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  • Women, Gender, and Socialist Ideology in Soviet Russia

    by David L. Hoffmann ...
    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    This book examines the place of women in Soviet Russia from the 1917 Revolution through the post-World War II period, discussing how the Soviet construction of gender perpetuated inequality even as it dramatically expanded women’s roles in society.Chapters of this book explore Bolshevik activists’ ideals of women’s liberation and their failure to realize these ideals; the significance of women’s ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Cultivating the Masses

    Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914–1939

    by David L. Hoffmann ...
    Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet government carried out a massive number of deportations, incarcerations, and executions. Paradoxically, at the very moment that Soviet authorities were killing thousands of individuals, they were also engaged in an enormous pronatalist campaign to boost the population. Even as the number of repressions grew exponentially, Communist Party leaders enacted ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

    Edited by David L. Hoffmann ...
    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    This volume showcases important new research on World War II memory, both in the Soviet Union and in Russia today.Through an examination of war remembrance in its various forms—official histories, school textbooks, museums, monuments, literature, films, and Victory Day parades—chapters illustrate how the heroic narrative of the war was established in Soviet times and how it continues to shape war ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Stalinist Era

    by David L. Hoffmann ...
    Series Book 57 - New Approaches to European History
    Placing Stalinism in its international context, David L. Hoffmann presents a new interpretation of Soviet state intervention and violence. Many 'Stalinist' practices - the state-run economy, surveillance, propaganda campaigns, and the use of concentration camps - did not originate with Stalin or even in Russia, but were instead tools of governance that became widespread throughout Europe during ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 1, World Revolution and Socialism in One Country 1917–1941

    Edited by Silvio Pons, Stephen A. Smith ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Communism
    The first volume of The Cambridge History of Communism deals with the tumultuous events from 1917 to the Second World War, such as the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the revolutionary turmoil in post-World War I Europe, and the Spanish Civil War. Leading experts analyse the ideological roots of communism, historical personalities such as Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky and the development of the ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Stalin

    Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

    by Stephen Kotkin ...
    A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes control of the country in the aftermath of total world war, the former seminarian ruthlessly ... Read more

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  • Showcasing the Great Experiment

    Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941

    by Michael David-Fox ...
    During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "Soviet experiment" for themselves. Showcasing the Great Experiment explores the reception of these intellectuals and fellow-travelers and their cross-cultural and trans-ideological encounters in order to analyze Soviet attitudes towards ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Lenin

    Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution

    by Paul Le Blanc ...
    “A welcome gift ... Highlighting Lenin’s flexibility and cultivation of collective leadership, Le Blanc brings out the practical activism and revolutionary patience crucial to organizing the oppressed on a rapidly over-heating planet” Jodi Dean, author of Comrade“Crackling with intellectual life” Lars T. Lih, author of Lenin Rediscovered“A wonderful sketch of Lenin’s life and times ... Perhaps the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Unfinished Leninism

    The Rise and Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine

    by Paul Le Blanc ...
    Praise for Paul Le Blanc's Lenin and the Revolutionary Party:"A work of unusual strength and coherence, inspired not by academic neutrality but by the deep conviction that there is much to learn from the actual ideas and experiences of Lenin." -Michael LöwyAs a leader of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin was perhaps the greatest revolutionary of the twentieth century. These clearly written ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Soviet Myth of World War II

    Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR

    by Jonathan Brunstedt ...
    Series series Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    How did a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconcile itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian ethnocentrism, and the glorification of war? In this provocative new history, Jonathan Brunstedt pursues this question through the lens of the myth and remembrance of victory in World War II – arguably the central defining ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Dark Continent

    Europe's Twentieth Century

    by Mark Mazower ...
    An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future."[A] splendid book." —The New York Times Book ReviewDark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political ... Read more

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  • Black Earth

    The Holocaust as History and Warning

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust—conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”—The New RepublicA “gripping [and] disturbingly vivid” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of the defining tragedy of our time, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of On TyrannyONE OF THE... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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