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A Family Chronicle is a translation of Sergei Aksakov's blend of memoir and fiction. A Family Chronicle is the representative work by an author known for his semi-autobiographical tales of family...

This book studies the Soviet Union and the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and their views of and policies toward Islam and Islamism during the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989). It shows...

This book discusses the ways in which blind activists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe entered the postwar international blind movement. It analyzes the intersectionality of disability and...

Border Conditions combines history and memory studies with literary and cultural studies to examine lives at the limits of contemporary Europe--those of the half-million Russian-speakers who live in...

This book looks at the political career of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1952-1961), including his decision to run for president, his 'Middle Way' political philosophy, his 'New Look' national security...

Family, Sex, and Faith is the first systematic examination of what the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) teaches and how believers respond to its messages regarding issues such as marriage, divorce,...

Set in the framework of Czes?w Mi?sz's classic The Captive Mind, this is the story of Russia's descent into authoritarianism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the role of the...

A study of George Kennan's views concerning the proper conduct of America's foreign policy and the means of renewing American society--Author: Lee CongdonPublisher: Northern Illinois University...

In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the...

Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity.Valeria Sobol argues that the persistent...

Adela Frost wants to do something with her life. When a chance encounter and a haunting dream steer her toward distant Burma, she decides to spend the summer after high school volunteering in a...

In a political culture infused with debates about personal liberties, the role of government, and even the definition of "freedom" itself, Haymaker tells the story of an isolated Michigan town that...

How Russian Literature Became Great explores the cultural and political role of a modern national literature, orchestrated in a Slavonic key but resonating far beyond Russia's borders. Rolf Hellebust...

In this original new study, Grant Havers critically interprets Leo Strauss's political philosophy from a conservative perspective. Most mainstream readers of Strauss have either condemned him from...

Lord Acton for Our Time illuminates the thought of the English historian, politician, and writer who gave us the famous maxim: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."...

Making No Compromise is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, the women who founded the avant-garde journal the Little Review in Chicago...

In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash traces an arc across continents, across upheavals and regime changes, and across the phases of a...

Focusing on the Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross and the other convents in Nizhnii Novgorod diocese more generally, this book demonstrates how, during the nineteenth and early twentieth...

This book brings together twelve essays by senior historians who, after decades of study, reflect on the 'hows' and 'whys' of Stalinism as an authoritarian dictatorship determined to build a version...

This book considers the aesthetic quest of Russian modernism in its relation to the nation-building ideas spreading in the late imperial period. It scrutinizes modernist theory, criticism, polemics,...

"Let's go!" With that, the boyish, grinning Yuri Gagarin launched into space on April 12, 1961, becoming the first human being to exit Earth's orbit. The twenty-seven-year-old lieutenant colonel...

The Czech Manuscripts is dedicated to one of the most important literary forgeries on the model of Macpherson's Ossianic poetry. The Queen's Court and Green Mountain Manuscripts, discovered in 1817...

Account of James H. Billington's influence on US policy toward Russia in 1987 to 2015 and of Library of Congress programs in Russia aimed at promoting reform based on the revival of traditional...

Author: Zachary Michael JackPublisher: Northern Illinois University PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2020Number of Pages: 216 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1501751794ISBN-13:...

This book is a scholarly examination of events that occurred at and around the famous site of Starved Rock between summer 1673, when European explorers first viewed the bluff, to 1911, when Rock...

Founded as an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state, Riga was Old Livonia's greatest city and its indispensable port. Because the city was situated in what was...

This book is about the relationship between Vladimir Putin and Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, which began in 1992 and ended with Berezovsky's death in 2013. Berezovsky played a key role in...

Finalist, 2015 Midwest Book Award Chicago Book Review Best Book of 2015 Set in the frozen wasteland of Midwestern academia, The Lost Journals of Sylvia Plath introduces Wilson A. Lavender, father of...

The Strange Genius of Ignatius Donnelly sheds light on the inimitable life of a neglected figure in American political and literary history. Father of American Populism, Lieutenant Governor of...

English philosopher John Stuart Mill's understanding of the freedom of speech has been increasingly adopted over the last century into the US Supreme Court's interpretation of the First Amendment,...