This updated new edition of Sheila Fitzpatrick’s classic short history of the Russian Revolution takes into account the centenary of the Revolution in 2017 and what it means today.

Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy…

Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin’s…

Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin’s…

This book examines the early years of a disunited Russian-Australian community and how Australian-Soviet intelligence agencies attempted to track and influence them. While anti-Communist Russians dreamed a war of liberation…

This is a history of Soviet education policy 1921-34 that places emphasis upon the theme of social mobility through education. A focal point of the book is the educational policies…

These essays rethink the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality…