'Red Nations' is an accessible survey of the experience of the non-Russian USSR populace under communism. Drawing on the latest research, Jeremy Smith offers an important new contribution to the history of the dissolution of the USSR, the reconstruction of post-Soviet society, a…
"The Russian Federation is a failed state. It was constructed as the successor of the defunct Soviet Union but confronts crippling challenges to its own survival. During the last three decades, attempts to transform Russia into a nation-state, a civic state, or a stable imperial…
"Both the work and the life of Leo S. Klejn, Russia's foremost archaeological theorist, remain generally unrecognized by Western scholars. Until now. In this biography and summary of his work, Stephen Leach outlines Klejn's wide-ranging theoretical contributions on the place and…
"This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomab…
