History / Slavic History

Subscribing to Sovietdom explores the multifaceted history of literary journals in the Soviet Union and other socialist countries, highlighting their role as cultural and literary institutions and visual objects from the revolutionary era to the end of socialism.

This book explores the rich history of Russia’s penny press, highlighting the dynamic relationship between readers and journalists in shaping a democratic political culture leading up to the 1917 Revolution.

Based on extensive archival research, Stalin’s Great Game offers a fresh analysis of Soviet foreign policy and intelligence during the early years of the Second World War.

This book traces Belarusian nationalists from the First World War to the Cold War, revealing their covert activities and alliances while positioning Belarus as a key hub of ideological and political conflict that shaped the twentieth century.

The Hour of Revenge explores how the pursuit of retribution and physical vengeance shaped the emotional landscape of Holocaust survivors and others in the aftermath of the Second World War.

This new history of Russian novels integrates Russian and European publication data, women writers, sentimentalism, and noble service culture to show how novelists adapted the European conversation about duty to their quest for a meaningful life.

This book demonstrates the integral role music played in Nazi statecraft and ideology, from the personal obsessions of the Nazi leadership to the harrowing use of musical sadism in the Holocaust.

Drawing on historical documents and personal experiences, A Time to Sow provides an insight into Jewish life in Leningrad during the 1980s.

This book explores the active involvement of Russian exiles in the Second World War, with thousands of émigrés fighting alongside Hitler.

Drawing on extensive archival research, Stalin’s Failed Alliance presents an inside look at Soviet foreign policy making.

This book offers unique insights into the shifts in behaviour and attitudes surrounding the Soviet emancipation of women in the Muslim periphery, Tajikistan.

Medieval Eastern Europe offers a selection of fascinating primary sources pertaining to the history of East Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.

This book explores Russia’s recurrent wars with the Ottoman Empire as an important and largely neglected angle on the genesis of modern warfare.

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.

Staging the Absolute examines the use of public ritual to interrupt the flow of history, a distinct element in Russian culture during the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.

Reassessing the structures and strategies of the Soviet state, this book examines how social control under Stalin and Khrushchev evolved from mass repression to legal pressure.