History / Slavic History

A Woman's Empire sheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia.

This book offers a history of Mennonites from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire to the collapse of the USSR.

Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds focuses on women, gender, and the politics of selling US consumer culture and domesticity during the early Cold War through "polite propaganda."

Formalists against Imperialism reveals the artistic foresight of Russian formalist and modernist writer Yuri Tynianov into the phenomenon later known as Orientalism.

Revolutionary Aftereffects looks at the legacies of the 1917 Revolution in Russia today through a variety of disciplinary lenses.

Building that Bright Future examines letters and memoirs of Finnish North Americans to provide a rare glimpse of daily life in the 1930s from the edge of the Soviet Union.

In Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red, Stephen Velychenko traces the first expressions of national, anti-colonial Marxism to 1918 and the Russian Bolshevik occupation of Ukraine.

Breaking the Tongue examines the implementation of the Ukrainization of schools and children’s organizations in the 1920s and early 1930s.

This book explores the influence of Young Europe – an international alliance founded by Giuseppe Mazzini in 1834 – on the Polish, Slovak, Czech, and Ukrainian intelligentsia in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Writing Fear examines how nineteenth-century Russian writers borrowed from European gothic fiction, demonstrating the ways in which this helped transform literary realism.

Blood of Others offers a cultural history of Crimea and the Black Sea region, one of Europe’s most volatile flashpoints, by chronicling the aftermath of Stalin’s 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars in four different literary traditions.

The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945 addresses the history and memory of the Spanish volunteers that served alongside the German army in the invasion of Russia.

Told alongside the life of a unique city resident, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography is the history of Russian-Chinese relations in the Manchurian city of Harbin.

Gorgeously illustrated, Open Letters uses picture postcards to explore aspects of Russian popular culture in the fin-de-siècle era.

In the Kingdom of Shoes tells the story of the pioneering Bata Company, which created a fascinating company culture as it globalized industrial shoe production.

Reconsidering Dostoevsky’s legacy 200 years after his birth, this collection addresses how and why his novels contribute so much to what we think of as the modern condition.