|9780822968030|Water and Culture in Eurasian History|Bodies of water have played myriad roles in human history—as cultural landmarks, foundation myths and origin stories, symbols of identity, sources of political legitimacy, and as ways of constructing shared values. Focusing on the rivers, lakes, glaciers, and seas of Eurasia—including China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Central Asia, the tsarist empire, and the Soviet Union—Fluid Worlds investigates water’s role in human culture, from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first. As the authors of this edited collection show, political authority, social status, and cultural importance have been core categories for producing knowledge about water. Ultimately, how humans…

|9780822949046|Water and Culture in Eurasian History|Bodies of water have played myriad roles in human history—as cultural landmarks, foundation myths and origin stories, symbols of identity, sources of political legitimacy, and as ways of constructing shared values. Focusing on the rivers, lakes, glaciers, and seas of Eurasia—including China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Central Asia, the tsarist empire, and the Soviet Union—Fluid Worlds investigates water’s role in human culture, from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first. As the authors of this edited collection show, political authority, social status, and cultural importance have been core categories for producing knowledge about water. Ultimately, how humans…

|9780822967910|Petrograd 1919|Petrograd, the imperial capital and the urban stage upon which virtually the entire Russian Revolution was enacted, in 1919 struggled through a year of civil war, hunger, social upheaval, and political and economic challenges. Based on exhaustive research in previously closed Russian archives, Alexander Rabinowitch authoritatively presents an in depth look at how Petrograd’s local Soviet government and Bolshevik Party organizations struggled to implement the Bolshevik Party program, fight domestic and foreign counterrevolutionaries, quiet labor unrest, and provide food, fuel, and education to the local population. The methods and strategies used by the government and party organizations to organize…

|9780822949039|Petrograd 1919|Petrograd, the imperial capital and the urban stage upon which virtually the entire Russian Revolution was enacted, in 1919 struggled through a year of civil war, hunger, social upheaval, and political and economic challenges. Based on exhaustive research in previously closed Russian archives, Alexander Rabinowitch authoritatively presents an in depth look at how Petrograd’s local Soviet government and Bolshevik Party organizations struggled to implement the Bolshevik Party program, fight domestic and foreign counterrevolutionaries, quiet labor unrest, and provide food, fuel, and education to the local population. The methods and strategies used by the government and party organizations to organize…

|9780822967637|Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and Its Western Friends, 1973-1998|Before Hungary’s transition from communism to democracy, local dissidents and like-minded intellectuals, activists, and academics from the West influenced each other and inspired the fight for human rights and civil liberties in Eastern Europe. Hungarian dissidents provided Westerners with a new purpose and legitimized their public interventions in a bipolar world order. The Making of Dissidents demonstrates how Hungary’s Western friends shaped public perceptions and institutionalized their advocacy long before the peaceful revolutions of 1989. But liberalism failed to take root in Hungary, and Victoria Harms explores how many former dissidents retreated and…