History of Other Lands

Nikolai Charushin's memoirs of his experience as a member of the revolutionary populist movement in Russia are familiar to historians, but A Genera...

Xu Hong Where did the word China (Zhongguo, the Central State) come from, and why was this hinterland named Central State? This book retraces the o...

In recent years, journalists and environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of the growing effects of cli...

This book examines patterns of behavior during an era of mass brutality by analyzing, in a transnational context, mechanisms of violence and ethnic...

This book explains the multiple perspectives of Central Asia or Eurasia as it relates to the economic, security, and energy fields. Sahibzada Muham...

Stalinism is the name that is used to identify the political and economic systems introduced and implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union f...

Charles Fourier has generally been studied in relation to particular segments of his teaching. Consequently he is known only in one or another of t...

Charles Fourier has generally been studied in relation to particular segments of his teaching. Consequently he is known only in one or another of t...

A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present   Russia and China, the l...

For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West. Why Turke...

Tsar Peter (927–969), this book’s protagonist, is all too frequently presented in modern scholarship as a weak ruler, devoid of any grander politic...

Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is ...

Raoul Wallenberg, the courageous Swedish businessman turned diplomat and savior of thousands of Jews in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944, was arrested in...

Turkey and Russia are countries with growing international importance. Turkish-Russian Relations: Prospects and Challenges analyzes Turkish-Russian...

Richard Williamson’s First Steps toward Détente provides a history of negotiations conducted from 1958-1963 between the United States, its Western ...

Research and analysis of the post-Soviet Russian experience of political, economic and social change have generally focused attention on the compli...

In the twenty-first century, students of Cold War history are fortunate to have the fruits of several major works on the Sino-Soviet split by Europ...

This study demonstrates that the full time party officials of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) used the term “party leadership” to bo...

This study focuses on Soviet television audiences and examines their watching habits and the way they made use of television programs. Kirsten Bönk...

In A Systemic View as the Base of Philological Thought, Olga Valentinova, Vladimir Denisenko, Sergey Preobrazhenskii, and Mikhail Rybakov explore t...

Russia is a great country—both in terms of size and its achievements. It is the largest country in the world and, perhaps, the richest one as well,...

This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinem...

Chrysovalantis Kyriacou examines how memories of the pre-Christian past, Christian militarism, power struggles, and ethnoreligious encounters have ...

This book is a critical attempt to cast a biopolitical gaze at the process of subjectification of Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Estonia in terms of...

The edited collection is the first attempt to take a more coherent look at the Russian perception of the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact occupati...

The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants i...

This study analyzes how public bereavement became cemented into the broad geography of Russian culture with the appearance of experiential and loca...

In the twenty-first century, students of Cold War history are fortunate to have the fruits of several major works on the Sino-Soviet split by Europ...

In Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia, Yelena Zotova argues that the Russian Modernist prose of the 1920s underwent a peculiar transformation due ...

In the early years of the Great Depression the Marine Workers Industrial Union was a colorful presence on the American Waterfront. In 1935 the MWI...