As nationalism spread across nineteenth-century Europe, Russia's national identity remained murky: there was no clear distinction between the Russian nation ......
One of the great political strategists of his era, V. I. Lenin continues to attract historical interest, yet his complex personality eludes full understandin......
In this book, acclaimed Dostoevsky biographer Joseph Frank explores some of the most important aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century Russian culture, l......
The Life of a Russian Woman Doctor by Anna Bek (1869-1954) yields rich insights into the lives of a generation of Russian women who lived at a time of revolu......
Examines religious narratives, beliefs, and practices in late Imperial Russia
Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Language: ENG
Title: Sacre......
Presents a new conception of the Russian empire
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Russian Empire
Pages: 00000 (Encryp......
"Russian Peasants Go to Court" brings into focus the legal practice of Russian peasants in the township courts of the Russian empire from 1905 through 1917. ......
Barbara Walker examines the Russian literary circle, a feature of Russian intellectual and cultural life from tsarist times into the early Soviet period, thr......
An analysis of Tsarist and early Soviet rule and the formation of a Russian colonial society in Tashkent
Author: Sahadeo, Jeff
Publisher: Indiana University......
A major contribution to the historiography of the world in the 20th century, "The Bolsheviks in Power" focuses on the fateful first year of Soviet rule in Pe......
Doubly Chosen provides the first detailed study of a unique cultural and religious phenomenon in post-Stalinist RussiaĀthe conversion of thousands of Russian......
The first generation of Russian modernists experienced a profound sense of anxiety. What made them unique was their utopian prescription for overcoming the i......
Focusing on a number of historical and literary personalities who were regarded with disdain in the aftermath of the 1917 revolutionĀfigures such as Peter th......
Russian poet, soldier, and statesman Gavriil Derzhavin (1743–1816) lived during an epoch of momentous change in Russia—imperial expansion, peasan......
The lifestyles of ordinary Russians living under Stalinism in the 1930s are related through this unique collection of 157 documents from recently opened Sovi......
The tragedies and triumphs of the Russian past are viewed through the lens of isolated islands that served as both monastery and Gulag camp. Located in the n......
A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children's linguistic creativity, and a ......
This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, offering keen insights into Stal......
The 14,500 Polish army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians taken prisoner by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939 were held i......
After a devastating world war, culminating in the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was clear that the United States and the Soviet Union had to est......