Russian History

Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century

A Comparative Survey

Edited by Amy E. Randall, Santa Clara University, USA Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century investigates the complex gender dimensions of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the 20th century. This new and improved edition includes five new chapters, an enhanced introduction, historiographical and bibliographical updates, and a key primary source document appendix that will serve as a valuable pedagogical tool.

UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 480 pages PB 9781350111004 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9781350111011 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781350111035 • £26.99 / $35.17 ePdf 9781350111028 • £26.99 / $35.17 Bloomsbury Academic An Economy of Fear, 1933-1941

Perica Hadzi-Jovancic, Independent Scholar, Serbia The Third Reich and Yugoslavia focuses on economic and political affairs between the Third Reich and Yugoslavia before Germany attacked in April 1941. The book concludes that, contrary to the traditional view in historiography and despite the dependency of Yugoslavia’s foreign trade on the German market at the dawn of the Second World War, Germany’s overall policy towards Yugoslavia failed in this period. Yugoslavia maintained both its economic and political agency in the shadow of the Third Reich, with only international political developments beyond Yugoslavia’s control in the years ahead leading to a more receptive stance towards German demands.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 288 pages PB 9781350201750 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350138056 ePub 9781350138070 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350138063 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Russian Shorts

Eugene M. Avrutin, University of Illinois, USA; Stephen M. Norris, Miami University (OH), USA

A Short History of the Russian Revolution

Revised Edition

Geoffrey Swain, University of Glasgow, UK This book provides an incisive overview of one of the most complex and turbulent periods in modern history, tracing key moments from the abdication of Tsar Nicolas II to the Bolshevik seizure of power. A leading authority on Russia and Eastern Europe, Geoffrey Swain highlights the important legacies of 1905, demonstrating how early revolutionary ambitions among the masses culminated in the events of 1917.

UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 256 pages • 14 bw illus PB 9781350153837 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350153844 • £45.00 / $61.00 ePub 9781350153851 • £13.49 / $18.23 ePdf 9781350153868 • £13.49 / $18.23 Series: Short Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

Racism in Modern Russia

From the Romanovs to Putin

Eugene M. Avrutin, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, USA In this concise and provocative book, Eugene M. Avrutin explores the complex historical links between depopulation, labor migration, and race that have built up in Russia over the last 150 years to expose the truth behind the disturbing state of race relations in the country today.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 144 pages • 16 bw illus PB 9781350097285 • £12.99 / $17.95 • HB 9781350097278 • £45.00 / $61.00 ePub 9781350097315 • £11.69 / $15.62 ePdf 9781350097292 • £11.69 / $15.62 Series: Russian Shorts • Bloomsbury Academic

The Afterlife of the ‘Soviet Man’

Rethinking Homo Sovieticus

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, King's College London, UK Almost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, global media and intellectuals still rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia’s authoritarian ills. But where did this concept come from? What analytical and ideological pillars does it stand on? What is at stake in using this term today? The Afterlife of the ‘Soviet Man’ addresses all these questions and even explains why – at least in its contemporary usage – this concept should be abandoned altogether.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 144 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350167728 • £12.99 / $17.95 • HB 9781350167711 • £45.00 / $61.00 ePub 9781350167742 • £11.69 / $15.62 ePdf 9781350167735 • £11.69 / $15.62 Series: Russian Shorts • Bloomsbury Academic

Meanwhile, In Russia

Russian Memes and Viral Video Culture

Eliot Borenstein, New York University, USA Russian memes and viral videos are an enormous presence on the internet. Russians look for content ranging from the political to the satirical to the absurd, while the West enjoys the near-endless reserve of humorous material. Here, award-winning author Eliot Borenstein explores the explosive online movement and examines the role of Russian mimetic content and digital activism for the first time.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 160 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350181526 • £12.99 / $17.95 • HB 9781350181533 • £45.00 / $61.00 ePub 9781350181540 • £11.69 / $15.62 ePdf 9781350181557 • £11.69 / $15.62 Series: Russian Shorts • Bloomsbury Academic

A Transnational Approach

Choi Chatterjee, California State University, Los Angeles, USA Russia in World History uses a comparative framework to understand Russian history in a global context and challenges the idea of Russia as an outlier of European civilization. Chatterjee analyzes the concepts of nation and empire, selfhood and subjectivity, socialism and capitalism, and revolution and the world order in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. In doing so she rethinks many historical narratives that bluntly posit a liberal West against a repressive, authoritarian Russia. This unique text is vital reading for all students of both modern Russian and world history.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 272 pages • 11 bw illus PB 9781350026414 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350026421 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350026445 • £19.79 / $26.05 ePdf 9781350026438 • £19.79 / $26.05 Bloomsbury Academic A History

Christopher Ely, Florida Atlantic University, USA Russian populism has animated Russian thought across the political spectrum and inspired much of Russia's world-historical literature, music and art in the 19th century. Blending lively theoretical analysis with a wealth of primary sources and illustrations, this book offers the fullest and most authoritative account of the rise, proliferation and influence of populist values and ideology in modern Russia to date.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 288 pages • 14 bw illus PB 9781350095540 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350095533 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350095564 • £22.49 / $29.96 ePdf 9781350095557 • £22.49 / $29.96 Series: The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series • Bloomsbury Academic

The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early 20thCentury Russia

Edited by Yvonne Howell, University of Richmond, USA & Nikolai Krementsov, University of Toronto, Canada This volume offers a multidisciplinary investigation into how the ‘new man’ was made in Russia and the early Soviet Union in the early 20th century, focusing on the interplay between the rapidly developing experimental life sciences and countless cultural products. With contributions from scholars from across the globe, this volume brings to light the surprising historical trajectories of ‘new man’ visions, their often obscure origins, acclaimed and forgotten champions, unexpected and complicated results, and mutual interrelations.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 288 pages • 32 bw illus HB 9781350232839 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350232860 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350232853 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Russia

Time at Home

Rebecca Friedman, Florida International University, USA Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Russia: Time at Home explores how Russian domestic space embodies modern concepts of time. Rebecca Friedman is the first to examine Russian domesticity through a temporal lens, and the result is a unique and nuanced account of how Russians revolutionised domestic space according to contemporary conventions of timeliness and how these shifts played their part in driving the utopian communal dreams of the Soviet Union.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 240 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350196841 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350112438 ePub 9781350112452 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350112445 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Putin’s Russia and the Falsification of History

Reasserting Control over the Past

Anton Weiss-Wendt, Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies, Norway This book provides a bold examination of the political use of history in contemporary Russia. Anton Weiss-Wendt argues that history is yet another discipline misappropriated by the Kremlin for the purpose of rallying the population. He explains how, since the pro-democracy protests in 2011–12, the Russian government has hamstrung independent research and simultaneously aligned state institutions in the promotion of militant patriotism. Indeed the entire state machinery has been mobilized to construe a single, glorious historical narrative with the focus being on Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 336 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350203150 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350130531 ePub 9781350130555 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350130548 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic