History of Other Lands

The essays in this collection make up the first study of “dropping out” of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Lening...

“Why have I been exiled to prison?” It was a question millions of Soviet citizens asked themselves in the latter 1930s and in the years that follow...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. Bu...

Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the c...

Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine.  The Kingdom of Rye unearths ...

Despite the continued fascination with the Virgin Mary in modern and contemporary times, very little of the resulting scholarship on this topic ext...

How succession in authoritarian regimes was less a competition of visions for the future and more a settling of scores  “Joseph Torigian’s stellar ...

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were c...

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were c...

The study of Islam and of Islamic history is enjoying something of a revival with an emphasis on intellectual history and a greater concern with th...

The book examines the wide panorama of Russian theological reflection found in a variety of sources—ecclesiastical books, sermons, literature, poet...

The book presents the biography of Maria, daughter of Christopher Lekapenos (the eldest son of emperor Romanos I). For about 35 years, she was the ...