Hadji Murat

Based on the events of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 1850s, Tolstoy's beloved final novella Hadji Murat raises significant questions of power, imperialism, and betrayal, and remains moving and relevant today. This richly annotated edition features materials that help situate the novella in its historical and literary context.

Published by Broadview Press

Islam in Russia: Religion, Politics & Society

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores in what ways, and with what impact, Islam in contemporary Russia has been shaped by the interactions of the Soviet legacy, local cultures and languages, and external forces. The book also addresses the influence of Islam on Russia's current Middle East policy.

Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers

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Russia’s War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story

In February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a fellow East Slav state with much shared history. Mark Edele, a world authority on the history of the Soviet Union, explains why and how this conflict came about.

Published by Melbourne University Publishing

Chasing Greatness: On Russia's Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millennium

Over the last two decades, it has become clear that Russia insists on its great power status, even at considerable cost. Chasing Greatness provides an interpretive explanation of the tacit rules that shape Russia’s great power identity today.

Published by University of Michigan Press

Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One Direction

The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on labourers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students and emigrants, this book explores these changes and people’s varied experiences of them.

Published by Purdue University Press

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Unmaking Russia's Abortion Culture: Family Planning and the Struggle for a Liberal Biopolitics

Examines the creative strategies of Russians who promoted family planning in place of routine abortion. Rather than emphasising individual rights, they explained family planning’s benefits to the nation - its potential to strengthen families and prevent the secondary sterility that resulted when women underwent repeat, poor quality abortions.

Published by Vanderbilt University Press

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, The War Years, 1939-1945, Volume 1

The first in a three-volume series, featuring twenty-five carefully curated essays (selected from over 150) written from just before the start of World War II through to its immediate aftermath. Isaac Bashevis Singer originally published each of these pieces under pseudonyms in Forverts, the world's oldest Yiddish newspaper.

Published by White Goat Press

Exodus and Its Aftermath: Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Interior

During World War II, some two million Jewish refugees relocated from the western regions of the USSR to the Soviet interior. This book’s insights into the regional distribution and concentration of these emigres offer a behind-the-scenes look at the largest and most intensive Jewish migration in history.

Published by University of Wisconsin Press

Lost in Living 

Presents Halyna Kruk’s unpublished work from the immediate ‘pre-invasion’ years when life in Ukraine was marked by turmoil but full-scale war was not yet normalised. In these ‘dear poems that don’t pain [her] like those about the war do’, Kruk uses imagery and tone to underscore poetic agency.

Lost Horse Press

Published by WSU Press