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  • Urban Planning During Socialism

    Views from the Periphery

    Edited by Jasna Mariotti, Kadri Leetmaa ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Historical Geography
    Urban Planning During Socialism delves into the evolution of cities during the period of state socialism of the 20th century, summarizing the urban and architectural studies that trace their transformations.The book focuses primarily on the periphery of the socialist world, both spatially and in terms of scholarly thinking. The case study cities presented in this book draw on cultural and material ... Read more

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  • Russia Against Modernity

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Putin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and digital labor. By trading oil and gas, promoting Trump and Brexit, spreading corruption, boosting inequality and homophobia, subsidizing far-right movements and destroying Ukraine, Putin’s clique aims ... Read more

    $15.99 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

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  • Rich Russians

    From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie

    by Elisabeth Schimpfössl ...
    The lives of wealthy people have long held an allure to many, but the lives of wealthy Russians pose a particular fascination. Having achieved their riches over the course of a single generation, the top 0.1 percent of Russian society have become known for ostentatious lifestyles and tastes. Nevertheless, as Elisabeth Schimpfössl shows in this book, their stories reveal a bourgeois existence that ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Socialist Heritage

    The Politics of Past and Place in Romania

    by Emanuela Grama ...
    This prize-winning study of post-WWII Romania examines the fraught relationship between national heritage and Socialist statecraft.In Socialist Heritage, ethnographer and historian Emanuela Grama explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the ongoing legacy of that project. While many argue that the socialist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe aimed to erase ... Read more

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  • The Palace Complex

    A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed

    by Michal Murawski ...
    An exploration of the history and significance of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland.The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace's visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in the everyday life of the Polish capital as a sort of obsession, locals joke that their city suffers from ... Read more

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  • Russia

    Modern Architectures in History

    by Richard Anderson ...
    Series series Modern Architectures in History
    From one of the largest empires in world history to the dominant republic of the Soviet Union and ultimately to the Russian Federation as we know it today, this book offers a comprehensive account of Russia’s architectural production from the late nineteenth century to the present, explaining how architecture was both shaped by, and a material manifestation of, Russia’s rapid cultural, economic ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Modern Finland

    by Harald Haarmann ...
    Providing a multifaceted view of modern Finland, this book describes its history, culture, language, geography, natural history and the mythology of early peoples. Topics include Fenno-Scandia inhabitants and their environment, traditional naturalism and modern environmentalism, and the salient features of "Finnishness," including an analysis of the Finnish educational system and gender equality. ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Tourism as Memory-Making

    Russian Tourism in the Shadow of Empire

    by Alena Pfoser ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Until recently the Russian Federation used to be one of the largest markets for outbound travel. Among Russians’ favourite destinations were cities that used to be part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and are now located in the independent nation-states bordering Russia. This open access bookprovides an empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated account of the mnemonic ... Read more

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  • Identities, Nations and Politics after Communism

    Edited by Roger E. Kanet ...
    Series series Association for the Study of Nationalities
    This book focuses on questions of identity that have confronted the countries of Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the communist system that had previously provided them with an identity.This development both facilitated and necessitated a reassessment of the now independent nations’ history, orientation, symbols and identity. In some cases, new states were created without a clear ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries

    The Legacy of Central Planning in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

    Edited by Daniel Baldwin Hess, Tiit Tammaru ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking orientation” in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, Estonia was a member ... Read more

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  • Gender and housing in Soviet Russia

    Private life in a public space

    by Lynne Attwood ...
    Series series Gender in History
    This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of ‘home’ for Soviet citizens. She examines the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD