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Demographic Trends and Patterns in the Soviet Union Beforeby Wolfgang Lutz; Sergei Scherbov; Andrei Volkov
Routledge 1993; US$ 286.00Provides an overview of demographic trends and patterns in the republics of the Soviet Union through the twentieth century providing a comprehensive and detailed review of fertility, marriage and the family, age and mortality. more...
The Ukrainian Diasporaby Vic Satzewich
Routledge 2002; US$ 198.00The author looks at the ways the Ukranian Diaspora has retained its identity, at the different factions within it and its response to the war crimes trials of the 1980s. more...
The Former Soviet Union's Diverse Peoplesby James Minahan
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 55.00This volume provides a chronological overview of one of the most important issues in the historical development of large parts of Europe and Asia - the formation and disintegration of the Russian empire. more...
Russia Abroadby Marc Raeff
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 65.00A remarkable feature of the Great Russian Emigration which followed the Revolution is how the Russian communities abroad preserved a flourishing Russian culture. This is a comprehensive cultural history of this phenomenon. more...
Russian Identitiesby Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 70.00Investigates the question of Russian identity, spanning a territory, centuries, and a variety of political, social, and economic structures. This book places emphases on the struggle against the steppe peoples, Orthodox Christianity, autocratic monarchy, and Westernization. more...
The Germans of the Soviet Unionby Irina Mukhina
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 44.95Using rarely seen archival information, this book provides an account of the experiences of the Germans living in the Soviet Union from the early post-revolution period to the post-Soviet era following the collapse of communism. more...
Soul Huntersby Rane Willerslev
University of California Press 2007; US$ 19.96This is an insightful, highly original ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia. Basing his study on firsthand experience with Yukaghir hunters, Rane Willerslev focuses on the practical implications of living in a "hall-of-mirrors" world?one inhabited by humans, animals, and spirits, all of whom are understood to be endless mimetic doubles of one another. In this world human beings inhabit a betwixt-and-between state in which their souls are both substance and nonsubstance, both body and soul, both their own individual selves and reincarnated others. Hunters are thus both human and the animals they imitate, which forces them... more...
Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russiaby Pál Nyiri
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 168.00This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Chinese in Russia and Eastern Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day. more...
The Forsakenby Tim Tzouliadis
Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 13.99A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers, except perhaps for the Russian lettering on their jerseys. The players have left their homeland and the Great Depression in search of a better life in Stalinist Russia, but instead they will meet tragic and, until now, forgotten fates. Within four years, most of them will be arrested alongside untold numbers of other Americans. Some will be executed. Others will be sent to "corrective labor" camps where they will be worked to death. This book is... more...
Blacks, Reds, and Russiansby Joy Gleason Carew
Rutgers University Press 2008; US$ 28.95One of the most compelling, yet little known stories of race relations in the twentieth century is the account of blacks who chose to leave the United States to be involved in the Soviet Experiment in the 1920s and 1930s. In Blacks, Reds, and Russians, Joy Gleason Carew offers insight into the political strategies that often underlie relationships between different peoples and countries. Interviews with the descendents of figures such as Paul Robeson and Oliver Golden offer rare personal insights into the story of a group of emigrants who, confronted by the daunting challenges of making a life for themselves in a racist United States, found unprecedented opportunities in communist Russia. more...









