Katherine Pickering Antonova’s An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial...
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The Soviet Union once boasted of its unparalleled political participation among youth. Belonging...
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Sener Akturk, "Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey"
What processes must take place in order for countries to radically redefine who is a citizen? Why...
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Anne Gorsuch , "All This is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad After Stalin"
Thirty years after a trip to the GDR, Soviet cardiologist V.I. Metelitsa still remembered...
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Denis Kozlov, "The Readers of Novyi Mir: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past"
In Russia’s collective memory, the Stalin terror is often remembered and referred to by its most...
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Steven Usitalo, "The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov: A Russian National Myth"
Mikhail Lomonosov is a well known Russian figure. As poet, geographer, and physicist, Lomonosov...
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Wendy Z. Goldman, "Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin's Russia"
A period of mass repression and terror swept through the Soviet Union between the years of...
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Donald J. Raleigh, "Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation"
The Cold War was experienced by millions around the world. For many, Soviets were the enemies,...
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Ben Judah, "Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin "
Debates about the nature of Putin’s rule abound. Is Putin a hard fisted authoritarian? Is he the...
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Divorce was virtually impossible in Imperial Russia. The Russian Orthodox Church monopolized...
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Eric Lohr, "Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union"
[Cross-posted from New Books in History] Russians have a reputation for xenophobia, that is, it's...
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In December 1958, US Senator Hubert H. Humphery recalled that at some point during an eight hour...
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Food Safety Talk 61: I Needed a Semenko
The show opened with a long discussion of various philosophical issues relating to careers in...
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Joyce Salisbury, "Rome's Christian Empress: Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire"
Before I read this excellent book, I had no idea that Rome–that is, the Roman Empire–ever had an...
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Activism and the Academy: The Multiple Futures of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Women's and gender studies programs have been an integral part of the feminist movement for the...
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