The developments in Russian official symbolical, cultural and social policies as well as the contradictory trajectories of important cultural, social and intellectual trends in Russian society after t
Richard Pipes and Marc Raeff’s letters from 1948–2007 with introductory and concluding essays, detailed annotations, abundant illustrations, a chronology of major events, and four maps.
A series of biographical essays of outstanding Russian explorers of Inner Asia of the late nineteenth – early twentieth century, focusing on their pioneer explorations of the uncharted region and thei
An exploration of the deep transformations of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia, looking at how Islam got “recharged” by several new political, cultural and social meanings.
A new "peripatetic" approach that discovers the space of the city and at the same time reveals its dynamic as a fin-de siècle east Mediterranean port-metropolis, through the activities of its ethnic g
This book studies the world of the Soviet consumer and the specific problems, which arose both for the consumer and the Soviet state in a command economy of chronic shortages. It concentrates on the l
R. G. Skrynnikov uses new kinds of evidence drawn from primary sources to unfold the drama of terror under Ivan Groznyi (the Terrible), which has relevance to later periods of history (echoes of the S
Zeev Levin presents a study of the Jewish population of Uzbekistan at a time when the Soviet government was attempting to transform Jewish peddlers into peasants and factory workers – to fill the role
The book examines the lives of the famous Russian artist, thinker and mystic Nikolai Roerich and his wife Elena Roerich by focusing on their spiritual quest, their travels in Central Asia and Far East
Taking history and culture of the Caucasus as starting point, state building and conflict resolution processes in the North and South Caucasus are analysed from an international legal and political pe
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, at least, slaves from the Caucasus were prized. Islamic rulers particularly bought them for the harem and to train for administrative offices. Kurtynova-D'Herlugn
