History of Other Lands

Drawing on multiple archives and primary sources, including secret police files and samizdat, Holy Sobriety in Modern Russia reconstructs the histo...

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

In English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era, Maria Salomon Arel revisits Anglo-Russian trade in first half of the seventeenth ...

The present volume focuses on the relationship with communism of Romania's most important religious denominations and their attempt to cope with th...

Nijinsky's Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances is the first in-depth literary study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing. Through close...

A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scen...

The Vortex That Unites Us is a study of totality in Russian literature, from the foundation of the modern Russian state to the present day. Conside...

A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Times bestseller A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024 A S...

A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and deva...

After decades of federal dominance and dependence, Native governments now command attention as they exercise greater degrees of political, economic...

'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver BulloughOn 1 September 2004...

The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncha...

Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixte...

Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixte...

In the middle of the twentieth century, transnational networks sparked a range of cultural projects focused on collecting Indigenous music and folk...

Finalist, 2024 PEN Translation PrizeIn The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience...

A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsib...

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

This collection of studies examines different aspects of Romanian diplomacy in the 20th century, thus highlighting the activity of various diplomat...

Macedonia and its Questions: Origins, Margins, Ruptures and Continuity is a multi-disciplinary book of 11 chapters, containing contributions that s...