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  • Cigarettes and Soviets

    Smoking in the USSR

    by Tricia Starks ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    Winner of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Book AwardEnriched by color reproductions of tobacco advertisements, packs, and antismoking propaganda, Cigarettes and Soviets provides a comprehensive study of the Soviet tobacco habit. Tricia Starks examines how the Soviets maintained the first mass smoking society in the world while simultaneously fighting it. The book is at once a study of ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Smoking under the Tsars

    A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia

    by Tricia Starks ...
    Approaching tobacco from the perspective of users, producers, and objectors, Smoking under the Tsars provides an unparalleled view of Russia's early adoption of smoking. Tricia Starks introduces us to the addictive, nicotine-soaked Russian version of the cigarette—the papirosa—and the sensory, medical, social, cultural, and gendered consequences of this unique style of tobacco use.Starting with ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • A Frozen State

    Experiencing Cold in Russian History and Culture

    by 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.Early modern European travelers and thinkers found Russia’s cold bewildering as something to experience and something to explain. In the nineteenth century, Russians began to ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • A Frozen State

    Experiencing Cold in Russian History and Culture

    by 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.Early modern European travelers and thinkers found Russia’s cold bewildering as something to experience and something to explain. In the nineteenth century, Russians began to ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Life Cycle of Russian Things

    From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600 - Present

    Edited by Professor Matthew P. Romaniello, Professor Alison K. Smith, Professor Tricia Starks ...
    The Life Cycle of Russian Things re-orients commodity studies using interdisciplinary and comparative methods to foreground unique Russian and Soviet materials as varied as apothecary wares, isinglass, limestone and tanks. It also transforms modernist and Western interpretations of the material by emphasizing the commonalities of the Russian experience.Expert contributors from across the United ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Russian History through the Senses

    From 1700 to the Present

    Edited by Professor Matthew P. Romaniello, Professor Tricia Starks ...
    Bringing together an impressive cast of well-respected scholars in the field of modern Russian studies, Russian History through the Senses investigates life in Russia from 1700 to the present day via the senses. It examines past experiences of taste, touch, smell, sight and sound to capture a vivid impression of what it was to have lived in the Russian world, so uniquely placed as it is between ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Tobacco in Russian History and Culture

    The Seventeenth Century to the Present

    Edited by Matthew Romaniello, Tricia Starks ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    According to the World Health Organization, approximately seventy percent of men and thirty percent of women in Russia smoke, and the WHO estimated that at the close of the twentieth century 280,000 Russians died every year from smoking-related illnesses – a rate over three times higher than the global average. The demographic crisis in current Russia has occasioned interest by President Putin in ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • American Parishes

    Remaking Local Catholicism

    by Tricia C. Bruce, Brian Starks, Nancy Ammerman, Mary Jo Bane, John A. Coleman, S.J., Kathleen Garces-Foley, Mark M. Gray, Brett Hoover, Courtney Irby0, Tia Noelle Pratt1, Gary J. Adler Jr.3 ...
    Series series Catholic Practice in North America
    Parishes are the missing middle in studies of American Catholicism. Between individual Catholics and a global institution, the thousands of local parishes are where Catholicism gets remade. American Parishes showcases what social forces shape parishes, what parishes do, how they do it, and what this says about the future of Catholicism in the United States. Expounding an embedded field approach, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Secondhand Time with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, a collection of personal testimonies from people who lived through the demise of the Soviet Union and the subsequent establishment of the Russian Federation. The accounts gathered in the book span two ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everyday Life in Russia

    Past and Present

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and "a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture" ( The Russian Review).In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized Russian daily life from pre-revolutionary times through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and ... Read more

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  • Unfinished Utopia

    Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949–56

    by Katherine A. Lebow ...
    Unfinished Utopia is an extremely interesting and beautifully executed book.... This book will appeal to a very wide audience. It will of course interest historians of the Polish postwar first and foremost, but beyond that it will appeal to Eastern Europeanists and, notably, to historians of the Western European postwar as well. The book succeeds on many levels: as Polish history, as a history of ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • A War Made in Russia

    by Sergei Medvedev ...
    Translated by Stephen Dalziel ...
    In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin’s obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation and post-imperial ressentiment, a culmination of Putin’s regime and of Russia’s entire imperial history. Building on his prize-winning book The Return of the Russian Leviathan, Medvedev argues that it ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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