New Books in Russian and Eurasian Stu...

Interviews with Scholars of Russia and Eurasia about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
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Maria Taroutina, "The Icon and the Square: Russ...
Taroutina examines how the traditional interests of institutions such as the crown, the church, and the Imperial Academy of Arts temporarily aligned with the radical, leftist, and revolutionary avant-garde at the turn of the twentieth century...
61 min
652
Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in...
The book argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence...
39 min
653
Abdullah Qodiriy, "Bygone Days" (Bowker, 2019)
Mark Reese’s recent translation of Abdullah Qodiriy’s 1920s novel "Bygone Days" brings an exemplary piece of modern Uzbek literature to English-speaking audiences...
61 min
654
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
655
Mark Gamsa, “Manchuria: A Concise History” (Blo...
The term ‘Manchuria’ conjures up all manner of evocative associations for people interested in East Asian and world history,..
48 min
656
Magnus Nordenman, "The New Battle for the Atlan...
With Vladimir Putin’s Russia threatening the peace in Europe following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the North Atlantic and other maritime domains around Europe are once again vitally important...
42 min
657
Alyssa M. Park, “Sovereignty Experiments: Korea...
Park focuses on the movement of Koreans around the point where China, Russia and Korea converged from the mid-19th century onwards...
65 min
658
Sarah Wobick-Segev, "Homes Away from Home: Jewi...
In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time, but by the turn of the twentieth century, a new secular Jewish identity had begun to take shape...
68 min
659
Marlene Laruelle, "The Nazarbayev Generation: Y...
52 min
660
Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon, "Night and...
Fort gives readers a chance to dive into the world of early 20th century Uzbek literature and understand the complex social problems of late Russian imperial Turkestan...
44 min
661
Adele Lindenmeyr, "Citizen Countess: Sofia Pani...
In the aftermath of the February Revolution in 1917 Panina served on the Petrograd city council and as an assistant cabinet minister—the first female cabinet member in world history...
42 min
662
Jennifer Utrata, "Women without Men: Single Mot...
Utrata investigates what she calls a “quiet revolution” in the Russian family after the fall of the Soviet Union...
53 min
663
The Treaty of Versailles One Hundred Years On
The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...
37 min
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Paul Robinson, "Russian Conservatism" (Cornell ...
Robinson provides a comprehensive examination of the roots and development of the hardy strain of conservative political thought in Russian history...
58 min
665
Beth Fischer, "The Myth of Triumphalism: Rethin...
Fischer argues that the military buildup was actually deeply counterproductive, frightening the Soviet leadership and delaying meaningful negotiations for several years...
40 min
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Alison Rowley, "Putin Kitsch in America" (McGil...
Rowley examines the outsized influence that Vladimir Putin, both the man and the myth, have had on US political discourse in the last decade....
66 min
667
Katya Cengel, "From Chernobyl with Love" (U Neb...
Cengel has written an engaging memoir of a Western newspaper reporter’s youthful experiences in Latvia and Ukraine...
55 min
668
Roberto Carmack, "Kazakhstan in World War II: ...
Carmack looks at the experience of the Kazakh Republic during the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War...
54 min
669
Oleksandra Humenna, "Ukraine 2030: The Doctrine...
"Ukraine 2030" offers a program that includes complex strategies for the economic development of Ukraine...
33 min
670
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
671
Lesley Chamberlain, "Ministry of Darkness: How ...
Chamberlain delineates Uvarov's career and shows how one of the most cosmopolitan of men, became in the course of his official career the inventor of much that can be seen in to-day's xenophobic and nationalistic Russia of Vladimir Putin...
45 min
672
Roland Elliott Brown, "Godless Utopia: Soviet A...
Brown examines the Soviet anti-religious campaign through a unique collection of illustrations,..
44 min
673
Olga Zilberbourg, "Like Water and Other Stories...
To this generation that includes writers as disparate as Gary Shteyngart and Irina Reyn comes Olga Zilberbourg...
54 min
674
David Brandenberger, "Stalin's Master Narrative...
The Short Course was designed to be the definitive party narrative, but the party purges and Stalin’s own personal preferences led to him stripping out the traditional historical framework...
60 min
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Charles Halperin, "Ivan the Terrible: Free to R...
Halperin’s Ivan IV emerges as a ruler at once less—and more—mysterious than in previous treatments of this subject...
59 min