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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
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Rósa Magnúsdóttir, "Enemy Number One: The United States of American in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959" (Oxford UP, 2019)
64 hours 23 mins; April 04, 2019
Joan Neuberger, "This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia" (Cornell UP, 2019)
55 mins; March 21, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
32 mins; March 19, 2019
Keith Gave, "The Russian Five: A Story of Espionage, Defection, Bribery and Courage" (Gold Star Publishing, 2018)
76 hours 3 mins; March 19, 2019
Andrew Sobanet, "Generation Stalin:  French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality" (Indiana UP, 2018)
57 mins; March 14, 2019
Alexandre Kojève, "Atheism," trans by Jeff Love (Columbia UP, 2018)
77 hours 55 mins; February 24, 2019
Nicholas Breyfogle, "Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russia and Soviet History" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
45 mins; February 15, 2019
Margaret Peacock, "Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War" (UNC Press, 2014)
64 hours 7 mins; February 12, 2019
Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekley, "Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars" (Georgetown UP, 2019)
54 mins; February 11, 2019
Michael Cotey Morgan, "The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2018)
94 hours 47 mins; January 03, 2019
Hassan Malik, "Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2018)
41 mins; January 03, 2019
Audra J. Wolfe, "Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
58 mins; December 27, 2018
Till Mostowlansky, "Azan on the Moon: Entangling Modernity Along Tajikistan’s Pamir Highway" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
57 mins; December 26, 2018
Judd C. Kinzley, "Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China’s Borderlands" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
56 mins; December 20, 2018
Jinping Wang, "In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China 1200-1600" (Harvard Asia Center, 2018)
72 hours 0 mins; December 14, 2018
Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan, "Transition Economies: Transformation, Development, and Society in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union" (Routledge, 2018)
44 mins; December 07, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
64 hours 1 min; December 06, 2018
Alun Thomas, “Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin” (I.B. Tauris, 2018)
55 mins; November 12, 2018
Anindita Banerjee, “Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A Critical Reader” (Academic Studies Press, 2018)
42 mins; November 08, 2018
Claudia Sadowski-Smith, “The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States” (NYU Press, 2018)
53 mins; October 30, 2018
Jenifer Parks, “The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape” (Lexington Books, 2016)
58 mins; October 26, 2018
Roland Philipps, “A Spy Named Orphan: the Enigma of Donald Maclean” (W.W. Norton, 2018)
60 hours 39 mins; October 23, 2018
Gill Bennett, “The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy that Never Dies” (Oxford UP, 2018)
53 mins; October 18, 2018
Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang, eds., “The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China’s Borders” (Amsterdam UP, 2017)
58 mins; October 18, 2018
Ivan Simic, “Soviet Influences on Postwar Yugoslav Gender Policies” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
51 mins; October 18, 2018
Elizabeth McGuire, “Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution” (Oxford UP, 2017)
71 hours 0 mins; October 08, 2018
Jonathan Waterlow, “It’s Only a Joke, Comrade! Humour, Trust and Everyday Life Under Stalin (1928-1941)” (CreateSpace, 2018)
63 hours 34 mins; October 04, 2018
Svetlana Stephenson, “Gangs of Russia: From the Streets to the Corridors of Power” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
36 mins; September 26, 2018
Rebecca Reich, “State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature and Dissent After Stalin” (Northern Illinois UP, 2018)
54 mins; September 10, 2018
R.W. Davies, et al., “The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 7: The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War, 1937-1939” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
64 hours 58 mins; August 31, 2018
Olga Velikanova, “Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism: Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
55 mins; August 16, 2018
Rachel Morley, “Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema” (I. B. Tauris, 2016)
50 mins; August 01, 2018
Eren Tasar, “Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia” (Oxford UP, 2017)
55 mins; July 31, 2018
John Bushnell, “Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries” (Indiana UP, 2017)
74 hours 18 mins; July 20, 2018
Lynne Viola, “Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine” (Oxford UP, 2017)
51 mins; July 16, 2018
Marc Ambinder, “The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983” (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
57 mins; July 11, 2018
Odd Arne Westad, “The Cold War: A World History” (Basic Books, 2017)
67 hours 23 mins; June 13, 2018
Artemy M. Kalinovsky, “Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan” (Cornell UP, 2018)
55 mins; June 08, 2018
A. James McAdams, “Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party” (Princeton UP, 2017)
45 mins; June 04, 2018
Anika Walke, “Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia” (Oxford UP, 2015)
63 hours 0 mins; May 24, 2018
Laurence Bogoslaw, “Russians on Trump: Coverage and Commentary” (East View Press, 2018)
54 mins; May 23, 2018
Steven J. Zipperstein, “Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History” (Liveright/Norton, 2018)
50 mins; April 27, 2018
Erik Scott, “Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire” (Oxford UP, 2016)
67 hours 42 mins; April 24, 2018
Kimberly A. Francis, “Teaching Stravinsky: Nadia Boulanger and the Consecration of a Modernist Icon” (Oxford UP, 2015)
70 hours 34 mins; April 11, 2018
Jonathan Daly, “Crime and Punishment in Russia: A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin” (Bloomsbury, 2018)
74 hours 47 mins; April 10, 2018
Natalia Roudakova, “Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
49 mins; March 30, 2018
Amelia Glaser, “Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising” (Stanford UP, 2015)
31 mins; March 30, 2018
Valerie Kivelson and Ronald Suny, “Russia’s Empires” (Oxford UP, 2016)
75 hours 51 mins; March 15, 2018
Tatyana V. Bakhmetyeva, “Mother of the Church” (Northern Illinois UP, 2016)
53 mins; March 14, 2018
Dan Healey, “Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
57 mins; March 06, 2018
Christopher J. Lee, “Soviet Journey: A Critical Annotated Edition” (Lexington Books, 2017)
58 mins; February 22, 2018
Mikhail Epstein, “The Irony of the Ideal: Paradoxes of Russian Literature” (Academic Studies Press, 2018)
64 hours 51 mins; February 07, 2018
Laura Engelstein, “Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914-1921” (Oxford University Press, 2017)
64 hours 48 mins; January 31, 2018
Andy Bruno, “The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
57 mins; January 30, 2018
Kevin Bartig, “Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky” (Oxford UP, 2017)
55 mins; January 29, 2018
Susan Smith-Peter, “Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia” (Brill, 2017)
58 mins; January 15, 2018
Samantha Lomb, “Stalin’s Constitution” (Routledge, 2017)
57 mins; December 21, 2017
Sarah D. Phillips, “Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine” (Indiana UP, 2010)
46 mins; December 14, 2017
Joshua Rubenstein, “The Last Days of Stalin” (Yale UP, 2016)
48 mins; December 11, 2017
Yuri Slezkine, “The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution” (Princeton UP, 2017)
46 mins; December 04, 2017
Stephen F. Williams, “The Reformer: How One Liberal Fought to Preempt the Russian Revolution” (Encounter Books, 2017)
59 mins; November 30, 2017
How Many Revolutions Did Russia Have in 1917?
53 mins; November 28, 2017
Michael Flier and Andrea Graziosi, eds. “The Battle for Ukrainian: A Comparative Perspective” (Harvard UP, 2017)
39 mins; November 11, 2017
Eric Lee, “The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution, 1918-1921” (Zed Books, 2017)
50 mins; November 02, 2017
Rebecca Mitchell, “Nietzsche’s Orphans: Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire” (Yale UP, 2015)
70 hours 31 mins; October 23, 2017
Robert W. Cherny, “Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art” (U. Illinois Press, 2017)
56 mins; October 04, 2017
Mykola Soroka, “Faces of Displacement: The Writings of Volodymyr Vynnychenko” (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012)
51 mins; September 07, 2017
Julia Mickenberg, “American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the American Dream” (U of Chicago Press, 2017)
77 hours 17 mins; August 13, 2017
Adriana Helbig, “Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration” (Indiana UP, 2014)
48 mins; July 25, 2017
Jacob Emery, “Alternative Kinships: Economy and Family in Russian Modernism” (Northern Illinois U. Press, 2017)
48 mins; July 25, 2017
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, “The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR’s Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict” (Oxford UP, 2017)
59 mins; July 19, 2017
Franz Nicolay, “The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar” (The New Press, 2016)
44 mins; July 12, 2017
Steven Seegel, “Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire” (U. of Chicago Press, 2012)
59 mins; July 05, 2017
Andrew Sloin, “The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power” (Indiana UP, 2017)
61 hours 13 mins; June 19, 2017
Jonathan Schlesinger, “A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule” (Stanford UP, 2017)
66 hours 47 mins; May 13, 2017
James Heinzen, “The Art of the Bribe: Corruption Under Stalin, 1943-1953” (Yale UP, 2016)
63 hours 47 mins; May 12, 2017
William D. Prigge, “Bearslayers: The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists” (Peter Lang, 2015)
96 hours 18 mins; May 02, 2017
Rebecca Gould, “Writers and Rebels: Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus” (Yale UP, 2016)
66 hours 32 mins; April 22, 2017
Eugene Raikhel, “Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic” (Cornell UP, 2016)
59 mins; April 11, 2017
Melissa Chakars, “The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia” (Central European UP, 2014)
46 mins; March 25, 2017
Gleb Tsipursky, “Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970” (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
56 mins; March 14, 2017
Julia Alekseyeva, “Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution” (Microcosm Publishing, 2017)
53 mins; March 14, 2017
Maria G. Rewakowicz, “Literature, Exile, Alterity: The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets” (Academic Studies Press, 2014)
63 hours 11 mins; February 23, 2017
Julie Wilhelmsen “Russia’s Securitization of Chechnya: How War Became Acceptable (Routledge, 2017)
50 mins; February 14, 2017
Ellie Schainker, “Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906” (Stanford UP, 2016)
40 mins; January 10, 2017
Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva, “The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise” (U. Wisconsin Press, 2013)
50 mins; January 09, 2017
Edward Cohn, “The High Title of a Communist: Postwar Party Discipline and the Values of the Soviet Regime” (NIU Press, 2015)
59 mins; January 03, 2017
Violeta Davoliute, “The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War” (Routledge, 2013)
63 hours 19 mins; January 03, 2017
Chris Miller, “The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy” (UNC Press, 2016)
52 mins; December 29, 2016
Victor Taki, “Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire” (I.B. Taurus, 2016)
61 hours 48 mins; December 14, 2016
Jonathan Brooks Platt, “Greetings, Pushkin! Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard” (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
63 hours 41 mins; November 19, 2016
Matthew Pauly, “Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923-1934” (U. of Toronto Press, 2014)
71 hours 20 mins; November 15, 2016
Douglas Rogers, “The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism” (Cornell UP, 2015)
51 mins; November 03, 2016
Michael David-Fox, “Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2015)
58 mins; October 13, 2016
McKenzie Wark, “Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene” (Verso, 2015)
62 hours 49 mins; October 10, 2016
Asif A. Siddiqi, “The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
47 mins; September 30, 2016
Mark R. Andryczyk, “The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian History” (U. of Toronto Press, 2012)
48 mins; September 29, 2016
Neil Kent, “Crimea: A History” (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2016)
65 hours 45 mins; September 02, 2016
Yanni Kotsonis, “States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic” (U. of Toronto Press, 2014)
59 mins; August 18, 2016
Benjamin Peters, “How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet” (MIT Press, 2016)
63 hours 52 mins; July 16, 2016
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