History of Other Lands

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 ...

Hong Kong has been a unique society from its establishment as a political region separate from mainland China in the nineteenth century under Briti...

Based on a broad array of sources from Russian and Austrian archives, this collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the Soviet occupation of...

This book engages a complex subject that mainline theologies avoid, Indigenous Australia. The heritages, wisdoms and dreams of Indigenous Australia...

Russian Liberalism charts the development of liberal ideas and political organizations in Russia as well as the implementation of liberal reforms b...

A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russias art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textil...

How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or...

In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the inte...

The odyssey of 600,000 imperial Japanese soldiers incarcerated in Soviet labor camps after World War II and their fraught repatriation to postwar J...

A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing ...

In Russia in the Context of Global Transformations (Capitalism and Communism, Culture and Revolution) the authors focus on the dramatic changes in ...

A collection of first-person narratives offering a vivid, nuanced look at the lived and shared experiences of Bering Strait communities in the COVI...

A collection of first-person narratives offering a vivid, nuanced look at the lived and shared experiences of Bering Strait communities in the COVI...

In this important book, influential historian Mark Bojcun explores the social democratic workers' movement in the Ukrainian provinces of the Russia...

Through extensive archival research in eight different languages, Revolutionary Social Democracy introduces readers to the politics and practices o...

Soviet Self-Hatred examines the imaginary Russian identities that emerged following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Eliot Borenstein shows how th...

Soviet Self-Hatred examines the imaginary Russian identities that emerged following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Eliot Borenstein shows how th...

An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an e...

In The Will to Predict, Egl Rindzeviit demonstrates how the logic of scientific expertise cannot be properly understood without knowing the concept...

The 1971 East Pakistan tragedy was not just a failure of the military but also a collapse of civil society in the West Wing. The few voices raised ...

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

Antarctica is, and has always been, very much for sale. Whales, seals, and ice have all been marketed as valuable commodities, but so have the stor...