History of other geographical groupings and regions

Between the Nazi occupation and the anti-communist revolution of 1956, Poland underwent twelve years of Stalinist rule.

The relationship between society and the regime has been central to much recent research in the field of Soviet history.

An examination of the early Soviet period of the Russian (Soviet) Academy of Sciences which focuses on the reactions of individual members of the academy to the new situation in which they found themselves after October 1917.

This book looks at the past and present condition of Russian nationalism.

Over the past two decades in the West there has been a substantial re-appraisal of the Stalinist period.

The essays in this collection explore the social 'construction' of the Russian peasantry in the period between Emancipation and Collectivisation, and the impact of these constructions on Tsarist and Bolshevik agrarian policy.

Drawing on research based on access to the recently-opened Soviet archives, this new edition provides a valuable thematic account of the nature of Stalinism.

Barnett presents the first in-depth analysis in English of the pioneer of long cycle analysis, N.

This book explores the long-term reasons for the demise of Imperial Russia, examining the failure of the autocratic state to strengthen its own political position while economic change transformed Russian society.

Russian rethinking of the past has immense political significance.

By turns radical, uncertain, ambitious and autocratic, Mikhail Gorbachev and his bid to reform the Soviet Union have shaped the contemporary world.

A detailed examination of economic policy-making in the USSR during the period of the Second Five-Year Plan (1933-1937).

This book explores the history of private internal trade in the USSR during the NEP of the 1920s.

After the Cold War, its history must be reassessed as the opening of Soviet archives allows a much fuller understanding of the Russian dimension.

Russia's experiences during the Civil War determined the framework within which the Russian people were governed throughout the Soviet period.

Historians have heatedly debated the Soviet role in the origins of the Second World War for more than 50 years.

During the military stand-off between East and West known as the Cold War, each of the two camps sought out to undermine its opponent by looking for vulnerable aspects of its society.

Exploring such general issues as the differing roles of the Communist Party and the State in ruling the former Soviet Union and the exercise of political power in the Stalin regime, this first western study of the chief Soviet government body during the 1930s traces the history of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) whilst Molotov was chairman.

The Russian Orthodox Church has survived more than seventy years of the most brutal and sustained attempts to eradicate religion that has ever been.

Naomi Carmon has brought together a group of distinguished scholars from post-industrial countries to discuss changes in immigration flows, their impact on the receiving countries, and alternative policy responses.

Contrary general perceptions concerning Russia during this era, Jewish political activities continued beyond 1907, and given the political limits of Tsarist Russia, transformed and modernized Jewish society to the fullest extent possible.

This work presents eleven studies in the field of Russian/Soviet economic and social history, which have been specially commissioned as a tribute to Professor R.

This work provides an in-depth case-study of decision-making in the Soviet Union in the Stalin era.

'The most significant issue that Dockrill addresses is that of how Japan views the war in retrospect, a question which not only tells us a lot about how events were seen in Japan in 1941 but is also, a matter still of importance in contemporary East Asian politics.

This is a volume of essays exploring important themes in the economic and social history of Russia and the Soviet Union during the critical period between 1860 and 1930.

The Reconstruction of Poland, 1914-23 is a significant reappraisal of the political, social and economic problems associated with the rebirth of an independent Polish state.

The difficult years of Moscow in 1931-34 witnessed enormous social change in the city and the region.

The opportunities opened up by the Gorbachev reforms have shown that religion is one of the most significant dynamic forces in Soviet society.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was an event of the greatest importance, but the social groups which were crucial to its development and outcome have been little written about.

Focusing on the development of the Communist Party in Moscow between 1925 and 1932 and its ultimate assumption of absolute power.

Up to now the culture of the Stalin period has been studied mainly from a political or ideological point of view.

Since Gorbachev took office in 1985, every aspect of the Soviet past has been under scrutiny.

The book examines the origins, development and contemporary significance of the Soviet doctrine of 'limited sovereignty' ('Brezhnev Doctrine'), with particular reference to the Doctrine's implications for the Soviet Union's relations with Eastern Europe.

New Russia begins in 1905-07.

The Gulag at War reveals for the first time official documents kept in the archives of the Soviet forced labour system.

The Baltic States examines the struggles of the Baltic peoples for national self-determination.