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Jewish marriage and divorce in imperial Russia / ChaeRan Y. Freeze
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ChaeRan Y Freeze |
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and an African American, he is offended and angered by the success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, the explo… |
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The institutional framework of Russian serfdom
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T. K. Dennison |
"Russian rural history has long been based on a "peasant myth" which originated with nineteenth-century Romantics and is still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows ho… |
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Beyond perestroika
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Gary G. Gallopin |
"This book investigates rapid societal change in Russia during the early 1990s. The story of the anthropologist (author) and the people he studied reveals cultural similarities and differences betwee… |
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Время сэконд хэнд
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Светлана Алексиевич |
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the … |
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White fever
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Jacek Hugo-Bader |
Chronicles the author's journey across Siberia in the middle of winter, during which he explores the post-Communist communities that suffer from high rates of suicide, murder, alcoholism, and deaths … |
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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Masha Gessen |
Journalist Masha Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchi… |
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Russia & Eurasia
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Brent Hierman |
"Published and updated annually, Russia and Eurasia deals with the twelve independent republics that became members of the Commonwealth of Independent States following the collapse of the Soviet Unio… |
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Midnight in Siberia
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David Greene |
"After two and a half years as NPR's Moscow bureau chief, David Greene travels across the country--a 6,000-mile journey by rail, from Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok--to speak with ordinary… |
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Bears in the streets
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Lisa Dickey |
"Lisa Dickey traveled across the whole of Russia three times--in 1995, 2005 and 2015--making friends in eleven different cities, then coming back again and again to see how their lives had changed. L… |
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Chechnya's terrorist network
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Elena Pokalova |
"This expert's view into the strategic directions, tactics, leaders, and significant attacks connected to Chechen and North Caucasus terrorists examines the network's operations as well as the succes… |
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Cracks in the iron closet
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David Tuller |
David Tuller provides the first look into the emotional and sexual lives of Russian lesbians and gays and the pervasive influence of the state on gay life. Part travelogue, part social history, and p… |
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The development of capitalism in Russia
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Clarke, Simon |
This book provides a broad and comprehensive survey of the development of capitalism in Russia from the collapse of the Soviet economic system to the present, and includes the results of substantial … |
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A Russian Diary
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Anna Politkovskaya |
Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia's most fearless journalists, was gunned down in a contract killing in Moscow in the fall of 2006. Just before her death, Politkovskaya completed this searing, intima… |
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The forsaken
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Tim Tzouliadis |
The story of a little-known group of émigrés, Americans who went to Russia during the 1930s in the hope that the Communist promise of a better life was a reality--only to find xenophobia, paranoia an… |
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