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Factory and Community in Stalin’s Russia

|9780822985846|The Making of an Industrial Working Class| Kenneth Straus weaves together many threads in Russian social history to develop a new theory of working-class formation in the years of Stalin’s…

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Drugs on the Page

…bodies as a means to standardize therapeutic practice, were particularly important to scientific and colonial enterprises. They served, in part, as tools for making sense of encounters with a diversity…

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Greetings from Novorossiya

…view of history in the making brings to life the tragedy of Ukraine for a Western audience. Historian Timothy Snyder provides wider context in his superb introduction and explores the…

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Stalinist Confessions

and their place in the greatest society in history. Confessing to trumped-up charges, comrades made willing sacrifices to their belief in socialism and the necessity of finding and making examples…

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Immigration, Integration, and Security

|9780822959847|America and Europe in Comparative Perspective| Recent acts of terrorism in Britain and Europe and the events of 9/11 in the United States have greatly influenced immigration, security, and integration…

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