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  • Survival as Victory

    Ukrainian Women in the Gulag

    by Oksana Kis ...
    Translated by Lidia Wolanskyj ...
    Series Book 79 - Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies
    Of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to the Gulag in the 1940s and 1950s, only half survived. In Survival as Victory, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners.Based on the written memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories of over 150 survivors, this book fills a ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Gender and Peacebuilding

    All Hands Required

    by Celia Cook-Huffman, Nancy Hansen, Anna Snyder, Joey Sprague, Maria Cheung, Patlee Creary, Shirley Graham, Tuula Heinonen, Roberta Hunte, Régine Uwibereyeho King, Oksana Kis, Angela J. Lederach, Lisa McLean, Monica McWilliams, Robert C. Mizzi, Katerina Standish, Robin L. Turner, Sinéad Walsh, Franke Wilmer, María Lucía Zapata, Galia Golan ...
    Series series Peace and Conflict Studies
    The twenty-first century has brought with it a shift from the notion of human security being located in secure national borders to the need to secure the safety, freedom, and dignity of all. Despite efforts to equalize women’s status in the world evidenced by changes in many international projects requiring a gender focus, women and men experience most of the world in very different ways according ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

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    A History

    by Anne Applebaum ...
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    $15.99 CAD

  • The Real Stalin

    by Andrew Curry ...
    Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with a combination of political savvy and cold-blooded brutality. He crushed the spirit of his own people while conquering half of Europe. What made the greatest murderer of the twentieth century tick? ... Read more

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  • The House of Government

    A Saga of the Russian Revolution

    by Yuri Slezkine ...
    On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Everyday Stalinism:Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

    Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed. With the abolition of the market, shortages of food, clothing, and all kinds of consumer goods ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Same River, Twice

    Putin's War on Women

    by Sofi Oksanen ...
    Translated by Owen F. Witesman ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 MINNA CANTH AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITINGBlending the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists withthe journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen, “an exquisite feminist critique of Russia’s oppressive tactics" (Kirkus Reviews) revealing how modern Russia’s history of weaponizing sexual violence plays a crucial role in its current ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Ukrainian Night

    An Intimate History of Revolution

    by Marci Shore ...
    A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential“Shore brilliantly captures the contingency, uncertainty, and chaos that was transmuted into the remarkable, seemingly transcendent solidarity of the Maidan’s unified resistance to a corrupt and cruel régime.”—Charles Taylor, professor emeritus of philosophy, McGill UniversityWhat is ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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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

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Write Like Chekhov

    Advice and Inspiration, Straight from His Own Letters and Work

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Writing guidance collected from the stories and letters of one of greatest authors of the nineteenth century.Maxim Gorky said that no one understood—the tragedy of life's trivialities—as clearly as Anton Chekhov, widely considered the father of the modern short story and the modern play. Chekhov's singular ability to speak volumes with a single, impeccably chosen word, mesh comedy and pathos, and ... Read more

    $17.59 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

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  • 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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