Slavonic and East European Studies
Blood of Others
Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity
Rory Finnin
Winner of the 2022 Alexander Nove Prize
Forging new roads between Slavic studies and Middle Eastern studies, Blood of Others is a compelling and timely exploration of the ideas and identities coursing between Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine – three countries determining the fate of a volatile and geopolitically pivotal part of our world.
"Finnin’s research is on the cutting edge of Crimean studies… and offers a new way to examine Crimean national identity ... a fine example of comparative literary research and a valuable contribution to the field of human rights discourse."–Modern Language Review
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
January 2024 352pp 9781487558253
Paperback £23.99 now £16.79
As the Dust of the Earth
The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine
Harriet Murav
Focusing less on the perpetrators and more on the responses to the pogroms, As the Dust of the Earth offers a fuller understanding of the seismic effects of such organized violence and a moving testimony to the resilience of survivors to process and cope with catastrophe.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Jews of Eastern Europe
April 2024 336pp 9780253068804
Paperback £40.00 now £28.00
Arrested Development
The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968
Alessandro Iandolo
Honourable Mention, 2022
Alexander Nove Prize
Arrested Development examines the USSR's involvement in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as aid donor, trade partner, and political inspiration for the first post-independence governments in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali.
“Succinctly written and thoroughly researched, Arrested Development convincingly argues that the Soviet Union had no intention of replicating its model of a fully centrally planned economy in West Africa.”
–Journal of Contemporary History Book Reviews
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
August 2022 312pp 9781501764431
Paperback £50.00 now £35.00
Dynasty Divided
A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism
Fabian Baumann
Dynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in nineteenthcentury Ukraine, the most pivotal borderland of the Russian Empire.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
August 2023 348pp 9781501770937
Paperback £25.99 now £18.19
Engaging the Evil Empire
Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War
Simon Miles
In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2024 248pp 9781501776069
Paperback £25.99 now £18.19
Everyday War
The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine
Greta Lynn Uehling
Greta Uehling engages with the lives of ordinary people living in and around the armed conflict over Donbas that began in 2014 and shows how conventional understandings of war are incomplete.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
February 2023 210pp 9781501768484
Paperback £27.99 now £19.59
From Chernobyl with Love
Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union
Katya Cengel
2020 Independent Book Publishers Awards, Bronze Medal
A remarkable story of young love and journalism in post-Soviet Eastern Europe. This edition features a new chapter, preface, and afterword reflecting on current events in Russia and Ukraine.
POTOMAC BOOKS
May 2023 310pp 9781640125728
Paperback £18.99 now £13.29
Fyodor Dostoevsky—The Gathering Storm (1846–1847)
A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism
Thomas Gaiton Marullo
This second of three books on Fyodor Dostoevsky recounts his early years drawn from letters, memoirs, and criticism, as well as from the testimony and witness of family and friends, readers, reviewers, and observers and participants in his life.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
August 2023 270pp 9781501770210
Paperback £22.99 now £16.09
Gleaning for Communism
The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice
Xenia A. Cherkaev
Gleaning for Communism is a historical ethnography of the property regime upon which Soviet legal scholars legislated a large modern state as a household, with guaranteed rights to a commons of socialist property, rather than private possessions.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2023 210pp 9781501770302
Paperback £22.99 now £16.09
Holy Sobriety in Modern Russia
A Faith Healer and His Followers
Kimberly Page Herrlinger
Drawing on multiple archives and primary sources, including secret police files and samizdat, Holy Sobriety in Modern Russia reconstructs the history of a spiritual movement that survived persecution by the Orthodox church and decades of official atheism, and still exists today.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
August 2023 12 360pp 9781501771149
Hardback £49.00 now £34.30
Notes from the Valley of Slaughter
A Memoir from the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania
Aharon Pick
Translated by Gabriel Laufer and Andrew Cassel
An eyewitness journal and diary of the Holocaust, by physician, scholar, and community leader Dr. Aharon Pick (1872–1944). Written in the ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania, Notes from the Valley of Slaughter is one of only a handful of diaries to survive the annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry. Translated for the first time into English and extensively annotated, it conveys Pick's voice to a wider international audience for the first time.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Jewish Literature and Culture
April 2023 320pp 9780253065582
Paperback £31.00 now £21.70
Post-Soviet Graffiti
Free Speech in Authoritarian States
Alexis Lerner
Post-Soviet Graffiti is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how graffiti and street art can be used as a political tool to circumvent censorship, express grievances, and control public discourse, particularly in authoritarian states.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
April 2024 240pp 9781487525422
Paperback £22.99 now £16.09
Red Tape
Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969
Rosamund Johnston
In socialist Eastern Europe, radio simultaneously produced state power and created the conditions for it to be challenged. Johnston explores the dynamic between radio reporters and the listeners in Czechoslovakia who liked and trusted them while recognizing that they produced both propaganda and entertainment.
“Rosamund Johnston's book sheds light not only on the history of radio in socialist Czechoslovakia, but also on the fraught relationship between media and politics in our own time.”—Tara Zahra, author of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics between the World Wars
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
March 2024 326pp 9781503638693
Paperback £27.99 now £19.59
Secret Leviathan
Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism
Mark Harrison
This book is the first comprehensive, analytical, multi-faceted history of Soviet secrecy in the English language. Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stanford–Hoover Series on Authoritarianism
June 2023 372pp 9781503628892
Hardback £58.00 now £40.60
Soviet Self-Hatred
The Secret Identities of Postsocialism in Contemporary Russia
Eliot Borenstein
Examines the imaginary Russian identities that emerged following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Borenstein shows how these identities are best understood as balanced on a simple axis between pride and shame, shifting in response to Russia's standing in the global community, its anxieties about internal dissension and foreign threats, and its stark socioeconomic inequalities.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2023 204pp 9781501769887
Paperback £19.99 now £13.99
Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room
Domestic Architecture before and after 1991
Kateryna Malaia
Malaia analyzes how Soviet and post-Soviet city dwellers, navigating a crisis of inadequate housing and extreme social disruption between the late 1980s and 2000s, transformed their dwellings as their countries transformed around them.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
August 2023 204pp 9781501771200
Hardback £32.00 now £22.40
Tamizdat
Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era
Yasha Yakov Klots
Tells the story of the Cold War through the history of the contraband manuscripts sent from the former USSR to the West. Meaning publishing "over there," tamizdat manuscripts were rejected, censored, or never submitted for publication in the Soviet Union and were smuggled and printed outside the country, with or without their authors' knowledge.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
May 2023 330pp 9781501768958
Hardback £42.00 now £29.40
