Wall Street and the Russian Revolution will give readers critical insight into what might be called the "Secret History of the 20th century." The Russian Revolution, like the war in which it was born, represents the real beginning of the modern world. The book will look not just…
Carl von Clausewitz's On War, his chef d'oeuvre of strategic and military theory, was first published in 1832, after his death. The book remains a touchstone, dissected and debated by scholars, students, and military personnel around the world who consider it the founding docume…
This title provides a comparative study of human resource management, employment relations, and production systems in automobile factories in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). It compares the experiences of two major multinational companies, Volkswagen and T…
"Jews of Eastern Europe have immigrated in large numbers to countries like Israel, the United States, and Germany. This migration across international borders has created challenges for Russian-speaking Jews as they forge their cultural, national, and ethnic identities. Gitelman…
Employing a range of interpretative methods practiced in Russian and Soviet film studies, this book highlights the varied ways that Russian and Soviet cinema constructed otherness and foreignness. While the essays explore the 'us versus them' binary, it demonstrates how impossib…
Since 1991, when the Russian Federation became an independent state, hundreds of organisations have been created to champion human rights causes, with varying strategies, and successes. The response of the authorities has ranged from being supportive, or indifferent, to openly h…
A fascinating insight into the changies in Russia's approach to development in its periphery.
"Sara Pankenier Weld argues that its central writers, artists, and theorists self-consciously used an aesthetic inspired by children's art, language, perspective, and logic to accomplish the artistic renewal they were seeking in literature, theory, and art. She treats the influe…
"Questions of collective identity and nationhood dominate the memory debate in both the high and popular cultures of postsocialist Russia, Poland and Ukraine. Often the "Soviet" and "Russian" identity are reconstructed as identical; others remember the Soviet regime as an anonym…
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