History of other geographical groupings and regions

This book traces the profound influence that Russian literature, which was tied inseparably to the political victory of the Russian revolution, had on China during a period that saw the collapse of imperial rule and the rise of the Communist Party.

Examines the ideology of sacrifice in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, analyzing a range of fictional and real-life figures who became part of a pantheon of "e;heroes"e; primarily because of their victimhood.

This book combines recent scholarship on Omani history with insights drawn from close analysis of Oman''s politics and international relations.

The truth about what happened on Sir John Franklins ill-fated Arctic expedition of 184548 has been shrouded in mystery for 165 years.

In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights.

Russian Modernity places Imperial and Soviet Russia in a European context.

Stalinism is the name that is used to identify the political and economic systems introduced and implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union from the time that Stalin became the supreme power in the Russian Communist Party in 1927 to his death in 1953.

This book is a transnational study of rural and anti-Semitic violence around the triple frontier between Austria-Hungary, Romania and Tsarist Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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This book traces representations of "e;Gypsies"e; that have become prevalent in the European imagination and culture and influenced the perceptions of Roma in Eastern and Western European societies.

'He writes history like nobody else.

This book examines Anglo-Australian naval relations between 1945-75, a period of great change for both Australia and Great Britain and their respective navies.

This is the first western book on the subject of wartime Soviet schooling.

Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes.

During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.

Early Christian spirituality is a topic of enduring fascination today among scholars and general readers alike.

A searing historical account of a tragic episode of the Stalinist terrorDuring the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's ';cleansing' of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia.

This book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, Dziga Vertov.

This edited collection explores how migrants played a major role in the creation and settlement of the British Empire, by focusing on a series of Australian case studies.

In this fascinating book Alter Litvin tells us what life was really like for professional Soviet historians from Lenin to Gorbachev, and assesses the efforts made since 1991 to create a more truthful picture of the turbulent Russian past.

This book sets out to navigate questions of the future of Australian poetry.

This book shows how the totalitarian ideology of the Soviet period shaped the practices of Soviet theatre for youth.

This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933.

A compelling history of atheism in American public lifeA much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God.

This book explores how Australia managed the prisoner of war issue throughout the Second World War and the immediate post-war period.

This is the first study of popular opinions in Soviet society in the 1920s.

This book situates the work of the Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria (1902-1977) in its historical context and explores the 'romantic' approach to scientific writing developed in his case histories.

This book discusses historical continuities and discontinuities between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, interwar Poland, the Polish People's Republic, and contemporary Poland.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Orthodox Christianity in Russia has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence.

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Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society.

This book explores the dynamics of Anglo-Australian cricketing relations within the 'British World' in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book joins the discussion on foreign aid triggered by the rise of multiplicity of emerging donors in international development and explores the transformation of Kazakhstan from a recipient country to a development aid provider.

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Siberia has no history of independent political existence, no claim to a separate ethnic identity, and no clear borders.

An examination of France's presence in the South Pacific after the takeover of Tahiti.

Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.

Egypt's Christians, the Copts, are the largest Christian community in the Middle East.

This book discusses historical continuities and discontinuities between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, interwar Poland, the Polish People's Republic, and contemporary Poland.

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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.