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This open access book focuses on the origins, consequences and aftermath of the 1995 and 1999 Western military interventions that led to the end of the most recent Balkan wars. Though challenging problems remain in Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Serbia, the conflict...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-11-28
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The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people—and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies’ ability to control the domestic public sphere. This collection examines how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-08
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*WINNER OF THE BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD USA**SHORTLISTED FOR THE EBRD PRIZE**SHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD PRIZE*"A writer and thinker of ever greater relevance, a voice whoSe wide-ranging screeds we ignore at our peril" CLAIRE MESSUD"Her work is of such power...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2018-11-01
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The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR has been told countless times.The strategies of these two superpowers have often been paralleled in a way that highlights their fight for dominance and efforts to develop needed new technologies. This...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-10-05
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Crimea in War and Transformation is the first book to examine the terrible toll of violence on Crimean civilians and landscapes from mobilization through reconstruction.
When war landed on Crimea's coast in September 1854, multiple armies instantly doubled the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-01
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This book tells the story of new Yugoslav feminism in the 1970s and 1980s, reassessing the effects of state socialism on women’s emancipation through the lens of the feminist critique.This volume explores the history of the ideas defining a social movement, analysing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-27
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This book provides a new perspective through a closer look on “Other”, i.e. ethnic minority women defined by the Soviet documents as natsionalka. Applying decolonial theory and critical race and whiteness studies, the book analyzes archive documents, early Soviet films...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-09-04
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This book offers an analysis of Putin's approval ratings from the fall of the USSR to the present day. It considers contemporary materials, statistics and a discourse analysis to assess how Putin's approval ratings have stayed so high despite the current economic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-30
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Where nostalgia was once dismissed a wistful dream of a never-never land, the academic focus has shifted to how pieces of the past are assembled as the elements in alternative political thinking as well as in artistic expression. The creative use of the past points to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-21
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This book explores Soviet influences on Yugoslav gender policies, examining how Yugoslav communists interpreted, adapted and used Soviet ideas to change Yugoslav society. The book sheds new light on the role of Soviet models in producing Yugoslav family and reproductive...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-01
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With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe's least populous nations--yet it boasts one of the continent's fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Neil Taylor charts Estonia's long, arduous...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2018-08-01
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This book offers an illuminating bridge between the political and social dimensions of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40. The conflict represented a significant crisis for the Soviet Union, inspiring international condemnation and a significant loss of face for its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-25
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This book concludes The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, an authoritative account of the Soviet Union’s industrial transformation between 1929 and 1939. The volume before this one covered the ‘good years’ (in economic terms) of 1934 to 1936. The present volume has a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-11
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This book is a transnational study of rural and anti-Semitic violence around the triple frontier between Austria-Hungary, Romania and Tsarist Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. It focuses on the devastating Romanian peasant uprising in 1907 and traces the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-11
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This collection of thirteen essays examines reactions in Eastern Europe to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Countries covered include the Soviet Union and specific Soviet republics (Ukraine, Moldavia, the Baltic States), together...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-29
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A Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in history (Wall Street Journal)....
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2018-05-15
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This book is the first full-length study of the Soviet Constitution of 1936, exploring Soviet citizens’ views of constitutional democratic principles and their problematic relationship to the reality of Stalinism. Drawing on archival materials, the book offers an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-15
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This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression ‘Eastern Europe’ in international English-language media discourse and academic discourse. Interdisciplinary in nature, it provides insights beyond semantics and lexicology, commenting on the politics,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-25
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-24
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education
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This book is an insider’s account of the search for missing American servicemen who became trapped in the Soviet Union and the US government’s efforts to free them or discover their fates. The book, which is based on years of work as a consultant to the US...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-17
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