"Crossing Borders deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. To Michael David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactions across its borders. By reexa…
When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 19…
The rise of the West is often attributed the presence of certain features in Western countries from the sixteenth century onwards such as the abolition of serfdom and protestant ethics, the protection of property rights, and free universities; elements that were absent in more t…
Despite the Soviet tendency of silencing the Holocaust, or at least its universalization and externalization in literature and in the arts, the Soviet film industry has produced a number of films dealing with the Holocaust, or at least mentioning it. In the representation of Naz…
"In the West, politicians and journalists of all stripes have referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "thug", a "tyrant", a "murderer", a "Communist", a "Nazi", the next "Hitler" and more. But amongst the Russian people, his popularity rating has reached levels as high…
The Cold War was not solely about weapons and military threats; it was also a contest of economic strength. In the 1950's and 1960's many believed, in both East and West, that the Soviet Union presented a serious economic challenge to the capitalist West. We all know now that th…
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Biografi om den sovjetiske statsleder Josef Stalin (1879-1953)
Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility. Shaw reveals how fundamental contradictions inherent in the Soviet revolutionary project were negotiated - both individually and collectivel…
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…
A biography of Richard Sorge (1895-1944), a man with two homelands, born of a German father and a Russian mother in the USSR. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World War, Sorge beca…
On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. This book brings together the political, cultural, and scientific factors that fueled the birth and development of NASA and the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo proje…
