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Agents of Terror
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Agents of Terror
Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin’s Secret Police
Alexander Vatlin
Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Seth Bernstein
Foreword by Oleg Khlevniuk

Primed for Violence
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Primed for Violence
Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland
Paul Brykczynski
Spring 2016

The Invisible Jewish Budapest
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The Invisible Jewish Budapest
Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle
Mary Gluck
Spring 2016

How Russia Learned to Write
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How Russia Learned to Write
Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks
Irina Reyfman
Spring 2016

My Sister’s Mother
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My Sister’s Mother
A Memoir
Donna Solecka Urbikas
Spring 2016

An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia
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An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia
DeWitt Clinton Poole, Edited by Lorraine M. Lees and William S. Rodner
Fall 2014

Russian-Ottoman Borderlands
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Russian-Ottoman Borderlands
The Eastern Question Reconsidered
Edited by Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky
Spring 2014

The First Epoch
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The First Epoch
The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination
Luba Golburt
Spring 2014

Thinking Orthodox in Modern Russia
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Thinking Orthodox in Modern Russia
Culture, History, Context
Edited by Patrick Lally Michelson and Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Spring 2014

Innocence and Victimhood
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Innocence and Victimhood
Gender, Nation, and Women’s Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
Elissa Helms
Fall 2013

Scattered
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Scattered
The Forced Relocation of Poland’s Ukrainians after World War II
Diana Howansky Reilly
Spring 2013

The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa
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The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa
A Community in Belarus, 1625–2000
Albert Kaganovitch
Fall 2012

From the Womb to the Body Politic
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From the Womb to the Body Politic
Raising the Nation in Enlightenment Russia
Anna Kuxhausen
Fall 2012

The Worlds of Russian Village Women
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The Worlds of Russian Village Women
Tradition, Transgression, Compromise
Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva
Fall 2012

Liberals under Autocracy
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Liberals under Autocracy
Modernization and Civil Society in Russia, 1866–1904
Anton A. Fedyashin
Spring 2012

Hooligans in Khrushchev’s Russia
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Hooligans in Khrushchev’s Russia
Defining, Policing, and Producing Deviance during the Thaw
Brian LaPierre
Spring 2012

When Pigs Could Fly and Bears Could Dance
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When Pigs Could Fly and Bears Could Dance
A History of the Soviet Circus
Miriam Neirick
Spring 2012

My Father’s Books
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My Father’s Books
Luan Starova, Translated by Christina E. Kramer
Spring 2012

The Elusive Empire
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The Elusive Empire
Kazan and the Creation of Russia, 1552–1671
Matthew P. Romaniello
Fall 2011

A Promise at Sobibór
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A Promise at Sobibór
A Jewish Boy’s Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Philip “Fiszel” Bialowitz, with Joseph Bialowitz
Fall 2010

<em>Petersburg</em>/Petersburg
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Petersburg/Petersburg
Novel and City, 1900–1921
Edited by Olga Matich
Fall 2010

From the Shadow of Empire
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From the Shadow of Empire
Defining the Russian Nation through Cultural Mythology, 1855–1870
Olga Maiorova
Spring 2010

Four Russian Serf Narratives
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Four Russian Serf Narratives
Translated, edited, and with an introduction by John MacKay
Fall 2009

Russia’s Rome
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Russia’s Rome
Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 1890–1940
Judith E. Kalb
Fall 2008

The Body Soviet
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The Body Soviet
Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State
Tricia Starks
Fall 2008

Jews and Other Germans
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Jews and Other Germans
Civil Society, Religious Diversity, and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860–1925
Till van Rahden
Spring 2008

Cataclysms
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Cataclysms
A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge
Dan Diner, Translated by William Templer with Joel Golb
Fall 2007

Derzhavin
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Derzhavin
A Biography
Vladislav Khodasevich, Translated by Angela Brintlinger
Fall 2007

Times of Trouble
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Times of Trouble
Violence in Russian Literature and Culture
Edited by Marcus C. Levitt and Tatyana Novikov
Fall 2007

Plotting History
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Plotting History
The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age
Dan Ungurianu
Fall 2007

The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
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The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
Book Three: The Cattle Cars Are Waiting, 1942–1944
Chava Rosenfarb, Translated from the Yiddish by the author in collaboration with Goldie Morgentaler
Fall 2006

The Warsaw Uprising of 1944
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The Warsaw Uprising of 1944
Włodzimierz Borodziej, Translated by Barbara Harshav
Fall 2005

Epic Revisionism
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Epic Revisionism
Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda
Edited by Kevin M. F. Platt and David Brandenberger
Fall 2005

The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
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The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
Book Two: From the Depths I Call You, 1940–1942
Chava Rosenfarb, Translated from the Yiddish by the author in collaboration with Goldie Morgentaler
Fall 2005

In the Land of Orpheus
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In the Land of Orpheus
Rural Livelihoods and Nature Conservation in Postsocialist Bulgaria
Barbara A. Cellarius
Fall 2004

The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
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The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
Book One: On the Brink of the Precipice, 1939
Chava Rosenfarb, Translated from the Yiddish by the author in collaboration with Goldie Morgentaler
Fall 2004

Stalin, the Russians, and Their War
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Stalin, the Russians, and Their War
1941–1945
Marius Broekmeyer, Translated by Rosalind Buck
Spring 2004

Doubly Chosen
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Doubly Chosen
Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Fall 2003

A Match Made in Hell
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A Match Made in Hell
The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the Nazis
Larry Stillman, From the testimony of Morris Goldner
Fall 2003

Parachutes, Patriots, and Partisans
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Parachutes, Patriots, and Partisans
The Special Operations Executive and Yugoslavia, 1941–1945
Heather Williams
Fall 2003

Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality
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Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality
The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Czarist Russia, 1892–1914
Joshua D. Zimmerman
Fall 2003

Hidden
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Hidden
A Sister and Brother in Nazi Poland
Fay Walker and Leo Rosen, with Caren S. Neile
Fall 2002

Russian Religious Thought
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Russian Religious Thought
Edited by Judith Deutsch Kornblatt and Richard Gustafson
Fall 1996

After the USSR
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After the USSR
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Anatoly M. Khazanov
Fall 1995

Nomads and the Outside World
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Nomads and the Outside World
Anatoly M. Khazanov, Translated by Julia Crookenden; with a Foreword by Ernest Gellner and a new Introduction and Bibliography by the author
Spring 1994

Feeding the Russian Fur Trade
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Feeding the Russian Fur Trade
Provisionment of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula, 1639–1856
James R. Gibson
Fall 1969

Rude and Barbarous Kingdom
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Rude and Barbarous Kingdom
Russia in the Accounts of Sixteenth-Century English Voyagers
Edited by Lloyd E. Berry and Robert O. Crummey
Spring 1968

John Ledyard’s Journey through Russia and Siberia, 1787–1788
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John Ledyard’s Journey through Russia and Siberia, 1787–1788
The Journal and Selected Letters
Edited by Stephen D. Watrous
Fall 1966

Siberian Journey
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Siberian Journey
Down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856–1857
Perry McDonough Collins, Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Vevier
Fall 1962