Slavonic and East European Studies 2020

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The Burden of the Past

History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine EDITED BY ANNA WYLEGAŁA & MAŁGORZATA GŁOWACKAGRAJPER

How does the past exist in contemporary Ukraine? The works collected in The Burden of the Past focus on commemorative practices, the politics of history, and the way memory influences Ukrainian politics, identity, and culture. The works explore contemporary memory culture in Ukraine and the ways in which it is being researched and understood.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2020 320pp 9780253046710 £37.00 PB now £25.90

Alternative Globalizations

Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World EDITED BY JAMES MARK, ARTEMY M. KALINOVSKY & STEFFI MARUNG

Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2020 12 b&w illus., 3 b&w tables 352pp 9780253046512 £41.00 PB now £28.70

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Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe LARRY WOLFF

This book, published in conjunction with the hundredth anniversary of the Paris Peace Conference, traces President Woodrow Wilson's evolving thinking about the principle of national self-determination by closely examining his approach to the remapping of Eastern Europe in the aftermath of World War One. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2020 304pp 9781503611191 £24.99 PB now £17.49

Socialist Heritage

The Politics of Past and Place in Romania EMANUELA GRAMA

Focusing on Romania from 1945 to 2016, explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy of that project. Emanuela Grama shows that the communist state in Romania sought to exploit the past for its own benefit.

Grama's rich historical and ethnographic research reveals the fundamentally dual nature of heritage: every search for an idealized past relies on strategies of differentiation that can lead to further marginalization and exclusion.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: New Anthropologies of Europe December 2019 28 b&w illus., 4 maps, 1 table 268pp 9780253044808 £24.99 PB now £17.49

A Satellite Empire

Balkan Blues

A Satellite Empire, Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941-1944 is an in-depth investigation of the political and social history of the area in southwestern Ukraine under Romanian occupation during World War II. Transnistria was the only occupied Soviet territory administered by a power other than Nazi Germany, a reward for Romanian participation in Operation Barbarossa.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 13 b&w halftones, 2 maps 328pp 9781501743184 £47.00 HB now £32.90

Jung considers the state as an economic agent in upholding rights and responsibilities in the shift to a global market. Taking Bulgaria as her focus, Jung shows how impoverished Bulgarians developed a consumeroriented society and how the concept of “need” adapted in surprising ways to accommodate this new culture.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: New Anthropologies of Europe February 2019 10 b&w 212pp 9780253029140 £28.99 PB now £20.29

Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941–1944 VLADIMIR SOLONARI

Consumer Politics after State Socialism YUSON JUNG

Birth of Democratic Citizenship Art and Theory of Post- Women and Power in Modern 1989 Central and Romania Eastern Europe MARIA BUCUR-DECKARD A Critical Anthology EDITED BY ANA JANEVSKI, ROXANA MARCOCI & KSENIA NOURIL

Departs from the pivotal political changes of 1989-1991 to reflect on the effects that communist’s disintegration across Central and Eastern Europe had on the art practices, criticism, and cultural production of the following decades. This book presents a selection of the period’s key voices that have introduced recent critical perspectives.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: MoMA Primary Documents August 2018 64 illus. 408pp 9781633450646 £34.00 PB now £23.80

& MIHAELA MIROIU

How women negotiated the radical political transitions that had a direct impact on their everyday lives. Argues that the success of democracy in Romania will rely on the equality of women in politics and civic life.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2018 10 b&w illus. 206pp 9780253038463 £28.99 PB now £20.29

Chronicles in Stone Preservation, Patriotism, and Identity in Northwest Russia VICTORIA DONOVAN

Chronicles in Stone is a study of the

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powerful and pervasive myth of the Russian Northwest, its role in forming Soviet and Russian identities, and its impact on local communities.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies November 2019 13 b&w halftones. 246pp 9781501747878 £43.00 HB now £30.10

Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan, 1919-1937 CLOE DRIEU TRANSLATED BY ADRIAN MORFEE

Explores the creation of the Soviet State in Central Asia, using Uzbeckistan films. Reveals how nation and empire were formed as institutional realities and as imaginary constructs.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2019 30 b&w illus. 312pp 9780253037848 £36.00 PB now £25.20

Coming Out of Communism

The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe CONOR O’DWYER

While LGBT activism has increased worldwide, there has been strong backlash against LGBT people in Eastern Europe. Combines a historical overview with interviews and case studies in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. .

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2018 26 b&w illus. 352pp 9781479851485 £28.99 PB now £20.29

Creative Union

The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939–1953 KIRIL TOMOFF

Drawing on untapped archives, this title shows how the Union of Soviet Composers established control over the music profession and negotiated the relationship between composers and the Communist Party leadership.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2018 12 tables 336pp 9781501731211 £25.99 PB now £18.19

Der Nister’s Soviet Years

Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People MIKHAIL KRUTIKOV

This title focuses on the second half of the dramatic writing career of Soviet Yiddish writer Der Nister, pen name of Pinhas Kahanovich. It follows Der Nister’s painful but ultimately successful literary transformation from his symbolist roots to social realism under severe ideological pressure from Soviet critics.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Jews in Eastern Europe April 2019 5 b&w 312pp 9780253041876 £33.00 PB now £23.10

Eastbound through Siberia Observations from the Great Northern Expedition GEORG WILHELM STELLER

FOREWORD BY JONATHAN C. SLAGHT TRANSLATED BY MARGRITT A. ENGEL & KAREN E. WILLMORE

Stellar’s secret expedition to the far reaches of Siberia as a member of the Great Northern Expedition.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2020 12 b&w illus., 3 maps 264pp 9780253047786 £25.99 PB now £18.19

Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands EDITED BY KRISTA A. GOFF & LEWIS H. SIEGELBAUM

Engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2019 10 b&w halftones, 2 maps, 2 charts 282pp 9781501736131 £47.00 HB now £32.99

Empire of Friends

Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia RACHEL APPLEBAUM

Applebaum shows how the Soviet Union simultaneously promoted a

policy of transnational friendship with its Eastern Bloc satellites to create a cohesive socialist world.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2019 12 b&w halftones 294pp 9781501735578 £43.00 HB now £30.10

From Pugwash to Putin

A Critical History of US–Soviet Scientific Cooperation GERSON S SHER

For 60 years, scientists from the US and Soviet Union participated in stateorganized programs of collaboration. .

Provides a detailed and critical assessment of what worked, what didn’t, and why it matters.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2019 2 b&w illus., 4 tables 318pp 9780253042620 £34.00 PB now £23.80

From Russia with Code Programming Migrations in PostSoviet Times EDITED BY MARIO BIAGIOLI & VINCENT ANTONIN LÉPINAY

Examines Russian computer scientists, programmers, and hackers in and outside of Russia within the context of new international labor markets and the economic, technological, and political changes in post-Soviet Russia.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2019 384pp 9781478002994 £23.99 PB now £16.79

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Generation Stalin

French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality ANDREW SOBANET

Highlights the role French writers played in building Stalin’s cult of personality and in disseminating Stalinist propaganda in the international Communist sphere, including within the USSR. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2018 21 b & w 312pp 9780253038210 £65.00 HB now £45.50

International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy Encounters in Postwar BosniaHerzegovina ANDREW GILBERT

Argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of encounters, focusing on the relations of difference and inequality, and the question of legitimacy that permeate such encounters.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS August 2020 7 b&w halftones 264pp 9781501750267 £43.00 HB now £30.10

Journeys through the Russian Empire

The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky WILLIAM CRAFT BRUMFIELD

Features hundreds of full-color images of Russian architecture and landscapes taken by early-twentieth-century photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

juxtaposed against those of contemporary photographer and scholar William Craft Brumfield.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2020 409 illus., incl. 398 in color 536pp 9781478006022 £43.00 HB now £30.10

Life Is Elsewhere

Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 ANNE LOUNSBERY

Shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"—a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies November 2019 2 maps 360pp 9781501747922 £24.99 PB now £17.49

Making Uzbekistan

Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR ADEEB KHALID

Chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. Explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2019 8 halftones, 4 maps 444pp 9781501735851 £23.99 PB now £16.79

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March 1917 The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2 ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN TRANSLATED BY MARIAN SCHWARTZ

First time translated into English, Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution. The action of Book 2 (of four) of March 1917 is set during March 13–15, 1917.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS Series: The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series November 2019 728pp 9780268106850 £33.99 HB now £23.79

Mixed Messages

Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia KATHRYN E. GRABER

Focusing on language and media in Asian Russia, particularly in Buryat territories, Graber engages debates about the role of minority media in society, alternative visions of modernity, and the impact of media on everyday language use.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS August 2020 18 b&w halftones, 3 maps 288pp 9781501750519 £24.99 PB now £17.49

Narkomania

Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine JENNIFER J. CARROLL

Against the backdrop of a post-Soviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, considers whether substance use disorders are

everywhere the same and whether our responses to drug use presuppose what kind of people those who use drugs really are.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2019 14 b&w halftones 252pp 9781501736926 £21.99 PB now £15.39

On the Threshold of Eurasia Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus LEAH FELDMAN

Identifying the role of Russian and Soviet Orientalism in shaping the formation of a specifically Eurasian imaginary, examines connections between avant-garde literary works; Orientalist historical, geographic and linguistic texts; and political essays.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2018 3 b&w halftones 282pp 9781501726507 £52.00 HB now £36.40

Photographic Literacy Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors KATHERINE M. H. REISCHL

A primer on photographic literacy, Reischl argues for the central place that photography has played in the formation of the Russian literary imagination over seventy years.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2018 20 color photos, 78 b&w halftones 320pp 9781501724367 £43.00 HB now £30.10

Plots against Russia Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism ELIOT BORENSTEIN

An original and timely assessment of paranoia in contemporary Russia, samples popular fiction, movies, television shows, public political pronouncements, internet discussions, blogs, and religious tracts to build a sense of the deep historical and cultural roots of konspirologiia that run through Russian life.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2019 306pp 9781501735776 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Politics under the Influence

Vodka and Public Policy in Putin’s Russia ANNA L. BAILEY

Drawing on a wide range of sources including fieldwork interviews, government documents, media articles, and opinion polls, Bailey reveals the many ambivalences, informal practices, and paradoxes in contemporary Russian politics.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2018 6 graphs 264pp 9781501724404 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Remains of Socialism

Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary MAYA NADKARNI

In Remains of Socialism, Maya Nadkarni investigates the changing fates of the socialist past in

postsocialist Hungary. She introduces the concept of "remains"—both physical objects and cultural remainders—to analyze all that Hungarians sought to leave behind after the end of state socialism.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2020 13 b&w halftones 256pp 9781501750182 £23.99 PB now £16.79

Russia’s Entangled Embrace

The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801-1914 STEPHEN BADALYAN RIEGG

Russia's Entangled Embrace traces the relationship between the Romanov state and the Armenian diaspora that populated Russia's territorial fringes and navigated the tsarist empire's metropolitan centers.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2020 6 b&w halftones, 3 maps 320pp 9781501750113 £46.00 HB now £32.20

Russian Colonization of Alaska

Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 1741-1799 ANDREI VAL’TEROVICH GRINËV TRANSLATED BY RICHARD L. BLAND

This title is the first comprehensive study to analyze the origin and evolution of Russian colonization based on research into political economy, history, and ethnography.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS November 2018 3 photos, 4 illus., 1 map, 1 glossary, 1 appendix, index 354pp 9781496207623 £60.00 HB now £42.00

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Russian Conservatism PAUL ROBINSON

Russian Conservatism examines the history of Russian conservative thought from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present.

Conservatism has made an underappreciated contribution to Russian national identity, to the ideology of Russian statehood, and to Russia's social-economic development.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies October 2019 300pp 9781501747342 £34.00 HB now £23.80

Russian Hajj

Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca EILEEN KANE

The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it not only as a liability, but also an opportunity.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2020 29 b&w halftones, 6 maps 258pp 9781501748509 £18.99 PB now £13.29

Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy

Religion, Politics, and Strategy DMITRY ADAMSKY

Considers how the Russian Orthodox Church has worked its way into the nuclear forces, the most significant wing of one of the world’s most

powerful military organizations.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2019 376pp 9781503608641 £24.99 PB now £17.49

Seasoned Socialism

Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life EDITED BY ANASTASIA LAKHTIKOVA, ANGELA BRINTLINGER & IRINA GLUSHCHENKO

Examines late Soviet everyday culture focused around the relationship between gender and food. From personal cookbooks to gulag survival strategies, considers gender construction and performance across a wide array of primary sources.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2019 19 color illus., 1 b&w illus 390pp 9780253040961 £28.99 PB now £20.29

Second World, Second Sex Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War KRISTEN GHODSEE

Recuperates the lost history of feminist activism from the so-called Second World, showing how women from socialist Bulgaria and socialist-leaning Zambia created networks and alliances that challenged American women’s leadership of the global women’s movement.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2019 42 illus. 328pp 9781478001812 £21.99 PB now £15.39

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Smoking under the Tsars

A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia TRICIA STARKS

Approaching tobacco from the perspective of users, producers, and objectors, this book provides an unparalleled view of Russia’s early adoption of smoking. Introduces the Russian version of the cigarette—the papirosa—and the sensory, medical, social, cultural, and gendered consequences of this unique style of tobacco use.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2018 6 b&w halftones, 41 color halftones, 4 maps 336pp 9781501722059 £37.00 HB now £25.90

Sputnik

The Shock of the Century PAUL DICKSON

Chronicles the dramatic events and developments leading up to and resulting from Sputnik’s launch. With groundbreaking, original research and many declassified documents, Sputnik offers a fascinating profile of the early American and Soviet space programs.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS October 2019 36 photos, 2 illus., 1 map, 1 appendix, index 324pp 9781496215727 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Stepchildren of the Shtetl

The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 18001939 NATAN M. MEIR

Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl from modernity to the eve of the Holocaust.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture July 2020 320pp 9781503613058 £24.99 PB now £17.49

Stuck on Communism

Memoir of a Russian Historian LEWIS H. SIEGELBAUM

This memoir by Siegelbaum, one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period, spans three continents and more than half a century—from the 1950s when his father was a victim of McCarthyism up through the implosion of the Soviet Union and beyond.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies November 2019 9 b&w halftones 216pp 9781501747373 £22.99 PB now £16.09

Tales from Albarado

Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania SMOKI MUSARAJ

This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century—from the 1950s when Lewis Siegelbaum's father was a victim of

McCarthyism up through the implosion of the Soviet Union and beyond.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS August 2020 12 b&w halftones 216pp 9781501750342 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Tatar Empire

Kazan’s Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia DANIELLE ROSS

Tatar Empire offers a more Muslimcentered narrative of Russian empire building, making clear the links between cultural reformism and Kazan Tatar participation in the Russian eastward expansion.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2020 288pp 9780253045713 £24.99 PB now £17.49

The House of Hemp and Butter A History of Old Riga KEVIN C. O’CONNOR

Founded as an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state, Riga was Old Livonia's greatest city and its indispensable port.

O’Connor gives a fantastic guide to a quintessentially European city located in one of the continent's more remote corners.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies November 2019 13 b&w halftones 342pp 9781501747687 £34.00 HB now £23.80

The Hungry Steppe

Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan SARAH CAMERON

Examines the Kazakh famine of 1930– 33 where more than 1.5 million people perished, a quarter of Kazakhstan’s population. Using historical documents and oral histories, Cameron reveals this brutal story and its devastating consequences for Kazakh society.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2018 14 b&w halftones 294pp 9781501730436 £43.00 HB now £30.10

The Palace Complex

A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed MICHAL MURAWSKI

The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was “gifted” to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Murawski traces the skyscraper’s powerful impact on 21st century Warsaw.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: New Anthropologies of Europe March 2019 115 illus. 366pp 9780253039965 £34.00 PB now £23.80

The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv

A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists TARIK CYRIL AMAR

Amar reveals the local and transnational forces behind the 20thcentury transformation of one of East Central Europe’s most important multiethnic borderland cities into a

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Soviet and Ukrainian urban center.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2019 14 halftones 372pp 9781501735806 £22.99 PB now £16.09

The Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy

France and Russia, 1848–1870 HEATHER L. BAILEY

Heather Bailey has presents a important study of the tumultuous Russian-French, and Roman CatholicOrthodox, relationship.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies June 2020 312pp 9781501749513 £47.00 HB now £32.90

The Socialist Good Life Desire, Development, and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe EDITED BY CRISTOFER SCARBORO, DIANA MINCYTE & ZSUZSA GILLE

From Polish VCRs to Ukrainian fashion boutiques, tropical fruits in the GDR to cinemas in Belgrade, explores what consumption means in a worker state where communist ideology emphasizes collective needs over individual pleasures.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2020 7 b&w illus., 1 table 280pp 9780253047793 £25.99 PB now £18.19

The Vanishing Generation

Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan BAGILA BUKHARBAYEVA

Incorporating both journal entries and first-hand reporting, provides a rare and unforgettable story of what life is like today inside the secretive country of Uzbekistan. With harrowing stories of extremism, Bukharbayeva gives a voice to victims whose stories would never otherwise be heard.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2019 23 b&w 260pp 9780253040817 £31.00 PB now £21.70

This Thing of Darkness Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia JOAN NEUBERGER

Groundbreaking new view of Sergei Eisenstein’s unfinished masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible. movie. Neuberger offers a sweeping account of the conception, making, and reception of Ivan the Terrible.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2019 34 b&w halftones 424pp 9781501732768 £42.00 HB now £29.40

Voices from the Soviet Edge Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow JEFF SAHADEO

Reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow. Focuses on the hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks,

Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, and others who arrived toward the end of the Soviet era, seeking opportunity.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2019 10 b&w halftones 288pp 9781501738203 £37.00 HB now £25.90

Whose Bosnia?

Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840– 1914 EDIN HAJDARPASIC

As the site of the assassination that triggered WWI and the place where the term “ethnic cleansing” was invented during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, Bosnia has become a symbol of nationalist conflict and ethnic division. Whose Bosnia? reveals the political pressures and arguments that made this land a prime target of escalating nationalist activity.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2019 11 halftones, 3 maps 288pp 9781501735813 £23.99 PB now £16.79

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Deaf in the USSR

Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991 CLAIRE L. SHAW

Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2017 310pp 9781501713668 £41.00 HB now £28.70

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