History of Other Lands

Zvi Preigerzon wrote memoirs about his time in the Gulag in 1958, long before Solzhenitsyn and without any knowledge of the other publications on t...

Featuring a special section on Russian Foreign Policy Towards the ''Near Abroad'' Issue 4,2 deals with Russias post-Maidan foreign policy towards t...

A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2...

Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule is devoted to studies of the political culture of the Russian monarchy as it influenced aspects of histor...

A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putins grip on power is more fragile than we thin...

The Petrograd Workers in the Russian Revolution is a study of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and of the first months of Soviet power as viewed and...

The Instant New York Times BestsellerI could not put this extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece: elegantly written, bri...

Between 1945 and 1965, the catastrophe of war--and the social and political changes it brought in its wake--had a major impact on the construction ...

GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted. Wall Street JournalThe riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission...

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...