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  • The Gulag Doctors

    Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps

    by Dan Healey ...
    A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditionsA byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for better rations in shocking conditions. From 1930 to 1953, eighteen million people passed through this penal-industrial empire. Many inmates, not ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi

    by Professor Dan Healey ...
    Examining nine 'case histories' that reveal the origins and evolution of homophobic attitudes in modern Russia, Dan Healey asserts that the nation's contemporary homophobia can be traced back to the particular experience of revolution, political terror and war its people endured after 1917.The book explores the roots of homophobia in the Gulag, the rise of a visible queer presence in Soviet cities ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Other Voices in Soviet History

    Collected for a Devil’s Advocate

    Edited by Dan Healey, Tracy McDonald, Heather DeHaan ...
    Other Voices in Soviet History identifies Soviet historian Lynne Viola’s critical methodological and thematic interventions in the study of Soviet history and builds on them through a selection of new research trajectories inspired by her thinking.The collection’s essays are oriented around three overlapping themes: listening to subaltern voices, challenging a rigid victim-perpetrator binary, and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Bolshevik Sexual Forensics

    Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917–1939

    by Dan Healey ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    In an effort to modernize criminal and civil investigations, early Bolsheviks gave forensic doctors—most of whom had been trained under the tsarist regime—new authority over issues of sexuality. Revolutionaries believed that forensic medicine could provide scientific and objective solutions to sexual disorder in the new society. Bolshevik Sexual Forensics explores the institutional history of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Stalin's War on Ukraine

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more—from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain."With searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Stalin's Library

    A Dictator and his Books

    by Geoffrey Roberts ...
    A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal libraryIn this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Russia's War

    by Jade McGlynn ...
    In the early hours of 24 February 2022, Russian forces attacked Ukraine. The brutality of the Russian assault has horrified the world. But Russians themselves appear to be watching an entirely different war – one in which they are the courageous underdogs and kind-hearted heroes successfully battling a malign Ukrainian foe.Russia analyst Jade McGlynn takes us on a journey into this parallel ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

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  • Auschwitz Children and Mengele Experiments

    The Immoral and Atrocious Research on Children in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp during World War II

    by Stew Jack Barretta ...
    Many doctors in Germany were convinced that they were the chosen people to create a healthy, racially pure Volkskörper (body of people) and by doing so, establish a racial utopia. As strong supporters of National Socialism, they welcomed the founding of the Third Reich. After Hitler acceded to power, German physicians joined the SS in particular. During the twelve years of the Nazi era, seven ... Read more

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  • Khrushchev's Cold Summer

    Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin

    by Miriam Dobson ...
    Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus included not only victims of past purges but also those sentenced for criminal offenses. In Khrushchev's Cold ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Leon Trotsky

    by Paul Le Blanc ...
    Series Book 58 - Critical Lives
    There are few more divisive names in modern history than that of the diehard revolutionary Leon Trotsky. To some he was a hypocritical totalitarian, while to many others he was a revolutionary liberator, an idealist determined to crush an outdated, oppressive dynasty in order to replace it with a proletarian socialist commonwealth. But one thing is agreed: his impact as a leader in the Russian ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Soviet Soft Power in Poland

    Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943-1957

    by Patryk Babiracki ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use “soft power” in order to galvanize broad support for the postwar order in the emerging Soviet bloc. Populated with compelling ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Radical Right in Late Imperial Russia

    Dreams of a True Fatherland?

    by George Gilbert ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    The revolutionary movements in late tsarist Russia inspired a reaction by groups on the right. Although these groups were ostensibly defending the status quo, they were in fact, as this book argues, very radical in many ways. This book discusses these radical rightist groups, showing how they developed considerable popular appeal across the whole Russian Empire, securing support from a wide cross ... Read more

    $70.99 USD