History of other geographical groupings and regions

This book explores the people of the Kikori River Delta, in the Gulf of Papua, as established historical agents of intercultural exchange.

This book provides a systematic account of media and communication development in Soviet society from the October Revolution to the death of Stalin.

How succession in authoritarian regimes was less a competition of visions for the future and more a settling of scores "e;Joseph Torigian's stellar research and personal interviews have produced a brilliant, meticulous study.

This book explores Eastern European consumer cultures in the twentieth century, taking a comparative perspective and conceptualizing the peculiarities of consumption in the region.

This book explores the issue of salinization in the context of contemporary conflicts about irrigation, water, and the environment in Australia, considering the Murray-Darling Basin in particular.

This book analyzes how Second World War heritage is being reframed in the memorial museums of the post-socialist, post-conflict states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia.

This book examines the interrelations between Russian and European economics from the early 19th century to the present.

This book introduces the policies surrounding legal gender recognition of trans people in Kazakhstan.

This book explores the various ramifications and consequences of the violent civil protests that affected Kazakhstan in January 2022.

This book offers a new framework for understanding feminism and political activiism in Kyrgyzstan, "e;nomadity of being.

Actores y espacios de la Geografía y la Historia Natural, siglos XVIII-XX se propone reflexionar sobre la conformación del devenir de ambas ciencias en las ciudades y regiones de la Nueva España y la República Mexicana.

This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice.

Aryeh Malkish, a Ukrainian Jew, was an engineering student in Ryazan when the KGB arrested him in 1969 for organizing a group of political dissidents.

A 200 años de la independencia de España, la mayor parte de los guatemaltecos todavía no tienen claros los elementos clave que constituyen la base de su guatemalidad, es decir, de su pertenencia a un país que, por coincidencias históricas y quizás también por azares del destino llegó a llamarse Guatemala.

When asked their religious identification, more people answer 'none' in the Pacific Northwest than in any other region of the United States.

Despite over 200 million adherents, Eastern Orthodox Christianity attracts little scholarly attention.

At the height of the Korean War in 1952, a budding young historian was drafted into the U.

This book explores the role played by families in the Russian revolutionary movement and the first decades of the Soviet regime.

In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years.

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community.

Fifty years after the Moon landing, a new history of the space race explores the lives of both Soviet and American engineersAt the dawn of the space age, technological breakthroughs in Earth orbit flight were both breathtaking feats of ingenuity and disturbances to a delicate global balance of power.

What was the role of historians and historical societies in the public life of imperial Russia?

An essential exploration of how authoritarian regimes operate at the local level How do local leaders govern in a large dictatorship?

Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination.

A fascinating, vivid, and on-the-ground account of Russian Orthodoxy’s resurgence A bold experiment is taking place in Russia.

How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic: "e;The history is fascinating.

A look at how the desire to improve international status affects Russia's and China's foreign policies   Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko argue that the desire for world status plays a key role in shaping the foreign policies of China and Russia.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines South Pole expeditions, "e;wrapping the science in plenty of dangerous drama to keep readers engaged"e; (Booklist).

How the last years of Stalin’s rule led to the formation ofan imperial Soviet consciousness In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period—beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953—Evgeny Dobrenko analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness that, he argues, still defines the political and cultural profile of modern Russia.

This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century.

This provocative study examines the role of today's Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.

To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period.

An der Ikone vom Unverbrennbaren Dornbusch lassen sich allgemeine Beobachtungen zur Ikonenmalerei ablesen.

A concise and accessible introduction to the gender histories of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century.

This book presents a philosophical history of Tasmania's past and present with a particular focus on the double stories of genocide and modernity.

Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Imagining New Europe provides a comprehensive study of the way in which contemporary writers, filmmakers, and the media have represented the recent phenomenon of Eastern European migration to the UK and Western Europe following the enlargement of the EU in the 21st century, the social and political changes after the fall of communism, and the Brexit vote.

This book explores how the communist cult of the individual was not just a Soviet phenomenon but an international one.

A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience.

This is the first work to set one of the great bloodless revolutions of the twentieth century in its proper historical context.

To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious.

The Full Moons is an exploration of the Sun the Moon, the Truth and their interrelation, and it is the culmination of over ten years of letters the author has written on esoteric astrology.

Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino.

Michael Plekon's Tradition Alive presents a collection of essays highlighting not only the vibrant tradition of 20th century Eastern Orthodox thought, but also the necessity of its inclusion in the theological canon constructed mainly by Western Christian thinkers.

Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth.

In this path-breaking study, Fr.

At a time when race and inequality dominate national debates, the story of West Charlotte High School illuminates the possibilities and challenges of using racial and economic desegregation to foster educational equality.

It is October 1592.

Linked by declarations of emancipation within the same five-year period, two countries shared human rights issues on two distinct continents.

Arkady Polishchuk came of age in Stalin's Russia, in the turbulent times before, during and after World War II.

Between 1955 and 1987, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Glacier was the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the free world.