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The University of Chicago Press The Coldest Crucible Arctic Exploration and
Book SynopsisIn the late 1800s, "Arctic Fever" swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. This book argues, was an activity that unfolded in America as much as it did in the wintry hinterland.Trade Review"Concerned with the perception of Arctic exploration in the United States, rather than with the exploration itself, [Robinson]... lays greater emphasis on the role of elites-whether politicians, scientists, or newspaper owners-in supporting and financing the expeditions.... Robinson has a real thesis, and he presents it with admirable clarity and a firm understanding of its shadings and nuances." (Times Literary Supplement)"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Wandering Spirits Loneliness and Longing in
Book SynopsisIt is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world--a simple and harmonious, isolated utopia. But the reality, as Janne Flora shows us, is anything but. In Wandering Spirits, Flora reveals how deeply connected the Arctic is to the rest of the world and how it has been affected by the social, political, economic, and environmental shifts that ushered in the modern age. In this innovative study, Flora focuses on Inuit communities in Greenland and addresses a central puzzle: their alarmingly high suicide rate. She explores the deep connections between loneliness and modernity in the Arctic, tracing the history of Greenland and analyzing the social dynamics that shaped it. Flora's thorough, sensitive engagement with the families that make up these communities uncovers the complex interplay between loneliness and a host of economic and environmental practices, including the widespread local tradition of hunting. Wandering Spirits offers a vivid pTrade Review"A masterful integration of sensitive fieldwork and analytical insight on an extraordinary landscape. Through a tender narrative of people's lives, Flora faithfully transmits a whole world of understanding and feeling. This book will challenge any reader's assumptions about the possible meanings of life and death, belonging and--especially--isolation."--Piers Vitebsky, author of Living without the Dead "With this rich ethnographic work, Flora clearly masters the art of finding a place for herself within a tightly knit social space and of hearing the unsaid, which allows for new and moving insights into feelings of loneliness and of relatedness--to people as well as landscapes."--Kirsten Hastrup, University of Copenhagen
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Wandering Spirits
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A masterful integration of sensitive fieldwork and analytical insight on an extraordinary landscape. Through a tender narrative of people's lives, Flora faithfully transmits a whole world of understanding and feeling. This book will challenge any reader's assumptions about the possible meanings of life and death, belonging and--especially--isolation."--Piers Vitebsky, author of Living without the Dead "With this rich ethnographic work, Flora clearly masters the art of finding a place for herself within a tightly knit social space and of hearing the unsaid, which allows for new and moving insights into feelings of loneliness and of relatedness--to people as well as landscapes."--Kirsten Hastrup, University of Copenhagen
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Coldest Crucible Arctic Exploration and
Book SynopsisWith chronological chapters featuring emblematic Arctic explorers - including Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Hall, and Robert Peary - this title reveals why the North Pole, a region so geographically removed from Americans, became an iconic destination for discovery.
£76.00
Columbia University Press On My Country and the World
Book SynopsisDrawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects concerning Russia's past, present, and future place in the world. Here is Gorbachev on the October Revolution, the Cold War, and key figures such as Lenin, Stalin, and Yeltsin.Trade ReviewImportant. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *Table of ContentsForeword to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition, by William TaubmanPart I: The October Revolution: Its Sense and Significance1. A Blunder of History, Accident, or Necessity?2. Was Socialism Built in the Soviet Union?3. Let’s Not Oversimplify! A Balance Sheet of the Soviet Years4. October and the World5. One More Balance Sheet: Something Worth Thinking About6. October and Perestroika7. Does Socialism Have a Future?8. Summing UpPart II: The Union Could Have Been Preserved9. A Tragic Turn of Events10. Tbilisi . . . Baku . . . Vilnius11. Toward a New Union Treaty12. Referendum on the Union13. The Coup: A Stab in the Back—and the Intrigues of Yeltsin14. The Belovezh Accord: Dissolution of the USSR15. What Lies Ahead?Part III: The New Thinking: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow16. The Sources of the New Thinking17. The Very First Steps18. The Conception (1985–1991)19. Overcoming the Cold War20. The Transitional World Order21. The New Thinking in the Post-Confrontational World22. The Challenge of Globalization23. The Challenge of Diversity24. The Challenge of Global Problems25. The Challenge of Power Politics26. The Challenge of Democracy27. The Challenge of Universal Human Values28. The Beginning of History?Index
£69.26
Columbia University Press On My Country and the World
Book SynopsisDrawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects concerning Russia's past, present, and future place in the world. Here is Gorbachev on the October Revolution, the Cold War, and key figures such as Lenin, Stalin, and Yeltsin.Trade ReviewImportant. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *Table of ContentsForeword to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition, by William TaubmanPart I: The October Revolution: Its Sense and Significance1. A Blunder of History, Accident, or Necessity?2. Was Socialism Built in the Soviet Union?3. Let’s Not Oversimplify! A Balance Sheet of the Soviet Years4. October and the World5. One More Balance Sheet: Something Worth Thinking About6. October and Perestroika7. Does Socialism Have a Future?8. Summing UpPart II: The Union Could Have Been Preserved9. A Tragic Turn of Events10. Tbilisi . . . Baku . . . Vilnius11. Toward a New Union Treaty12. Referendum on the Union13. The Coup: A Stab in the Back—and the Intrigues of Yeltsin14. The Belovezh Accord: Dissolution of the USSR15. What Lies Ahead?Part III: The New Thinking: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow16. The Sources of the New Thinking17. The Very First Steps18. The Conception (1985–1991)19. Overcoming the Cold War20. The Transitional World Order21. The New Thinking in the Post-Confrontational World22. The Challenge of Globalization23. The Challenge of Diversity24. The Challenge of Global Problems25. The Challenge of Power Politics26. The Challenge of Democracy27. The Challenge of Universal Human Values28. The Beginning of History?Index
£20.12
Columbia University Press Deserved Economic Memories After the Fall of the
Book SynopsisTill Hilmar examines memories of the postsocialist transition in East Germany and the Czech Republic to offer new insights into the power of narratives about economic change.Trade ReviewIn this astute and captivating analysis of disruptive economic change, Hilmar moves persuasively beyond the ‘morality’ and ‘economy’ binary to draw a timely lesson: it’s in the very fabric of social relations, even our memory of them, that we pursue moral worth and economic deservingness. Read this gem of a book that, yes, deserves wide attention. -- Nina Bandelj, coeditor of Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really WorksWhat if memory were not only about war, exile, trauma, and genocide? Hilmar’s inspiring work sets a new and crucial agenda for memory studies by highlighting the importance of economic memories for understanding contemporary societies. Deserved makes a clarion call for putting socioeconomic perspectives back into the study of remembrance. -- Sarah Gensburger, coauthor of Beyond Memory: Can We Really Learn from the Past?Deserved is a fascinating journey into the turmoil of post-1989 transformation in Central Europe. On the basis of in-depth interviews, Hilmar reveals the moral grammar that surrounds the remembrance of economic ruptures and how the language of deservingness and inclusion makes up the fabric of society. -- Steffen Mau, Professor of Sociology, Humboldt University of BerlinDeserved is the first full-fledged theory of perception of economic justice in the field of memory studies. This book will resonate with the growing interest in economic aspects of social memory, and Hilmar’s concept of ‘moral deservingness’ will become a useful tool for studying perception of other instances of economic changes. -- Joanna Wawrzyniak, coeditor of Remembering the Neoliberal Turn: Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989The book is original, illuminating, and consistently insightful, and it shows a deep acquaintance with the literature on memory and social identity. As such Deserved is a highly valuable contribution to cultural sociology. * Understanding Society *A novel and conceptually rich take on the history and memory of the post-socialist transformations. * CEU Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Historical Trajectories2. Remembering Economic Change After 19893. Deserving and Undeserving Others4. The Social Experience of the Transformation PeriodEpilogue: How Right-Wing Populists Capture DeservingnessMethodological AppendixAcknowledgmentsCopyright AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Deserved
Book SynopsisTill Hilmar examines memories of the postsocialist transition in East Germany and the Czech Republic to offer new insights into the power of narratives about economic change.Trade ReviewIn this astute and captivating analysis of disruptive economic change, Hilmar moves persuasively beyond the ‘morality’ and ‘economy’ binary to draw a timely lesson: it’s in the very fabric of social relations, even our memory of them, that we pursue moral worth and economic deservingness. Read this gem of a book that, yes, deserves wide attention. -- Nina Bandelj, coeditor of Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really WorksWhat if memory were not only about war, exile, trauma, and genocide? Hilmar’s inspiring work sets a new and crucial agenda for memory studies by highlighting the importance of economic memories for understanding contemporary societies. Deserved makes a clarion call for putting socioeconomic perspectives back into the study of remembrance. -- Sarah Gensburger, coauthor of Beyond Memory: Can We Really Learn from the Past?Deserved is a fascinating journey into the turmoil of post-1989 transformation in Central Europe. On the basis of in-depth interviews, Hilmar reveals the moral grammar that surrounds the remembrance of economic ruptures and how the language of deservingness and inclusion makes up the fabric of society. -- Steffen Mau, Professor of Sociology, Humboldt University of BerlinDeserved is the first full-fledged theory of perception of economic justice in the field of memory studies. This book will resonate with the growing interest in economic aspects of social memory, and Hilmar’s concept of ‘moral deservingness’ will become a useful tool for studying perception of other instances of economic changes. -- Joanna Wawrzyniak, coeditor of Remembering the Neoliberal Turn: Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989The book is original, illuminating, and consistently insightful, and it shows a deep acquaintance with the literature on memory and social identity. As such Deserved is a highly valuable contribution to cultural sociology. * Understanding Society *A novel and conceptually rich take on the history and memory of the post-socialist transformations. * CEU Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Historical Trajectories2. Remembering Economic Change After 19893. Deserving and Undeserving Others4. The Social Experience of the Transformation PeriodEpilogue: How Right-Wing Populists Capture DeservingnessMethodological AppendixAcknowledgmentsCopyright AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
University of Notre Dame Press Political Consequences of Crony Capitalism inside
Book SynopsisThis book examines the coexistence of crony capitalism and traditionally democratic institutions such as political competition and elections in Russia after the collapse of communism. Trade Review"Gulnaz Sharafutdinova explores the development of crony capitalism in Russia, based on the contrasting cases of Tatarstan and Nizhnii Novgorod. She argues that the corruption which accompanied the market transition seeped over into electoral politics, and was a major factor in undermining popular support for democratic institutions. This finding is a challenge to transition theory, which posits that democracy and capitalism work hand-in-hand. Few scholars have tackled the question of exactly how and why Russian democracy eroded as quickly as it sprang up. Sharafutdinova's book is an important contribution to that debate." —Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University“This is one of the most interesting and well argued books I have read recently on the question of democracy in Russia, and its bold thesis is likely to appeal well beyond students of Russia to the much larger number of readers (and students) interested in general questions of democratization and problems of corruption.” —Henry Hale, George Washington University"This well-argued and convincingly documented book will be of interest to scholars of Russian politics, and corruption more broadly, as well as to policymakers interested in getting an overview of the logic of the Yeltsin years and the Putin response." —Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan“Sharafutdinova’s research is a comprehensive examination of how crony capitalism influences the Russian landscape. The author summarizes the nature and origins of post-Communist crony capitalism through a comparison of two major cases—Nizhnii Novgorod and the Republic of Tatarstan. . . . Sharafutdinova provides a valuable comparative analysis on the subjects of corruption and democracy during the Boris Yeltsin and Putin eras.” —Choice“Sharafutdinova provides an elegant answer to the question of why Putin continues to command such popular support despite the regime’s pervasive corruptness . . . . Sharafutdinova’s study drives home the point that the 1990s were never as democratic as often claimed, and the international community needs to reconsider the link between a crony capitalism and democratic institutions if it hopes to encourage successful political liberalization in the future.” —The Russian Review“In her Political Consequences of Crony Capitalism, Sharafutdinova identifies a similar pattern at the regional level, whereby interests of cronies undermine the leadership’s policies . . . She reinvents the notion of cronyism and views it as a definitive in the nature of Russia capitalism.” —International Affairs“Gulnaz Sharafutdinova has written an excellent book on the political economy of post-Soviet Russia that will have implications for our understanding of many other countries, as well. . . . she argues that ‘crony capitalism’ undermines both democracy and governing capacity. The book defines crony capitalism, shows where it comes from, and investigates its political impact, based on case studies of two Russian regions, a statistical examination of 40 regions, a case study of Russia as a whole, and finally a comparison of several post-communist states.” —Political Science Quarterly“. . . a stimulating book. It forces the reader to reconsider western conceptions of elections, emphasizing how the context in which elections operate can make all the difference . . . the book should interest not only scholars seeking to better understand recent trends in Russian politics but also those interested in the comparative study of democratization and regime change.” —Slavic Review
£70.55
University of Wisconsin Press Written in Blood Revolutionary Terrorism and
Book SynopsisOffers a new interpretation of the emergence of modern terrorism, arguing that it formed in the Russian literary imagination well before any shot was fired or bomb exploded. Lynn Ellen Patyk contends that the prototype for the terrorist was the Russian writer, whose seditious word was interpreted as a violent assault on autocratic authority.
£18.66
Yale University Press Putin vs. the People
Book SynopsisA bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on Putin’s grip on power—updated to include the Russian invasion of UkraineTrade Review“Putin v the People wrestles with perhaps the central conundrum of contemporary Russia: the endurance of support for Putin amid deepening disillusionment with the present and pessimism about the future.”—Daniel Beer, The Guardian“This work is well researched and well written and provides not only information on Putin’s life and career, but extremely informative about how he attained his current popularity and status in Russia, and how he maintains it.”—Ayse Dietrich, International Journal of Russian Studies“[A] very readable book.”—Martin Dewhirst, The Forum“The book contains much interesting detail”—Bill Bowring, SCRSS Digest“Greene and Robertson provide a valuable insight into the potential longevity of Putin’s power.”—Yana Gorokhovskaia, Europe-Asia StudiesReceived an Honorable Mention from Davis Center Book Prize, sponsored by The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies “Groundbreaking research presented in a fresh and accessible style—this book, centering on the positive social and emotional responses of the Russian people to their autocratic political leadership, is a thought-provoking challenge to the clichés and stereotypes surrounding Vladimir Putin.”—Edward Lucas, author of The New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West“This engagingly written book concentrates on ordinary Russians, meticulously tracking their reactions to a complex but fragile regime where opposition is significant if limited, and Putin and his people are surprisingly dependent on each other”—Sir Rodric Braithwaite, author and British Ambassador in Moscow 1988-92“Challenging many conventional assumptions about contemporary Russian society, this fresh, original analysis offers paradoxically an explanation for why Putin is popular—but also why his position is fragile.”—Michael McFaul, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Former US Ambassador to Russia“A deep dive into the complexities of Russian society, Putin's popularity and the protest movement that rocked the Kremlin.”—Arkady Ostrovsky, author of The Invention of Russia
£12.99
WW Norton & Co A Wretched and Precarious Situation
Book SynopsisA remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal and survival set in one of the world’s most inhospitable places.Trade Review"Unravels the strange story of one of the world's greatest discoveries that never was." -- National Geographic"Polar historians will be grateful to have the Crocker Land expedition properly documented." -- The New York Times Book Review
£20.90
WW Norton & Co A Wretched and Precarious Situation In Search of
Book SynopsisA remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places.Trade Review"Unravels the strange story of one of the world's greatest discoveries that never was." -- National Geographic"Polar historians will be grateful to have the Crocker Land expedition properly documented." -- . - The New York Times Book Review"The true story of the Crocker Land Expedition to find a new continent northwest of Greenland in the early 20th century." -- What We're Reading - The Independent
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WW Norton & Co Floating Coast
Book SynopsisA ground-breaking exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world where two great economic ideologies converge.Trade Review"In Floating Coast, Bathsheba Demouth has written a brilliant hybrid book about one of the most fragile and forgotten of Anthropocene front-line territories, the Bering Strait. Uniting ecology, anthropology, reportage and more, this is a superb work of environmental history, often reminiscent to me of Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams in its combination of rigorous research, intense looking and listening, and its clear ethical vision." -- Robert Macfarlane"... Demuth has now herself written the history she calls for. Floating Coast is a historian’s Moby Dick, a great white whale of a book that spans centuries and links landscapes, living beings, and the flux of time, into a marvelously readable narrative." -- Amitav Ghosh"Floating Coast is an extraordinary piece of history writing, seamlessly weaving together disparate elements. It is astonishingly rich in ethnographic detail, ecological precision, economic circumstance and historical texture." -- Nature"Floating Coast is rich, well researched and illuminating. It keeps under readers’ feet the vastness of Demuth’s expertise, as solid as a land bridge." -- The International New York Times"Demuth, an environmental historian at Brown University, has reaped rich and fascinating material from the oral history of the indigenous Beringians recorded by ethnographers." -- Literary Review"I have also greatly enjoyed and learned from... Bathsheba Demuth’s Floating Coast: An Environmental History of The Bering Strait..." -- Robert Macfarlane, The Big Issue’s Books of the Year 2019 - The Big Issue
£20.89
WW Norton & Co In the East
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary true story of Polish-Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Iran.Trade Review"... a highly personal, journalistic memoir and a valuable addition to Holocaust history... What makes Dekel’s study so valuable is not just its assiduous detailing of one family’s fate during the second world war, but how it also makes us reflect on our current era, with its mass migrations of desperate people fleeing conflict and hardship only to meet inflamed nativism and the desire to shift responsibility for their fate from one country on to the next." -- The Guardian"Tehran Children is the story of Dekel’s quest to understand where her father came from […] that speaks to the terrors of the twenty-first century." -- Times Literary Supplement"The story at the center of this book is the way contingency shaped so many destinies. It makes these Tehran children not simply another detail of the Holocaust but a matter of enduring existential, psychological and moral reflection." -- Jonathan Brent - The New York Times Book Review"... intriguing story…" -- The International New York Times"Groundbreaking... The strength of Dekel’s book is that it moves beyond the narrative binary of “warm hospitality” and “abuse” to show the grey spaces in between... it is hope that lies at the center of this moving, heartbreaking testimony... hope that untold suffering can, and sometimes does, come to an end." -- Arash Azizi - Iran Wire"Part-history, part second-generation memoir, Tehran Children sheds light on a previously neglected episode of the Holocaust." -- Jerusalem Report"... compelling and personal narrative...This book is an important part of Holocaust history. A tragic story, full of sadness and suffering yet also hope." -- Methodist Recorder
£14.24
University of California Press Roving Revolutionaries
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A magisterial study." * Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies *"Roving Revolutionaries is a work of discovery and recovery solidly based on prodigious research and reading. Berberian whets one’s appetite for even more: a deeper exploration of the complexities of the revolutionary milieus in which these itinerant radicals found themselves; a more critical stance toward her actors; and a hard look at how their circuits, ideas, and activities contributed to the sad, tragic fates that both they personally and the people they hoped to save suffered." * Journal of Modern History *"A successful hit and highly recommended." * Connections *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration 1. Connected Revolutions: Local and Global Contexts 2. “Active and Moving Spirits of Disturbance”: Circulation of Men, Arms, and Print 3. The Circulation of Ideas and Ideologies: Constitutionalism and Federalism 4. Connected through and beyond Reading: Socialism across Imperial Frontiers 5. “The Egoism of the Cured Patient”: (In Lieu of a) Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Roving Revolutionaries
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A magisterial study." * Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies *"Roving Revolutionaries is a work of discovery and recovery solidly based on prodigious research and reading. Berberian whets one’s appetite for even more: a deeper exploration of the complexities of the revolutionary milieus in which these itinerant radicals found themselves; a more critical stance toward her actors; and a hard look at how their circuits, ideas, and activities contributed to the sad, tragic fates that both they personally and the people they hoped to save suffered." * Journal of Modern History *"A successful hit and highly recommended." * Connections *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration 1. Connected Revolutions: Local and Global Contexts 2. “Active and Moving Spirits of Disturbance”: Circulation of Men, Arms, and Print 3. The Circulation of Ideas and Ideologies: Constitutionalism and Federalism 4. Connected through and beyond Reading: Socialism across Imperial Frontiers 5. “The Egoism of the Cured Patient”: (In Lieu of a) Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press Christianity and the Eastern Slavs Volume III
Book SynopsisThis publication in three volumes originated in papers delivered at two conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, DC. Like many other conferences organized that year in the United States, Europe, and the Soviet Union, they were convened to commemorate the millennium of the acceptance of Christianity in Rus'. This collection of essays throws light on the enormous, truly unique role that the Christian tradition has played throughout the centuries in shaping the nations that spring from Kievan Rus'the Russians, Ukrainians, and Belorussians. Although these volumes devote greater attention to Russian culture, the investigation of the issue in the history of Christianity in Ukrainian and Belorussian cultures occupies an important and integral part of the project.Volume ISlavic Cultures in the Middle AgesEdited by Boris Gasparov and Olga Raevsky-HughesVolume IIRussian Culture in Modern TimesEdited by Robert P. Hughes and Irina PapernoVolume IIIRussian Literature in Modern TimesEdited by Boris Gasparov, Robert P. Hughes, Irina Paperno, and Olga Raevsky-HughesThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
£28.90
University of California Press The Teaching of Charles Fourier
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University of California Press Yesterday
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University of California Press The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of Australia New Zealand and the
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the 21st century. The authors show how the peoples of the region constructed their own identities and influenced those of their neighbours.Trade Review"An extremely welcome addition to the insulated worlds of Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Island history ... of particular use to under-graduate and graduate courses dealing with these national contexts" Times Higher Education Supplement " ... scholarly and well documented with maps, illustrations, appendixes, complete bibliography and index ... highly recommended for all university collections" CHOICE "Denoon and his co-authors have made very important additions to the still relatively small historiography of the Pacific." Pacific History "Substantial and informative ... an insightful study that will prove challenging for academic and general readers of history on both sides of the Tasman, and no doubt beyond ... Donald Denoon's and Philippa Mein-Smith's achievement in delineating the past 200 years of this region will, one would predict, stand unchallenged for some considerable time." Australian Historical Studies "This is an important book." International History Review "A considerable achievement. It is also lively and enlightening, not least in the numerous shrewd asides which season it." English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Foundations of Contemporary Identities. 1. Representations of Regional, National and 'Ethnic' Identities. Naming Rights. European Frameworks. Anthropology. Development Economics. History. Not a Self-Evident Region. 2. Patterns of Pre-European Settlement and Interaction. 'Indigenous' Communities. Austronesians, Lapita, Polynesians: Chronologies and Charters. Fragmentation. What Held Societies Together?. Dealing with Outsiders. 3. Intersecting Worlds. 'Scientific Discoveries' and Conceptual Maps. Captain Cook. Du Fresne. Encounters in the Twentieth Century. Maori Discovery of Aborigines. 4. Depopulation and Immigration. Depopulation. Dying Races. Displacement. Colonization and Settlement. Part II: New Societies and Economies. 5. New Social Forms. Convicts and Settlers. Protestants and Polynesians. The Catholic Revival. The New Laws. Tensions Between Empires. Sport and Civilization. 6. Struggles for Land. Maori and Pakeha. Australian Squatters and Selectors. Island Plantations and Cooperatives. Land, Sovereignty and War. Land and Destinies. 7. Mining. Eldorado v. Arcadia. Digger Democracy. Types of Mining Enterprise. Other Minerals. Mining in the Islands. 8. Labour Relations. The Convicts in Australia. Women Convicts. Free Settlement. Assisted Labour. A French Australia?. Segregated Labour Markets. Plantations. Part III: New States and Social Identities. 9. New States. An Imagined Region. The Entrepreneurial States. Kingitanga. Australian Federation and Manifest Destinies. 10. New Settler Societies. Men's Countries, Women's Rights. Whom to Exclude. Settler Societies and Cultural Expressions. The Bulletin. Bush Mythologies. Urban Australia. 11. Capital and Labour: Resisting Globalization. Boom and Bust. Arbitration and Protection. The Family and the Gender Division of Labour. 12. Be Prepared!. Defence. Social Preparations. Populate or Perish. Measures. Part IV: Wars and Reconstructions. 13. The Great War. Anzac Legends. Mothers, Sisters and Wives. Women's War Service. Pacifists. The Odd Woman Out: Ettie Rout. 14. Anxious Peace. Financial Insecurity. The Great Depression. Welfare. Eugenics and King Baby. For Art and Country: The Literature of Nation-Building.The Island Dependencies. Maori and Aboriginal Initiatives. 15. War in Europe, and in the Pacific. Storm Clouds. War in Europe. War in the Pacific. Taking Part. Women and Men. Plans and Visions of Reconstruction. New Zealand: Equality of Opportunity. Bringing the Australian Intelligentsia to Heel. 16. Inter-dependencies. Cold War, the American Alliance and Nuclear Politics. Colonial Administrations Restored. Migration from Europe, Polynesia, Asia. Maori and Aboriginal Urbanization. Suburbia. Decentralization. Part V: Reflections on Contemporary Identities. 17. Expanding Citizenship. Aboriginal Australians. Torres Strait Islanders. South Sea Islanders. Maori Revival and the Waitangi Tribunal. Women's Liberation and Feminist Politics. 18. Decolonization?. Colonial Contexts. British Withdrawal. French Dependencies. Anglo-French Condominium. New Zealand and Australian Dependencies. Island Independence. 19. Globalization and National Identities. The Closer Economic Relationship. Muldoon and Douglas. Australia and APEC. Mining. Global or Regional?. 20. Popular Culture. Cultural Globalization. An Australian Hoax. Youth Revolution. Popular Culture. American Influence and Local Invention. From Bush to Beach Australia. Clean, Green New Zealand. Film. Sport. Expatriates. Globalism and Parochialism. 21. Contemporary Identities. Regional Crises and Security. New Caledonia. Wallace's Other Line. Defining Aotearoa/New Zealand. Defining Australia. A Coherent Region. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.
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Harvard University Press How the Soviet Jew Was Made
Book SynopsisIn post-1917 Russian and Yiddish literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds a new cultural figure: the Soviet Jew. Suddenly mobile after more than a century of restrictions under the tsars, Jewish authors created characters who traversed space and history, carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost world.Trade ReviewHow the Soviet Jew Was Made makes an eloquent case for Yiddish-language works being part of Russian/Soviet literature…A deeply researched work, with insightful, often brilliant analyses. -- Yelena Furman * Los Angeles Review of Books *[A] brilliant new study…This is an energetic approach for generations of Russian-speaking American Jews navigating a fraught historical identity, and also for artists and intellectuals who do not think immigrants owe America for their acculturation and citizenship, but rather that a complex, prosperous, artistic, and intellectual America is impossible without us. -- Gary Shteyngart * New York Review of Books *Maps a fascinating landscape of Jewish literary expression in Eastern European Jewish life during the period between the Russian Revolution and the emergence, over the next few decades, of the Soviet Union…Senderovich’s study is indispensable for understanding this rich segment of Jewish creativity. The book charts how a generation of Jewish writers and filmmakers explored, and sought to demystify, the meaning of ‘becoming Soviet’ in response to an emergent Soviet empire demanding ideological consensus among its newly emancipated, deterritorialized Jewish citizens. -- Donald Weber * Jewish Book Council *[How the Soviet Jew Was Made] is a story of enormous creativity in both Russian and Yiddish, which revealed the tensions inherent in being a ‘Soviet Jew’. This victimized figure may have needed ‘saving’ by the West during the Cold War in the form of safe passage out of the USSR, but Senderovich’s meticulous study is less interested in how the Soviet Jew was viewed from outside the USSR than in the struggle that his chosen writers and film-makers underwent in the attempt to make sense of their post-revolutionary selves. -- Bryan Cheyette * Times Literary Supplement *An extraordinary overview of the serious scholarly writing on the multiple dimensions of Jewish life in the Russian/Soviet space. * Association of Jewish Libraries News and Reviews *A deeply researched book that explores literary and cinematic representations of Jews in the USSR between 1917 and the 1930s…[Senderovich’s] comparative approach offers a wider view of the Soviet cultural landscape, where Russian and Yiddish richly interacted with each other. By extension, Senderovich’s book is also an invitation to further expand the scope of Yiddish studies through multilingual approaches. -- Nobuto Sato * In Geveb *Senderovich focuses on the texts of several Jewish writers of the early Soviet period that depict the experience of Jews from shtetls who found themselves under Bolshevik rule. His subtle literary analysis takes in novels, short stories, and films. -- Maria Lipman * Foreign Affairs *Through its intensive engagement with works of post-revolutionary Jewish literature, Senderovich's monograph offers a new reading of Jewish-Soviet literature of the interwar period that enriches the debate about Jewish creativity and identity in the young Soviet Union…An innovative examination of the complex processes that shaped this identity. -- Leonie Rogg * H-Soz-Kult *Wonderful…Tells the story of the development of the unique cultural type of the Soviet Jew during the first two decades of the Soviet Union’s existence. -- Brett Winestock * Studies in American Jewish Literature *Those willing to put in the effort will get a lot out of How the Soviet Jew Was Made. -- Gary Saul Morson * Mosaic *Senderovich doesn’t reheat old material. He provides fresh insight, as well as material few have seen. -- Paul Goldberg * Jerusalem Post *Powerlessness, insecurity, and trauma suspended the Soviet-Jewish figure in a hesitant middle ground. Senderovich’s achievement is in deftly illustrating the tensions of this moment, when speculating on the outcome of the revolution for eastern European Jewry could provoke both great hope and visceral dread in a single text. -- James Benjamin Nadel * The Pickle (Vashti Media Ltd.) *The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the Jewish community of the former empire. Soviet modernity meant freedom, the possibility of the new, and the pressure to discard old ways of life, all embodied in the novel cultural figure of the Soviet Jew. In insightful readings of Yiddish and Russian literature, films, and reportage, Senderovich urges us to see the Soviet Jew as a particular kind of liminal being as he offers a profound meditation on culture and identity in a shifting landscape. -- Alice Nakhimovsky, author of Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and AmericaWith incisive exegesis, Senderovich develops a new reading of Soviet Jewish identity formation and expands the canon of twentieth-century Jewish writings in the process. This book establishes Senderovich as an important and original voice in Jewish literary studies. -- Jeffrey Veidlinger, author of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the HolocaustAn erudite exploration of how Russian and Yiddish writers imagined a totally new kind of person, the Soviet Jew. Senderovich shows how war, revolution, and the first years of Soviet power made it possible to construct a Jewish figure and assign it competing ideological meanings. In that way, the Jews were like the Soviet Union itself. Disciplinarily wide-ranging and original, this book will excite readers. -- Gabriella Safran, author of Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk’s Creator, S. An-skyIn this compelling book, Senderovich describes the new Jewish narratives that were born with the Soviet Union. Caught between the excitement of revolutionary messianism and the tragedy of mass violence, Soviet Jewish writers in both Yiddish and Russian created new Jewish archetypes that built on humor, folklore, and music and engaged with debates in Marxist philosophy. Two Jewish literary languages, in dialogue with one another, came to define a new Jewish culture with its own touchstones and ciphers. -- Amelia M. Glaser, author of Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to PalestineSenderovich follows the Russian Jews as they navigated across space and time on their journey to becoming Soviet. In richly erudite readings of the most significant interwar works of Soviet Jewish literature, journalism, and cinema in Yiddish and Russian, he explores the convoluted creation process of a new Soviet Jewish identity and makes a strong case for a more nuanced and better informed understanding of the fluid relationship between the two components of this ambivalent hybrid formation. -- Mikhail Krutikov, author of Der Nister’s Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People
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Harvard University Press Disunion within the Union
Book SynopsisAn engaging study of the partitions of Poland that paints a vivid portrait of conflict, accommodation, and survival in a church subject to the grand designs of the late eighteenth century's premier absolutist powers.Trade ReviewWolff writes beautifully and conveys the twists and turns of his argument with finesse, providing a stimulating presentation of these issues. His facility with Italian and Latin bring sources from the Uniate hierarchy and the Vatican to life in a way that so many working on this subject cannot achieve…Scholars of religion and identity in Eastern Europe should appreciate this thoughtful analysis of a significant and complex period in Uniate Church history. -- Barbara Skinner * Russian Review *Wolff has performed brilliantly in providing a new view of how the Enlightenment influenced the rulers and states who reshaped the Uniate Church. -- Frank E. Sysyn * Slavonic and East European Review *Offer[s] a convincing synthesis of the dynamics within the Uniate Church triggered by the partitions of Poland…Though-provoking. -- Paweł Zając * Austrian History Yearbook *
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Harvard University Press Ukraines Nuclear Disarmament
Book SynopsisBased on original and previously unavailable documents, Yuri Kostenko’s account of the negotiations surrounding the Budapest Memorandum agreement between Ukraine, Russia, and the US reveals for the first time the internal debates of the Ukrainian government, as well as the pressure exerted upon it by its international partners.Trade ReviewA really, really interesting story, almost unknown in the West…Nuclear weapons were Ukraine’s security, and they gave it up because the US and Russia were working together…What has happened to Ukraine since it was disarmed has and will have a negative impact on the global story of denuclearization. Countries are going to think twice next time someone comes along proposing to give them a piece of paper in exchange for their nuclear weapons. -- Serhii Plokhy * Five Books *An interesting and timely document that will be of great interest not only to Ukraine scholars but also to the scholars of national security and global nuclear politics. -- Eglė Rindzevičiūtė * Slavic Review *An absorbing read, providing historical insights on the demise of the Soviet Union, the emergence of independent Ukraine, the management of its relations with Moscow and the West, and challenges and pitfalls of diplomacy from a position of weakness. It contains important lessons for the management of today’s proliferation challenges in North East Asia and the Middle East. -- John Tilemann * Australian Outlook *A story of David (new-born Ukraine) versus Goliath (Russia), with a fierce domestic debate in the political sphere in Ukraine—less so in the societal sphere—between actors with different beliefs and interests…Crucial in light of the current happenings, already at the beginning of the 1990s one could discern indications that it was extremely important to Russia that Ukraine would remain within its sphere of influence. -- Tom Sauer * Canadian Slavonic Papers *Revealing…Drawing on the parliamentary and executive government portfolios that Kostenko held during the 1990s, the book lays out a picture of the intense domestic and international political struggles that prompted Kiev to give up the bomb that some Ukrainians today wistfully believe could have deterred Russia from gobbling up Crimea while fomenting separatism in the country’s east. -- Bennett Ramberg * Political Science Quarterly *Yuri Kostenko has written a superb book explaining why Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in the mid-1990s, leaving itself without a deterrent against Russia. He shows in fascinating detail that pressure from Moscow and Washington left Ukraine with little choice but to surrender its nuclear arsenal. Kostenko directly ties that fateful decision to the war that broke out between Russia and Ukraine in 2014, in which Ukraine was largely defenseless and the United States, which had promised to defend Ukraine’s sovereignty, sat on the sidelines. The implicit message of Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament is clear: there is no substitute for a nuclear deterrent when you live in a dangerous neighborhood. -- John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, and author of Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International RealitiesYuri Kostenko’s rich, cogent, and well-sourced insider account of Ukraine giving up the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal in the 1990s shows how power asymmetries and state-building affect international political outcomes in nontrivial and counterintuitive ways—with the security dilemma engendering hasty unilateral disarmament; costly commitments demanded from weaker rather than stronger states; and democratic peace falling short of its promises even with the endorsement of the world’s most powerful democracies. A must-read for students of international politics, the book explains how authoritarian adversaries can leverage America’s security concerns of the day to subvert fledgling democracies and why support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and integration with the West is in America’s vital long-term national interest. -- Mikhail Alexseev, Professor in the Department of Political Science, San Diego State University, and author of Without Warning: Threat Assessment, Intelligence, and Global StruggleUkraine’s Nuclear Disarmament is the definitive account of the fateful decision to unilaterally dismantle the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal. Yuri Kostenko was the consummate insider, with privileged access to the actors and arguments that led to a decision whose legacy continues to haunt Ukraine’s future. Not only does he produce a wealth of new material, some previously classified; he disposes of the myth that the opponents of this decision wished to maintain Ukraine’s nuclear status. Until now, the straw man of ‘nuclear-armed Ukraine’ has impeded critical thought about whether more could have been done to ensure ‘effective disarmament.’ Kostenko’s detailed and engrossing account will enlighten and disquiet in equal measure. -- James Sherr, Senior Fellow, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at the International Centre for Defence and Security, and Associate Fellow, Chatham House Russia and Eurasia ProgrammeEven readers who believe that Ukraine never had a realistic chance—technically or politically—of emerging as a full-fledged nuclear weapons state in the 1990s will find Yuri Kostenko’s book extremely illuminating. Having served as Ukraine’s minister of environmental protection and a member of the Ukrainian parliament during the protracted debates on the nuclear issue, Kostenko provides a richly detailed insider’s account that underscores the importance of political divisions within Ukraine in shaping the outcome. These divisions, he contends, gave greater leverage to external actors and prevented Ukraine from pursuing the kind of deal he favored: a deal that would have given Ukraine more robust security guarantees and greater financial compensation in exchange for relinquishing all the nuclear missiles left on its territory after the demise of the Soviet Union. -- Mark Kramer, Director of Cold War Studies, Harvard University
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Harvard University Press A Race for the Future
Book SynopsisAmid the nationalization of Russian imperial politics, Jews developed a powerful version of race science and biopolitics as a response to their colonial condition, nonterritoriality, and exclusion from looming postimperial modernity. Marina Mogilner explores this story in the context of Russia's turbulent early twentieth century.Trade ReviewThis is an important, provocative work that should be read by anyone interested in the history of race in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. -- Andrew Sloin * Russian Review *Mogilner makes a tremendous contribution to the understanding of the ‘Jewish Question’ in the nineteenth century in this thoroughly researched and fluidly written volume. -- Leora Eisenberg * EuropeNow *A brilliant work of intellectual and cultural history. Drawing on an impressive range of sources, Mogilner argues that the language of race science—and the embrace of biopolitics by Jewish social scientists—possessed powerful exclusionary potential, even as it was used to study, improve, and protect the population of Russian Jews. I have no doubt A Race for the Future will become the standard book on the subject for many years to come. -- Eugene M. Avrutin, author of Racism in Modern Russia: From the Romanovs to PutinA gripping story of the power of ‘racial science’ as a paradigm of global modernity, its emancipatory attractions to educated Russian Jews, and the assimilative impetus of the Russian empire that made Jewish self-racialization, oddly, an anticolonial gesture. A brilliant and erudite scholar, Mogilner endows this mind-bending story with a deep appreciation of its historical actors’ diverse intellectual trajectories, motivations, and political entanglements. This groundbreaking book sparkles with insights into Russia’s unique imperial predicaments. -- Edyta M. Bojanowska, author of A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate PalladaBold and highly original. Challenging the entrenched misconception that race was peripheral to group identity in imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union, Mogilner shows how Jewish self-racialization was paradoxically a project of anticolonial resistance. With its clear and engaging prose, this will be a crucial reference for historians of empire—or anyone interested in how subaltern actors exercise agency within a colonial setting. -- Vera Tolz, author of Russia’s Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods
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Harvard University Press The Torture Camp on Paradise Street
Book SynopsisIn the memoir The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner for nearly three years at a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB) in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk.Trade ReviewA difficult read but an important one… This book allows us to understand the Russian occupation and everything that has been going on since Russia forcibly invaded Ukraine in 2014… Aseyev writes with beautiful clarity and philosophical richness. His book is a testament to the dignity and the strength of the human spirit. -- Sasha Dovzhyk * Five Books *A chilling and worthwhile read. -- Lilian Posner * Foreign Policy *
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Princeton University Press PostSoviet Social
Book SynopsisExamines reform in Russia beyond the Washington Consensus. This title uses the Russian case to examine neoliberalism as a central form of political rationality in contemporary societies.Trade Review"[T]he overall arguments are clearly and exhaustively explicated, and Collier demonstrates a strong grasp of economics and economic history... [M]uch is provided that will interest a variety of scholars of political economy, as well as those with areal interests."--Samuel Schueth, Social Anthropology "Ambitious in its scope and level of detail, theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, Collier's latest book makes an important contribution to Foucauldian scholarship. In particular, it helps us appreciate the significance and uniqueness of the Soviet biopolitical project, while suggesting a productive line of inquiry into the nexus between neoliberalism and social modernity. It also encourages us to critically interrogate neoliberal narratives in terms of their history and effects, to appreciate the flexibility of neoliberal reforms and to focus on specific practices in order to understand what makes them neoliberal."--Volha Piotukh, Foucault Studies "[B]y advocating the study of the actual ideas and policies, not merely the political manifestos, of economists and international financial institutions like the World Bank, as they change in interaction with material and social structures, Collier advances our understanding of socialism, postsocialism, and neoliberalism. This book would be useful in graduate courses on neoliberalism and postsocialism."--Johanna Bockman, Slavic Review "Undoubtedly, Collier's book is complex, yet highly rewarding, and this reviewer is certain that this book will transform not only our perception of how neoliberal reform actually worked in places like post-Soviet Russia, but also how we approach neoliberalism as an object of anthropological inquiry."--Valter Cvijic, Anthropological NotebooksTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables ix Preface: Formal and Substantive xi Acknowledgments xv Chapter One: Introduction: Post-Soviet, Post-Social? 1 Part I: Soviet Social Modernity 31 Chapter Two: The Birth of Soviet Biopolitics 39 Chapter Three: City-building 65 Chapter Four: City-building in Belaya Kalitva 84 Chapter Five: Consolidation, Stagnation, Breakup 108 Part II: Neoliberalism and Social Modernity 127 Chapter Six: Adjustment Problems 139 Chapter Seven: Budgets and Biopolitics: On Substantive Provisioningand Formal Rationalization 162 Chapter Eight: The Intransigence of Things 202 Epilogue: An Ineffective Controversy 245 Notes 253 References 279 Index 299
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Princeton University Press The Limits of Partnership U.S.Russian Relations
Book SynopsisWhy has it been so difficult to move the relationship forward? What are the prospects for doing so in the future? Is the effort doomed to fail again and again? This title deals with these questions.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Douglas Dillon Award, American Academy of Diplomacy One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2015, chosen by Daniel Fuss One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2014, chosen by Dan Fuss "In her largely chronological account of U.S.-Russian relations since 1990, Ms. Stent gives a comprehensive overview of the obstacles that have prevented a closer relationship."--Yascha Mount, Wall Street Journal "[L]ucid... [R]eadable and sometimes surprising."--Kirkus Reviews "[M]agisterial."--The Economist "[Stent's] compelling book provides perhaps the most comprehensive and sober--as well as sobering--assessment of relations across the past two decades."--Neil Buckley, Financial Times "Stent ... expertly condenses the past two decades of this tumultuous relationship with an insider's command of detail."--Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Times Higher Education "In The Limits of Partnership, Stent ... clearly and carefully lays out the contentious issues that have divided the United States and Russia since the end of the Cold War."--Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post "Until now, there have been no broad-based studies of the vexed contemporary U.S.-Russian relationship in English--or, for that matter, in Russian. This volume fills that void admirably."--Foreign Affairs "Truly outstanding."--Mark Adomanis, Forbes.com "[An] insightful and balanced assessment of two decades of post-Soviet interaction between Washington and Moscow... Stent draws many useful lessons from the ups-and-downs in the U.S.-Russian relationship."--Paul J. Saunders, National Interest "In her magisterial new book The Limits of Partnership, Angela Stent performs a great service by showing that the end of the Obama Reset is only one part of a much broader pattern that goes back to the end of the Soviet Union."--Donald N. Jensen, Institute of Modern Russia "Where Stent's narrative truly excels ... is in presenting the Russian side of the story. It does not fall victim to the understandable temptation to mock Yeltsin or Putin, but rather treats Russia as a U.S. partner with legitimate grievances. This is a particularly worthwhile contribution."--Heather Williams, War Studies Publications "The Limits of Partnership is a comprehensive and objective history and analysis. While dealing with the detailed complexity of the many issues involved, it does so in a clear, straightforward style. Although written before the present Ukrainian crisis, it is an indispensable source for understanding why this crisis has worsened our relationship with Russia."--Walter G. Moss, History News Network "A descriptive and integrative type of work, The Limits of Partnership contributes to a renewed understanding of the legacy of the Cold war, of the cultural mechanisms underlying its practices, the ebb and flow, the meanderings and limitations of ideology, viewed in transnational perspective. Stent's is without doubt a particularly apt and timely undertaking, one whose pertinence is fully probed by the crisis in Ukraine that sparked a proliferation of discourse on the 'new Cold War.' This is certainly a cogent political analysis of the postcommunist architecture in Europe as it profiles itself at this juncture in the twenty-first century."--Adriana Neagu, American, British and Canadian Studies "This is a remarkably even-handed account, in the best kind of way; it explains how each side has understood the serial breakdowns, and explains how the misperceptions on either side have allowed them to happen."--Robert Farley, Lawyers, Guns, & Money blog "Stent, former staffer at the National Intelligence Council and Department of State, has written a masterful analysis of US-Russian relations since the breakup of the Soviet Union... Written in a lively, engaging manner that is free of academic jargon, the book is accessible to readers from a variety of disciplines and academic levels... This book provides a complete and definitive rendering of the key events that have taken place in that relationship and deserves to be widely read."--Choice "[A] highly readable account of US foreign policy during the twenty-five years since the Berlin Wall came down, with respect not just to Russia, but the Eurasian continent generally."--David Warsh, Economic PrincipalsTable of ContentsIntroduction ix List of Acronyms xvii Prologue George H. W. Bush and Russia Reborn 1 Chapter One The Bill and Boris Show 13 Chapter Two Rethinking Euro-Atlantic Security 35 Chapter Three Bush and Putin in the Age of Terror 49 Chapter Four The Iraq War 82 Chapter Five The Color Revolutions 97 Illustrations following page 123 Chapter Six The Munich Speech 135 Chapter Seven From Kosovo to Georgia: Things Fall Apart 159 Chapter Eight Economics and Energy: The Stakeholder Challenge 177 Chapter Nine Reset or Overload? The Obama Initiative 211 Chapter Ten From Berlin to Damascus: Disagreements Old and New 235 Chapter Eleven The Limits of Partnership 255 Acknowledgments 275 List of Interviewees 279 Chronology of Major Events in U.S.-Russian Relations 283 Notes 293 Bibliography 321 Credits for Illustration Section 327 Index 329
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Princeton University Press Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent
Book SynopsisRussian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism today. John and Carol Garrard tell the story of how the Orthodox Church's moral weight helped defeat the 1991 coup against GorbacTrade Review"At the heart of the book is a masterful biography of Alexy himself... An important and meticulously researched book."--Thomas de Waal, Times Literary Supplement "[The Garrards] focus on Aleksy II's agenda both to reroot Russian Orthodoxy to its claim as the true apostolic succession in Christendom (a challenge to Roman Catholicism's rival claim) and to reidentify it with Russian nationalism. The former claim lies in New Testament texts the Garrards clearly explain, while their discussion of Aleksy II's activities in the latter realm display the authors' supple understanding of Russian patriotism and its religio-military heroes going back to Alexander Nevsky. An important work for students of contemporary Russia."--Gilbert Taylor, Booklist "After the long dark eclipse of the Soviet period, the Russian Orthodox Church is again central to an understanding of contemporary Russia, and this book provides a fine starting point."--Robert Levgold, Foreign Affairs "J. Garrard and C. Garrard provide an important portrait of the Russian Church and its role in the establishment of the 'new' Russia... Based on an abundance of contemporary sources, the Garrards tell a fascinating story."--G.P. Cox, Choice "The Garrards (he a lapsed Anglican, she a practising Lutheran) write evocatively about the history, in elegiac style about the beauty of the architecture, iconography and liturgy, and clear-headedly about nasty aspects such as the church's severe anti-Semitism."--Miriam Cosic, The Australian "Even though the book's style appeals to a popular readership, scholars will want to study the Garrards' work. Their personal contacts with many Russians active in church life have awarded them priceless insights, within the reach of very few Westerners, and many of the important events they witnessed have not been well covered by news outlets."--John D. Basil, Church History "This book combines empathy and detailed scholarship, shedding light on the intricacies of church-state relations in the new Russia."--Iannis Carras, opendemocracy.net "[T]he book is a lively written impressionist report by engaged observers with an abundance of information."--Wil van den Bercken, Journal of Eastern Christian Studies "[T]his is an engaging study of a fascinating subject that is essential to our understanding of the new Russia."--Ruth Coates, European Legacy "The Garrards' monograph is an accessible survey of many aspects of Russian Orthodox history and culture and can serve as a valuable introduction to these topics."--Katja Richters, Journal of Contemporary HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Note on Transliteration xix PROLOGUE Sergiev Posad: Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent 1 Chapter One: The End of the Atheist Empire 14 Chapter Two: A New Hope 36 Chapter Three: Rebuilding Holy Moscow 70 Chapter Four: Accursed Questions: Who Is to Blame? 101 Chapter Five: Irreconcilable Differences: Orthodoxy and the West 141 Chapter Six: The Babylonian Legacy: Exiles, Martyrs, and Collaborators 181 Chapter Seven: A Faith-Based Army 207 EPILOGUE: Twenty Years After: From Party to Patriarch 242 Appendix A: Translated Documents 255 Appendix B: Authors' Letter to the New York Times, May 27, 1990 261 Notes 263 Select Bibliography 309 Index 315
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University of British Columbia Press Made in Nunavut
Book SynopsisMade in Nunavut provides a definitive account of how an innovative government was designed and implemented in Canada’s Eastern and Central Artic.Trade ReviewMade in Nunavut fills an important gap. Up to now little has been written about the process through which the new territory was formed, in the period from 1993 to 1999, and on the extent to which the hopes and aspirations for that territory have been realized in the years following its establishment. This is the subject matter of Made in Nunavut, with a particular focus on the decentralization of certain functions of the Nunavut government to various communities across the territory. It is a work well suited to students of political science, public administration, and northern studies, primarily at the university level, but for some at a college level as well: it provides an enormous information base. It is written in a non-technical manner, and in this sense is also suited to the general reader. -- Alastair Campbell * Arctic *Made in Nunavut is meticulous and beautifully researched. It recounts an experiment in governance in the strangest place on earth, a territory of 1.9 million square kilometres flung across three time zones … Made in Nunavut is the definitive analysis of the nation’s most ambitious trial in home rule. -- Holly Doan * Blacklocks Reporter *With stories and details gathered together for the first time, Made in Nunavut … provides a behind-the-scenes view, a critical evaluation and a solid historical account. -- Michele LeTourneau * Northern News Service *Table of ContentsPreface1 Introduction2 The Literature and Experience of Decentralization in Canada3 The Land, the Claim, and the Act4 The Players and Their Interactions5 The Decentralization Initiative: January 1994–December 19956 Solidifying the Plan: January 1996–April 19977 Achieving the Impossible: April 1997–April 1, 19998 Additional Design and Implementation Issues9 Implementing Decentralization10 Decentralization Evaluated11 ConclusionNotesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Lock Stock and Icebergs A History of Canadas
Book SynopsisLock, Stock, and Icebergs recounts the events, pressures, and behind-the-scenes negotiations that shaped Canada’s legal claim to the Northwest Passage and the waters of the Arctic Archipelago.Trade ReviewLock, Stock and Icebergs sets a new standard for Canadian Arctic policy studies. Not everyone in this country will agree with or be pleased by what the author has to say. But every one of us who is interested in the Arctic stands to gain by coming to terms with his take on a theme that’s in danger of becoming stale. And if somehow a good number of us were to become critically aware of the information, perspectives, and insights that are on offer here, the quality of Canadian public debate about the Arctic would improve, perhaps greatly. All along, the rigour and ease displayed by Adam Lajeunesse in delving into the governmental side of Canadian Arctic policy-making are a challenge to those who would do the same. -- Franklyn Griffiths, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto * Arctic *…this book [is] an indispensable and major contribution to the literature and discussions on Canadian Arctic maritime sovereignty claims, most importantly the contested Northwest Passage … Lajeunesse not only provides a solid explanation of the subject’s historiographical debates, he offers a new perspective that enriches the debate. -- Elizabeth Elliot-Meisel, Creighton University * The International Journal of Maritime History *Lajeunesse’s study should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in the history of Canada’s Arctic policy and the basis of its Arctic maritime sovereignty. This book should also prove useful to policy-makers. As Lajeunesse has shown, holes remain in the sovereignty tapestry that covers Canada’s Arctic waters. Questions will continue to arise. In providing a window into the past developments that have shaped Canadian legal thinking and Arctic policy, Lajeunesse has done a great service for those engaging in future discussions, deliberations, and debates about these issues. -- Peter Kikkert, Sheridan College * International Journal *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 The Origins of Canada’s Arctic Maritime Sovereignty2 The Early Cold War and the End of Splendid Isolation3 Continental Defence and Straight Baselines4 Working with the Americans in the Arctic5 The Nuclear Submarine and Early Arctic Operations6 Canada’s Law of the Sea Priorities7 The Manhattan Crisis and the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act8 Securing the Canadian Claim: Defence and Diplomacy9 Canada and the Third UN Law of the Sea Conference10 The Cold War under Ice11 The Establishment of Straight Baselines12 Unfinished BusinessAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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Cornell University Press Antler on the Sea
Book SynopsisAnna M. Kerttula, an anthropologist, offers a vivid portrayal of life in Sireniki, a Siberian village on the Bering Sea. Once a traditional Yup'ik community, it was by the final years of the Soviet Empire home to three cultural groups: the Yup'ik...Trade ReviewAnna M. Kerttula offers a vivid portrayal of life in Sireniki. * Cultural Survival Quarterly *
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Cornell University Press Self and Story in Russian History
Book SynopsisRussians have often been characterized as people with souls rather than selves. Self and Story in Russian History challenges the portrayal of the Russian character as selfless, self-effacing, or self-torturing by exploring the texts through which...Trade ReviewAn excellent and fascinating collection. -- Lynne Atwood, University of Manchester * American Historical Review *Self and Story is a thought-provoking and complex collection. The contributors... are of a uniformly high quality, generally lively and edifying and always painstakingly researched.... Self and Story offers many rewards. It provides rich empirical justification for the study of the evolution of notions of self, individuality, subjectivity and personality in Russian culture and opens up an exciting new terrain for future research. -- Peter Pozefsky * H-Russia *The collection balances out the emphasis on the significance of literary narrative in the formation of the Russian self with its discussions of the opportunities provided by the new media of the early twentieth century, and its studies of testimony, memoir, and private diaries. The volume is important, not only for the breadth of issues it treats, but for its interdisciplinary approach. -- Harriet Murav, University of California Davis * Slavic Review *The innovative thinking reflected in the essays owes debts to such sources as psychoanalysis, deconstructionist theory, and the ideas of Michel Foucault.... While some of the essays will appeal mainly to specialists, others... will probably be of broader interest. * Choice *This collection is a valuable addition to the historiography of Imperial and Soviet Russian society. True to its title, Self and Story, the somewhat unorthodox theme allows the authors to explore familiar subjects in new and interesting ways. -- Nicole L. Young, University of Toronto * Canadian Slavonic Papars *This volume is a fine and timely intervention in the changing field of Russian cultural history. The editors join their expertise in history, literature, and gender studies to pose a question that recent research on Russian and Soviet social and intellectual history has rendered unavoidable: what was the status of the self in pre- and postrevolutionary Russia, and, equally important, how was the sense of individual identity constructed and produced? -- GalinTihanov, Lancaster University * The Russian Review *
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Cornell University Press Empire of Nations Ethnographic Knowledge and the
Book SynopsisIn Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the new Soviet Union.Trade ReviewHirsch does not simply... posit another ideological or epistemological model of Soviet history. She instead provides a completely new kind of analysis. Her book is more than an innovative study of high quality; it stakes out a position that cannot fail to have a long-standing impact on the historiography of the Soviet state. -- Marina Mogil'ner * Ab Imperio *Referring to the Soviet Union as an 'empire of nations,' Hirsch demonstrates through prodigious research how ethnographers from the former tsarist regime collaborated with the Leninists to shape the new state. Hers is the tale of a modernizing, self-styled scientific state that imposed categories, names, and programs on ethnic populations with relatively little say in their own fate.... Empire of Nations is an exceptionally rich book and a significant addition to the growing literature on the construction of the Soviet state. Beautifully written and clearly presented even when the story hovers on complicated administrative matters, Hirsch's account of the Soviet Union as a 'work in progress' that neither began with a blueprint nor achieved completion reaffirms the now widely accepted view of nation-formation as a process of human intervention and invention. -- Ronald Grigor Suny * The Moscow Times *This innovative and important book reinterprets the formation of the Soviet Union in the years after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Instead of focusing on the views of the Soviet leadership and the events surrounding the official formation of the Soviet Union in 1922, Hirsch takes a broader perspective on the processes involved with establishing a nationalities policy in the Soviet Union from the prerevolutionary background through the 1930s by looking at the activities of experts and local elites, among others. Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart One. Empire, Nation, and the Scientific State1. Toward a Revolutionary Alliance2. The National Idea versus Economic ExpediencyPart Two. Cultural Technologies of Rule and the Nature of Soviet Power3. The 1926 Census and the Conceptual Conquest of Lands and Peoples4. Border-Making and the Formation of Soviet National Identities5. Transforming "The Peoples of the USSR": Ethnographic Exhibits and the Evolutionary TimelinePart Three. The Nazi Threat and the Acceleration of the Bolshevik Revolution6. State-Sponsored Evolutionism and the Struggle against German Biological Determinism7. Ethnographic Knowledge and TerrorEpilogueAppendixes Bibliography Index
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MB - Cornell University Press Turizm
Book SynopsisIn the Soviet Union and the eastern bloc, the idea of "vacation" was never as uncomplicated as throwing some suitcases in the car and heading for the beach.Trade ReviewWe still lack a clear understanding of what motivates the Eastern European tourist, what they are escaping, and what experiences they seek. This excellent, necessary book begins to fill those gaps. Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker have assembled fourteen essays of consistently high quality. * Times Literary Supplement *
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Cornell University Press The Odd Man Karakozov
Book SynopsisOn April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg''s Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his unheard-of act changed the course of Russian historyand gave birth to the revolutionary political violence known as terrorism.Based on clues pulled out of the pockets of Karakozov''s peasant disguise, investigators concluded that there had been a conspiracy so extensive as to have sprawled across the entirety of the Russian empire and the European continent. Karakozov was said to have been a member of The Organization, a socialist network at the center of which sat a secret cell of suicide-assassins: Hell. It is still unclear how much of this conspiracy theory was actually true, but of the thirty-six defendants who stood accused during what was Russia''s first modern political trial, all but a few were exiled to Siberia, and Karakozov himself was publicly hanged on SeptemTrade ReviewThe Odd Man Karakozov is a subtle, challenging, and imaginative work. It deserves to be widely read not just by students of modern Russian history but by all those interested in modern political violence and its interpenetration with forms of subjectivity, art, and mass culture. -- Daniel Beer * Slavic Review *Verhoeven argues that modern terrorism began in nineteenth-century Russia... on April 4, 1866, [when] Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II.... Verhoeven's thesis is comprehensive and thought provoking. She places the attempted assassination within the political context of social changes in Russia and other parts of Europe. She achieves this goal, incorporating the roles of Russian law, technological change, the emerging and competing media, and the advent of modernity. It is an outstanding analysis. -- Jonathan R. White * The Historian *Verhoeven's careful inspection of Karakozov's failed assassination of Alexander II reads like an extremely well-researched detective story. -- Lonny Harrison * Slavic and East European Journal *Verhoeven's powers of observation are formidable, her insights startlingly original, and her narrative masterfully staged on the level of the scene, the sentence, and the word. -- Lynn Patyk * Russian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration, Translation, Dates, and Dramatis PersonaeIntroduction 1. From the Files of the Karakozov Case: The Virtual Birth of Terrorism 2. The Real Rakhmetov: The Image of the Revolutionary after Karakozov 3. "A Life for the Tsar": Tsaricide in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 4. Raskolnikov, Karakozov, and the Etiology of a "New Word" 5. Armiak; or "So Many Things in an Overcoat!" 6. "Factual Propaganda," an Autopsy; or, the Morbid Origins of April 4, 1866 7. The Head of the Tsaricide Conclusion: The Point of April 4, 1866Appendixes A. Dramatis Personae B. Individuals Involved in the Investigation and Trials C. The Karakozov Case, 1866–Present: Sources and HistoriographyList of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
£37.80
Cornell University Press To the Tashkent Station
Book SynopsisTo the Tashkent Station brilliantly reconstructs the evacuation of over sixteen million Soviet civilians in one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II.Trade ReviewManley's book is an impressive achievement. Through work in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Tashkent archives, along with the use of memoir and periodical sources, she effectively documents... Soviet society and the Soviet state as revealed in a moment of crisis.... She produces a nuanced understanding of how evacuation simultaneously exposed and healed fissures within and between various strata of the population in its leaders. -- Jeff Sahadeo * Slavic Review *This book is one of the most significant recent contributions to the history of the Soviet Union in the Second World War. A nuanced, complex, and confident interpretation of a rich and diverse source base, it is much more than just a careful study of... the Soviet evacuation of institutions, factories, and human beings, to rescue them from the German invasion of 1941. It is also a microstudy of Soviet society in the 1940s more generally. -- Mark Edele * Journal of Modern History *
£41.40
Cornell University Press Spartak Moscow A History of the Peoples Team in the Workers State
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MB - Cornell University Press Breaking the Ties That Bound
Book SynopsisRussia's Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia's social, economic, and cultural landscape. Barbara Alpern Engel explores the personal, cultural, and political consequences of these dramatic changes, focusing on their impact on intimate life and expectations and the resulting challenges to the traditional, patriarchal family order, the cornerstone of Russia's authoritarian political and religious regime. The widely perceived marriage crisis had far-reaching legal, institutional, and political ramifications. In Breaking the Ties That Bound, Engel draws on exceptionally rich archival documentationin particular, on petitions for marital separation and the materials generated by the ensuing investigationsto explore changing notions of marital relations, domesticity, childrearing, and intimate life among ordinary men and women in impeTrade ReviewBarbara Alpern Engel provides a captivating and well-researched book in this newest addition to her already impressive bibliography. She uses her remarkable knowledge to analyze an archival source specific to the turn of the nineteenth century. In doing so, she details rich, new glimpses into the lives of both women and men, of all social estates, specifically their perceptions of gender roles within one of the most sacred of Russian institutions—marriage.... This should be a staple for all students and scholars of Russian social and legal history. -- Katie Lynn * Slavic and East European Journal *Engel examines how Russians of various classes and estates understood marital obligations and the behavior and conditions that were egregious enough to justify loosening the ties. In the process, she examines perceptions of gender roles, how these varied by estate and class, and how attitudes shifted at the end of the nineteenth century.... The cases are fascinating and provide rare insights into Russian domestic life.... Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marriage and Its Discontents 1 The Ties That Bound 2 Making Marriage: Romantic Ideals and Female Rhetoric 3 Money Matters 4 Disciplining Laboring Husbands 5 Earning My Own Crust of Bread 6 Cultivating Domesticity 7 The Right to Love 8 The Best Interests of the Child Conclusion: The Politics of Marital Strife Appendix A. Archival Sources Appendix B. Major Cases Used in the Book Index
£44.10
Cornell University Press The Technocratic Antarctic
Book SynopsisThe Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. In a place with no indigenous people, Antarctic scientists and policymakers use expertise as their primary model of governance. Scientific research and policymaking are practices that inform each other, and the Antarctic environmentwith its striking beauty, dramatic human and animal lives, and specter of global climate changenot only informs science and policy but also lends Antarctic environmentalism a particularly technocratic patina.Jessica O'Reilly conducted most of her research for this book in New Zealand, home of the Antarctic Gateway city of Christchurch, and on an expedition to Windless Bight, Antarctica, with the New Zealand Antarctic Program. O'Reilly also follows the journeys Antarctic scientists and policymakers take to temporarily Antarctic places such as science conferences, policy workshops, and the international Antarctic Treaty meetings in Trade ReviewThis book offers a focused 'ethnographic account' of those who provide scientific expertise and environmental governance on all matters pertaining to Antarctica. In O'Reilly's work, the scientific and policy practices described emerge from 'historical, moral, and political contexts' that help determine the scope and nature of managing Antarctica.... This book serves as a fine resource for those seeking more information about Antarctica and aspects of its environmental policy. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. -- R. A. Delgado Jr., National Institutes of Health * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Imagined Antarctic2. The Environmental History of the Antarctic3. Sensing the Ice 4. Samples and Specimens at Antarctic Biosecurity Borders5. Managing Antarctic Science in an Epistemic Technocracy6. Tectonic Time and Sacred Geographies in the Larsemann Hills7. Charismatic Data and Climate ChangeConclusion: The Technocratic Governance of Nature
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Cornell University Press The Technocratic Antarctic
Book SynopsisThe Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. In a place with no indigenous people, Antarctic scientists and policymakers use expertise as their primary model of governance. Scientific research and policymaking are practices that inform each other, and the Antarctic environmentwith its striking beauty, dramatic human and animal lives, and specter of global climate changenot only informs science and policy but also lends Antarctic environmentalism a particularly technocratic patina.Jessica O'Reilly conducted most of her research for this book in New Zealand, home of the Antarctic Gateway city of Christchurch, and on an expedition to Windless Bight, Antarctica, with the New Zealand Antarctic Program. O'Reilly also follows the journeys Antarctic scientists and policymakers take to temporarily Antarctic places such as science conferences, policy workshops, and the international Antarctic Treaty meetings in Trade ReviewThis book offers a focused 'ethnographic account' of those who provide scientific expertise and environmental governance on all matters pertaining to Antarctica. In O'Reilly's work, the scientific and policy practices described emerge from 'historical, moral, and political contexts' that help determine the scope and nature of managing Antarctica.... This book serves as a fine resource for those seeking more information about Antarctica and aspects of its environmental policy. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. -- R. A. Delgado Jr., National Institutes of Health * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Imagined Antarctic2. The Environmental History of the Antarctic3. Sensing the Ice 4. Samples and Specimens at Antarctic Biosecurity Borders5. Managing Antarctic Science in an Epistemic Technocracy6. Tectonic Time and Sacred Geographies in the Larsemann Hills7. Charismatic Data and Climate ChangeConclusion: The Technocratic Governance of Nature
£25.64
Cornell University Press The Captive and the Gift Cultural Histories of
Book SynopsisBruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area.Trade ReviewThe Captive and the Gift is one of a very few recent anthropological works that explores the gift as a form of state ideology. History, where the study of gift giving is a burgeoning field, has produced a considerable body of work on gift practices in state and empire building, interstate relations, and diplomacy. The main contribution of Grant's rich and innovative research on Russian and Soviet rule in the Caucasus is to shift the scale radically and discuss how empire 'works through altruism and not just force’ and, specifically, how the taking of lives, lands, and resources was narrated as forms of imperial giving. -- Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov * Slavic Review *Grant draws on several centuries of historical writing, literature, political commentary, and film to explore both Russian claims about the implications of their 'gift of empire' as well as efforts from the peoples of the Caucasus to contest this binding generosity. He even interviews contemporary academics and cultural figures in Moscow and Baku and shares experiences from life in a small Azerbaijani village. -- Austin Jersild * Russian Review *This is an important and groundbreaking book, and it is especially necessary at this time of ongoing tension between Russia and the Caucasus. Grant squarely challenges the dangerous and persistent stereotypes of the Caucasus as 'naturally' criminal, arguing that idioms and practices of violence between Russia and the Caucasus have developed over time in a mutually constituted relationship. He also forces us to question the destructive potential of gifts of noble self-sacrifice given to unwilling subjects, wherever they occur. As an interdisciplinary and open-ended work, it invites discussion and exploration, and it will be of interest to scholars across literature and the social sciences as well as to graduate students in the Slavic fields. -- Anna C. Oldfield * Slavic and East European Journal *Table of Contents1. Promethean Beginnings2. Histories of Encounter, Raidings, and Trade3. Noble Giving, Noble Taking4. Rites of Encounter: Brides, Brigands, and Fire Bringers5. Captive Russians6. Caucasian Reflections7. From Prometheus to the PresentGlossary References Index
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MB - Cornell University Press Khrushchevs Cold Summer
Book Synopsis"This outstanding book examines the return of prisoners from the Gulag in the Soviet Union during the first decade after the death of Stalin."—ChoiceTrade ReviewKhrushchev's Cold Summer mines recently opened archives, evoking the texture of returnees' lives from documentation of their interactions with the state—their petitions to Soviet authorities, and their investigation by police and persecutors when some again fell foul of the law. * TLS *A fascinating journey into the first decade after Stalin's death and the transition from political terror to what later became known as 'the Thaw.' Khrushchev's Cold Summer is not simply an excellent piece of scholarship. It is a very important contribution to understanding the aftermath of the Gulag and the encounter of the returnees with the rest of society—including those who had imprisoned them as well as those who stood by silently—as a multi-faceted social process, a lot more complex and messy than was envisioned by the artistic intelligentsia.... Dobson maps this complexity beautifully, without diminishing the role of the intelligentsia's cultural production—films, literature, etc.—in shaping our perceptions of political terror, de-Stalinization and the aftermath of the camps. -- Adi Kuntsman * H-Soz-u-Kult *Dobson's book is a fascinating study of the scope and limits of criminal justice policy liberalization in an authoritarian regime. On the one hand, as noted above, Khrushchev’s reforms were limited from the outset by his unwillingness to countenance measures that could undermine the Communist Party’s rule, as well as his increasing disappointment with (as he saw it) the unwillingness of the ex-convicts to conform to the norms of Soviet society. Indeed, one of Dobson’s more interesting findings is that criminal justice reforms were also blocked in part by popular opposition. As she argues, Khrushchev and his government had to deal with—and ultimately accommodate—the highly punitive views of many Soviet citizens and low-level officials, which of course had been encouraged (not to say required) during Stalin’s more than two decades in absolute power. On the other hand, the fact remains that Khrushchev managed to engineer the release of some 4 million prisoners from the Gulag over a barely five-year period, which must surely make the amnesties of the early 1950s one of the largest releases of prisoners in contemporary world history. * Law and Politics Book Review *In an original and provocative book, Dobson examines two of the most important developments of the Khrushchev years—the emptying of the Gulag and the widespread, popular apprehension about the wave of criminality that swept across the Soviet Union during the 1950s and 1960s. * Slavic Review *This outstanding book examines the return of prisoners from the Gulag in the Soviet Union during the first decade after the death of Stalin.... Dobson considers the experiences not only of the minority of political prisoners from the Gulag, but also the majority who had been convicted of other crimes, including many prisoners who were hardened criminals. The prisoners' release set off a wave of anxiety in the country as some of the returnees committed crimes as they returned from their remote places of imprisonment and exile. The author examines the actions of the political leadership and how Khrushchev and other leaders were forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their decisions. The impact of the prisoners' return on their families and others in their communities is also analyzed. Highly recommended. * Choice *While Dobson's argument is refreshingly new, her deft and insightful handling of sources is the real strength of this book. Khrushchev’s Cold Summer is a gem of historical scholarship. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Re-imagining the Soviet World after Stalin, 1953–1956 1. 1953: "The Most Painful Year" 2. Prisoners and the Art of Petitioning, 1953–1956 3. Heroes, Enemies, and the Secret SpeechPart II. Stalin's Outcasts Return: Moral Panic and the Cult of Criminality 4. Returnees, Crime, and the Gulag Subculture 5. The Redemptive Mission 6. A Return to WeedingPart III. A Fragile Solution? From the Twenty-Second Party Congress to Khrushchev’s Ouster 7. 1961: Clearing a Path to the Future 8. Literary Hooligans and ParasitesConclusionBibliography Index
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Cornell University Press The Odd Man Karakozov
Book SynopsisOn April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg''s Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his unheard-of act changed the course of Russian historyand gave birth to the revolutionary political violence known as terrorism.Based on clues pulled out of the pockets of Karakozov''s peasant disguise, investigators concluded that there had been a conspiracy so extensive as to have sprawled across the entirety of the Russian empire and the European continent. Karakozov was said to have been a member of The Organization, a socialist network at the center of which sat a secret cell of suicide-assassins: Hell. It is still unclear how much of this conspiracy theory was actually true, but of the thirty-six defendants who stood accused during what was Russia''s first modern political trial, all but a few were exiled to Siberia, and Karakozov himself was publicly hanged on SeptemTrade ReviewThe Odd Man Karakozov is a subtle, challenging, and imaginative work. It deserves to be widely read not just by students of modern Russian history but by all those interested in modern political violence and its interpenetration with forms of subjectivity, art, and mass culture. -- Daniel Beer * Slavic Review *Verhoeven argues that modern terrorism began in nineteenth-century Russia... on April 4, 1866, [when] Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II.... Verhoeven's thesis is comprehensive and thought provoking. She places the attempted assassination within the political context of social changes in Russia and other parts of Europe. She achieves this goal, incorporating the roles of Russian law, technological change, the emerging and competing media, and the advent of modernity. It is an outstanding analysis. -- Jonathan R. White * The Historian *Verhoeven's careful inspection of Karakozov's failed assassination of Alexander II reads like an extremely well-researched detective story. -- Lonny Harrison * Slavic and East European Journal *Verhoeven's powers of observation are formidable, her insights startlingly original, and her narrative masterfully staged on the level of the scene, the sentence, and the word. -- Lynn Patyk * Russian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration, Translation, Dates, and Dramatis PersonaeIntroduction 1. From the Files of the Karakozov Case: The Virtual Birth of Terrorism 2. The Real Rakhmetov: The Image of the Revolutionary after Karakozov 3. "A Life for the Tsar": Tsaricide in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 4. Raskolnikov, Karakozov, and the Etiology of a "New Word" 5. Armiak; or "So Many Things in an Overcoat!" 6. "Factual Propaganda," an Autopsy; or, the Morbid Origins of April 4, 1866 7. The Head of the Tsaricide Conclusion: The Point of April 4, 1866Appendixes A. Dramatis Personae B. Individuals Involved in the Investigation and Trials C. The Karakozov Case, 1866–Present: Sources and HistoriographyList of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
Cornell University Press Spartak Moscow
Book SynopsisIn book that will be cheered by soccer fans worldwide, Robert Edelman finds in the stands and on the pitch keys to understanding everyday life under Stalin, Khrushchev, and their successors. To cheer for Spartak, Edelman shows, was to oppose the regime.Trade ReviewEdelman homes in on the most popular Soviet sport—soccer—and the sport's most popular team—Spartak Moscow. The author traces Spartak's story from its working-class origins in prerevolutionary Moscow to the post-Soviet 1990s, but this is more than the history of a soccer team; it shows the many ways in which soccer and politics were 'joined at the hip' and how the team's transformations mirrored and even influenced a constantly changing society. The book succeeds as a history of Spartak, written in accessible prose, for which sports-minded general readers and soccer fans worldwide should be grateful. Beyond team history, serious students of Soviet social and cultural history will benefit from Edelman's prodigious research. * Library Journal *Fans of Spartak Moscow would have you believe that their club almost single-handedly defied the state machine.... Edelman's book is a heroic attempt to sift through the legend and arrive at... the truth.... With fascinating... descriptions of attending matches in 1930s Moscow... this is great work of research on a great club. * When Saturday Comes *In Spartak Moscow, his new book about Russia's most illustrious soccer team, Robert Edelman tells some pretty funny stories about the ways in which Nikolai Starostin, long the man who ran Spartak, slipped and slid around the obstacles and dangers inherent in the country’s oppressive machinery by virtue of what he had to offer as a soccer coach.... Spartak’s colorful past provides Robert Edelman with plenty of tales of the team, the mere survival of which was testimony to the creativity of the man who ran it. * Only a Game *Once in a while, a study appears that justifies including the history of sport among those topics that warrant serious scholarly attention. Robert Edelman has written such a work. This history of Spartak football club offers a superb blend of social, institutional, and cultural history alongside a thoroughly fascinating account of the development of what Edelman justly describes as Russia's most popular team.... It is a splendid piece of investigative research that could only have been compiled by someone thoroughly enthralled with his subject over many years. Combining archival study with personal interviews and reviews of journalistic accounts, Edelman has produced a book of scholarly substance that is readable and, at times, highly entertaining. -- Robert F. Baumann * Europe-Asia Studies *Robert Edelman's densely informative Spartak Moscow is inevitably as much as the story of Nikolai Starostin as a history of the club whose legend he initiated and eventually epitomized.... Edelman earnestly addresses some perennial problems. How much genuine freedom of expression did the Soviet (male) citizen have, particularly under Stalin? Was supporting Spartak, with its inspirational, improvisatory style of play, a token of opposition-mindedness' Sensibly, Edelman gives qualified answers to this and many other big questions.... Edelman's account...finishes with an exemplary set of conclusions. To the end, Spartak Moscow manages to ride high, its legend as 'the people's club,' like the legacy of Starostin, faded but not forgotten. * Times Literary Supplement *Spartak was not merely the most popular team in the USSR, but perhaps the most popular semiautonomous institution in the state: the 'people's team,' as Robert Edelman calls it in this revealing and often funny microhistory. -- Simon Kuper * London Review of Books *
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Cornell University Press Breaking the Ties That Bound
Book SynopsisNew perspectives on marital relations, domesticity, and intimate life in imperial Russia.Trade ReviewBarbara Alpern Engel provides a captivating and well-researched book in this newest addition to her already impressive bibliography. She uses her remarkable knowledge to analyze an archival source specific to the turn of the nineteenth century. In doing so, she details rich, new glimpses into the lives of both women and men, of all social estates, specifically their perceptions of gender roles within one of the most sacred of Russian institutions—marriage.... This should be a staple for all students and scholars of Russian social and legal history. -- Katie Lynn * Slavic and East European Journal *Engel examines how Russians of various classes and estates understood marital obligations and the behavior and conditions that were egregious enough to justify loosening the ties. In the process, she examines perceptions of gender roles, how these varied by estate and class, and how attitudes shifted at the end of the nineteenth century.... The cases are fascinating and provide rare insights into Russian domestic life.... Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marriage and Its Discontents 1 The Ties That Bound 2 Making Marriage: Romantic Ideals and Female Rhetoric 3 Money Matters 4 Disciplining Laboring Husbands 5 Earning My Own Crust of Bread 6 Cultivating Domesticity 7 The Right to Love 8 The Best Interests of the Child Conclusion: The Politics of Marital Strife Appendix A. Archival Sources Appendix B. Major Cases Used in the Book Index
£21.59
MB - Cornell University Press Self and Story in Russian History
Book SynopsisRussians have often been characterized as people with souls rather than selves. Self and Story in Russian History challenges the portrayal of the Russian character as selfless, self-effacing, or self-torturing by exploring the texts through which...Trade ReviewAn excellent and fascinating collection. -- Lynne Atwood, University of Manchester * American Historical Review *Self and Story is a thought-provoking and complex collection. The contributors... are of a uniformly high quality, generally lively and edifying and always painstakingly researched.... Self and Story offers many rewards. It provides rich empirical justification for the study of the evolution of notions of self, individuality, subjectivity and personality in Russian culture and opens up an exciting new terrain for future research. -- Peter Pozefsky * H-Russia *The collection balances out the emphasis on the significance of literary narrative in the formation of the Russian self with its discussions of the opportunities provided by the new media of the early twentieth century, and its studies of testimony, memoir, and private diaries. The volume is important, not only for the breadth of issues it treats, but for its interdisciplinary approach. -- Harriet Murav, University of California Davis * Slavic Review *The innovative thinking reflected in the essays owes debts to such sources as psychoanalysis, deconstructionist theory, and the ideas of Michel Foucault.... While some of the essays will appeal mainly to specialists, others... will probably be of broader interest. * Choice *This collection is a valuable addition to the historiography of Imperial and Soviet Russian society. True to its title, Self and Story, the somewhat unorthodox theme allows the authors to explore familiar subjects in new and interesting ways. -- Nicole L. Young, University of Toronto * Canadian Slavonic Papars *This volume is a fine and timely intervention in the changing field of Russian cultural history. The editors join their expertise in history, literature, and gender studies to pose a question that recent research on Russian and Soviet social and intellectual history has rendered unavoidable: what was the status of the self in pre- and postrevolutionary Russia, and, equally important, how was the sense of individual identity constructed and produced? -- GalinTihanov, Lancaster University * The Russian Review *
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