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  • The Hidden Minority

    Perceptions of Belonging and Otherness in the Finnish – Russian Borderland

    by Helena Jerman ...
    Series Book 52 - EASA Series
    Looking at the Finnish–Russian borderland as a transnational space and claiming that there is a need to understand the long-term effects of migration – a continuing process spanning several generations – The Hidden Minority takes a multi-temporal perspective on mobility and belonging. The focus of this ethnographic study is the Russian minority in Finland, which is socially, economically, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Burden of the Past

    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper ...
    Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture: "A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory." —Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus UniversityIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms ... Read more

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  • 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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  • My Life in Propaganda

    Language and Totalitarian Regimes

    by Magda Stroinska ...
    Series series Reflections
    My Life in Propaganda is Magda Stroińska’s personal account of growing up with communist propaganda in Eastern Europe. She looks at the influence of her family history that contradicted what she was taught at school; the cognitive and emotional effects of compulsory school readings; socialist realist art and film; and Radio Free Europe and Voice of America and their role in shaping her generation ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads

    Edited by Aili Aarelaid-Tart, Li Bennich-Björkman ...
    Series series Studies in European Sociology
    This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century: occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, and democratic rule and market economy. The twentieth century history of the Baltic countries has often been deeply tragic. Lying on the coastline of the Baltic Sea, these rather small but ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Kaleidoscopic Odessa

    History and Place in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Tanya Richardson ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    The recent tumult of Ukraine's Orange Revolution and its aftermath has exposed some of the deep political, social, and cultural divisions that run through the former Soviet republic. Examining Odessa, the Black Sea port that was once the Russian Empire's southern window onto Europe, Kaleidoscopic Odessa provides an ethnographic portrait of these overlapping divisions in a city where many residents ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Herbert Marcuse

    An Aesthetics of Liberation

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Series series Modern European Thinkers
    When capitalism is clearly catastrophically out of control and its excesses cannot be sustained socially or ecologically, the ideas of Herbert Marcuse become as relevant as they were in the 1960s. This is the first English introduction to Marcuse to be published for decades, and deals specifically with his aesthetic theories and their relation to a critical theory of society.Although Marcuse is ... Read more

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  • Lessons of History

    Learning from Catastrophe and Crisis in Twentieth-Century Europe

    Edited by Maria Karlsson, Klas-Göran Karlsson ...
    Historical lessons are useful or even necessary for our guidance and orientation in time. These lessons, however, have often been overlooked in historical reflections on watershed moments, such as genocides, treaties, and global movements. Focusing on how cataclysmic events, primarily within Central and Eastern Europe, have been transmitted across borders and generations, this volume interrogates ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv

    Narratives, Identity, and Power

    by Eleonora Narvselius ...
    Intelligentsia assumes the right to speak in the name of the entire nation and to extrapolate its own tastes, values and choices to it. Therefore, intelligentsia’s voices have been in many ways decisive in the discussions about Ukrainian national identity, which gained momentum in the post-Soviet Ukrainian society. The historical and cultural cityscape of L’viv is an especially apt site for ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • How Nations Remember

    A Narrative Approach

    by James V. Wertsch ...
    How Nations Remember draws on multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to examine how a nation's account of the past shapes its actions in the present. National memory can underwrite noble aspirations, but the volume focuses largely on how it contributes to the negative tendencies of nationalism that give rise to confrontation. Narratives are taken as units of analysis for ... Read more

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  • Russia on the Edge

    Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity

    by Edith W. Clowes ...
    Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors—whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical images of center, periphery, and border—have become the signs of a different sense of self and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • If This Is a Woman

    Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust

    Edited by Denisa Nešťáková, Katja Grosse-Sommer, Borbála Klacsmann, Jakub Drábik ...
    The present volume contains thirteen articles based on work presented at the “XX. Century Conference: If This Is A Woman” at Comenius University Bratislava in January 2019. The conference was organized against anti-gender narratives and related attacks on academic freedom and women’s rights currently all too prevalent in East-Central Europe. The papers presented at the conference and in this ... Read more

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