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Beyond Track Limits: A Formula 1 romance where heat doesn't just come from the engines-it's in the heart. Determined...  Read More >>

In the Village of Wonders, ideas have a way of growing. When one small question sparks a bold dream, a group of...  Read More >>

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This book examines the growth of place-based opposition to destructive redevelopment practices in Moscow and the...  Read More >>

This study investigates the close correlation between politics and mainstream cinema vividly evidenced in Russian...  Read More >>

In early modern Europe, thousands of women were burned as witches during the period of the witch hunts. From the...  Read More >>

Taking advantage of the partial opening of secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Police Aesthetics explores...  Read More >>

On April 22, 1823, a three-year-old boy named Fedor finished his lunch and went to play outside. Fedor never returned...  Read More >>

In The Depths of Russia, Douglas Rogers offers a nuanced and multifaceted analysis of oil's place in Soviet and...  Read More >>

The first full-length study of natural and man-made disasters in the Soviet Union.  Read More >>

The idea of abolishing death was one of the most influential myth-making concepts expressed in Russian literature...  Read More >>

The metaphor of an ""archipelago"" in the Solzhenitsyn's magnum opus was intended to bridge the veil of silence...  Read More >>

On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity...  Read More >>

Fathers and Sons by Turgenev. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. These are a few of the...  Read More >>

After Evgeny Zamiatin emigrated from the USSR in 1931, he was systematically airbrushed out of Soviet literary history,...  Read More >>

Religion in China survived the most radical suppression in the human history-a total ban of any religion during...  Read More >>

This book identifies the crucial variables as classic Japanese forms of socio-political organization: the ""circles...  Read More >>

Drawing on ethnographic methods and Participatory Action Research, Hemment tells the story of her introduction to...  Read More >>

Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story—the...  Read More >>

Politically and militarily powerful, early modern Scandinavia played an essential role in the development of Central...  Read More >>

Anticipating some Soviet Union developments, Evgenii Zamyatsin's We (1920) is a futuristic dystopic novel in which...  Read More >>

Examines the Russian literary circle through the life story of the poet Maximilian Voloshin. This book details the...  Read More >>

This book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria...  Read More >>

I. Pulner's dissertation, Jewish Wedding Ceremonies (1940), features an impressive volume of field ethnographic...  Read More >>

Explores the cultural significance of the explosive growth of China s cities during the past three decades through...  Read More >>