Slavic Studies

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

Drawing on the story of the leader of a small Mennonite community in southern Ukraine, this book explores how colonial subjects were shaped by and helped shape Russian imperial policy.

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.

An Indwelling Voice presents a framework for understanding how, despite linguistic and philosophical barriers, sincere voices are written and read in poetry.

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.

Exploring Ukraine’s multi-ethnic population, this book presents a critical response to Moscow- and Russo-centric narratives of the Soviet Union.

Drawing from Soviet archives, Stalin’s Gamble traces the role played by the Soviet Union in the origins of the Second World War.

This volume presents, for the first time in English, fourteen essays by Yuri Andrukhovych, making a well-known Ukrainian voice accessible to the English-speaking world.

Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin examines the lives of the scientists and scholars who sought refuge in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

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."

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