Black Earth, White Bread
A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food
Susanne A. Wengle
An important interdisciplinary history of Russia’s agriculture and food systems that documents far-reaching changes on farms, along with their effects on ordinary people and for successive political regimes.
16 May 2023 304pp
9780299335441 £22.99 PB
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Charlottengrad
Russian Culture in Weimar Berlin
Roman Utkin
As many as half a million Russians lived in Germany in the 1920s, most of them in Berlin, clustered around the Charlottenburg neighborhood which became known as Charlottengrad. Utkin explores how community members balanced their sense of Russianness with their position in a modern city.
Modern War Studies
30 November 2024 328pp
9780299344443 £24.99 PB
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS
Cinema of Sincerity
Soviet Films and Culture During the Thaw
Viktoria Paranyuk
With Khruschev’s acknowledgment of Stalin’s crimes in 1956, sincerity emerged as a cultural imperative in the Soviet Union. The cinema of this period turned inward, insisting on ordinary characters and creating a sense of spontaneity. These changes reestablished the trust that had been corrupted by serving Stalin’s cult of personality.
Wisconsin Film Studies
31 December 2025 256pp 39 b&w Illus
9780299354602 £72.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Echoes of Exile
A Family's Odyssey through the Holocaust and Cold War
Daniela Spenser
Traces the lives of the authors parents and grandparents of Czech, Polish, and German descent. Enhancing and humanizing extensive archival research brings complex political history to vivid life in the story of one family's struggle to survive.
War, Memory, and Culture
30 July 2025 312pp
9780817362119 £26.99 PB
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
Ethnicizing Europe
Hate and Violence After Versailles
Edited by Éva Kovács, Raul Cârstocea & Gábor Egry
Focuses on the dynamics of interethnic violence in Europe between the two world wars. This book demonstrates how ethnicization, the legal concepts of citizenship, and violence were intertwined in post-Versailles Europe.
Central European Studies
15 July 2025 308pp
9781626711211
£42.00 PB
PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe
History Doesn't Travel in One Direction
Edited by Jill Massino & Markus Wien
The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change. Focusing on labourers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students and emigrants, this book explores these changes and people’s varied experiences of them.
Central European Studies
30 September 2024 304pp
9781612499703 £42.00 PB
PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stalks
of Grain
In 1932, as famine rages across Ukraine, the Soviet government calls for the harshest punishment for those who keep for themselves even five stalks of grain. When their mother is accused of hoarding and summarily killed, Nadia and Taras must leave their home on a desperate quest for survival. Historical fiction at its finest.
Brave & Brilliant
15 January 2024 152pp
9781773853758 £21.99 PB
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY PRESS
Flowing Progress
Transforming
the Danube Through Infrastructure
Edited by Stefan Dorondel & Luminita Gatejel
Focuses on how different political regimes and forms of governance have imagined and technologically transformed the most international river in the world.
Central European Studies
15 August 2025 276pp
9781626711174 £38.00 PB
PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
From Metaphor to Direct Speech
Contemporary Russophone Drama and Performance Theory
E. Susanna Weygandt New Drama, which began in the tumult following the collapse of the Soviet Union and continues even in an increasingly censorious Russia today, emphasizes contemporary social issues and privileges disadvantaged voices, using documentary modes to literally bring the voices of the dispossessed to the ears of the audience members.
28 February 2025 256pp 32 b&w Illus
9780299351403 £72.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal Snapshots from the East of Ukraine Oleksandr Mykhed
Invites us to meet generations of Ukrainian coal miners. To remember the harrowing events of twentieth century conflict and the incalculable brutality of Soviet history. Mykhed provides a unique portrait of life in the east during the war, before the fullscale invasion that would change everything.
31 May 2025 344pp
9780810148543 £20.99 PB
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Legitimating Nationalism
Political Identity in Russia's Ethnic Republics
Katie L. Stewart
Investigates how nation building works on the ground through close studies of three of Russia’s ethnic republics: Karelia, Tatarstan, and Buryatia. Understanding how the project of legitimating nationalism works in practice offers crucial context in understanding the shape and story of contemporary Russia.
30 June 2024 208pp
9780299347703 £72.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Of Lodz and Love
Chava Rosenfarb
Visits themes of pre-Holocaust Poland, economic and political oppression, and of the upheavals that would herald a new Jewish national and political awakening. The story takes Yacov, son of Hindele, and Binele, the daughter of the chalk vendor Yossele Abedale, to the industrial town of Lodz during the first years of Poland's independence, both before and after the country entered the war with the Bolsheviks.
Library of Modern Jewish Literature
30 April 2025 362pp
9780815611752 £14.99 PB
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS
On the Road to High Modernity
Public Festivities in the Bohemian Crown Lands
Traces the modernization of public festivities during the nineteenth century, focusing on the Bohemian Crown Lands of the Habsburg Monarchy. Festivities were instrumental in promoting various agendas within the intricate landscape of Central European identity politics—be it nationalist aspirations, monarchical loyalty, class interests, or religious affiliations.
Central European Studies
15 February 2026 332pp
9781626711433 £42.00 PB
PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Russia's Army
A History from the Napoleonic
Wars
to
the War in Ukraine
Roger R. Reese Explores from the Imperial Russian Army to the army of the Russian Federation, confronted the state’s foreign policy challengesprojecting power, defending the empireand the domestic challenge of containing internal unrest generated by nationalism, ethnic and religious identities, and political discontent.
Campaigns and Commanders Series
3 October 2023 240pp
9780806192758 £27.99 HB
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
Russia's War Against Ukraine
The Whole Story
Mark Edele
PUBLISHING
Russian Style
In February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a fellow East Slav state with much shared history. Mark Edele, a world authority on the history of the Soviet Union, explains why and how this conflict came about.
31 August 2023 192pp
9780522879834 £10.99 PB
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY
30 June 2025 270pp
Julie A. Cassiday
As the West liberalized its stance on sexuality and gender between 2000 and 2020, Vladimir Putin’s Russia moved in the opposite direction, remolding the performance of Russian citizenship according to a neoconservative agenda characterized by increasingly exaggerated gender roles.
9780299346744 £24.99 PB
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Spetsnaz
A History of the Soviet and Russian Special Forces
Tor Bukkvoll
Presents the first in-depth history of the Soviet, and, later, Russian special operations forces from their establishment until today. He focuses on three broad topics: Soviet and later Russian thinking on the use of special operations forces; the process of constructing these forces; and the use of these forces in combat.
Modern War Studies
31 December 2024 328pp
9780700637911 £27.99 PB
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS
Thunder
Cross Fascist Antisemitism in TwentiethCentury Latvia
Paula A. Oppermann Founded in 1932, the Pńrkonkrusts (“Thunder Cross”) was the largest and most prominent rightwing political party in Latvia in the early twentieth century. he antisemitism at the core of the Pńrkonkrusts’ ideology remained a driving force for Latvian fascists throughout the twentieth century, persisting despite shifting historical and political contexts.
George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
21 October 2025 280pp 16 b&w Illus
9780299353100 £64.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
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Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism
