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“cloe drieu”

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  • Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan, 1919-1937

    by Cloe Drieu ...
    Translated by Adrian Morfee ...
    Between the founding of Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924 and the Stalinist Terror of the late 1930s, a nationalist cinema emerged in Uzbekistan giving rise to the first wave of national film production and an Uzbek cinematographic elite. In Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan Cloé Drieu uses Uzbek films as a lens to explore the creation of the Soviet State in Central Asia, starting from the collapse ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Shatterzone of Empires

    Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands

    by Larry Wolfe, Gregor Thum, Dan Diner, Theodore R. Weeks, Gary B. Cohen, Pieter M. Judson, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Elke Hartmann, Patrice M. Dabrowski, Robert Nemes, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Tomas Balkelis, Taner Akçam, Eyal Ginio, Keith Brown, David Gaunt, Peter Holquist, Alexander V. Prusin, John-Paul Himka, Pamela Ballinger, Myroslav Shkandrij, Paul Robert Magocsi, Kai Struve, Philipp Ther ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."— Central European HistoryShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries.In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to ... Read more

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  • Central Asia

    A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present

    by Adeeb Khalid ...
    A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world eventsCentral Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the crossroads of world events. Adeeb Khalid provides the first comprehensive history of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Infernal Library

    On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy

    by Daniel Kalder ...
    Named a Best Book of the Year by The Times and The Sunday Times"A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown."—The Washington PostA darkly humorous tour of "dictator literature" in the twentieth century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Albert Camus

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Oliver Gloag ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted works have led to countless movie adaptions, graphic novels, pop songs, and even t-shirts. In this Very Short Introduction, Oliver Gloag chronicles the inspiring story of Camus' life. From a poor fatherless settler in French-Algeria to the winner of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Creating Russophobia

    From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria

    by Guy Mettan ...
    hy do the USA, UK and Europe so hate Russia? How is it that Western antipathy, once thought due to anti-Communism, could be so easily revived over a crisis in distant Ukraine, against a Russia no longer communist? Why does the West accuse Russia of empire-building, when 15 states once part of the defunct Warsaw Pact are now part of NATO, and NATO troops now flank the Russian border? These are ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Modern Uzbeks

    From the Fourteenth Century to the Present: A Cultural History

    by Edward A. Allworth ...
    Series series Studies of Nationalities
    In this study of the modern Uzbeks, Professor Edward A. Allworth provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of an important group of Muslim people who live within the boundaries of the Soviet Union. After the Russians and the Ukranians, the Uzbeks are the largest ethnic group in the Soviet Union and the strongest of a number of Muslim communities that populate the vast region of Central ... Read more

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  • The Radicality of Love

    by Srećko Horvat ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    What would happen if we could stroll through the revolutionary history of the 20th century and, without any fear of the possible responses, ask the main protagonists - from Lenin to Che Guevara, from Alexandra Kollontai to Ulrike Meinhof - seemingly naïve questions about love?Although all important political and social changes of the 20th century included heated debates on the role of love, it ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Russia's People of Empire

    Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present

    by Stephen M. Norris, Willard Sunderland ...
    "A fresh and lively approach to understanding how the various Russian empires have worked." — Slavic ReviewA fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes and economies. For six centuries this diversity was contained within the sprawling territories of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and it ... Read more

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  • The Last Empire

    Nationality and the Soviet Future

    by Robert Conquest ...
    The historical background, the present position, and the future prospects of both the non-Russian and Russian peoples are considered in their many aspects, as are the maneuvers of the Communist regime to suppress, appease, or make use of them. The future of the Soviet Union, and thus of the world, depends greatly on whether, and how, the Communist leadership, whose own ideology has lost most of ... Read more

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  • The Azerbaijani Turks

    Power and Identity under Russian Rule

    by Audrey L. Altstadt ...
    Series series Studies of Nationalities
    Discover the definitive historical study of Caucasia, examining how centuries of imperial dominion, cultural transformation, and economic revolution shaped modern South Caucasus politics.In The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule, historian Audrey L. Altstadt delivers a groundbreaking examination of a pivotal Muslim community navigating tsarist expansion, Bolshevik revolution, ... Read more

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  • Everyday Life in Central Asia

    Past and Present

    Edited by Jeff Sahadeo, Russell Zanca ...
    This illuminating anthology provides a range of perspectives on daily life across Central Asia and how it has changed in the post-Soviet era.For its citizens, contemporary Central Asia is a land of great promise and peril. While the end of Soviet rule has opened new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression, political and economic dynamics have also imposed severe hardships. In ... Read more

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