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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jussi lassila”
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  • War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

    Edited by Julie Fedor, Markku Kangaspuro, Jussi Lassila, Tatiana Zhurzhenko ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet Eastern Europe – Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – the epicentre of Soviet war suffering, and the heartland of the Soviet war myth. The ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Religion, Expression, and Patriotism in Russia

    Essays on Post-Soviet Society and the State

    by Andreas Umland, Tomi Huttunen, Susan Ikonen, Boris Knorre, Irina Kotkina, Jussi Lassila, Andrey Makarychev, Elena Ostrovskaya, Mikhail Suslov ...
    Series Book 213 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    The 2010s saw an introduction of legislative acts about religion, sexuality, and culture in Russia, which caused an uproar of protests. They politicized areas of life commonly perceived as private and expected to be free of the state's control. As a result, political activism and radical grassroots movements engaged many Russians in controversies about religion and culture and polarized popular ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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    A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

    by Daniel Ellsberg ...
    The true story of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the event which inspired Steven Spielberg’s feature film The PostIn 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers - a 7,000-page top-secret study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam - to the New York Times and Washington Post. The document set in motion a chain of events that ended not only the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Practicing Stalinism

    Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition

    by J. Arch Getty ...

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  • House of Shivaji

    Studies and Documents on Maratha History: Royal Period

    by Jadunath Sarkar ...
    This volume contains writings on the 'Royal Period' (1626-1700), as distinguished from the 'Peshwa Period' of Maratha history, and added a long life of Malik Ambar (from original Persian sources) and biographies of four eminent Marathi historical research-pioneers, Rajwade, Sane, Khare and Parasnis. The materials have come from Persian manuscripts (patiently gathered during a life-time), newly ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Soviet Communal Living

    An Oral History of the Kommunalka

    by P. Messana ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the 'Kommunalka,' the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Gulag Voices

    Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile

    by J. Gheith, K. Jolluck ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, rather than written memoirs. It brings together interviews with men and women, members of the working class and intelligentsia, people who live in the major cities and those from the "provinces," and from an array of corrective hard labor camps and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Writing the Stalin Era

    Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography

    Edited by G. Alexopoulos, J. Hessler, K. Tomoff ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War

    The Journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom

    Edited by Giles Scott-Smith, Charlotte A. Lerg ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with global Communism during the Cold War. One of the most important elements of this campaign was a series of journals published around the world: Encounter, Preuves, Quest, Mundo Nuevo, and many others, ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Writing History in the Soviet Union

    Making the Past Work

    by Arup Banerji ...
    The history of the Soviet Union has been charted in several studies over the decades. These depictions while combining accuracy, elegance, readability and imaginativeness, have failed to draw attention to the political and academic environment within which these histories were composed. Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the Past Work is aimed at understanding this environment. The book ... Read more

    $84.99 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

  • The Balkan Wars from Contemporary Perception to Historic Memory

    Edited by Katrin Boeckh, Sabine Rutar ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states. This volume shows how these “short” wars profoundly changed the sociopolitical situation in the Balkans, with consequences that are still felt today. More than one hundred years later, the successors ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD