TheCaucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contempor...The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. Western interest in the Caucasus has grown rapidly since 1991 fuelled by the admixture of oil politics great power rivalry ethnic separatism and...more
TheCaucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contempor...The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. Western interest in the Caucasus has grown rapidly since 1991 fuelled by the admixture of oil politics great power rivalry ethnic separatism and...more
TheCaucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contempor...The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. Western interest in the Caucasus has grown rapidly since 1991 fuelled by the admixture of oil politics great power rivalry ethnic separatism and...more
This is an impressive work that traces the relationship between theSoviet Uni...This is an impressive work that traces the relationship between the Soviet Union and Turkey on the one hand and the Soviet Union and the Turkish Communist Party on the other from the consolidation of the communist regime in Moscow until its fall....more
Presenting a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of...Presenting a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the twentieth century this book provides an unusual and original perspective on Soviet and Russian history.more
This book explores how intellectuals ofthe later Soviet decades - the 1970s a...This book explores how intellectuals of the later Soviet decades - the 1970s and 1980s - sought to bring about the socialist utopian world. It argues that the last two decades of the Soviet Union were not characterised by state withdrawal...more
TheSoviet Union is often characterised as nominally a federation but really a...The Soviet Union is often characterised as nominally a federation but really an empire liable to break up when individual federal units which were allegedly really subordinate colonial units sought independence. This book questions this...more
This book provides a rich picture of what everyday life was like for women in ...This book provides a rich picture of what everyday life was like for women in Soviet times by presenting the life stories of eight women who were born in the interwar period. The life stories are told through interviews with the women who were well...more
Modern Korean nationalism has been shaped by the turbulent historical forces t...Modern Korean nationalism has been shaped by the turbulent historical forces that shook and transformed the peninsula during the twentieth century including foreign occupation civil war and division. This book examines the emergence of the nation as...more
The Warsaw Pact is generally regarded as a mere instrument ofSoviet power. In...The Warsaw Pact is generally regarded as a mere instrument of Soviet power. In the 1960s the alliance nevertheless evolved into a multilateral alliance in which the non-Soviet Warsaw Pact members gained considerable scope for manoeuvre. This book...more
The political revolutions which established state socialism intheSoviet Unio...The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions...more
The governance arrangements put in place for Siberia and Mongolia after the co...The governance arrangements put in place for Siberia and Mongolia after the collapse of the Qing and Russian Empires were highly unusual experimental and extremely interesting. The Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic established...more
Manchuria the name given to China s North-eastern provinces by foreign powers ...Manchuria the name given to China s North-eastern provinces by foreign powers has been contested by China Russia and Japan in particular over many centuries. This book surveys the history of Manchuria focusing particularly on the Russian and Soviet...more
How did Nicholas II Russia s last Tsar meet his death? Shot point blank in a b...How did Nicholas II Russia s last Tsar meet his death? Shot point blank in a bungled execution by radical Bolsheviks in the Urals Nicholas and his family disappeared from history in the Soviet era. But in the 1970s a local geologist and a crime...more
Odessa 1941-1944 is a comprehensive study ofthe Romanian administration in Od...Odessa 1941-1944 is a comprehensive study of the Romanian administration in Odessa and Transnistria during World War II. It draws a sharp contrast between occupation policies in Odessa and Transnistria under Romanian administration and those of...more