Books published by Campus Verlag

The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society - they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. This title shows, the Soviet leadership used sports as one of the primary arenas in which to deploy.

In years many Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have settled in Germany and Israel. This title conducts an interdisciplinary investigation into the ways in which such immigrants manage their multiple, overlapping identities - as Jews, Russians, and citizens of their newly adopted nations.

Includes articles that address the notion that political space is no longer fully congruent with national borders. Organized into three sections - transnational actors, transnational spaces, and critical encounters - this title explains how transnational political spaces are formed and defined and how they can be traced and conceptualized.

Deals with the two central components of work in history: archiving and narrating. This title argues that archival resources, despite their air of impartiality, are the product of established interests and subject to various practices of selection, cataloguing, and preservation.

The course of human lives in Western society is inescapably shaped by political, cultural, and economic factors. This title collects articles that offer a range of theoretical and empirical studies of conceptions of the life course. Drawing on research from North America and Europe, it is suitable for those studying human development.

Addresses the Spanish Civil War's role in the development of total war. Examining such topics as military violence, the experience of war, and the culture of war, this anthology traces how the differentiation between civilian and military sectors crumbled with the onset of civil war.

A collection of essays, which analyze historical revisionism in politics, historiography, education, and the media. It demonstrates how and why historical events have been reevaluated in specific social, political, and cultural contexts.

Since the Baltic nations joined the European Union, debates about reorganizing post-Soviet republics have grown increasingly heated. Based on ethnographies and archival work, this work offers insights into shifts in national identity, cultural geography, and symbolic boundaries.

Focusing on Warsaw after 1990, this volume explores the interplay between Warsaw' past urban identities and urban change. This book departs from narratives of postsocialist cities in Eastern Europe by contextualizing Warsaw' transformation in terms of both global change and shifting geographies of centrality and marginality in contemporary Poland.