Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus
A comparative account of the organized violence in the Caucasus region, looking at four key areas: Chechnya, Karabakh (including Armenia and Azerbaijan), Georgia, and Dagestan
Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus
Provides both an overview of the Caucasus that is both up-to-date and comprehensive as well as an accessible understanding of the current scholarship on mobilization and violence
Soviet-East European Relations in Transition, 1985-90
Alex Pravda and his contributors examine two processes - the decline of the internal empire and the disintegration of the external one - to show how the current structural problems faced by Eastern Europe developed. Major topics examined in depth include: the dramatic changes in relations between the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the mid-1980s; the evolution of Soviet policy towards the region and Gorbachev's practice of leadership in terms of how they affected Soviet strategy; the events leading to the demise of the Warsaw Pact and the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance. There are also detailed chapters covering developments in bilateral relations between the Soviet Union and Poland, Hungary, German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and Romania.
Anna Karenina is probably the most often taught nineteenth-century Russian novel in the American academy. Teachers have found that including this virtuoso work of art on a syllabus reaps many rewards and stirs up heated classroom discussion -- on sex and sexuality, dysfunction in the family, gender roles, society's hypocrisy and cruelty. But ......
A comprehensive examination of the American pursuit of the liberation of Eastern Europe from the end of World War II to the failure of the Hungarian revolution. It explores how American visions of freedom led to intervention worldwide and the legacy of the Cold War.
In 1888, Leo Tolstoy mysteriously declared that sexual intercourse should no longer exist. Years later he would admit to being "horrified" by this pronouncement, but still remained an ardent believer in sexual abstinence. Frequenter of brothels in his youth, father of thirteen children by his wife and at least two children by peasant women before ......
D'Agostino (history, San Francisco State U.) argues that the end of communism was never the Soviet leader's goal, but was the unintended result of an intense and many-faceted struggle for power. He presents evidence that the hope for stable, in-system reform ignored the history of succession strugg
Persecution of religious groups by the Soviet state was no secret. Soviet ideology was explicitly materialist and anti- religious; the state made no apology for its repression of religion. Here, for the first time in English, are the actual documents tracing that repression, clearly revealing the struggle between religious forces and the Russian ......
