This book is a comprehensive ethnography of everyday belonging among Russian speakers in Estonia and Kazakhstan....more
This collection examines the letters of Anton Chekhov, which have received relatively little scholarly attention. The co......more
This study examines Soviet science fiction cinema from 1957 to 1990 and its relation to the space age. The author examin......more
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This book looks at the different ways in which Russian historians and authors have thought about their country’s first A......more
The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow--before more American assets......more
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The Templars: The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of a Military Religious Order, offers a wide range of perspectives on this comm......more
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In Souls under Siege, Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of suc......more
This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, ......more
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Historians often think of Russia before the 1860s in terms of conservative stasis, when the "gendarme of Europe" secured......more
If you want to discover the captivating history of France, then keep reading... Three captivating manuscripts in one boo......more
If you want to discover the captivating history of France, then keep reading... Three captivating manuscripts in one boo......more
Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar tells the story of Russia’s encounter with vinicul......more
The book reflects upon the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing developments in Russia, the rest of the former Sov......more
The volume concentrates on the deployment of music in diverse political and social conditions. The authors argue that a ......more
If you want to discover the influential and captivating history of France, then read on... France has influenced the cou......more
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A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity,......more
Public diplomacy is widely used in the contemporary world, and this book is devoted to its use and study in Russia. It e......more
France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and ......more
Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, hero of Leningrad, defender of Moscow and Stalingrad, commander of the victorious......more
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As evidenced by the yellow vests protest movement that began in France in 2018, the state of the French nation inspires ......more
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The book addresses authoritarian legacies of politically motivated justice and its unwritten practices that have re-emer......more
This long-awaited book by a leading historian of European music life offers a fresh reading of concert and operatic life......more
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Over 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after World War II - yet we know very little about their experiences. ......more
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This volume addresses the question of ’identity’ in East-Central Europe. It engages with a specific definition of ’sub-c......more
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Contesting the Origins of the First World War challenges the Anglophone emphasis on Germany as bearing the primary respo......more
The Routledge Handbook of Russian Security offers a comprehensive collection of essays on all aspects of Russian securit......more
The great majority of Holocaust scholarship concentrates heavily, if not almost completely, on the Final Solution from t......more
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Strange Allies examines three intersecting themes of fundamental importance to the international history of the period b......more
After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, depo......more
The book investigates the rather neglected "intellectual" collaboration between National Socialist Germany and other cou......more
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In this book, which closely examines the techniques used by the polemists of the Dreyfus Affair, much is learned not onl......more
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First published in English in 1971, The Ile-de-France presents the reader with a study of the countryside around Paris t......more
This volume sets out to examine the ways in which an equality between the sexes is constructed, conceptualised, imagined......more
"Van der Burg presents an innovative transregional study of Napoleonic governance in the often-overlooked northern perip......more
As a comprehensive overview of French food from fine dining to street food and from Roman Gaul to current trends, this b......more
Since Gareth Jones’s historic press conference in Berlin in 1933 when he became the first journalist to reveal the exist......more
Simone de Beauvoir and the Colonial Experience presents a gendered and female perspective of French colonialism between ......more
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Filmmakers in the early decades of the Soviet Union sought to create a cinematic map of the new state by portraying its ......more
Stalinism in Kazakhstan: History, Memory, and Representation explores Stalinist repressions in Kazakhstan through analys......more
Why centrist politics in France is bound to fail This book analyses the French political crisis, which has entered its m......more
CONTENTS The Queens of France (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I......more
This is a book about death, comprehensive in its discussion of strategies for coping with loss and grief in rural northe......more
Researched from genuine primary sources in regulations and memoirs, this is the first book to explain and illustrate the......more
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Russia’s surprising return to the world stage since 2000 has aroused the curiosity--if not the fear--of the West. Gradua......more
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"This book is very timely: the instrumentalization of history for political goals has become a pressing issue and worri......more
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A "powerful revisionist history" (Times UK) illuminating the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution In T......more
How did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the eco......more
How did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the eco......more
Winner of the Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies Co-winner of the Charles Taylor Book Award How do ......more
Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a ......more
"This book offers an intimate portrait of two courageous young Russian women and their struggles to maintain their integ......more
"This book offers an intimate portrait of two courageous young Russian women and their struggles to maintain their integ......more
Inspired by the reading and writing habits of citizens leading up to the French Revolution, The Writing Public is a comp......more
Since the late years of the USSR, a new religious movement has gained momentum in Russia which seeks to return to the an......more
This book explores national attitudes to remembering colonialism in Britain and France. By comparing these two former co......more
This volume explores the overlooked category of screenwriters in French cinema, from the coming of sound to the digital ......more
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From the fleetingly captured street scenes of the city symphony, to the meticulously reconstructed studio city of musica......more
Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to the decolonisation were faced with an impossible dilemma. How could ......more
Dangerous Creole Liaisons explores a French Caribbean context to broaden discussions of sexuality, nation building, and ......more