Beginning in the 1870s, migrant groups from Russia's steppes settled in the similar environment of the Great Plains. Many were Mennonites. They brought plants...

Meir reconsiders the place of the lowliest members of an already stigmatized minority....

Smiley examines the emergence of rules of warfare surrounding captivity and slavery in the context of Ottoman-Russian military rivalry between 1700 and 1878....

Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition...

Bilocerkowycz speculates on the possibility of future revolutions built on the lessons of revolutions past—both big, and small...

Who exactly was Abu Nasr Qursawi and what was his reformist project to grapple with this situation?

Iraj Bashiri provides an overview of the Civil War in Tajikistan that emerged amidst the collapse of the Soviet Union...

Combing English, German and crucially Polish language sources, Moorhouse reveals to the reader the German campaign from start to finish...

Kudaibergenova takes the new states and nations of Eurasia that emerged in 1991, Latvia and Kazakhstan, and seeks to better understand the phenomenon of post-Soviet states tapping into nationalism to build legitimacy....

Afinogenov offers a trove of insights into the centuries-long entanglements which have shaped Sino-Russian relationships up to the present...

Levi reflects on recent scholarship to identify multiple causal factors that contributed to the Bukharan crisis of the 18th century...

How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law?

Shimer narrates in meticulous but page-turning detail a century of covert electoral interference, by both the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and continuing to this day...

What brought about an end to the Cold War has long been a subject of speculation and mythology...

Vincent draws on Gulag journals, song collections, tattoo drawings and dictionaries of slang, to explore the lives of the recidivist criminals and criminal gangs that originated in the Gulag under Stalin....

The Russian state is back.

Dean analyzes the development and effectiveness of anti-trafficking policies and institutions in Latvia, Russia, and Ukraine...

Obertreis explores the infrastructural, technical, and environmental aspects of the history of cotton agriculture and irrigation in Soviet Central Asia...

D'Anieri documents in a nuanced way the development of the current military conflict between Russia and Ukraine...

Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...

Cvajner focuses on a group of women who migrated from areas in the former Soviet Union to northern Italy...

Gendler offers an extensive collection of eye-witness testimonies and official communications revealing the genocidal destruction of Jewish life by the Russian army during World War I....

Kulchytsky presents a meticulous research that unveils the mechanism of the Holodomor as a man-made famine...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Lee tells the story of the events leading up to the little-known revolt of Georgian Wehrmacht recruits against the Germans on the island of Texel, which was part of the Atlantic Wall fortifications off the Dutch coast...