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Architecture of Life
Arrested Development
Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences Alla Vronskaya
The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968 Alessandro Iandolo
May 2022 336pp 103 b&w illus., 20 color plates 9781517912277 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9781517912260 £111.00 / $140.00 HB
August 2022 306pp 6 b&w hts., 4 maps 9781501764431 £45.00 / $55.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Arrested Development examines the USSR's involvement in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as aid donor, trade partner, and poli�cal inspira�on for the first post-independence governments in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali.
During the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to various principles within the human sciences in their efforts to formulate a methodological and theore�cal basis for their modernist project. This book delves into the founda�ons of this endeavor, analyzing facets of their radical approach and situa�ng it within the context of other modernist movements. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Between Heaven and Russia
Children of Communism
Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s Sándor Horváth Translated by Thomas Cooper
Orthodox Chris�anity and Contemporary Thought April 2022 288pp 9 b&w illus. 9780823299508 £22.99 / $29.95 PB 9780823299492 £84.00 / $105.00 HB
Studies in Hungarian History March 2022 300pp 45 b&w illus. 9780253059727 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9780253059734 £68.00 / $85.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? This ethnography highlights an inten�onal community of converts who are exemplary of much broader networks of Russian Orthodox converts in the US.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
A fascina�ng read on the power of youth protest, this book shows what life was like for the first genera�on to have been born under communism and how one evening spent grieving rock and roll under a tree forever changed lives.
Fyodor Dostoevsky—In the Beginning (1821–1845)
Ghosts of War
Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus Franziska Exeler
A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism Thomas Gaiton Marullo
April 2022 360pp 13 b&w hts., 5 maps 9781501762734 £27.99 / $35.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies August 2022 370pp 9781501764592 £24.99 / $32.95 NIP
How do states and socie�es confront the legacies of war and occupa�on, and what do truth, guilt, and jus�ce mean in that process? In Ghosts of War, Franziska Exeler examines people's war�me choices and their a�ermath in Belarus, a war-ravaged Soviet republic that was under Nazi occupa�on during the Second World War.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
More than a century a�er his death, Fyodor Dostoevsky con�nues to fascinate readers and reviewers. Countless studies of his wri�ng have been published. Marullo provides a diary-portrait of Dostoevsky's early years drawn from the le�ers, memoirs, and cri�cism of the writer. 1
Haunted Dreams
Ingredients of Change
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies March 2022 204pp 14 b&w hts. 9781501762192 £36.00 / $44.95 HB
April 2022 246pp 18 b&w hts. 9781501762581 £20.99 / $27.95 PB 9781501762499 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
Fantasies of Adolescence in Post-Soviet Culture Jenny Kaminer
The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria Mary C. Neuburger
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ingredients of Change explores modern Bulgaria's foodways from the O�oman era to the present, outlining how Bulgarians domes�cated and adapted diverse local, regional, and global foods and techniques, and how the na�on's culinary topography has been con�nually reshaped by the imperial legacies of the O�omans, Habsburgs, Russians, and Soviets, as well as by the ingenuity of its own people.
Haunted Dreams is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to cultural representa�ons of adolescence in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Through close analysis of prose, drama, television, and film, this book maps how the adolescent hero has become a locus for mul�ple anxie�es throughout the tumultuous years since the end of the Soviet experiment.
Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples
Party Politics in Russia and Ukraine
May 2022 300pp 9781501762949 £44.00 / $54.95 HB
June 2022 304pp 35 b&w illus. 9781479807765 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9781479807758 £79.00 / $99.00 HB
Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia Adrienne Edgar
Electoral System Change in Diverging Regimes Bryon Moraski
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on more than eighty in-depth oral history interviews with members of mixed families in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples examines the racializa�on of iden��es and its impact on mixed couples and families in Soviet Central Asia.
Examines how poli�cal par�es navigate major elec�on reforms by comparing electoral system changes in Russia and Ukraine at the same �me, under different regimes. Moraski sheds light on how authoritarian regimes have used changing condi�ons in their countries to consolidate their power, with varying success. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
Places of Tenderness and Heat
Remapping Cold War Media
The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg Olga Petri
Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations Edited by Alice Lovejoy & Mari Pajala
June 2022 300pp 10 b&w hts., 2 maps, 1 graph 9781501763779 £39.00 / $48.95 HB
August 2022 360pp 22 b&w illus. 9780253062208 £27.99 / $36.00 PB 9780253062192 £68.00 / $85.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Places of Tenderness and Heat is a ground-level explora�on of queer St. Petersburg at the fin-desiècle. Olga Petri takes us through busy shopping arcades, bathhouses, and public urinals to show how queer men rou�nely met and socialized. She reconstructs the milieu that enabled them to navigate a city full of risk and opportunity.
Drawing on methods in media and literary history, this book offers new perspec�ves on the transna�onal aspects of Cold War media. Contributors analyze countries around the world, including Cuba, Finland, Italy, and more, to provide a fuller picture of a significant and complex media culture. 2
Rethinking the Gulag
Soviet Nightingales
Identities, Sources, Legacies Edited by Alan Barenberg & Emily D. Johnson
Care under Communism Susan Grant
April 2022 306pp 12 b&w hts. 9781501762598 £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9781501763564 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
March 2022 320pp 12 b&w illus., 9 b&w tables 9780253059611 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780253059628 £68.00 / $85.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Soviet Nigh�ngales, Susan Grant tracks nursing care in the Soviet Union from its nineteenth-century origins in Russia through the end of the Soviet state. With the advent of the USSR, nurses were instrumental in helping to build the New Soviet Person and in construc�ng a socialist society.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarcera�on in the 20th century. Moving away from grand metaphorical or theore�cal models, this book instead unearths the complexi�es and nuances of experience that represent a primary focus in the new wave of Gulag studies.
Soviet Samizdat
Staging Democracy
Imagining a New Society Ann Komaromi
Political Performance in Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond Jessica Pisano
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies May 2022 318pp 20 b&w hts. 9781501763595 £40.00 / $49.95 HB
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies July 2022 250pp 9781501764202 £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9781501764066 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on extensive research of the underground journals, bulle�ns, art folios and other periodicals produced in the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, Soviet Samizdat traces the emergence and development of samizdat, one of the most significant and dis�nc�ve phenomena of the late Soviet era as an uncensored system for making and sharing texts.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on the experiences of people in Russia and Ukraine, Staging Democracy shows how some na�onal leaders' seeming popularity rests on local economic compacts. Pisano analyzes how local poli�cal and business leaders, seeking favor from incumbent poli�cians, used salaries, benefits, and public infrastructure to pressure ci�zens to par�cipate in command performances.
State of Madness
The Bleeding Wound
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies August 2022 283pp 2 illus. 9781501764615 £24.99 / $32.95 NIP
Cold War Interna�onal History Project March 2022 440pp 9781503628748 £52.00 / $65.00 HB
Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin Rebecca Reich
The Soviet War in Afghanistan and the Collapse of the Soviet System Yaacov Ro'i
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
What madness meant was a fiercely contested ques�on in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the poli�cally fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years a�er Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narra�ves of mental illness to pathologize dissen�ng poli�cs and art.
In this comprehensive survey of the effects of the Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) on Soviet society and poli�cs, Yaacov Ro'i analyzes the opinions of Soviet ci�zens on a host of issues connected with the war and documents the systemic change that would occur when Soviet leadership took public opinion into account. 3
The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland
The Golden Age of the Lithuanian Yeshivas Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky Translated by Nahum Schnitzer
Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties Anat Plocker
May 2022 406pp 14 b&w illus., 6 b&w tables 9780253058508 £37.00 / $47.00 PB 9780253058492 £68.00 / $85.00 HB
The Modern Jewish Experience March 2022 240pp 9780253058652 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780253058669 £64.00 / $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first book-length work on the modern history of the Lithuanian yeshivas published in English. Through exhaus�ve historical research of every yeshiva, Klibansky brings to light for the first �me the stories, lives, and inner workings of this longlost world.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In March 1968, against the background of the SixDay War, a campaign of an�semi�sm and an�Zionism swept through Poland. The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland is the first full-length study of the events, their precursors, and the a�ermath of this turbulent period.
Disenchanted Wanderer
recent highlights
The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev Glenn Cronin
Atomic Steppe
How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb Togzhan Kassenova
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies November 2021 282pp 10 b&w hts. 9781501760181 £40.00 / $49.95 HB
February 2022 392pp 9781503628465 £52.00 / $65.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan suddenly found itself with the world’s fourth largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how this obscure country said no to the most powerful weapons in human history.
Disenchanted Wanderer is the first comprehensive English language study in over half a century of the life and ideas of Konstan�n Nikolaevich Leon�ev (1831–1891), one of the most important thinkers in nineteenth-century Russia on poli�cal, social, and religious ma�ers. This work gives the reader a broad overview of Leon�ev's life and varied career.
Fluid Russia
Go East!
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies December 2021 258pp 9781501760549 £40.00 / $49.95 HB
Studies in Hungarian History January 2022 296pp 13 b&w illus., 2 maps 9780253057419 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780253057402 £64.00 / $80.00 HB
Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era Vera Michlin-Shapir
A History of Hungarian Turanism Balázs Ablonczy
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
For more than two centuries, Hungarians believed they shared an ethnic link with people of Japanese, Bulgarian, Estonian, Finnish, and Turkic descent. Known as "Turanism," this ideology impacts Hungarian poli�cs, science, and cultural and ethnic iden�ty even today. In Go East! Balázs Ablonczy examines the rise of Hungarian Turanism and its las�ng effect on the country's history.
Fluid Russia offers a new framework for understanding Russian na�onal iden�ty by focusing on the impact of globaliza�on on its forma�on, something which has been largely overlooked. This approach sheds new light on the Russian case, revealing a dynamic Russian iden�ty that is developing along the lines of other countries exposed to globaliza�on. 4
Luxury and the Ruling Elite in Socialist Hungary Villas, Hunts, and Soccer Games György Majtényi Translated by Thomas Cooper Studies in Hungarian History November 2021 366pp 25 b&w illus. 9780253055927 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9780253055910 £68.00 / $85.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
A�er World War II, a new community of elite emerged in Hungary, despite the communist principles espoused by the government. Luxury and the Ruling Elite in Socialist Hungary allows us a peek inside their affluence.
Movement of the People
Hungarian Folk Dance, Populism, and Citizenship Mary N. Taylor New Anthropologies of Europe October 2021 310pp 21 b&w illus., 3 maps 9780253057839 £32.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253057815 £68.00 / $85.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Movement of the People, Mary N. Taylor takes readers inside the folk revival movement known as dancehouse (táncház) that sustains myriad events where folk dance is central and championed by interna�onal enthusiasts and UNESCO.
The Future of the Soviet Past
The Politics of History in Putin's Russia Edited by Anton WeissWendt & Nanci Adler October 2021 270pp 13 b&w photos 9780253057624 £33.00 / $42.00 PB 9780253057594 £40.00 / $50.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 1917
The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Translated by Marian Schwartz The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series October 2021 720pp 9780268201708 £33.00 / $42.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s mul�volume epic work about the Russian Revolu�on told in the form of a historical novel.
The Carpathians
Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine Patrice M. Dabrowski NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies October 2021 288pp 13 b&w hts., 5 maps 9781501759673 £26.99 / $34.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the mountain system found in present-day Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine were discovered for a broader regional public. This is a story of how the Tatras, Eastern Carpathians, and Bieszczady Mountains went from being terra incognita to becoming the popular tourist des�na�ons they are today.
The Image of Christ in Russian Literature Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak John Givens
NIU Series in Orthodox Chris�an Studies November 2021 288pp 9781501761669 £22.99 / $29.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
This first study in English of the image of Christ in Russian literature highlights the importance of In post-Soviet Russia, there is a persistent trend to apopha�cism as a theological prac�ce and a literary repress, control, or even co-opt na�onal history. method in understanding the Russian Christ. It also While Pu�n's regime has acquired nearly complete emphasizes the importance of skep�cism in Russian control over interpreta�ons of the past, The Future literary a�tudes toward Jesus on the part of writers of the Soviet Past reveals that Russia's inability to whose private crucibles of doubt produced some of fully rewrite its Soviet history plays an essen�al part the most provoca�ve and enduring images of Christ in its current poli�cal agenda. 5 in world literature.
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