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  • Environment and Society in Soviet Estonia, 1960–1990

    An Intimate Cultural History

    by Epp Annus ...
    Series series Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
    Russia's twenty-first-century military aggression has inspired calls for re-thinking the Soviet era and its aftermath – in particular, for drawing attention to the non-Russian parts of the (former) USSR. At the same time, the present era of anthropogenic climate change urges us to consider the global and planetary implications of local actions. This Element combines these two scholarly impulses to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Soviet Postcolonial Studies

    A View from the Western Borderlands

    by Epp Annus ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    Postcolonial studies is a well-established academic field, rich in theory, but it is based mostly on postcolonial experiences in former West European colonial empires. This book takes a different approach, considering postcolonial theory in relation to the former Soviet bloc. It both applies existing postcolonial theory to this different setting, and also uses the experiences of former Soviet bloc ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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  • The Gumilev Mystique

    Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia

    by Mark Bassin ...
    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the historian, ethnographer, and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912–1992) has attracted extraordinary interest in Russia and beyond. The son of two of modern Russia's greatest poets, Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, Gumilev spent thirteen years in Stalinist prison camps, and after his release in 1956 remained officially outcast and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Post-communist Nostalgia

    Edited by Maria Todorova, Zsuzsa Gille ...
    Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe

    by Uilleam Blacker, Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It affords a new, startlingly different perspective for scholars of both Eastern European history and Memory Studies. ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Cultural transformations after communism : Central and Eastern Europe in focus

    Edited by Krzysztof Stala, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa ...
    Since the fall of the Iron Curtain the countries in Central and Eastern Europe has undergone profound transformations. However, in most research on these changes the cultural dimension of transition has been neglected. The analyses have focused on ‘hard’, institutional factors such as legal coordination and economic readjustments, and less attention has been paid to complex dimensions such as ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • 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

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fascism

    by Roger Griffin ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Political Theory
    The word ‘fascism’ sometimes appears to have become a catch-all term of abuse, applicable to anyone on the political right, from Hitler to Donald Trump and from Putin to Thatcher. While some argue that it lacks any distinctive conceptual meaning at all, others have supplied highly elaborate definitions of its ‘essential’ features. It is therefore a concept that presents unique challenges for any ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Secondhand Time with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, a collection of personal testimonies from people who lived through the demise of the Soviet Union and the subsequent establishment of the Russian Federation. The accounts gathered in the book span two ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads

    Edited by Aili Aarelaid-Tart, Li Bennich-Björkman ...
    Series series Studies in European Sociology
    This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century: occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, and democratic rule and market economy. The twentieth century history of the Baltic countries has often been deeply tragic. Lying on the coastline of the Baltic Sea, these rather small but ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Everyday Life in Russia

    Past and Present

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and "a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture" ( The Russian Review).In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized Russian daily life from pre-revolutionary times through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kaleidoscopic Odessa

    History and Place in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Tanya Richardson ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    The recent tumult of Ukraine's Orange Revolution and its aftermath has exposed some of the deep political, social, and cultural divisions that run through the former Soviet republic. Examining Odessa, the Black Sea port that was once the Russian Empire's southern window onto Europe, Kaleidoscopic Odessa provides an ethnographic portrait of these overlapping divisions in a city where many residents ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD