An interview with Stanley Rabinowitz

Livers offers a solid background that helps historicize the conspiracy preoccupations in Russia...

This book analyzes the shaping of the commemorative space in the three post-Soviet countries that used to share commemorative practices and memorial space in general...

Mongolia is sometimes seen as one of the few examples of a successful youth-led revolution, where a 1990 movement forced the Soviet-appointed Politburo to resign....

The Historical Atlas of Hasidism (Princeton UP, 2018) is the first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era’s most vibrant and important mystical movements...

Shneyder examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities posed by Russia's industrial revolution....

Julius Margolin was a Polish Jew caught between the twin 1939 invasions of Poland by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. He spent the years 1940-1945 in Soviet labor camps...

Suny provides a wealth of detail as to the young Stalin’s life, and he embeds that life story in the broader story of Bolshevism...

Erica Marat provides an answer to a very important question: “What does it take to reform a post-Soviet police force?”

Gorlizki and Khlevniuk chart the strategies of Soviet regional leaders, paying particular attention to the forging and evolution of local trust networks...

Schneer's recounts the story of a young British diplomat, Bruce Lockhart, sent to Soviet Russia soon after the October Revolution in 1917...

Golubev offers a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era...

The volume draws particular attention to the issues that have been escalated and intensified since the inception of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict...

Zychowicz tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union...

In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma...

Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse array of things―from spoons to tanks―to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians...

Carroll considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same and whether our responses to drug use presuppose what kind of people those who use drugs really are...

Marples highlights the dramatic changes of the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods, his travel stories, experiences, and the Stalinist legacy in both countries...

Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War...

The fact that the vast border between China and Russia is often overlooked goes hand-in-hand with a lack of understanding of the ordinary citizens in these much-discussed places, who often lose out to larger-than-life figures like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping...

"Red Wave" is Joanna Stingray’s autobiographical account of her time on the underground music scene in the USSR and Russia in the late 1980s and early 1990s....

History matters in Russia. It really matters, so much so that the state has a "historical policy" to help legitimize itself and support its policy agenda...

Puleri examines a complex process of identity formation in the context of exposure to a diversity of linguistic and cultural influences...

Riegg traces the relationship between the Romanov state and the Armenian diaspora that populated Russia's territorial fringes and navigated the tsarist empire's metropolitan centers....

A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of Jews fled their homes, or were captured and trafficked across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa....