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Books in the Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies series

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  • by Gabor Rittersporn
    £42.49

    Anguish, Anger, and Folkways in Soviet Russia offers original perspectives on the politics of everyday life in the Soviet Union by closely examining the coping mechanisms individuals and leaders alike developed as they grappled with the political, social, and intellectual challenges the system presented before and after World War II.

  • - Balkan Community Building and the Fear of Freedom
    by Tatjana Aleksic
    £35.99

    Tatjana Aleksic examines the widespread use of the sacrificial metaphor in cultural texts and its importance to sustaining communal ideologies in the Balkan region.

  • - Imperial Visions and Utopian Desires, 1905-1941
    by James E. Casteel
    £35.99

    Traces transformations in German views of Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, leading up to the disastrous German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Casteel shows how Russia figured in the imperial visions and utopian desires of a variety of Germans, including scholars, journalists, travel writers, government and military officials, as well as nationalist activists.

  • - A Novel of Liberals and Radicals in 1860s Russia
    by Vasily Sleptsov
    £15.99

    This is the first English translation of an important Russian social novel (published in 1865) that enjoyed great popularity in its day, the period of Tsar Alexander's great reforms.

  • - One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror
    by Richard G. Robbins
    £35.99

  • - The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism
    by Siobahn Doucette
    £38.99

    Books Are Weapons shows how the independent press, rooted in the long Polish tradition of well-organized resistance to foreign occupation, reshaped this tradition to embrace non-violent civil resistance while creating a network which evolved from a small group of dissidents into a broad opposition movement with cross-national ties and millions of sympathizers. It was the galvanizing force in the resistance to communism and the rebuilding of Poland's democratic society in the 1980s.--

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