UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: When the Soviet Union entered world politics Author: Jacobson, Jon 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Politics \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union. Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Bread and authority in Russia, 1914-1921 Author: Lih, Lars T Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1914 and 1921, Russia experienced a national crisis that destroyed the tsarist state and led to the establishment of the new Bolshevik order. During this period of war, revolution, and civil war, there was a food-supply crisis. Although Russia was one of the world's major grain exporters, th . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: And now my soul is hardened: abandoned children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930 Author: Ball, Alan M Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Warfare, epidemics, and famine left millions of Soviet children homeless during the 1920s. Many became beggars, prostitutes, and thieves, and were denizens of both secluded underworld haunts and bustling train stations. Alan Ball's study of these abandoned children examines their lives and the strat . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Iconography of power: Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin Author: Bonnell, Victoria E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology \| Popular Culture \| European Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Politics \| Art Criticism \| History \| European History Publisher's Description: Masters at visual propaganda, the Bolsheviks produced thousands of vivid and compelling posters after they seized power in October 1917. Intended for a semi-literate population that was accustomed to the rich visual legacy of the Russian autocracy and the Orthodox Church, political posters came to o . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The collective and the individual in Russia: a study of practices Author: Kharkhordin, Oleg 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Social Theory \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia. Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, Kharkhordin demonstrates that Party rituals - which forced eac . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Culture of the future: the Proletkult movement in revolutionary Russia Author: Mally, Lynn Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Just days before the October 1917 Revolution, the Proletkult was formed in Petrograd to serve as an umbrella organization for numerous burgeoning working-class cultural groups. Advocates of the Proletkult hoped to devise new forms of art, education, and social relations that would express the spirit . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Surviving freedom: after the Gulag Author: Bardach, Janusz Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| European Studies \| Sociology \| Politics \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Autobiography Publisher's Description: In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belarussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was one of millions swept up in the reign of terror that Stalin perpetrated on his o . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Leningrad: shaping a Soviet city Author: Ruble, Blair A 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action. Nowhere has this process of state intervention gone further than in the Soviet Union. This volume explores the ways in which local and regional politic . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Russia's women: accommodation, resistance, transformation Author: Clements, Barbara Evans 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Women's Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women - and women's reactions to these efforts - have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original essays challenge a host of traditional as . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The enigma of 1989: the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe Author: Lévesque, Jacques Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The Soviet external empire fell in 1989 virtually without bloodshed. The domino-like collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe was not anticipated by political experts in either the East or the West. Most surprising of all was the Soviet Union's permissive reactions to the secession. For t . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: An American engineer in Stalin's Russia: the memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934 Author: Witkin, Zara 1900-1940 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Autobiography \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In 1932 Zara Witkin, a prominent American engineer, set off for the Soviet Union with two goals: to help build a society more just and rational than the bankrupt capitalist system at home, and to seek out the beautiful film star Emma Tsesarskaia.His memoirs offer a detailed view of Stalin's bureaucr . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Soviet perceptions of the United States Author: Schwartz, Morton Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Politics Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Gorbachev phenomenon: a historical interpretation Author: Lewin, Moshe 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Sociology \| Politics \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The "Gorbachev phenomenon" is seen as the product of complex developments during the last seventy years - developments that changed the Soviet Union from a primarily agrarian society into an urban, industrial one. Here, for the first time, a noted authority on Soviet society identifies the crucial h . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Russia's last capitalists: the Nepmen, 1921-1929 Author: Ball, Alan M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political backgrou . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Stalin's forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the making of a Soviet Jewish homeland: an illustrated history, 1928-1996 Author: Weinberg, Robert E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| History \| Politics \| Judaism Publisher's Description: Robert Weinberg and Bradley Berman's carefully documented and extensively illustrated book explores the Soviet government's failed experiment to create a socialist Jewish homeland. In 1934 an area popularly known as Birobidzhan, a sparsely populated region along the Sino-Soviet border some five thou . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lise Meitner: a life in physics Author: Sime, Ruth Lewin 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Science \| Physics \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Women's Studies \| History \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became a prominent member of the international physi . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Magnetic mountain: Stalinism as a civilization Author: Kotkin, Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly ag . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reds or rackets?: the making of radical and conservative unions on the waterfront Author: Kimeldorf, Howard Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Sociology \| United States History \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Why is the American working class different? For generations, scholars and activists alike have wrestled with this question, with an eye to explaining why workers in the United States are not more like their radicalized European counterparts. Approaching the question from a different angle, Reds or . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Bolshevik festivals, 1917-1920 Author: Von Geldern, James Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| European Literature \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In the early years of the USSR, socialist festivals - events entailing enormous expense and the deployment of thousands of people - were inaugurated by the Bolsheviks. Avant-garde canvases decorated the streets, workers marched, and elaborate mass spectacles were staged. Why, with a civil war raging . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sonia's daughters: prostitutes and their regulation in imperial Russia Author: Bernstein, Laurie Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| European History \| European Studies \| Women's Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Prostitution in Imperial Russia was so tenacious that it survived not only the tsarist regime's most tumultuous years but the Bolshevik revolution itself. Laurie Bernstein's comprehensive study is the first to look at how the state and society responded to the issue of prostitution - the attitudes o . . . [more] Similar Items