pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

The book is structured around an analysis of diplomatic records and secondary sources, which Furr uses to challenge the ...

MOSCOW, Nov 18 (Reuters) - A call by President Vladimir Putin for a new textbook that reconciles differences over Russia's past has left him facing accusations of copying Soviet leaders by rewriting ...

“It was very striking to me the ways in which the Soviet past reverberated in the present,” Tyler Kirk said, discussing his his travels in Russia. “It was very present there.” Kirk, a tenured history ...

This book review appeared in the Spring 1996 issue of The Independent Review. Scott Shane’s book deals with the major event of the late twentieth century: the demise of Soviet socialism. Having been a ...

This highly readable biography portrays the life of Mikhail Pokrovskii, a Marxist historian, prominent early-­ twentieth-century Russian revolutionary, and close comrade of Lenin and Trotsky.

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...

Khazanov’s detailed research focuses on the “anti-Soviet discourse on the pre-Soviet past.” Based on the work of the late Soviet thinkers, writers, poets, and filmmakers, he discovers that, as early ...

The overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev from the posts of first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and the leader of the Soviet state in October 1964 was an unprecedented event in the history of the ...