizon of the role Islam plays in politics and the private sphere in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

A German soldier's graphic first-hand account of his escape from Soviet captivity during the Red Army's offensive on the Eastern Front in 1944. Dra...

A German soldier's graphic first-hand account of his escape from Soviet captivity during the Red Army's offensive on the Eastern Front in 1944.Publ...

Explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane...

DescriptionAfter the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and new econom...

Publisher: Old Street PublishingAuthor(s): Sheila FitzpatrickPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 225 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmec...

The Military History of the Soviet Union and The Military History of Tsarist Russia treat Russian military history from the rise of the Muscovite s...

The inspiring and poetic memoir of the young New Wave musician whose improbable Cold War heroics opened the clandestine world of Leningrad punk and...

Reducere. This book outlines and summarizes the early years of the experience of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. "Short course" is an essential tool...

Four books - Landscapes, Still Lifes, Nudes and Portraits - are opening a new series called Art of the Soviet Union. This set will examine differen...

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demisePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Siege of Leningrad, then keep reading...From the early fall of 1941 until the winter of 1944...

DescriptionAn award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from di...

Based on extensive archival research, the contributions in this collection examine the nuances of neutrality leading up to and during the Cold War....

Four books - Landscapes, Still Lifes, Nudes and Portraits - are opening a new series called Art of the Soviet Union. This set will examine differen...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cambridge Five, then keep reading...During the poverty-stricken years of the Great Depressio...

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire...

Reducere. Choice Outstanding Academic Title A groundbreaking account of the Soviet Air Force in World War II, the original version of this book, Red Phoenix,...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Professor Mikhail (Emory University, USA) EpsteinNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimension...

Reducere. The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had diffe...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Eastern Front during World War 2, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one bo...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Eastern Front during World War 2, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one bo...