How and when did Russia become a country of smokers?

Perabo examines the conflict through the concept of an “interreligious war” between Christian and Buddhist nations...

101 years have passed since the murder of the Imperial Family of Russia at Yekaterinburg, but their appeal has not diminished...

Taking ideology seriously as a component of socialist foreign policy, Friedman’s new and compelling analysis shows how deep Moscow and Beijing’s disagreements ran...

For writer Sophia Shalmiyev, the question was never “who is my mother,” but rather, “where has she gone?”

Zhuk offers an insightful investigation of the development of American studies in the Soviet Union, with a specific emphasis on Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine...

The story of the littoral nations of the Baltic Sea is like a saga, that genre perfected by those tenacious inhabitants of the rocky shores of this ancient trading corridor...

Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives...

"Invitation to a Bonfire" is inspired by the life of the well-known Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.

In this very personal book with essays and short stories, Ghodsee describes the post-socialist realities of the victims of the greedy neoliberalism that has dismantled their social safety nets and expresses her frustration about the continuing tendency to reduce the twentieth-century East European state socialisms to Stalinism and the Gulags...

Kassymbekova explores technologies of governance used in early Soviet Tajikistan in order to implement Soviet plans for industrialization and collectivization...

Ghodsee addresses a telling gap in the historiography of women rights movements – the contributions of the Second World women rights activists...

Gilburd looks at the perfect cultural and social storm created by the combination of more liberal politics, foreign culture and the technology to make it accessible to 11 time zones...

Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...

Ter-Matevosyan looks into the origins, evolution, and transformational phases of Kemalism between the 1920s and 1970s...

"The Vory" traces the development of the Russian underworld

Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war...

John Etty explains how Krokodil magazine provided a venue in which the state, the the magazine’s editors, and readers all participated in defining what it was permissible to laugh at in the USSR...

Sayle examines the history of NATO from its founding in the late 1940s through to its expansion in the post-Cold War era...

A meticulously-researched and accessible monograph, Global Art and the Cold War demonstrates the crucial role of art in the greatest geopolitical conflict of the 20th century...

Black explores the forty-one years from the beginning of the Great War in August 1914 to the surrender of Japan in August 1945....

These texts and others, Givens suggests, portray Christ apophatically: that is, by showing who Christ was not, in order to illuminate who Christ therefore must be...

Houri Berberian uses a transnational or transimperial approach to examine the interconnectedness of 1905 Russian Revolution, the Iranian Revolution and the Young Turk Revolution and the role that Armenian revolutionaries played in each...

Krementsov provides a fascinating analysis of the vicissitudes of Russian attempts to improve the human species...

The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a dual role: SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front...