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The Last Noble Gendarme
(November 2021)
How the Tsar's Last Head of Security and Intelligence Tried to Avert the Russian Revolution
Vladimir G. Marinich - Author
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Gripping account of the life of the Russian Tsar’s last chief of security and intelligence.
The Last Noble Gendarme is the first biography of Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and his wife, Sofia. Tsar Nicholas II’s last chief of security, Globachev was an eyewitness to the seething turmoil in the capital of the Russian Empire. Beginning in 1915 he tried to avert ...(Read More) |
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Pharmapolitics in Russia
(September 2020)
Making Drugs and Rebuilding the Nation
Olga Zvonareva - Author
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Documents the surprising role pharmaceutical science and technology has played in Russia’s search for national identity over a century of political turbulence.
Over the last one hundred years, the Russian pharmaceutical industry has undergone multiple dramatic transformations, which have taken place alongside tectonic political shifts in society associated with the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a ...(Read More) |
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Teacher Education Reform as Political Theater
(October 2019)
Russian Policy Dramas
Elena Aydarova - Author
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An ethnography of Russian teacher education reforms as scripted performances of political theater.
Winner of the 2020 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Council on Anthropology and Education
Around the world, countries undertake teacher edu...(Read More) |
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The Truth of the Russian Revolution
(May 2017)
The Memoirs of the Tsar's Chief of Security and His Wife
Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev - Author
Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva - Author
Vladimir G. Marinich - Translator
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Bronze Medalist 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the World History Category
Gold Medalist - 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the History category
An eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath, newly translated into English.
Gold Winner for History, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of...(Read More) |
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Sweet Burdens
(May 2015)
Welfare and Communality among Russian Jews in Germany
Sveta Roberman - Author
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Examines the lives of recent Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany.
Sweet Burdens presents a detailed ethnographic study of the lives of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany over the past twenty years. Focusing on the first generation of adult immigrants, Sveta Roberman examines how they question and negotiate their moral economy and civic culture vis-à-vis the host German state and society, on the one hand, and the Hol...(Read More) |
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Freedom, Faith, and Dogma
(October 2008)
Essays by V. S. Soloviev on Christianity and Judaism
V. S. Soloviev - Author
Vladimir Wozniuk - Editor, translator and introduction by
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A collection of works by nineteenth-century Russian religious philosopher V. S. Soloviev, critic of secularization, anti-Semitism, and the religious life of his time.
Often remembered for his association with the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, V. S. Soloviev (1853–1900) remains the foremost representative of ecumenism in nineteenth-century Russia. Working in the name of the Universal Church, with the...(Read More) |
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Well-Oiled Diplomacy
(April 2007)
Strategic Manipulation and Russia's Energy Statecraft in Eurasia
Adam N. Stulberg - Author
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Examines Russia’s energy policy with rival Eurasian supplier states from 1992 to 2002.
As a window into understanding the relationship between globalization and the pursuit of national security, Adam N. Stulberg examines Russia’s mixed success at leveraging energy advantages in Eurasia from 1992 to 2002. Stulberg supplements traditional analyses of statecraft by highlighting indirect market and regulatory m...(Read More) |
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Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism
(July 2006)
Susanna Rabow-Edling - Author
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Examines the origins of Russian nationalism and its relationship to the West.
Susanna Rabow-Edling examines the first theory of the Russian nation, formulated by the Slavophiles in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, and its relationship to the West. Using cultural nationalism as a tool for understanding Slavophile thinking, she argues that a Russian national identity was not shaped in opp...(Read More) |
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Ninochka
(August 2003)
A Novel
Svetlana Boym - Author
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A Russian émigré living in New York travels to Paris to try to reconstruct the secret life of another Russian woman who was murdered there on the eve of World War II.
A playful literary mystery set in the 1930s and 1990s, Ninochka tells the double tale of two women exiles who are both homesick and sick of home. Tanya, a Russian immigrant living in New York, travels to Paris in an attempt to reconstr...(Read More) |
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The Norms of Answerability
(January 2002)
Social Theory Between Bakhtin and Habermas
Greg M. Nielsen - Author
Caryl Emerson - Foreword by
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Explores the relevance of Bakhtin's thought to social theory.
Greg M. Nielsen brings Mikhail Bakhtin's ethics and aesthetics into a dialogue with social theory that responds to the sense of ambivalence and uncertainty at the core of modern societies. Nielsen situates a social theory between Bakhtin's norms of answerability and Jürgen Habermas's sociology, ethics, and discourse theory of democr...(Read More) |
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