European Studies 2025 - 2026
MENACHEMKIPNIS
YiddishFolkloreandPhotographsfromInterwarPoland
Menachem Kipnis
Edited by Sheila E. Jelen
Translated by Raphael Finkel
Menachem Kipnis (1878–1942) was one of the early twentieth-century's greatest Jewish eastern European ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and photographers. He had a weekly column in the Warsaw Yiddish newspaper Haynt, retelling humorous old folk stories about the fictional Polish town of Chelm, populated exclusively by fools. At the same time, his photographs of Jewish life in eastern Europe regularly appeared in the Forverts (Forward), the most popular Yiddish daily newspaper in the United States. Now, for the first time, Kipnis's stories and photographs are published together in a single book. Menachem Kipnis brings these photographs and stories into dialogue with one another, bridging the Jewish communities in Poland and in America during the interwar period. This dialogue, between image and text, between European metropolis and American metropolis, captures a key historical moment when American Jews sought to imagine the lives of their coreligionists in the "Old Country" and eastern European urban Jews sought to distinguish themselves from their Jewish compatriots who were still living in the shtetl. Including an introductory essay, annotations, and an epilogue by Sheila E. Jelen, Menachem Kipnis suggests new ways of understanding both visual and literary depictions of eastern European Jewish culture between the two world wars. 14April2026|186pp|44colourimages 9781978846104|£32.00/$39.95|HB
RUTGERSUNIVERSITYPRESS
MEDIEVALEASTCENTRALANDEASTERNEUROPE
Florin Curta & Sebastien Rossignol
From Bohemia to Rus’ and from the White Sea to the Balkans, Medieval East Central and Eastern Europe by Florin Curta and Sébastien Rossignol covers the medieval history of a large area. This groundbreaking textbook is an important introduction for students and an essential tool for instructors of courses on the Middle Ages and the entire eastern half of Europe. With elements of medieval archaeology, Medieval East Central and Eastern Europe includes dynastic characters, political legacies, and a list of suggested readings for anyone interested in learning more about the history of these regions. Written in an accessible style that appeals to a general reader, this textbook explicates the diversity of historical experiences available in these parts of Europe during the Middle Ages – from the influence of Byzantine traditions in the Balkans to the integration of Western cultures and the impact of the Eurasian steppe lands. This text highlights the distinct social and cultural characteristics that shaped these societies, including the persistence of nomadic groups, the limited reach of feudalism, and the enduring presence of pagan, Jewish, and Muslim communities. Structured with chronological overviews and thematic chapters, Medieval East Central and Eastern Europe is an invaluable resource on underrepresented regions for specialists and non-specialists alike.
31July2025|510pp|32illus.
SECURITYTHROUGHCOOPERATION
Space,NuclearWeapons,andUS-RussiaRelationsaftertheColdWar Rose Gottemoeller
Russian officials and experts often voice the view that the United States was hell-bent on undermining, even destroying Russia during the turbulent period of the Soviet breakup thirty years ago. The primary US goal, in this telling, was to expand NATO to Russia's borders to isolate and threaten the Russian state. Rose Gottemoeller, drawing from the historical record and her own professional experience, refutes this notion. Gottemoeller argues that, to the contrary, successive American presidents were convinced that deep cooperation with Russia is essential to international security and stability. This conviction was born during the George H. W. Bush administration and took definitive shape during the administration of Bill Clinton, when he and his Russian counterpart, Boris Yeltsin agreed to develop technological cooperation that would be useful to both countries. George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin carried the conviction further, and the two countries made enormous strides on cooperation in outer space, counterterrorism, and nuclear energy over the next twenty years. While today is starkly different from the 1990s, Gottemoeller takes the lessons learned and considers what it would take—when Russia exits its horrific adventure in Ukraine and atones for the damage it has done—to resume cooperation for the sake of global security.
28April2026|208pp
OUTOFNOWHERE
TheArtof CarpathianRus'
Paul Robert Magocsi
Out of Nowhere is an exploration of the remarkable yet virtually unknown body of art that has emerged out of a historic region in the geographical heart of Europe known as Carpathian Rus’, or simply Ruthenia.
Carpathian Rus’ straddles the present-day borders of Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine and this book takes on the form of a chronological survey of secular painting and sculpture produced by over 60 of its artists during the period from 1800 to the present.
31March2026|258pp|363illus.
9780772711755|£53.00/$85.00|HB
UNIVERSITYOFTORONTOPRESS
MONUMENTSASKEW
AnEllipticalHistoryoftheFactory oftheEccentricActor
Maria Corrigan
Media Matters
Monuments Askew presents a cultural history of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), an avant-garde collective of Ukrainian artists whose unique approach to monumental history generated a new kind of cinema for a modernizing Soviet era. Monuments Askew reveals the foundational role of this understudied group of artists-including Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg-and uses their own theoretical contributions to undo the “foundations” of our understanding of Soviet media and arts.
31August2025|180pp|30b&wimages
9781978843011|£20.99/$27.95|PB
9781978843028|£96.00/$120.00|HB
RUTGERSUNIVERSITYPRESS
PERSISTENT ILLUSIONS
VisualCultureand HistoricalMemoryin InterwarHungary
Nóra Veszprémi
Persistent Illusions examines the visual representation of history in interwar Hungary, where interpretations of the past were suffused with references to the country's recent territorial loss. In these images of history, nineteenth-century themes and motifs took on new forms to promote twentieth-century political ideas through the new media of modernity.
15July2025|300pp|46b&whalftones
9781501782305|£20.99/$27.95|PB
9781501782299|£116.00/$145.00|HB
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NIU SERIES IN SLAVIC, EAST EUROPEAN, & EURASIAN STUDIES
EUROPE'SLABORATORY
ClimateandHealthin Eighteenth-CenturyRussia
Matthew P. Romaniello
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
A history of eighteenth-century naturalists and physicians who were involved in the creation of a classification system for the people of the Russian Empire. Europe's Laboratory makes a significant contribution to the most understudied era of Russian history while engaging the broader, global debates on the formation of race theory in colonial contexts.
15November2025|264pp|14b&w halftones
9781501783920|£44.00/$54.95|HB
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HERZEN'SLETTERS
ALifeinOpposition
Kathleen Parthé
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Herzen's Letters offers readers a biographical narrative based on translated and annotated correspondence written by and to Alexander Herzen (1812–1870), one of the most consequential figures in the run-up to the Russian Revolution and an inspiration to dissidents fighting authoritarianism and imperialism ever since.
15June2026|552pp
9781501787065|£31.00/$39.95|PB
9781501787058|£116.00/$145.00|HB
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STANFORD
STUDIES ON CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE
CITIESOFDUSTANDMUD
UrbanismandBourgeoisFantasyin theBalkans,1820-1920
Miloš Jovanović
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. This book transforms our understanding of Balkan history, national modernization, and the role of fantasy in capitalist societies, offering keen insights for today's era of growing inequality.
09June2026|264pp|20halftones,1map
9781503646803|£23.99/$32.00|PB
9781503646001|£104.00/$130.00|HB
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
MARXISMANDTHEINTERPRETATION OFDREAMS
CommunisminInterwarCzechoslovakia andtheIdeaofCentralEurope
Molly Pucci
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Explores one of the largest and most multinational communist parties in interwar Europe: the Czechoslovak communist party. Pucci considers the party in a Central European context, shaped by postwar displacement, imperial collapse, grassroots violence, and the uncertain power of revolution.
03February2026|328pp|1table,20halftones
9781503641792|£60.00/$75.00|HB
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
THEAFTERLIFEOFOTTOMANEUROPE
MuslimsinHabsburgBosniaHerzegovina
Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress. Amzi-Erdoğdular tells the story of Muslims who redefined their place and influence in both empires and the modern world, and argues for the inclusion of Islamic intellectual history within the history of Bosnia Herzegovina and Eastern Europe.
03March2026|332pp|10halftones,2maps
9781503645899|£26.99/$35.00|PB
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
THE CENTER FOR ETHICS & CULTURE SOLZHENITSYN SERIES
MARCH1917
TheRedWheel, NodeIII,Book4
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Translated by Marian Schwartz
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series
In March 1917, Book 4 the willing and unwilling participants of the Russian Revolution try to make sense of their next steps amidst unraveling chaos. Book 4 presents, for the first time in English, the conclusion of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's prizewinning revolutionary saga.
01October2026|632pp|7maps
9780268208806|£21.99/$29.00|PB
UNIVERSITYOFNOTREDAMEPRESS
APRIL1917
TheRedWheel,NodeIV,Book1
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Translated by Clare Kitson
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series
One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution told in the form of a historical novel. April 1917—the fourth node—shows the intractable divisions that would lead Russia to catastrophic Communist dictatorship and civil war. Whereas the first three nodes of The Red Wheel form its first act, "The Revolution," April 1917 opens its second act, "The Rule of the People."
01November2025|624pp|6maps
9780268210526|£32.00/$39.00|HB UNIVERSITYOFNOTREDAMEPRESS
WEHAVE CEASEDTOSEE THEPURPOSE EssentialSpeeches ofAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Edited by
Ignat Solzhenitsyn
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series
This collection brings together ten of Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West and in Russia between 1972 and 1997. These annotated speeches, including the timeless Nobel Lecture and ""Harvard Address,"" have been rendered in English by skilled translators, including Solzhenitsyn’s sons.
01April2025|228pp
9780268208585|£21.99/$28.00|HB
UNIVERSITYOFNOTREDAMEPRESS
LITERATURE: HISTORY & CRITICISM
ALWAYS UNDERSIEGE
OlgaFreidenberg's Diary-Theoryand theEverydayTerror ofStalinism
Irina Paperno
Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies strategies of physical and moral survival. Irina Paperno brings to light the autobiographical chronicle (her "notes") of Olga Freidenberg (1890–1955), a pioneering Russian philologist and cultural theorist, who endured Stalin's purges, the Leningrad blockade during World War II, and the suffocating repression that followed.
15March2026|258pp
9781501785832|£23.99/$31.95|PB 9781501785825|£116.00/$145.00|HB
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GALICIAASA LITERARYIDEA
JewishEasternEurope intheWritingsof JosephRothand SomaMorgenstern
Kata Gellen
German and European Studies
Galicia as a Literary Idea explores the relationship of Jewish tradition and modernity in literary works by Joseph Roth and Soma Morgenstern, two German-language writers from the former Habsburg province of Galicia.
31March2026|348pp|1illus.
9781487528898|£59.00/$95.00|HB
UNIVERSITYOFTORONTOPRESS
ECHOESOF THEPAST
CarinthianSlovene
Memoriesofthe SecondWorldWar
Douglas Carlton McKnight
German and European Studies
Echoes of the Past offers a cross-media analysis of how the Carinthian Slovene community in Austria has commemorated the Second World War from the early postwar period into the present.
13January2026|226pp|27illus.
9781487565046|£56.00/$90.00|HB
UNIVERSITYOFTORONTOPRESS
KGBLITERATI
SpyFictionandState SecurityintheSoviet Union
Filip Kovacevic
Drawing on materials from KGB archives and Soviet publications long out of print, KGB Literati offers the first-ever account of spy fiction written, frequently with institutional support, by Soviet intelligence and counterintelligence officers.
04November2025|228pp
9781487548926|£18.99/$29.95|PB
9781487548919|£59.00/$95.00|HB
UNIVERSITYOFTORONTOPRESS
INTHESHADOWOFTHEHOLOCAUST
ShortFictionbyJewishWritersfromtheSovietUnion
Edited by Sasha Senderovich & Harriet Murav
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
A first-of-its kind collection of short stories that provides an underappreciated perspective on the Holocaust, as it was experienced and remembered in the former Soviet Union. A death camp survivor asks a local woman to write down in Russian his story, which he conveys in Yiddish. The Jewish population of Kyiv makes a pilgrimage to the site of a massacre on its anniversary. A single teacup becomes the focal point of a Jewish family's complex history. These are just three of the stories featured in In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union, a collection of newly translated short fiction written in the aftermath of one of the most significant Jewish tragedies of the 20th century. In these works, Jewish authors from Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, and Belarus, writing in Yiddish and Russian, tell the stories of ordinary people living on after the devastation of the Holocaust. Filled with memories, love, and loss, these narratives describe not only how people died, but also how they continued to live. The voices brought together in In the Shadow of the Holocaust create a distinct chorus of personal, idiosyncratic experiences of loss and provide new perspectives on questions fundamental to literature of the Holocaust, the legacies of genocide, and the nature of historical trauma and memory.
10February2026|260pp|3maps
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
ARRESTEDDEVELOPMENT
TheSovietUnioninGhana,Guinea,andMali, 1955–1968
Alessandro Iandolo
Winner of the Marshall Shulman Book Prize of the Harriman Institute of Columbia University. Winner of the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. In Arrested Development, Alessandro Iandolo examines the USSR's role in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as an aid donor, trade partner, and political model for newly independent Ghana, Guinea, and Mali.
15December2025|312pp|6b&whalftones,4maps
9781501785054|£28.99/$37.95|PB
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
ENCOUNTERINGRACEINALBANIA
AnEthnographyoftheCommunistAfterlife
Chelsi West Ohueri
The first book to interrogate race and racial logics in Albania. It offers significant insights into broader understandings of race in a global context, and examines how race is made, remade, produced, and reproduced through constructions of whiteness, blackness, and otherness.
15June2025|240pp|15b&whalftones,1map
9781501781872|£26.99/$34.95|PB
9781501781865|£116.00/$145.00|HB
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
NEARANDDESIREDTHINGS
ShamanisminLateImperialLocalSiberianMuseums
Marisa Karyl Franz
Near and Desired Things reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political exiles, as active sites of ethnographic knowledge-making and centers of scientific research, regional identity, and colonial authority.
15July2026|210pp|27b&whalftones
9781501787966|£23.99/$31.95|PB
9781501787959|£116.00/$145.00|HB
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CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
NETWORKING PUTINISM
TheRhetoricofPower intheDigitalAge
Michael S. Gorham
Networking Putinism explores the internet's impact on political discourse in Russia and the strategies adopted both by Vladimir Putin and his associates to secure and legitimate their authority, as well as by the regime's most determined critics.
15February2026|294pp|67b&whalftones, 1chart
9781501785436|£23.99/$31.95|PB
9781501785429|£116.00/$145.00|HB
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
THECASPIAN WORLD
Connections andContentionsata ModernEurasian Crossroads
Edited by Abbas Amanat, Kevin Gledhill & Kayhan A. Nejad
The Caspian World is a wide-ranging exploration of the strategic, political, and commercial significance of the Caspian Sea, a site where empires—Russian, Persian, Ottoman, and British—competed, warred, and collaborated.
15August2025|432pp|28b&whalftones, 4maps
9781501781278|£25.99/$33.95|PB
9781501777172|£116.00/$145.00|HB
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
THEFUTURE OFHIDING
Secrecy
Infrastructure,and EcologicalMemoryin Estonia'sSiberia
Francisco Martínez
Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
The Future of Hiding analyzes the territorial dimensions of secrecy and how concealment occurs in relation to energy infrastructure and identity politics in Eastern Estonia.
15December2025|222pp|25b&whalftones
9781501784262|£18.99/$24.95|PB
9781501784255|£116.00/$145.00|HB
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
UNSILENCING
TheHistoryand Legacyofthe BulgarianGulag
Lilia Topouzova
The first comprehensive study of Bulgaria's forced-labor camps, a network of repression that operated throughout the communist era from 1945 to 1989. Topouzova uncovers the hidden histories of these camps, often referred to as Bulgaria's ""Little Siberia,"" where thousands were interned without trial, subjected to inhumane conditions, and silenced for decades.
15July2025|318pp|35b&whalftones
9781501782022|£52.00/$64.95|HB
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
GOODCHANGE
TheRiseandFallofPoland'sIlliberalRevolution
Stanley Bill & Ben Stanley
Few countries serve as a more useful case study for understanding the global tension between liberal and illiberal conceptions of democracy than Poland. The history of the populist Law and Justice (PiS) party shows both the strengths and weaknesses of democratic illiberalism as a challenge to liberal democracy. Bill and Stanley analyze the course and causes of the party's successes and failures.
09September2025|360pp|14figures
9781503643680|£26.99/$35.00|PB
9781503634565|£112.00/$140.00|HB
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
PURISTPURSUITS
Language,GlobalIdeas,andtheCreationof WesternArmenianintheOttomanEmpire
Jennifer Manoukian
Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the earlytwentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-changing ideology that undergirded all phases of the language's formation: linguistic purism.
23June2026|336pp|7halftones,1map
9781503645677|£60.00/$75.00|HB
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
THEDIFFERENCEPLACEMAKES
PeacebuildingandBosnia'sArizonaMarket
Adam Moore
Drawing on relational and processual perspectives across the social sciences, Moore analyzes the effects that an infamous black market in postwar Bosnia—the Arizona market—had on peacebuilding projects and actors, and sociopolitical relations across the country more generally.
19May2026|216pp|3halftones,3maps
9781503646582|£19.99/$26.00|PB
9781503645707|£84.00/$105.00|HB
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
AFROZENSTATE
ExperiencingColdinRussianHistoryandCulture
Alison K. Smith, Tricia Starks & Matthew P. Romaniello
Cold runs through Russian history and culture as an enemy, an opportunity, an adventure, and a metaphor. Drawing on the expertise of a broad range of scholars, this volume offers new insights into Russia’s sensational history.
12May2026|368pp|30illus.
9781487567644|£56.00/$90.00|HB
UNIVERSITYOFTORONTOPRESS
BOUNDBYEXCLUSIONANDVIOLENCE
AHistoryofBelarusianArmedStruggleinthe TwentiethCentury
Aleksandra Pomiecko
The book offers a fresh perspective on the country’s historical significance and its impact on major global events of the twentieth century. In today’s era of heightened geopolitical awareness, Bound by Exclusion and Violence highlights Belarus’s complex history and its continued relevance in contemporary discussions of political agency and international power dynamics.
15July2025|264pp
9781487562663|£24.99/$39.95|PB
9781487562656|£63.00/$100.00|HB
UNIVERSITYOFTORONTOPRESS
COLLECTIVEFARMERS,MASTERSCIENCE!
Youth,Education,andInequalityintheRussian Countryside,1960s-1970s
Tatiana Voronina
Translated by Maeve Zimmerbaum
Soviet authorities had long aimed to create a classless society and eliminate the differences between the city and the countryside. Collective Farmers, Master Science! describes the Russian peasantry’s transformation and ultimate extinction through the young people who became immersed in a new Soviet education system.
28November2025|366pp|14illus.
9781487550387|£69.00/$110.00|HB
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
CURATINGSOCIALISM
AHandbookofInternationalArtExhibitions1947-1989
Edited by Sven Spieker
With Polly Savage, Bojana Videkanić & Christene d’Anca
Handbook of Socialist Exhibition Cultures is the first handbook of its kind to examine international art exhibitions organized by socialist states across the globe, examining the mechanisms, relationships, and international agreements that enabled their organization, and shedding light on the highly diverse art practices they presented.
28April2026|448pp|137illus.
9781487552961|£87.00/$140.00|HB
UNIVERSITYOFTORONTOPRESS
MOSCOW'SVICEROYINLITHUANIAANDBELARUS
AdolfIoffeandNationalSelf-Determinationthe BolshevikWay
Jerzy Borzecki
Based on previously unknown archival materials, the book traces Adolf Ioffe’s mission, on behalf of the Bolshevik Central Committee, in early 1919 Lithuania and Belarus. Through a critical examination of the overlooked history of Adolf Ioffe and the LitBel, this book demonstrates that the Soviet state was a dictatorship in a three-fold manner.
26May2026|464pp|8illus.
9781487505431|£69.00/$110.00|HB
UNIVERSITYOFTORONTOPRESS
SICKLEANDVEIL
CommunistGenderandPoliciesTowardsMuslim MinoritiesinEasternEurope
Ivan Simic
This book examines communist gender policies targeting Muslim communities in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria, and shows how Muslim women and men navigated them through both resistance and compliance.
31March2026|256pp|6illus.
9781487546922|£44.00/$70.00|HB
UNIVERSITYOFTORONTOPRESS
RUSSIANSTYLE
PerformingGender,Power,andPutinism
Julie A. Cassiday
By connecting gendered and sexualized citizenship to developments in Russian popular culture, Julie A. Cassiday argues that heteronormativity and homophobia became a kind of politicized style under Putin’s leadership. However, the multiple modes of gender performativity simultaneously helped citizens resist and protest the state’s mandate of heteronormativity.
30June2025|270pp|16b&willus
9780299346744|£24.99/$32.95|PB
UNIVERSITYOFWISCONSINPRESS
THESECRETPROTOCOL
TheMolotov-RibbentropPactandthe FalsificationofHistory
Antonella Salomoni
Translated by Antony Shugaar
In 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany agreed to a nonaggression treaty. Kept hidden from the public was an addendum to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a “secret protocol” whose existence was denied by the Soviet Union until 1992. By centering the rumors, accusations, and propaganda the pact precipitated, Salomoni illuminates how political actors can use and abuse history.
06January2026|240pp
9780299354909|£64.00/$79.95|HB
UNIVERSITYOFWISCONSINPRESS
THEVILLAGEPROJECT
RuralRevitalizationinContemporaryBulgaria
Sarah Craycraft
Since the collapse of socialism, Bulgaria’s population has been on the move—out of rural regions and into cities, or out of the country altogether. Yet today there is a countermovement of young, urban Bulgarians, born after 1989, seeking to repopulate rural villages and reclaim traditional Bulgarian folklife. Using ethnographic and folkloristic methods, Sarah Craycraft paints a complex, detailed picture of Europeanization on the ground.
22June2026|256pp|8b&willus.,1map,2tables
9780299357504|£72.00/$89.95|HB
UNIVERSITYOFWISCONSINPRESS
THEMANWHOKNEWRUSSIA
RichardPipes,HumanistandColdWarrior
Jonathan Daly
Stanford–Hoover Series on Authoritarianism
Richard Pipes was a longtime Harvard University professor, historian of Imperial and Soviet Russia, and influential Soviet expert during the Cold War. A towering figure in his field, Pipes produced work that shaped the study of Russian and Soviet history, and he influenced U.S. foreign policy as a public intellectual and political advisor, including as a member of the National Security Council during the Reagan administration. At the same time, Pipes was a controversial figure; his tendency to swim against the intellectual tide and challenge consensus views alienated some colleagues and angered others. In this biography, Daly cuts through the controversy surrounding Pipes to present a nuanced portrait of his life, thinking, and the philosophical and ethical principles that underpinned his work. Placing Pipes' scholarship and political career in the context of Russian studies, U.S.-Soviet relations, and the Cold War, Daly elucidates Pipes' impact, and argues that his broad learning, keen historical judgment, and humanistic approach permitted him to attain a deep understanding of Russia's historical and contemporary development that continues to resonate today.
24March2026|440pp|27illus.,27halftones
9781503645714|£52.00/$65.00|HB
STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS
HACKINGTHEIRONCURTAIN
AMediaArchaeologyoftheRussianInternet
Natalia Konradova
For decades before the internet existed, scientists, technologists, novelists, and enthusiasts of all descriptions dreamed of instantaneous, worldwide communication systems. What forms such systems might take and what technologies could be used to accomplish this goal were open questions—questions asked by people around the world, including in the Cold War–era superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union. Media archaeologist Natalia Konradova examines the history of the internet in Russia and its predecessor state, cutting through layers of technological history and dusting off conceptual artifacts of the past. Inspired by the fundamental question of how Soviets imagined future technologies, she investigates experiments with telepathy alongside the (then equally improbable) dream of a global, digitally connected computer network. Since the story of the Russian internet is inextricably wound up with Soviet society and the history of the Cold War, Hacking the Iron Curtain is as much a cultural and political history as it is a technological one—a history that illustrates how collective dreams can challenge geopolitical ambitions and inspire worldchanging technologies.
31March2026|208pp
BLOODOFOTHERS
Stalin'sCrimeanAtrocityandthe PoeticsofSolidarity
Rory Finnin
In 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars from their ancestral homeland. The gravity of this event, which claimed the lives of tens of thousands, was shrouded in secrecy after WW2. What broke the silence were works of literature. Finnin presents these works as vivid evidence of literature’s power to lift our moral horizons.
29January2024|352pp|7b&willus., 3b&wmaps
9781487558253|£21.99/$34.95|PB
UNIVERSITYOFTORONTOPRESS
DYNASTYDIVIDED
AFamilyHistoryofRussianand UkrainianNationalism
Fabian Baumann
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Dynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in nineteenth-century Ukraine, the most pivotal borderland of the Russian Empire. The Shul'gins identified as Russians and defended the tsarist autocracy; the Shul'hyns identified as Ukrainians and supported peasant-oriented socialism.
15August2023|348pp|15b&whalftones, 2maps,1chart
9781501770937|£25.99/$33.95|PB
9781501770920|£100.00/$125.00|HB
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