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Enlightenment and the Gasping City Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray Saskia Abr ahms-K avunenko

With air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand how, as a physical constant throughout the winter months, the murky and obscuring nature of air pollution has become an active part of Mongolian religious and ritual life. Enlightenment and the Gasping City identifies air pollution as a boundary between the physical and the immaterial, showing how air pollution impresses itself on the urban environment as stagnation and blur. She explores how air pollution and related phenomena exist in dynamic tension with Buddhist ideas and practices concerning purification, revitalisation and enlightenment. By focusing on light, its intersections and its oppositions, she illuminates Buddhist practices and beliefs as they interact with the pressing urban issues of air pollution, post-socialist economic vacillations, urban development, nationalism, and climate change.

“Enlightenment and the Gasping City is the best book I have read on the revival of Buddhism—or even more broadly—of religion in contemporary Mongolia.” —Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University, author of Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road “Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko successfully captures core aspects of religious life in Mongolia at a key stage in its post-communist transition.” —Martin Mills, University of Aberdeen, author of Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism

Saskia Abr ahms-K avunenko is a Teaching Fellow at New York University, Shanghai, and an Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

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Empire of Friends Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia R achel Applebaum

The familiar story of Soviet power in Cold War Eastern Europe focuses on political repression and military force. But in Empire of Friends, Rachel Applebaum shows how the Soviet Union simultaneously promoted a policy of transnational friendship with its Eastern Bloc satellites to create a cohesive socialist world. This friendship project resulted in a new type of imperial control based on cross-border contacts between ordinary citizens. In a new and fascinating story of cultural diplomacy, interpersonal relations, and the trade of consumer-goods, Applebaum tracks the rise and fall of the friendship project in Czechoslovakia, as the country evolved after World War II from the Soviet Union’s most loyal satellite to its most rebellious. Throughout Eastern Europe, the friendship project shaped the most intimate aspects of people’s lives, influencing everything from what they wore to where they traveled to whom they married. Applebaum argues that in Czechoslovakia, socialist friendship was surprisingly durable, capable of surviving the ravages of Stalinism and the Soviet invasion that crushed the 1968 Prague Spring. Eventually, the project became so successful that it undermined the very alliance it was designed to support: as Soviets and Czechoslovaks got to know one another, they discovered important cultural and political differences that contradicted propaganda about a cohesive socialist world. Empire of Friends reveals that the sphere of everyday life was central to the construction of the transnational socialist system in Eastern Europe—and, ultimately, its collapse. R achel Applebaum is Assistant Professor of Russian and East European History at Tufts University.

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“Rachel Applebaum effectively weaves together detailed and nuanced descriptions of cultural exchanges, ranging from film exports to tourism, that expand our understanding of the everyday relations that developed between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia during the Cold War.” —Lisa Kirschenbaum, Professor of History, West Chester University, and author of International Communism and the Spanish Civil War “Empire of Friends is beautifully written, and offers an intriguing assessment of the Czechoslovak-Soviet friendship programs that aimed to establish the Soviet Union as a model for the satellite states. Applebaum proves the result was far more complicated, and much more interesting.” —Andrea Orzoff, Associate Professor of History, New Mexico State University, and author of Battle for the Castle

Plots against Russia Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism Eliot Borenstein

In this original and timely assessment of cultural expressions of paranoia in contemporary Russia, Eliot Borenstein samples popular fiction, movies, television shows, public political pronouncements, internet discussions, blogs, and religious tracts to build a sense of the deep historical and cultural roots of konspirologiia that run through Russian life. Plots against Russia reveals through dramatic and exciting storytelling that conspiracy and melodrama are entirely equal-opportunity in modern Russia, manifesting themselves among both pro-Putin elites and his political opposition. As Borenstein shows, this paranoid fantasy until recently characterized only the marginal and the irrelevant. Now, through its embodiment in pop culture, the expressions of a conspiratorial worldview are seen everywhere. Plots against Russia is an important contribution to the fields of Russian literary and cultural studies from one of its preeminent voices. Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. He is the author of Men without Women and Overkill.

“Plots against Russia is excellent. Eliot Borenstein has written a playful, witty, and invariably elegant book that makes complex theoretical concepts easily digestible and gives necessary retellings of crazy fantasies that are simply hilarious.” —Mark Lipovetsky, University of Colorado, Boulder “Plots against Russia, written with Eliot Borenstein’s characteristic flair, leads readers through an astounding maze of plots, paranoia, and apocalypse that sheds light on the timely topic of ‘conspirology’ and its links to issues of national identity and popular culture.” —Michael Gorham, University of Florida, author of Speaking in Soviet Tongues

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Poppies, Politics, and Power Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy James Tharin Br adford

Historians have long neglected Afghanistan’s broader history when portraying the opium industry. But in Poppies, Politics, and Power, James Tharin Bradford rebalances the discourse, showing that it is not the past forty years of lawlessness that makes the opium industry what it is, but the sheer breadth of the twentieth-century Afghanistan experience. Rather than byproducts of a failed contemporary system, argues Bradford, drugs, especially opium, were critical components in the formation and failure of the Afghan state. In this history of drugs and drug control in Afghanistan, Bradford shows us how the country moved from licit supply of the global opium trade to one of the major suppliers of hashish and opium through changes in drug control policy shaped largely by the outside force of the United States. Poppies, Politics, and Power breaks the conventional modes of national histories that fail to fully encapsulate the global nature of the drug trade. By providing a global history of opium within the borders of Afghanistan, Bradford demonstrates that the country’s drug trade and the government’s position on that trade were shaped by the global illegal market and international efforts to suppress it. By weaving together this global history of the drug trade and drug policy with the formation of the Afghan state and issues within Afghan political culture, Bradford completely recasts the current Afghan, and global, drug trade. James Tharin Br adford is Assistant Professor of History at Berklee College of Music, and Adjunct Lecturer at Babson College. He has published in the Journal of Iranian Studies, Oxford University Handbook of Drug History, and Illegal Cannabis Cultivation in the World.

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“James Tharin Bradford, by analyzing an important yet neglected period in the history of Afghanistan and global drug control, has written a book of high quality and originality.” —James Windle, University College Cork, and author of Suppressing Illicit Opium Production “Poppies, Politics, and Power reveals unknown facts about opium production. As such, this is a significant and welcome contribution to our understanding of opium production in Afghanistan, and to our understanding of why the global prohibition has failed.” —Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy, Centre national de le recherche scientifique, and author of Opium

Narkomania Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine Jennifer J. Carroll

Against the backdrop of a post-Soviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, Narkomania considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same and whether our responses to drug use presuppose what kind of people those who use drugs really are. Jennifer J. Carroll’s ethnography is a story about public health and international efforts to quell the spread of HIV. Carroll focuses on Ukraine where the prevalence of HIV among people who use drugs is higher than in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and unpacks the arguments and myths surrounding medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in Ukraine. What she presents in Narkomania forces us to question drug policy, its uses, and its effects on “normal” citizens. Carroll uses her findings to explore what people who use drugs can teach us about the contemporary societies emerging in post-Soviet space. With examples of how MAT has been politicized, how drug use has been tied to ideas of “good” citizenship, and how vigilantism towards people who use drugs has occurred, Narkomania details the cultural and historical backstory of the situation in Ukraine. Carroll reveals how global efforts supporting MAT in Ukraine allow the ideas surrounding MAT, drug use, and HIV to resonate more broadly into international politics and echo into the heart of the Ukrainian public.

“Narkomania is an innovative book that asks us to rethink everything we know about addiction and statebuilding. It is a poignant, occasionally furious look at how drug policies meant to help drug users in fact do great violence to them.” —Elizabeth Dunn, Indiana University, Bloomington, and author of No Path Home “Narkomania makes a fascinating contribution to anthropologies of global and public health. By following ‘addiction imaginaries’ across broad contexts, Jennifer Carroll moves addiction studies from the clinic into local, regional, and national politics, and personal meanings. This is crucial reading for anyone interested in the embeddedness of addiction in politics and everyday life.” —Tomas Matza, University of Pittsburgh, and author of Shock Therapy

Jennifer J. Carroll is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Elon University and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brown University.

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Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands edited by Krista A. Goff and Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong. Chapters address numerous and varied dimensions of belonging in multiethnic territories of the Ottoman Empire, Imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union, from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. They illustrate both the mutability and the durability of imperial belonging in Eurasian borderlands. Contributors to this volume pay attention to state authorities but also to the voices and experiences of teachers, linguists, humanitarian officials, refugees, deportees, soldiers, nomads, and those left behind. Through those voices the authors interrogate the mutual shaping of empire and nation, noting the persistence and frequency of coercive measures that imposed belonging or denied it to specific populations deemed inconvenient or incapable of fitting in. The collective conclusion that editors Krista A. Goff and Lewis H. Siegelbaum provide is that nations must take ownership of their behaviors, irrespective of whether they emerged from disintegrating empires or enjoyed autonomy and power within them. Krista A. Goff is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Miami. Lewis H. Siegelbaum is the Jack & Margaret Sweet Emeritus Professor in History at Michigan State University.

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“Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands is a fine volume and a worthy tribute to Ron Suny, one of the leading scholars of the Russian empire and Soviet Union of his generation, whose work was never imprisoned by the conventional boundaries of Sovietology.” —Alexander Morrison, New College, Oxford, author of Russian Rule in Samarkand, 1868-1910 “Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands is an excellent collection of essays featuring original research on a wide range of topics. It’s certain to appeal to specialists in the history of nationality and empire as well as readers in the Russian field.” —Willard Sunderland, University of Cincinnati, author of the awardwinning The Baron’s Cloak

This Thing of Darkness Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia Joan Neuberger

Sergei Eisenstein’s unfinished masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible, was no ordinary movie. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin in 1941 to justify state terror in the sixteenth century and in the twentieth, the film’s politics, style, and epic scope aroused controversy even before it was released. In This Thing of Darkness, Joan Neuberger offers a sweeping account of the conception, making, and reception of Ivan the Terrible that weaves together Eisenstein’s expansive thinking and experimental practice with a groundbreaking new view of artistic production under Stalin. Drawing on Eisenstein’s unpublished production notebooks, diaries, and manuscripts, Neuberger’s riveting narrative chronicles Eisenstein’s personal, creative, and political challenges and reveals the ways cinematic invention, artistic theory, political critique, and historical and psychological analysis went hand in hand in this famously complex film. Neuberger’s bold arguments and daring insights into every aspect of Eisenstein’s work during this period, together with her ability to lucidly connect his wide-ranging late theory with his work on Ivan, show the director exploiting the institutions of Soviet artistic production not only to expose the cruelties of Stalin and his circle but to challenge the fundamental principles of Soviet ideology itself. Ivan the Terrible, she argues, shows us one of the world’s greatest filmmakers and one of the 20th century’s greatest artists observing the world around him and experimenting with every element of film art to explore the psychology of political ambition, uncover the history of recurring cycles of violence and lay bare the tragedy of absolute power.

“Joan Neuberger’s study combines her background in Russian history with a deep awareness of Eisenstein’s incredibly wide-ranging research and speculation while making his last film. A real tour de force that reaches a new level in Eisenstein studies—making a strong case for Ivan the Terrible as the crowning achievement of his career.” —Ian Christie, Birkbeck College, University of London

Joan Neuberger is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She has written extensively in print and online about Eisenstein, film, and modern Russian cultural history.

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Sovereignty Experiments Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945 Alyssa M. Park

Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan—through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies—competed to control Korean migrants as they suddenly moved abroad by the thousands in the late nineteenth century. Alyssa M. Park argues that Korean migrants were essential to the process of establishing sovereignty across four states because they tested the limits of state power over territory and people in a borderland where authority had been long asserted but not necessarily enforced. Traveling from place to place, Koreans compelled statesmen to take notice of their movement and to experiment with various policies to govern it. Ultimately, states’ efforts culminated in drastic measures, including the complete removal of Koreans on the Soviet side. As Park demonstrates, what resulted was the stark border regime that still stands between North Korea, Russia, and China today. Skillfully employing a rich base of archival sources from across the region, Sovereignty Experiments sets forth a new approach to the transnational history of Northeast Asia. By focusing on mobility and governance, Park illuminates why this critical intersection of Asia was contested, divided, and later reimagined as parts of distinct nations and empires. The result is a fresh interpretation of migration, identity, and state making at the crossroads of East Asia and Russia. Alyssa M. Park is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Iowa.

STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

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“Sovereignty Experiments is a terrific piece of transnational, multilingual research. The book doesn’t disappoint with its rich supply of stories of smugglers, bandits, spies, and political intrigue.” —Andre Schmid, University of Toronto, author of Korea Between Empires “Alyssa Park paints a detailed picture of Korean migrant communities in the Far East. There is no question that this book will make a significant empirical contribution to the literature and be of interest to scholars of Korean, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese history.” —Eric Lohr, American University, author of Russian Citizenship

Voices from the Soviet Edge Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow Jeff Sahadeo

Jeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow. Voices from the Soviet Edge focuses on the hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks, Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, and others who arrived toward the end of the Soviet era, seeking opportunity at the privileged heart of the USSR. Through the extensive oral histories Sahadeo has collected, he shows how the energy of these migrants, denigrated as “Blacks” by some Russians, transformed their families’ lives and created inter-republican networks, altering society and community in both the center and the periphery of life in the “two capitals.” Voices from the Soviet Edge connects Leningrad and Moscow to transnational trends of core-periphery movement and marks them as global cities. In examining Soviet concepts such as “friendship of peoples” alongside ethnic and national differences, Sahadeo shows how those ideas became racialized but could also be deployed to advance migrant aspirations. He exposes the Brezhnev era as a time of dynamism and opportunity, and Leningrad and Moscow not as isolated outposts of privilege but at the heart of any number of systems that linked the disparate regions of the USSR into a whole. In the 1980s, as the Soviet Union crumbled, migration increased. These later migrants were the forbears of contemporary Muslims from former Soviet spaces who now confront significant discrimination in European Russia. As Sahadeo demonstrates, the two cities benefited from 1980s’ migration but also became communities where racism and exclusion coexisted with citizenship and Soviet identity.

“Voices from the Soviet Edge is an excellent book by an acknowledged expert on internal migration to Moscow and Leningrad. The use of oral interviews, with archival and published materials, makes Jeff Sahadeo’s book a welcome example of how to do historical work on the late Soviet period.” —Anne Gorsuch, University of British Columbia, author of All This is Your World “In this story of people on the move, Jeff Sahadeo puts people from the Soviet peripheries center stage and reveals the multinational Soviet Union in completely new light. He highlights the significance of the Soviet experience for discussions of postcolonialism, migration, and race relations.” —Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College, author of Making Uzbekistan

Jeff Sahadeo is Associate Professor at the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University. He is the author of Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923, and coeditor of Everyday Life in Central Asia.

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Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840–1914 Edin Hajdarpasic

WINNER, JOSEPH ROTHSCHILD PRIZE IN NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC STUDIES

As Edin Hajdarpasic shows, formative contestations over Bosnia and the surrounding region began well the assassination that triggered World War I, emerging with the rise of new nineteenth-century forces—Serbian and Croatian nationalisms, and Ottoman, Habsburg, Muslim, and Yugoslav political movements—that claimed this province as their own. Whose Bosnia? reveals the political pressures and moral arguments that made Bosnia a prime target of escalating nationalist activity. Hajdarpasic provides new insight into central themes of modern politics, illuminating core subjects like “the people,” state-building, and national suffering. Whose Bosnia? proposes a new figure in the history of nationalism: the (br)other, a character signifying the potential of being “brother” and “Other,” containing the fantasy of complete assimilation and insurmountable difference. By bringing this figure into focus, Whose Bosnia? shows nationalism to be a dynamic and open-ended force, one that eludes a clear sense of historical closure. Edin Hajdarpasic is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago.

“Scholars of the Balkans and beyond, have been waiting for an account like this for a long time—an account that is not afraid to ask difficult questions; approach them studiously, seriously, and in an interdisciplinary fashion; and answer them in a way that is supported by vast amount of evidence, grace, and honesty.” —H-SAE “This is an impressive book, complex and challenging. . . . It is probably the most important text to have been published on this subject in the English language” —Slavic Review “Elegantly written and full of unexpected (re)readings and provocative insights, this work towers over the already respectable stack of books on the cultural history of nationalism. —Austrian History Yearbook “Hajdarpasic’s work sets a new standard in modern Balkan history and should become a pillar of the field.” —The American Historical Review

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The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists Tarik Cyril Amar

The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv’s twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and fundamental transformation ethnically, linguistically, and in terms of its residents’ self-perception. Against this background, Tarik Cyril Amar explains a striking paradox: Soviet rule, which came to Lviv in ruthless Stalinist shape and lasted for half a century, left behind the most Ukrainian version of the city in history. In reconstructing this dramatically profound change, Amar illuminates the historical background in present-day identities and tensions within Ukraine. Tarik Cyril Amar is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University, and the former Academic Director of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv.

“A very sophisticated study based on extensive archival research in Germany, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the US. . . . Surely, The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv will become a standard text for those who wish to study Soviet modernization.” —The American Historical Review “A major achievement. Specialists, graduate students and historiographical belligerents in European history should read The Paradox of Ukranian Lviv in order to rethink Ukraine’s tumultuous past and present.” —Slavic Review “This is a seminal study essential for everyone who wants to get a deeper insight into issues of ethnicity, nationality and nationalism in Eastern Europe.” —Nations & Nationalism “Students of modernization and nationalism in the Baltics will find great utility and even inspiration in Tarik Amar’s study of historical change in western Ukraine. . . . The book is certain to assume a significant place in the historiography of east-central Europe and the Soviet Union.” —Journal of Baltic Studies

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Making Uzbekistan Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR Adeeb Khalid

WINNER, REGINALD ZELNIK PRIZE HONORABLE MENTION, JOSEPH ROTHSCHILD PRIZE IN NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC STUDIES • SHORTLIST, CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY BOOK AWARD • •

In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on the Uzbek intelligentsia allows him to recast our understanding of Soviet nationalities policies. Uzbekistan, he argues, was not a creation of Soviet policies, but a project of the Muslim intelligentsia that emerged in the Soviet context through the interstices of the complex politics of the period. Making Uzbekistan introduces key texts from this period and argues that what the decade witnessed was nothing short of a cultural revolution. Adeeb Khalid is Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History at Carleton College. He is the author of Islam after Communism and The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform.

“[T]his brilliant book demonstrates that modern Uzbekistan was unequivocally made by Uzbek intellectuals in Central Asia, and not by Bolshevik commissars in Moscow. It is in this sense that Making Uzbekistan will make a lasting contribution to Central Asian Studies.” —Europe-Asia Studies “Khalid successfully compiles an impressive and outstanding account of the unfolding events in the making of Uzbekistan in the tumultuous epoch of the Russian Revolution.” —Acta Via Serica “Making Uzbekistan is an important and original work. Thematically wide-ranging, examining topics from national identity and political purges to film and literature, this book is uniquely valuable and will set the agenda for further study of Soviet Central Asian history.” —Adrienne Edgar, author of Tribal Nation

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“Making Uzbekistan is a tour de force. This is a tragic but important history. It deserves a wide readership among scholars of Soviet history, Central Asia, and in the global twentieth century.” —Peter Holquist, author of Making War, Forging Revolution

Emotional Diplomacy Official Emotion on the International Stage Todd H. Hall

COWINNER, DPLST BOOK PRIZE

Emotional Diplomacy explores the politics of expressed emotion on the international stage, looking at the ways state actors strategically deploy emotional behavior to manipulate the perceptions of others. By examining diverse instances of emotional behavior, Todd H. Hall reveals that official emotional displays play an integral role in the strategies and interactions of state actors. Emotional diplomacy is more than rhetoric; as this book demonstrates, its implications extend to the provision of economic and military aid, great-power cooperation, and the use of armed force. Hall investigates three strands of emotional diplomacy: those rooted in anger, sympathy, and guilt. His research, drawn on sources and interviews in five different languages, provides new insights into the 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the post9/11 reactions of China and Russia, and relations between West Germany and Israel after World War II. Emotional Diplomacy offers a unique take on the intersection of strategic action and emotional display, a means for understanding why states behave emotionally. Hall provides the theoretical tools necessary for understanding the nature and significance of state-level emotional behavior through new observations of how states seek reconciliation, strategically respond to unforeseen crises, and demonstrate resolve in the face of perceived provocations. Todd H. Hall is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Saint Anne’s College, at the University of Oxford.

“Hall paints a fascinating picture of emotionalism as both diplomatic theater and rational calculation.” —Foreign Affairs “Hall offers an innovative theoretical lens. . . . to explain interstate relations that seemingly belie the logic of rational choice. The volume offers an original approach to explain political crises, demonstrating the power of emotional diplomacy as a significant driver of statecraft.” —International Affairs “Hall’s work is an important contribution to the study of international relations. . . . He provides persuasive evidence in support of his thesis that contemporary analyses must be extended to non-material state aspirations.” —Journal of East Asian Studies “With a study that is rife with political lessons and rich with analytic achievements, Hall has done more than one profession a great service.” —New Diplomatic History

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Smoking under the Tsars A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia Tricia Starks

Approaching tobacco from the perspective of users, producers, and objectors, Smoking under the Tsars provides an unparalleled view of Russia’s early adoption of smoking. Tricia Starks introduces us to the addictive, nicotine-soaked Russian version of the cigarette—the papirosa—and the sensory, medical, social, cultural, and gendered consequences of this unique style of tobacco use. Starting with the papirosa’s introduction in the nineteenth century and its foundation as a cultural and imperial construct, Starks situates the cigarette’s emergence as a mass-use product of revolutionary potential. She discusses the papirosa as a moral and medical problem, tracks the ways in which it was marketed as a liberating object, and concludes that it has become a point of increasing conflict for users, reformers, and purveyors. The heavily illustrated Smoking under the Tsars taps into bountiful material in newspapers, industry publications, etiquette manuals, propaganda posters, popular literature, memoirs, cartoons, poetry, and advertising. Starks frames her history within the latest scholarship in imperial and early Soviet history and public health, anthropology and addiction studies. The result is an ambitious social and cultural exploration of the interaction of institutions, ideas, practice, policy, consumption, identity, and the body. Starks has reconstructed how Russian smokers experienced, understood, and presented their habit in all its biological, psychological, social, and sensory inflections. Her book provides the reader with incredible images and a unique application of anthropology and sensory analysis to the experience of tobacco dependency. Tricia Starks is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. She is author of The Body Soviet, and coeditor of Tobacco in Russian History and Culture and Russian History through the Senses.

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“What a curious, ambitious book! When I think of titles that will get readers hooked on Russia, this is what I envision. Smoking Under the Tsars is sprawling, drawing cultural anthropology, history, pubpol, and medicine (plus a little journalism) under the wing of RAS.”—Russia Reviewed “Smoking Under the Tsars is a major contribution to our understanding of the place of tobacco and smoking in pre-revolutionary Russia. Tricia Starks sets a high bar for future scholars of tobacco use in Russia.” —Kate Transchel, author of Under the Influence “Tricia Starks delves into the sensory history of smoking in Russia through vivid imagery and literature analysis. She uncovers the origin story of the smoking culture that is such a striking part of contemporary Russian society.”—Alison K. Smith, University of Toronto

The Hungry Steppe Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan Sar ah Cameron

The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930–33. More than 1.5 million people perished in this famine, a quarter of Kazakhstan’s population, and the crisis transformed a territory the size of continental Europe. Yet the story of this famine has remained mostly hidden from view. Drawing upon state and Communist party documents, as well as oral history and memoir accounts in Russian and in Kazakh, Sarah Cameron reveals this brutal story and its devastating consequences for Kazakh society. Through the most violent of means the Kazakh famine created Soviet Kazakhstan, a stable territory with clearly delineated boundaries that was an integral part of the Soviet economic system; and it forged a new Kazakh national identity. But this state-driven modernization project was uneven. Ultimately, Cameron finds, neither Kazakhstan nor Kazakhs themselves were integrated into the Soviet system in precisely the ways that Moscow had originally hoped. The experience of the famine scarred the republic for the remainder of the Soviet era and shaped its transformation into an independent nation in 1991. Cameron uses her history of the Kazakh famine to overturn several assumptions about violence, modernization, and nation-making under Stalin, highlighting, in particular, the creation of a new Kazakh national identity, and how environmental factors shaped Soviet development. Ultimately, The Hungry Steppe depicts the Soviet regime and its disastrous policies in a new and unusual light. Sar ah Cameron is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland-College Park.

“Sarah Cameron unearths abundant new Russian and Kazakh language sources to tell a spellbinding story of vicious social engineering. Explaining what happened and why with utmost care, Cameron records the howls of suffering and mass death in the violent emergence of a Soviet Kazakh nation.”—Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University “Sarah Cameron demonstrates the relevance of the long-overlooked Kazakh famine to many bigger historical questions. The end result is a damning indictment of Soviet nation building that covers new ground and adds important dimensions to one of the epic stories of twentieth century social transformation.”—David Brandenberger, author of National Bolshevism “The Hungry Steppe is a compelling account of the Kazakh famine, situating it against the backdrop of changing Soviet perceptions of the steppe’s ecology and economy.”—Rebecca Manley, author of award-winning To the Tashkent Station

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Photographic Literacy Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors K atherine M. H. Reischl

Photography, introduced to Russia in 1839, was nothing short of a sensation. Its rapid proliferation challenged the other arts, including painting and literature, as well as the very integrity of the self. If Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky greeted the camera with skepticism in the nineteenth century, numerous twentieth-century authors welcomed it with a warm embrace. As Katherine M. H. Reischl shows in Photographic Literacy, authors as varied as Leonid Andreev, Ilya Ehrenburg, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn picked up the camera and reshaped not only their writing practices but also the sphere of literacy itself. For these authors, a single photograph or a photograph as illustration is never an endpoint; their authorial practices continually transform and animate the frozen moment. But just as authors used images to shape the reception of their work and selves, Russian photographers—including Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky and Alexander Rodchenko—used text to shape the reception of their visual work. From the diary to print, the literary word imbues that photographic moment with a personal life story, and frames and reframes it in the writing of history. In this primer on photographic literacy, Reischl argues for the central place that photography has played in the formation of the Russian literary imagination over the course of roughly seventy years. From image to text and back again, she traces the visual consciousness of modern Russian literature as captured through the lens of the Russian author-photographer. K atherine M. H. Reischl is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. In addition to her work on Russian author-photographers, she has published on Soviet children’s books and the digital mediation of avant-garde journals.

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“This book represents a truly significant contribution to literary criticism, offering a timely, in-depth, wide-ranging critical engagement of an issue of great current interest: how technology affects the evolution of cultural forms.”—Elizabeth Papazian, author of Manufacturing Truth “This is a first-rate scholarly monograph. Reischl’s work brings together scholarly rigor, an excellent knowledge of sources, deft and expressive writing, insightful close-reading, and careful thinking.”—Julie Buckler, author of Mapping St. Petersburg

Rising Titans, Falling Giants How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson

As a rising great power flexes its muscles on the political-military scene it must examine how to manage its relationships with states suffering from decline; and it has to do so in a careful and strategic manner. In Rising Titans, Falling Giants Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson focuses on the policies that rising states adopt toward their declining competitors, and what that means for the relationship between the two. Rising Titans, Falling Giants integrates disparate approaches to realism into a single theoretical framework, provides new insight into the sources of cooperation and competition in international relations, and offers a new empirical treatment of great power politics at the start and end of the Cold War. Itzkowitz Shifrinson challenges the existing historical interpretations of diplomatic history, particularly in terms of the United States-China relationship. Whereas many analysts argue that these two nations are on a collision course, Itzkowitz Shifrinson declares instead that rising states often avoid antagonizing those in decline, and highlights episodes that suggest the US-China relationship may prove to be far less conflict-prone than we might expect. Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson is Assistant Professor of International Relations with the Pardee School at Boston University, where his research focuses on US foreign policy, grand strategy, and international security. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor with the Bush School of Government. He has published in International Security, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Foreign Affairs, and other venues.

“Applying key insights from realism to the rise and fall of states, Itzkowitz Shifrinson offers a compelling analysis of predation in the international system. A theoretically sophisticated account, this is a book that every scholar of international relations and contemporary history must read.” —Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency “Rising Titans, Falling Giants fills a gap in the literature that had until now not been properly researched: how do rising states formulate their strategy toward their declining peers. Its theory is precise; the historical evidence it presents is convincing and sometimes novel. A must-read for those interested in world politics.” —Nuno Monteiro, Yale University “An insightful and innovative interpretation of international behavior. It should be read and pondered by all those wishing to understand American foreign policy today.” —Jack Matlock, author of Reagan and Gorbachev

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Politics under the Influence Vodka and Public Policy in Putin’s Russia Anna L . Bailey

The state is supposed to make policy in the national interest, to preserve the nation’s health against the ravages inflicted by widespread alcohol abuse. In fact, Bailey shows, the Russian state is deeply divided, and policy is commonly a result of the competitive interactions of stakeholders with vested interests. Politics under the Influence turns a spotlight on the powerful vodka industry whose ties to Putin’s political elite have grown in influence since 2009. She details how that lobby has used the anti-alcohol campaign as a way to reduce the competitiveness of its main rival—the multinational beer industry. Drawing on a wide range of sources including fieldwork interviews, government documents, media articles, and opinion polls, Bailey reveals the many ambivalences, informal practices, and paradoxes in contemporary Russian politics. Politics under the Influence exhibits the kleptocratic nature of the Putin regime; as a result, analysis of vested interests and informal sources of power is essential to understanding public policy in contemporary Russia. This book will be an invaluable resource for anyone working on policy and corruption in Putin’s Russia. Anna L . Bailey worked for the UK civil service for four years and then as an English teacher in Kazan before graduate study at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. She has published papers in the volumes of the International Scientific-Practical Conference on Alcohol in Russia.

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“Anna Bailey’s book is relaxed and readable. Her concepts are clear, there is no unnecessary jargon, and she provides the reader with substantively rich, well-documented insights into the realm of Russian alcohol-policymaking.” —Mark Schrad, Villanova University “Anna Bailey’s high-quality book helps us understand how formal and informal sources of power combine to produce the outcomes we see in the world. Her insights are relevant to courses on post-communist politics, economic development, and policy making and implementation.” —Andrew Barnes, Kent State University

Covert Regime Change America’s Secret Cold War Lindsey A. O’Rourke

States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d’état, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups. In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O’Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on overt cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O’Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene. Offensive operations aim to overthrow a current military rival or break up a rival alliance. Preventive operations seek to stop a state from taking certain actions, such as joining a rival alliance, that may make them a future security threat. Hegemonic operations try to maintain a hierarchical relationship between the intervening state and the target government. Despite the prevalence of covert attempts at regime change, most operations fail to remain covert and spark blowback in unanticipated ways. Covert Regime Change assembles an original dataset of all American regime change operations during the Cold War. This fund of information shows the United States was ten times more likely to try covert rather than overt regime change during the Cold War. Her dataset allows O’Rourke to address three foundational questions: What motivates states to attempt foreign regime change? Why do states prefer to conduct these operations covertly rather than overtly? How successful are such missions in achieving their foreign policy goals?

“Covert Regime Change is an important addition to the new literature on intelligence and international relations. Lindsey O’Rourke convincingly shows that covert action has been a regular feature of American statecraft for decades, and that the United States chooses regime change not for idealistic reasons but out of ruthless pragmatism.”—Joshua Rovner, author of Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence “Covert action to change foreign governments is exceptionally controversial, hard to research, and usually explored only by journalists. All who read this book will be impressed with the depth, detail, and clarity of Lindsey O’Rourke’s analysis. No other academic study of the question tops this one.”—Richard Betts, Columbia University

Lindsey A. O’Rourke is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Her research focuses on regime change, international security, and US foreign policy.

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When Right Makes Might Rising Powers and World Order Stacie E. Goddard

Why do great powers accommodate the rise of some challengers but contain and confront others, even at the risk of war? When Right Makes Might proposes that the ways a rising power legitimizes its expansionist aims shapes great power responses. Stacie E. Goddard theorizes that when faced with a new challenger, great powers attempt to divine the challenger’s intentions: does it pose a revolutionary threat to the system or can it be incorporated into the existing international order? Goddard departs from conventional theories of international relations by arguing that great powers come to understand a contender’s intentions not only through objective capabilities or costly signals but by observing how a rising power justifies its behavior to its audience. To understand the dynamics of rising powers, then, we must take seriously the role of legitimacy in international relations. A rising power’s ability to expand depends as much on its claims to right as it does on its growing might. As a result, When Right Makes Might poses significant questions for academics and policymakers alike. Underpinning her argument on the oft-ignored significance of public self-presentation, Goddard suggests that academics (and others) should recognize talk’s critical role in the formation of grand strategy. Unlike rationalist and realist theories that suggest rhetoric is mere window-dressing for power, When Right Makes Might argues that rhetoric fundamentally shapes the contours of grand strategy. Legitimacy is not marginal to international relations; it is essential to the practice of power politics, and rhetoric is central to that practice. Stacie E. Goddard is Jane Bishop ’51 Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. She is the author of Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland.

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“When Right Makes Might succeeds in engaging a major theoretical and politically relevant question: why do some power transitions occur peacefully while others end in conflict? Goddard presents a new theoretical take and provides a new interpretation of the evidence at hand.” —Hendrik Spruyt, author of Ending Empire “When Might Makes Right takes on a classic question—how and when existing powers cope with rising powers—and offers a novel and important answer. Stacie Goddard’s insightful, deeply researched, and persuasive book argues that talk is not cheap, that how states legitimate their aims is essential to whether they are viewed as rivals or partners. It is sure to become required reading.”—Ronald Krebs, University of Minnesota “As long as there have been systems of states, intellectuals and practitioners have debated how to deal with rising powers. The politics of legitimation have figured in these debates but in When Right Makes Might they have at last received the sustained analysis they clearly warrant. Stacie Goddard ‘s bracingly smart and novel contribution upends a lot of today’s conventional wisdom.”—William Wohlforth, Dartmouth College

National Secession Persuasion and Violence in Independence Campaigns Philip G. Roeder

How do some national-secessionist campaigns get on the global agenda whereas others do not? Which projects for new nation-states give rise to mayhem in the politics of existing states? National secession has been explained by reference to identities, grievances, greed, and opportunities. With the strategic constraints most national-secession campaigns face, the author argues, the essential element is the campaign’s ability to coordinate expectations within a population on a common goal—so that independence looks like the only viable option. Philip G. Roeder shows how in most well-known national-secession campaigns, this strategy of programmatic coordination has led breakaway leaders to assume the critical task of propagating an authentic and realistic nation-state project. Such campaigns are most likely to draw attention in the capitals of the great powers that control admission to the international community, to bring the campaigns’ disputes with their central governments to deadlock, and to engage in protracted, intense struggles to convince the international community that independence is the only viable option. In National Secession, Roeder focuses on the goals of national-secession campaigns as a key determinant of strategy, operational objectives, and tactics. He shifts the focus in the study of secessionist civil wars from tactics (such as violence) to the larger substantive disputes within which these tactics are chosen, and he analyzes the consequences of programmatic coordination for getting on the global agenda. All of which, he argues, can give rise to intractable disputes and violent conflicts. Philip G. Roeder is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Roeder has published books on Kremlin politics, the Soviet state, and national-secession disputes and conflicts around the world. His articles have appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, World Politics, and International Studies Quarterly.

“Philip G. Roeder has produced a novel argument that serves as an important corrective to the general tendency to over-focus on structural factors in analyzing popular mobilization, and his theoretical contribution greatly advances our understanding of how campaigns for independence develop and are sustained. As a result, National Secession will appeal to scholars in all branches of the social sciences.” —Dmitry Gorenburg, author of Nationalism for the Masses: Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation “Roeder’s highly original analysis examines conditions that give rise to significant and often protracted campaigns for separatism. As he shows, separatists can win against the odds through persistent efforts aimed at demonstrating the impracticality of the status quo and the viability of sovereign statehood.” —Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton University

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On the Threshold of Eurasia Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus Leah Michele Feldman

On the Threshold of Eurasia explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet “East” as a political, aesthetic, and scientific system of ideas that emerged through a series of intertextual encounters produced by Russians and Turkic Muslims on the imperial periphery amidst the revolutionary transition from 1905 to 1929. Identifying the role of Russian and Soviet Orientalism in shaping the formation of a specifically Eurasian imaginary, Leah Feldman examines connections between avant-garde literary works; Orientalist historical, geographic and linguistic texts; and political essays written by Russian and Azeri Turkic Muslim writers and thinkers. Tracing these engagements and interactions between Russia and the Caucasus, Feldman offers an alternative vision of empire, modernity, and anti-imperialism from the vantage point not of the metropole but from the cosmopolitan centers at the edges of the Russian and later Soviet empires. In this way, On the Threshold of Eurasia illustrates the pivotal impact that the Caucasus (and the Soviet periphery more broadly) had—through the founding of an avant-garde poetics animated by Russian and Arabo-Persian precursors, Islamic metaphysics, and Marxist-Leninist theories of language—on the monumental aesthetic and political shifts of the early twentieth century. Leah Michele Feldman is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.

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“On the Threshold of Eurasia joins with some of the best new work being done on the culture, history, and social geography of the Caucasus. In this beautiful work, Feldman offers a portrait of a robust world area that has long been lost to other master narratives of history, place, and culture.” —Bruce Grant, author of In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas “On the Threshold of Eurasia presents new ways of thinking about Russian literature, Russian modernism and the avant-garde, and the long revolutionary period, and expands our view of what the Caucasus region is and was.” —Katya Hokanson, author of Writing at Russia’s Border

Creative Union The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939–1953 Kiril Tomoff

Why did the Stalin era, a period characterized by bureaucratic control and the reign of Socialist Realism in the arts, witness such an extraordinary upsurge of musical creativity and the prominence of musicians in the cultural elite? This is one of the questions that Kiril Tomoff seeks to answer in Creative Union, the first book about any of the professional unions that dominated Soviet cultural life at the time. Drawing on hitherto untapped archives, he shows how the Union of Soviet Composers established control over the music profession and negotiated the relationship between composers and the Communist Party leadership. Central to Tomoff’s argument is the institutional authority and prestige that the musical profession accrued and deployed within Soviet society, enabling musicians to withstand the postwar disciplinary campaigns that were so crippling in other artistic and literary spheres. Most accounts of Soviet musical life focus on famous individuals or the campaign against Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth and Zhdanov’s postwar attack on musical formalism. Tomoff’s approach, while not downplaying these notorious events, shows that the Union was able to develop and direct a musical profession that enjoyed enormous social prestige. The Union’s leadership was able to use its expertise to determine the criteria of musical value with a degree of independence. Tomoff’s book reveals the complex and mutable interaction of creative intelligentsia and political elite in a period hitherto characterized as one of totalitarian control. Kiril Tomoff is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Virtuosi Abroad: Soviet Music and Imperial Competition during the Early Cold War, 1945–1958.

“Tomoff deftly challenges the mythology of the martyred Soviet artist. . . . This study provides a much-needed corrective to the traditional interpretation of Stalinist musical life and makes an important contribution to Russian cultural and political history. It will fascinate all those interested in the complex relationship between music, society, and the wielders of political power.” —Russian Review “Based on exhaustive archival research, Creative Union shows how Soviet musicians consolidated, exercised, and defended professional authority in the perilous, ideologically charged atmosphere of Stalin’s Russia. Kiril Tomoff’s impressive, highly original work provides a compelling corrective to widely held assumptions about the status of creative intellectuals in authoritarian regimes. A valuable contribution to the field of Russian-Soviet history.” —Amy Nelson, author of Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia

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Intimate Violence Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wit tenberg

Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The authors note that while some communities erupted in anti-Jewish violence, most others remained quiescent. In fact, fewer than 10 percent of communities saw pogroms in 1941, and most ordinary gentiles never attacked Jews. Intimate Violence is a novel social-scientific explanation of ethnic violence and the Holocaust. It locates the roots of violence in efforts to maintain Polish and Ukrainian dominance rather than in anti-Semitic hatred or revenge for communism. In doing so, it cuts through painful debates about relative victimhood that are driven more by metaphysical beliefs in Jewish culpability than empirical evidence of perpetrators and victims. Pogroms, they conclude, were difficult to start, and local conditions in most places prevented their outbreak despite a general anti-Semitism and the collapse of the central state. Kopstein and Wittenberg shed new light on the sources of mass ethnic violence and the ways in which such gruesome acts might be avoided. Jeffrey S. Kopstein is Professor and Chair of Political Science at University of California, Irvine. His books include The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945–1989 and Growing Apart?: America and Europe in the 21st Century. Jason Wit tenberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Crucibles of Political Loyalty: Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary.

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“Offering an interesting political-scientific take on the pogroms in this region, Intimate Violence is sure to spark debate.”—Choice “Intimate Violence is a piece of scholarship of supreme quality, and is a significant contribution to Holocaust history and studies of interethnic violence. Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg skillfully apply statistical methods, and they offer insights that reach well beyond the specific time and region of the events.” —Dariusz Stola, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences “Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, outstanding political scientists representing different approaches, have collaborated on this subject for a decade, mining archives, refining data, and considering interpretations. The result is a work that opens a new era in this field of study. Scholars of the Holocaust not only should but will read it.” —Timothy Snyder, Yale University

Twilight of the Titans Great Power Decline and Retrenchment Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent

In this bold new perspective on the United States–China power transition, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine all great power transitions since 1870. They find that declining and rising powers have strong incentives to moderate their behavior at moments when the hierarchy of great powers is shifting. How do great powers respond to decline? they ask. What options do great powers have to slow or reverse their descent? In Twilight of the Titans, MacDonald and Parent challenge claims that policymakers for great powers, unwilling to manage decline through moderation, will be pushed to extreme measures. Tough talk, intimidation, provocation, and preventive war, they write, are not the only alternatives to defeat. Surprisingly, retrenchment tends not to make declining states tempting prey for other states nor does it promote domestic dysfunction. What retrenchment does encourage is resurrection. Only states that retrench have recovered their former position. Using case studies that include Great Britain in 1872 and 1908, Russia in 1888 and 1903, and France in 1893 and 1924, Twilight of the Titans offers clear evidence that declining powers have a wide array of options at their disposal and offers guidance on how to use the right tools at the right time. The result is a comprehensive rethinking of power transition and hegemonic war theories and a different approach to the policy problems that declining states face. Paul K. MacDonald is associate professor of political science at Wellesley College. He is author of Networks of Domination. Joseph M. Parent is associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Uniting States and coauthor of American Conspiracy Theories.

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“The operative concepts in this volume are power, security, and interests and nary a word about identity and all that non-rationalist stuff of politics . . . Twilight of the Titans is tightly written and organized, with a brief index and copious notes.”—Choice “Unique, convincing and important.”—Survival “Twilight of the Titans provides perhaps the strongest counter to current pessimistic conventional wisdom on the dangers and challenges of the United States’s decline vis-à-vis China as well as overall pessimism on the ability of major powers to act rationally and prudently. Twilight of the Titans will be relevant to a large swath of academic literature and has general implications for policy debates.” —William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College “Twilight of the Titans is an important contribution to the literature on the grand strategies of great powers. It is a must read for those participating, or interested, in the debate about America’s 21st century grand strategic options.” —Christopher Layne, Texas A & M University

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Objects of War The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement edited by Leor a Ausl ander and Tar a Zahr a

Historians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysis and as a teaching tool. And yet the profession tends to be suspicious of things; words are its stock-in-trade. What new insights can historians gain about the past by thinking about things? A central object (and consequence) of modern warfare is the radical destruction and transformation of the material world. And yet we know little about the role of material culture in the history of war and forced displacement: objects carried in flight; objects stolen on battlefields; objects expropriated, reappropriated, and remembered. Objects of War illuminates the ways in which people have used things to grapple with the social, cultural, and psychological upheavals wrought by war and forced displacement. Chapters consider theft and pillaging as strategies of conquest; soldiers’ relationships with their weapons; and the use of clothing and domestic goods by prisoners of war, extermination camp inmates, freed people and refugees to make claims and to create a kind of normalcy. While studies of migration and material culture have proliferated in recent years, as have histories of the Napoleonic, colonial, World Wars, and postcolonial wars, few have focused on the movement of people and things in times of war across two centuries. This focus, in combination with a broad temporal canvas, serves historians and others well as they seek to push beyond the written word. Leor a Ausl ander is Professor of European Social History and Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Cultural Revolutions and Taste and Power. Tar a Zahr a is Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Kidnapped Souls, The Lost Children, and The Great Departure.

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“This volume offers readers a fresh perspective on war, displacement, and the significance of materiality to those who flee, those who fleece them, and to the objects themselves.” —Leslie Moch, Michigan State University “An inspiring, well written volume that explores, through fascinating case studies, the symbolic meaning that objects—from things as little as a piece of textile, to those as grand as a palace—gain in times of war and forced migration.” —Gregor Thum, University of Pittsburgh Contributors Noah Benninga, Sandra H. Dudley, Bonnie Effros, Cathleen M. Giustino, Alice Goff, Gerdien Jonker, Aubrey Pomerance, Iris Rachamimov, Brandon M. Schechter, Jeffrey Wallen, and Sarah Jones Weicksel

Laboratory of Socialist Development Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan Artemy K alinovsky

Artemy Kalinovsky’s Laboratory of Socialist Development investigates the Soviet effort to make promises of decolonization a reality by looking at the politics and practices of economic development in central Asia between World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Focusing on the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, Kalinovsky places the Soviet development of central Asia in a global context. Connecting high politics and intellectual debates with the life histories and experiences of peasants, workers, scholars, and engineers, Laboratory of Socialist Development shows how these men and women negotiated Soviet economic and cultural projects in the decades following Stalin’s death. Kalinovsky’s book investigates how people experienced new cities, the transformation of rural life, and the building of the world’s tallest dam. Kalinovsky connects these local and individual moments to the broader context of the Cold War, shedding new light on how paradigms of development change over time. Throughout the book, he offers comparisons with experiences in countries such as India, Iran, and Afghanistan, and considers the role of intermediaries who went to those countries as part of the Soviet effort to spread its vision of modernity to the postcolonial world. Laboratory of Socialist Development offers a new way to think about the post-war Soviet Union, the relationship between Moscow and its internal periphery, and the interaction between Cold War politics and domestic development. Kalinovsky’s innovative research pushes readers to consider the similarities between socialist development and its more familiar capitalist version.

“Kalinovsky’s work offers rich illustration through the voices of the Tajiks who lived through and participated in the Nurek dam project, and in Tajikistan’s wider efforts at development. Laboratory of Socialist Development is an opening salvo for a new focus in central Asian studies— examining the final forty years of Soviet rule in central Asia.” —Marianne R. Kamp, Indiana University ”Artemy Kalinovsky has achieved what other scholars have only talked about: using development to link international, domestic political, and social history. A true tour de force.” —David C. Engerman, Brandeis University

Artemy K alinovsky is Assistant Professor of East European Studies, University of Amsterdam. He is the author of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan, and co-editor of five books, among them The End of the Cold War and the Third World.

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School of Europeanness Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia Dace Dzenovsk a

In School of Europeanness, Dace Dzenovska argues that Europe’s political landscape is shaped by a fundamental tension between the need to exclude and the requirement to profess and institutionalize the value of inclusion. Nowhere, Dzenovska writes, is this tension more glaring than in the former Soviet Republics. Using Latvia as a representative case, School of Europeanness is a historical ethnography of the tolerance work undertaken in that country as part of postsocialist democratization efforts. Dzenovska contends that the collapse of socialism and the resurgence of Latvian nationalism gave this Europe-wide logic new life, simultaneously reproducing and challenging it. Her work makes explicit what is only implied in the 1977 Kraftwerk song, Trans-European Express: hierarchies prevail in European public and political life even as tolerance is touted by politicians and pundits as one of Europe’s chief virtues. School of Europeanness shows how post–Cold War liberalization projects in Latvia contributed to the current crisis of political liberalism in Europe, providing deep ethnographic analysis of the power relations in Latvia and the rest of Europe, and identifying the tension between exclusive polities and inclusive values as foundational of Europe’s political landscape. Dace Dzenovsk a is Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society.

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“School of Europeanness has enough originality, as well as empirical data, to appeal to a wide range of scholars from different disciplines, including anthropology, politics, and international relations.”—Vera Tolz, University of Manchester “School of Europeanness is certainly an innovative and well-conceived book and has a considerable capacity to impact how we think about postsocialist societies, their directions of past and future social change.”—Timofey Agarin, Queens University, Belfast “School of Europeanness is written with intellectual verve and imagination. Dzenovska argues that the frames of European belonging, national community, tolerance, and liberalism that have been applied in Latvia in the postsocialist decades have reproduced structures of exclusion and dominance in the relationship between a ‘good European core’ and a ‘not European enough’ periphery.” —Kevin Platt, University of Pennsylvania

Wars of Law Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict Tanisha M. Fazal

In Wars of Law, Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for the commencement, conduct, and conclusion of wars over the course of the past one hundred fifty years. Why have states stopped issuing formal declarations of war? Why have states stopped concluding formal peace treaties? Why are civil wars especially likely to end in peace treaties today? Addressing such basic questions about international conflict, Fazal provides a lively and intriguing account of the implications of the laws of war. By using the laws of war strategically, Fazal suggests, belligerents in both interstate and civil wars relate those laws to their big-picture goals. In Wars of Law, we learn that, as codified IHL proliferates and changes in character—with an ever-greater focus on protected persons—states fighting interstate wars become increasingly reluctant to step over any bright lines that unequivocally oblige them to comply with IHL. On the other hand, Fazal argues, secessionists fighting wars for independence are more likely to engage with the laws of war because they have strong incentives to persuade the international community that, if admitted to the club of states, they will be good and capable members of that club. Tanisha M. Fazal is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation, winner of the Best Book Award of the APSA Conflict Processes Section.

“Wars of Law will be important to both academics working in the field and to policymakers. Fazal’s work will be recognized as a valuable contribution to academic work and pushes the analysis both theoretically and empirically in new directions relative to important other recent books in this area.” —Paul Huth, University of Maryland, College Park ”In this profound, provocative book, Tanisha Fazal reveals the unintended consequences of trying to tame war through law. She explodes many myths about peace and war, statehood and secession, and cements her reputation as one of our subtlest scholars of international affairs.” —David Armitage, author of Civil Wars

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The Geopolitics of Spectacle Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia Natalie Koch

Why do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? In The Geopolitics of Spectacle, Natalie Koch considers how autocratic rulers use “spectacular” projects to shape state-society relations, but rather than focus on the standard approach—on the project itself—she considers the unspectacular “others.” The contrasting views of those from the poorest regions toward these new national capitals help her develop a geographic approach to spectacle. Koch uses Astana in Kazakhstan to exemplify her argument, comparing that spectacular city with others from resource-rich, nondemocratic nations in central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia. The Geopolitics of Spectacle draws new political-geographic lessons and shows that these spectacles can be understood only from multiple viewpoints, sites, and temporalities. Koch explicitly theorizes spectacle geographically and in so doing extends the analysis of governmentality into new empirical and theoretical terrain. With cases ranging from Azerbaijan to Qatar and Myanmar, and an intriguing account of reactions to the new capital of Astana from the poverty-stricken Aral Sea region of Khazakhstan, Koch’s book provides food for thought for readers in human geography, anthropology, sociology, urban studies, political science, international affairs, and post-Soviet and central Asian studies. Natalie Koch is Associate Professor of Geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She has published numerous articles in journals such as Political Geography, Central Asian Survey, IJMES, and Geoforum.

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“The Geopolitics of Spectacle is extremely rich and thought provoking. Koch has woven together complex theories and deep case studies to reveal something genuinely fresh with regard to the notion of urban spectacle, authoritarian governance, and behaviors/technologies uncommonly acknowledged to exist across the political spectrum. Koch’s book is a major contribution on several fronts, including within the fields of urban studies, architecture and design, political geography, international relations, geopolitics, cultural studies, and social geography.”—Alexander C. Diener, University of Kansas “The Geopolitics of Spectacle is a significant contribution to our understanding of autocratic rule. Koch’s book explodes the democratic-authoritarian binary and demonstrates the wide variations that exist not only among autocratic states, but also among autocratic states that build spectacular cities.” —Eric Max McGlinchey, George Mason University

Cold War Triangle How Scientists in East and West Tamed HIV Renilde Loeck x

A small group of scientists were doggedly working in the field of antiviral treatments when the AIDS epidemic struck. Faced with one of the grand challenges of modern biology of the twentieth century, scientists worked across the political divide of the Cold War to produce a new class of antivirals. Their molecules were developed by a Californian start-up together with teams of scientists at the Rega Institute of KU Leuven and the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB) of the Academy of Sciences in Prague. These molecules became the cornerstone of the blockbuster drugs now used to combat and prevent HIV. Cold War Triangle gives an insight into the human face of science as it recounts the extraordinary story of scientists in East and West who overcame ideological barriers and worked together for the benefit of humanity. Renilde Loeck x is member of the EORTC Cancer Research Fund and former Ambassador of Belgium.

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“Who, What Am I?” Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self Irina Paperno

“Who, What Am I?” is an account of Tolstoy’s lifelong attempt to find adequate ways to represent the self, to probe its limits and, ultimately, to arrive at an identity not based on the bodily self and its accumulated life experience. This book guides readers through the voluminous, highly personal nonfiction writings that Tolstoy produced from the 1850s until his death in 1910. The variety of these texts is enormous, including diaries, religious tracts, personal confessions, letters, autobiographical fragments, and the meticulous accounts of dreams. For Tolstoy, inherent in the structure of the narrative form was a conception of life that accorded linear temporal order a predominant role, and this implied finitude. Tolstoy refused to accept that human life stopped with death and that the self was limited to what could be remembered and told. In short, Tolstoy’s was a philosophical and religious quest, and he followed in the footsteps of many, from Plato and Augustine to Rousseau and Schopenhauer. In reconstructing Tolstoy’s struggles, this book reflects on the problems of self and narrative as well as provides an intellectual and psychological biography of the writer. Irina Paperno teaches Russian literature and intellectual history at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams and Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky’s Russia. WINNER, MODERN L ANGUAGE A SSOCIATION ALDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR STUDIES IN SL AVIC L ANGUAGES AND LITER ATURES

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“This is a relatively short book, yet it is rich in content, taking on some of the most important and challenging problems Tolstoy faced as a writer and thinker. [Irina Paperno] draws on a full range of Tolstoy’s nonfiction writings from the 1850s until his death in 1910: diaries, letters, reminiscences, autobiographical and confessional statements, essays, and religious tracts.” —The Russian Review ““Who, What Am I?” is highly important for any Tolstoi researcher, as it brings together the whole of his writings dealing with the exploration of the self.” —Slavic Review “Offers a rare exploration into the internal world of Tolstoy by examining his nonfictional, first-person writings, including diaries, letters, reminiscences, autobiographical and confessional statements, and essays. . . . Paperno makes an invaluable contribution to Tolstoy scholarship.” —Choice

Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century Matilda R abinowitz With Commentary and Original Dr awings by Robbin Légère Henderson Afterword by Ileen A. DeVault

Matilda Rabinowitz’s illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. Rabinowitz devoted her labor and commitment to the notion that women should feel entitled to independence, equal rights, equal pay, and sexual and personal autonomy. Rabinowitz (1887–1963) immigrated to the United States from Ukraine at the age of thirteen. Radicalized by her experience in sweatshops, she became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917 before choosing single motherhood in 1918. “Big Bill” Haywood once wrote, “a book could be written about Matilda,” but her memoir was intended as a private story for her grandchildren, Robbin Légère Henderson among them. Henderson’s black-and white-scratchboard drawings illustrate Rabinowitz’s life in the Pale of Settlement, the journey to America, political awakening and work as an organizer for the IWW, a turbulent romance, and her struggle to support herself and her child. Matilda R abinowitz wrote a regular column, “On the Left,” for the Socialist Newsletter, a Los Angeles publication of the Socialist Party. Robbin Légère Henderson is an artist and a freelance curator and exhibition consultant. Ileen deVault is Professor of Labor History at Cornell University’s ILR School. She is the author of United Apart, also from Cornell.

“Immigrant, socialist, labor organizer, feminist, Matilda Rabinowitz lived an extraordinary life, and this is an extraordinary document. Her memoirs, vivid and precise, are a vital contribution to the history of American radicalism, and more urgently relevant than ever. Robbin Légère Henderson’s illustrations are nothing less than a marvel.” —Ben Ehrenreich, author of The Way to the Spring “Matilda Rabinowitz, early twentieth-century socialist and traveling IWW organizer, had a hard immigrant life, moving from one job to another, dedicated to the struggle but dragged down by love for the wrong man. Her unpublished memoir has been resurrected by her granddaughter, and the result has enough social and economic detail for any labor historian and enough heartache for any lover of romance.” —Meredith Tax, author of The Rising of the Women

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No Path Home Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

For more than 60 million displaced people around the world, humanitarian aid has become a chronic condition. No Path Home describes its symptoms in detail. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn shows how war creates a deeply damaged world in which the structures that allow people to occupy social roles, constitute economic value, preserve bodily integrity, and engage in meaningful daily practice have been blown apart. After the Georgian war with Russia in 2008, Dunn spent sixteen months immersed in the everyday lives of the 28,000 people placed in thirty-six resettlement camps by official and nongovernmental organizations acting in concert with the Georgian government. She reached the conclusion that the humanitarian condition poses a survival problem that is not only biological but also existential. In No Path Home, she paints a moving picture of the ways in which humanitarianism leaves displaced people in limbo, neither in a state of emergency nor able to act as normal citizens in the country where they reside. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn is Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs at Indiana University–Bloomington. She is the author of Privatizing Poland, also from Cornell.

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“No Path Home is an extremely interesting, engaging, and well-written book. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn’s fluid and clear prose paints a very evocative picture of life for internally displaced persons as well as presenting a clear theoretical account.” —Laura Hammond, SOAS University of London, author of This Place Will Become Home

Not According to Plan Filmmaking under Stalin Maria Belodubrovsk aya

In Not According to Plan, Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and control propaganda. Belodubrovskaya’s revisionist account of Soviet filmmaking between 1930 and 1953 highlights the extent to which the Soviet film industry remained stubbornly artisanal in its methods, especially in contrast to the more industrial approach of the Hollywood studio system. Not According to Plan shows that even though Josef Stalin recognized cinema as a “mighty instrument of mass agitation and propaganda” and strove to harness the Soviet film industry to serve the state, directors such as Eisenstein, Alexandrov, and Pudovkin had far more creative control than did party-appointed executives and censors. The Stalinist party-state, despite explicit intent and grandiose plans to build a “Soviet Hollywood” that would release a thousand features per year, failed to construct even a modest mass propaganda cinema. Belodubrovskaya’s wealth of evidence shows that the regime’s desire to disseminate propaganda on a vast scale was consistently at odds with its compulsion to control quality and with Stalin’s intolerance of imperfection. Not According to Plan is a landmark in Soviet cultural history and the global history of cinema.

““Not According to Plan is a clearly and engagingly written book on the mechanisms of film production under Stalin that offers invaluable insights into the mechanisms of film production and screenwriting.” —Birgit Beumers, author of A History of Russian Cinema “Rich, thoughtful, and information-packed, Not According to Plan will be widely used in academia and beyond. It’s a wonderfully detailed, faultlessly argued, groundbreaking book.” —Yuri Tsivian, author of Lines of Resistance

Maria Belodubrovsk aya is Assistant Professor of Film in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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From Stalin to Mao Albania and the Socialist World Elidor Mëhilli

Elidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe’s longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli’s unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful globalism of post-1945 socialism, as well as the unintended consequences of cross-border exchanges from the Mediterranean to East Asia. After a decade of vigorous borrowing from the Soviet Union— advisers, factories, school textbooks, urban plans—Albania’s party clique switched allegiance to China during the 1960s Sino-Soviet conflict, seeing in Mao’s patronage an opportunity to keep Stalinism alive. Mëhilli shows how socialism created a shared transnational material and mental culture—still evident today around Eurasia—but it failed to generate political unity. Combining an analysis of ideology with a sharp sense of geopolitics, he explores the profound fascination with the Soviets and demonstrates the contradictions of the dramatic anti-Soviet turn. Richly illustrated with never-before-published photographs, From Stalin to Mao draws on a wealth of Albanian, Russian, German, British, Italian, Czech, and American archival sources, in addition to fiction, interviews, and memoirs. Mëhilli’s fresh perspective on the Soviet-Chinese battle for the soul of revolution in the global Cold War also illuminates the paradoxes of state planning in the twentieth century. Elidor Mëhilli is Assistant Professor of History at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

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“This important and much-needed book explores Albanian realities in the long and painful communist period as no other history I know.” —Norman M. Naimark, author of Stalin’s Genocides “In From Stalin to Mao, Elidor Mëhilli effectively places the story of Albania in the context of its consistent interaction with larger states, systems, and demands.” —Austin Jersild, author of The Sino-Soviet Alliance

Raised under Stalin Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism Seth Bernstein

In Raised under Stalin, Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin’s regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist youth culture and socialism more broadly through the threat and experience of war. Informed by declassified materials from post-Soviet archives, as well as films, memoirs, and diaries by and about youth, Raised under Stalin explains the divided status of youth for the Bolsheviks: they were the “new people” who would someday build communism, the potential soldiers who would defend the USSR, and the hooligans who might undermine it from within. Bernstein explains how, although Soviet revolutionary youth culture began as the preserve of proletarian activists, the Komsomol transformed under Stalin to become a mass organization of moral education; youth became the targets of state repression even as Stalin’s regime offered them the opportunity to participate in political culture. Raised under Stalin follows Stalinist youth into their ultimate test, World War II. Even as the war against Germany decimated the ranks of Young Communists, Bernstein finds evidence that it cemented Stalinist youth culture as a core part of socialism.

“Raised under Stalin is an excellent book. Seth Bernstein highlights new information on the Komsomol during high Stalinism and thus makes a contribution to the field of Stalinism and to the history of the Komsomol and Soviet youth in general.” —Isabel Tirado, author of Young Guard! “Seth Bernstein offers new insights that add to our understanding of Soviet youth rather than rehashing what is known.” —William Husband, author of “Godless Communists”

Seth Bernstein is Assistant Professor of History at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He is the translator and editor of Agents of Terror by Alexander Vatlin.

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