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  • Stalin

    Passage to Revolution

    A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative yearsThis is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the twentieth century's most ruthless ... Read more

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  • Red Flag Unfurled

    History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution

    by Ronald Suny ...
    Reconsidering the Russian Revolution a century laterReflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after the October Uprising, Ronald Grigor Suny—one of the world’s leading historians of the period—explores how scholars and political scientists have tried to understand this historic upheaval, the civil war that followed, and the extraordinary intrusion of ordinary people onto ... Read more

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  • A Question of Genocide

    Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire

    One hundred years after the deportations and mass murder of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and other peoples in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the history of the Armenian genocide is a victim of historical distortion, state-sponsored falsification, and deep divisions between Armenians and Turks. Working together for the first time, Turkish, Armenian, and other scholars present here a ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Red Flag Wounded

    Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment

    by Ronald Suny ...
    Tracking the degeneration of the Russian RevolutionRed Flag Wounded brings together essays covering the controversies and debates over the fraught history of the Soviet Union from the revolution to its disintegration. Those monumental years were marked not only by violence, mass killing, and the brutal overturning of a peasant society but also by the modernisation and industrialisation of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else"

    A History of the Armenian Genocide

    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    A definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversaryStarting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent—more than a million people. A ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Stalin

    Passage to Revolution

    Narrated by Robbie Stevens ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 11 min

    This audiobook narrated by Robbie Stevens tells the spellbinding story of Stalin in his formative yearsThis is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one ... Read more

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  • Critical Approaches to Genocide

    History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915

    Series series Mass Violence in Modern History
    The study of genocide has been appropriate in emphasizing the centrality of the Holocaust; yet, other preceding episodes of mass violence are of great significance. Taking a transnational and transhistorical approach, this volume redresses and replaces the silencing of the Armenian Genocide.Scholarship relating to the history of denial, comparative approaches in the deportations and killings of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • A Question of Genocide

    Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire

    One hundred years after the deportations and mass murder of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and other peoples in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the history of the Armenian genocide is a victim of historical distortion, state-sponsored falsification, and deep divisions between Armenians and Turks. Working together for the first time, Turkish, Armenian, and other scholars present here a ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • 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

  • Audiobook

    Russia's Empires

    Unabridged

    19 hours 42 min

    Russia's Empires analyzes how and why Russia expanded to become the largest country on the globe and how it repeatedly fell under the sway of strong, authoritarian leaders.Authors Valerie A. Kivelson and Ronald Grigor Suny examine how imperial practices shaped choices and limited alternatives. Using the concept of empire, they look at the ways in which ordinary people imagined their position ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    An Intellectual Biography

    A biography of the founder of modern Turkey that chronicles the ideas that shaped himWhen Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science—and by the personality cult Atatürk created around himself—would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides the first in-depth ... Read more

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  • The Making of Modern Turkey

    Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950

    The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation state violently altered this situation. Nationalist elites intervened in heterogeneous populations they identified as objects of knowledge, management, and ... Read more

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