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  • The Burden of the Past

    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper ...
    Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture: "A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory." —Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus UniversityIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe

    Vanishing Others

    Edited by Anna Wylegała, Sabine Rutar, Małgorzata Łukianow ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book focuses on the social voids that were the result of occupation, genocide, mass killings, and population movements in Europe during and after the Second World War. Historians, sociologists, and anthropologists adopt comparative perspectives on those who now lived in ‘cleansed’ borderlands. Its contributors explore local subjectivities of social change through the concept of ‘No Neighbors’ ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Displaced Memories

    Remembering and Forgetting in Post-War Poland and Ukraine

    Translated by Simon Lewis ...
    by Anna Wolff-Powęska, Anna Wylegała ...
    Series Book 26 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    The book is a comparative case study of collective memory in two small communities situated on two Central-European borderlands. Despite different pre-war histories, Ukrainian Zhovkva (before 1939 Polish Żółkiew) and Polish Krzyż (before 1945 German Kreuz) were to share a common fate of many European localities, destroyed and rebuilt in a completely new shape. As a result of war, and post-war ... Read more

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    A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists

    by Tarik Cyril Amar ...
    The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and fundamental transformation ethnically, linguistically, and in terms of its residents' self-perception. Against this background, Tarik Cyril Amar ... Read more

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  • Reconstructing Lenin

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Tamás Krausz ...
    Translated by Balint Bethlenfalvy ...
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist movement, generations of writers on the left and the right have seen fit to embalm him endlessly with superficial analysis or dreary dogma. Now, after the fall of the Soviet Union and “actually-existing” ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Sovietization of Eastern Europe

    New Perspectives on the Postwar Period

    Edited by Balzs Apor, Péter Apor, Rees E. A. ...
    This essay anthology offers enlightening perspectives on how East-Central Europe was transformed into the "other" Europe during the Cold War era.When the Second World War ended, a new conflict arose between world powers jockeying for supremacy. The Soviet Union pursued a policy of exporting its system of government in a process known as sovietization. But there were also governments that sought to ... Read more

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  • Soviet Soft Power in Poland

    Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943-1957

    by Patryk Babiracki ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use “soft power” in order to galvanize broad support for the postwar order in the emerging Soviet bloc. Populated with compelling ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Reconstructing the Cold War

    The Early Years, 1945-1958

    by Ted Hopf ...
    General answers are hard to imagine for the many puzzling questions that are raised by Soviet relations with the world in the early years of the Cold War. Why was Moscow more frightened by the Marshall Plan than the Truman Doctrine? Why would the Soviet Union abandon its closest socialist ally, Yugoslavia, just when the Cold War was getting under way? How could Khrushchev's de-Stalinized domestic ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Revolution of the Mind

    Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929

    by Michael David-Fox ...
    Series series Studies of the Harriman Institute
    Using archival materials never previously accessible to Western scholars, Michael David-Fox analyzes Bolshevik Party educational and research initiatives in higher learning after 1917. His fresh consideration of the era of the New Economic Policy and cultural politics after the Revolution explains how new communist institutions rose to parallel and rival conventional higher learning from the ... Read more

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  • Showcasing the Great Experiment

    Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941

    by Michael David-Fox ...
    During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "Soviet experiment" for themselves. Showcasing the Great Experiment explores the reception of these intellectuals and fellow-travelers and their cross-cultural and trans-ideological encounters in order to analyze Soviet attitudes towards ... Read more

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  • Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia

    An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia

    by Anika Walke ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    The Nazi regime and local collaborators killed 800,000 Belorussian Jews, many of them parents or relatives of young Jews who survived the war. Thousands of young girls and boys were thus orphaned and struggled for survival on their own. This book is the first systematic account of young Soviet Jews' lives under conditions of Nazi occupation and genocide. These orphans' experiences and memories are ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Soviet Myth of World War II

    Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR

    by Jonathan Brunstedt ...
    Series series Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    How did a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconcile itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian ethnocentrism, and the glorification of war? In this provocative new history, Jonathan Brunstedt pursues this question through the lens of the myth and remembrance of victory in World War II – arguably the central defining ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD