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Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. He participated in the negotiations at Brezhnev's former hunting lodge in Belazheva, Belarus where the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus agreed to secede from the Soviet Union and form a Commonwealth of Independent States.

This book discerns Soviet leaders' views of the United States and sees them in relation to foreign policy statements and actions.

An Innovative Study on Historical Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe

A Penetrating Exploration of the Soviet Secret Police Apparatus

Explores how to bring about social change within an oppressive political system without resorting to violence.

Compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of post-war development under three competing post-Nazi regimes.

New in paperback published on the 10th anniversary of Havel's death.

Imperial Russian Rule in the Kingdom of Poland, 1864-1915 investigates in detail the imperial bureaucracy's highly variable relationship with Polish society over the next half century.

Scott B. Smith presents both a convincing account of the defeat of the SRs and a deeper analysis of the significance of the political dynamics of the Civil War for subsequent Soviet history.

The first scholarly account of BAM (the Baikal-Amur Railway), Russia's most ambitious public construction project to be attempted in the final decades leading up to the collapse of the USSR. This is a rich social history based on a combination of original scholarly research and interviews with many of those who worked on BAM.

Examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Cerminova, 1902-80).

In this 19th century Russian social novella, two contrasting characters - one a western-educated intellectual, the other a hidebound country squire - find themselves thrown together on a long cross country journey in a primitive but sturdy carriage - a tarantas.

Exploresthe use of images pf the Soviet banner to build a powerful mythology of Russian greatness.

Explores the history and memory of Germany's fateful push for power in the Balkans.

Grace Kennan Warnecke, daughter of famed US diplomat and historian George F. Kennan, offers a telling memoir of her father and her family life lived throughout the tumultuous Cold War era and beyond. She presents an insider's perspective on important events during the twentieth century, and keenly recounts life as an American living in the Soviet Union at a time of great political uncertainty.

Analyses how German and Polish nationalistic historians, who played central roles in propagandizing a glorious past that justified a centralized modern state, struggled with how to portray the very decentralized and multi-ethnic empires that preceded their time.

Offers an account of the changing role of children in the Russian workforce, from the onset of industrialization until the Communist Revolution of 1917, and profiles the laws that would establish children's labor rights. This study also chronicles the evolving cultural mores that initially welcomed child labor practices but later shunned them.

Presents the reports on life in Yugoslavia and the country's major political developments. This title includes essays that explore such diverse topics as the first American-style supermarket and its challenge to traditional outdoor markets; the lessons of a Serbian holiday feast (Slava); and, the resignation of vice president Rankovic.

Presents a study of the transformation of Bolshevik Party ideology, language, and power relations during the crucial period leading up to Stalin's seizure power. This work argues that Bolshevism - which claimed sole access to truth and morality - demonized its enemies and became in effect a theology that facilitated a monumental power shift.

A study of the Great Purge in the setting of Leningrad Communist University, seen in the rhetoric of the accused and their accusors.

Examines the creation of symbols of Czech national identity in the public spaces of the city during the twentieth century. These "sites of memory" were attempts to form a cohesive sense of self for a country and a people torn by war, foreign occupation, and internal strife.

Examines the Silver Age as a cultural construct - the byproduct of an anxiety that permeated society in reaction to the social, political, and cultural upheavals brought on by the Bolshevik Revolution, the fall of the Romanovs, the Civil War, and Stalin's Great Terror. This title analyzes why it occupies such prominence in Russian consciousness.

Presents an investigation of the social, cultural, and political factors that affected drinking and temperance among Russian and Soviet industrial workers from 1895 to 1932. This book examines the many meanings of working-class drinking and temperance in a variety of settings, from Moscow to remote provinces.

Examines debates over women's rights in the first half of the twentieth century, to show how Czechs gradually turned away from democracy and established the separation of state and domestic issues, at the expense of personal freedoms.

Bread upon the Waters chronicles how the unparalleled effort put into the building of a wide infrastructure to support the provisioning of the newly created but physically isolated city of St. Petersburg profoundly affected all of Russia's economic life and, ultimately, the historical trajectory of the Russian Empire as a whole.