History of Other Lands

A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga River and its vital place in Russian historynamed a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times  A mem...

A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library   [A] fascinating new study.Michael ODonnell, Wall Street Journal  ...

The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life   Playing wit...

Frank Thoms went to the Soviet Union not to judge but to learn. As a result, he gained the trust and confidence of the people he befriendedand disc...

The SS was one of the most important institutions of Third Reich Germany, yet it is also among the least well understood. From the end of 1935, the...

A fascinating examination of the life of Thomas Clarke, a member of the Fenians and a key leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1916. Cla...

Montserrat is a small island in the Leeward islands of the eastern Caribbean and at present a British Overseas Territory. It has suffered greatly i...

Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for th...

A unique work of fiction from the troubled streets of Ukraine, giving invaluable testimony to the new history unfolding in the nations post-indepen...

This detailed, illustrated look at the Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter aircraft features complete discussions of its design, construction, and operati...

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was created in a surge of revolutionary self-determination that rejected both the free-market-Capitali...

Traces of Modernism surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and...

What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychia...

What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychia...

In Stalins Soviet Monastery Russian scholar Jim Curtis integrates innovative work in linguistics, anthropology, and media theory to develop a holis...

In Stalins Soviet Monastery Russian scholar Jim Curtis integrates innovative work in linguistics, anthropology, and media theory to develop a holis...

From Sojourners to Citizens: Alberta's Italian History brings to life the untold story of Italian immigrants in Alberta from the 1880s to the prese...