BASEES 2023

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Conference

31 March – 2 April 2023

Combined Academic Publishers Virtual book Exhibit

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new & recently published books in Russian & east European studies

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Moscow's Heavy Shadow

The Violent Collapse of the USSR

Isaac McKean Scarborough

£54.00

Cornell University Press

15 August 2023

Gleaning for Communism

The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice

Xenia A. Cherkaev

£25.99

Cornell University Press

15 July 2023

Soviet Self-Hatred

The Secret Identities of Postsocialism in Contemporary Russia

Eliot Borenstein

£21.99

Cornell University Press

15 June 2023

Varieties of Russian Activism

State-Society Contestation in Everyday Life

Jeremy Morris, Andrei Semenov, Regina Smyth, Katie L. Stewart, Madeline McCann, Carola Neugebauer, Irina Shevtsova, Daniela Zupan, Irina Meyer-Olimpieva, Katherine Hitchcock, John P. Burgess, Anna Zhelnina, Anna A. Dekalchuk, Ivan S. Grigoriev, Eleonora Minaeva, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Guzel Yusupova, Elena Sirotkina, Jeremy Morris

£36.00

Indiana University Press

4 April 2023

From Chernobyl with Love

Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union

Katya Cengel

£18.99

Potomac Books

1 May 2023

Monuments for Posterity

Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time

Antony Kalashnikov

£47.00

Cornell University Press

15 April 2023

Everyday War

The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine

Greta Lynn Uehling

£29.99

Cornell University Press

15 February 2023

Georgian and Soviet

Entitled Nationhood and the Specter of Stalin in the Caucasus

Claire P. Kaiser

£42.00

Cornell University Press

15 January 2023

Communism's Public Sphere

Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany

Kyrill Kunakhovich

£45.00

Cornell University Press

15 January 2023

Jews in the Soviet Union: A History

War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945, Volume 3

Oleg Budnitskii, David Engel, Gennady Estraikh, Anna Shternshis

£29.99

NYU Press

20 December 2022

Jews in the Soviet Union: A History

After Stalin, 1953–1967, Volume 5

Gennady Estraikh

£29.99

NYU Press

20 December 2022

Nabokov Noir

Cinematic Culture and the Art of Exile

Luke Parker

£46.00

Cornell University Press

15 November 2022

Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine

Catherine Wanner

£23.99

Cornell University Press

15 November 2022

Recording Russia

Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century

Gabriella Safran

£47.00

Cornell University Press

15 November 2022

Beethoven in Russia

Music and Politics

Frederick W. Skinner

£34.00

Indiana University Press

1 November 2022

Creolizing the Modern

Transylvania across Empires

Anca Parvulescu, Manuela Boatcă

£34.00

Cornell University Press

15 October 2022

Entangled in Fear

Everyday Terror in Poland, 1944–1947

Marcin Zaremba, Maya Latynski

£33.00

Indiana University Press

6 September 2022

Night without End

The Fate of Jews in German-Occupied Poland

Jan Grabowski, Barbara Engelking, Alina Skibińska, Jean-Charles Szurek, Anna Zapalec, Karolina Panz, Tomasz Frydel, Dagmara Swałtek-Niewińska

£36.00

Indiana University Press

6 September 2022

Kosovo Liberation Army

The Inside Story of an Insurgency

Henry H. Perritt

£25.99

University of Illinois Press

30 August 2022

Architecture of Life

Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences

Alla Vronskaya

£29.99

University of Minnesota Press

23 August 2022

Arrested Development

The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968

Alessandro Iandolo

£53.00

Cornell University Press

15 August 2022

Places of Tenderness and Heat

The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg

Olga Petri

£47.00

Cornell University Press

15 June 2022

Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples

Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia

Adrienne Edgar

£52.00

Cornell University Press

15 May 2022

Party Politics in Russia and Ukraine

Electoral System Change in Diverging Regimes

Bryon Moraski

£29.99

NYU Press

7 June 2022

Soviet Nightingales

Care under Communism

Susan Grant

£23.99

Cornell University Press

15 April 2022

Ingredients of Change

The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria

Mary C. Neuburger

£26.99

Cornell University Press

15 April 2022

Ghosts of War

Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus

Franziska Exeler

£31.00

Cornell University Press

15 April 2022

Spatial Revolution

Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union

Christina E. Crawford

£34.00

Cornell University Press

15 February 2022

Atomic Steppe

How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb

Togzhan Kassenova

£27.99

Stanford University Press

15 February 2022

Galvanizing Nostalgia?

Indigeneity and Sovereignty in Siberia

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

£29.99

Cornell University Press

15 January 2022

Laboratory of Socialist Development

Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan

Artemy M. Kalinovsky

£26.99

Cornell University Press

15 November 2021

The Future of the Soviet Past

The Politics of History in Putin's Russia

Anton Weiss-Wendt, Nanci Adler, Kiril Feferman, Johanna Dahlin, Boris Noordenbos, Stephen M. Norris, Nikolay Koposov, George Soroka, Štěpán Černoušek, Ivan Kurilla, Nikita Petrov, Steven A. Barnes

£38.00

Indiana University Press

5 October 2021

Stalin's Quest for Gold

The Torgsin Hard-Currency Shops and Soviet Industrialization

Elena Osokina

£44.00

Cornell University Press

15 September 2021

Putin's Labor Dilemma

Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation

Stephen Crowley

£27.99

Cornell University Press

15 July 2021

Snapshots of the Soul

Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture

Molly Thomasy Blasing

£52.00

Cornell University Press

15 July 2021

Revising the Revolution

The Unmaking of Russia's Official History of 1917

Larry E. Holmes

£23.99

Indiana University Press

1 June 2021

The Cold War from the Margins

A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene

Theodora Dragostinova

£19.99

Cornell University Press

15 May 2021

Russia's Hero Cities

From Postwar Ruins to the Soviet Heroarchy

Ivo Mijnssen

£38.00

Indiana University Press

4 May 2021

Is Russia Fascist?

Unraveling Propaganda East and West

Marlene Laruelle

£38.00

Cornell University Press

15 March 2021

Mobilizing in Uncertainty

Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia

Anastasia Shesterinina

£47.00

Cornell University Press

15 March 2021

The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation

The Reichsgau Wartheland, 1939-1945

Jonathan Huener

£38.00

Indiana University Press

16 February 2021

The Socialist Good Life

Desire, Development, and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe

Cristofer Scarboro, Diana Mincyte, Zsuzsa Gille

£27.99

Indiana University Press

2 June 2020

The Burden of the Past

History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

Anna Wylegała, Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper

£40.00

Indiana University Press

11 February 2020

A Satellite Empire

Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941–1944

Vladimir Solonari

£55.00

Cornell University Press

15 December 2019

Red Hangover

Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism

Kristen Ghodsee

£23.99

Duke University Press Books

13 November 2017

Return to the Motherland

Displaced Soviets in WWII and the Cold War

Seth F. Bernstein

£45.00

Cornell University Press

15 February 2023

The Stuff of Soldiers

A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects

Brandon M. Schechter

£27.99

Cornell University Press

15 February 2023

The Bleeding Wound

The Soviet War in Afghanistan and the Collapse of the Soviet System

Yaacov Ro'i

£67.00

Stanford University Press

15 March 2022

Global Finance, Local Control

Corruption and Wealth in Contemporary Russia

Igor O. Logvinenko

£47.00

Cornell University Press

15 October 2021

Suitable Strangers

The Hungarian Revolution, a Hunger Strike, and Ireland's First Refugee Camp

Vera Sheridan

£25.99

Indiana University Press

3 January 2023

From Europe's East to the Middle East

Israel's Russian and Polish Lineages

Kenneth Moss, Benjamin Nathans, Taro Tsurumi

£67.00

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

4 January 2022

Notes from the Valley of Slaughter

A Memoir from the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania

Aharon Pick, Gabriel Laufer, Andrew Cassel

£31.00

Indiana University Press

4 April 2023

The Moralist International

Russia in the Global Culture Wars

Kristina Stoeckl, Dmitry Uzlaner, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ashley M. Purpura

£25.99

Fordham University Press

20 December 2022

Between Heaven and Russia

Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

£25.99

Fordham University Press

5 April 2022

George Kennan for Our Time

Lee Congdon

£16.99

Cornell University Press

15 September 2022

Russia's Theatrical Past

Court Entertainment in the Seventeenth Century

Claudia R. Jensen, Ingrid Maier, Stepan Shamin, Daniel C. Waugh

£34.00

Indiana University Press

1 June 2021

Secret Leviathan

Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism

Mark Harrison

£58.00

Stanford University Press

6 June 2023

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Studies in Hungarian History

Indiana University Press


The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series

University of Notre Dame Press

Under the sponsorship of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, this series showcases the contributions and continuing inspiration of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), the Nobel Prize–winning novelist and historian.


NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Cornell University Press

The NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, established in 1999, publishes important books in the areas of history and literature, spanning from the Middle Ages to the Post-Soviet era.

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Former winners of the BASEES Women’s Forum prize, George Blazyca Prize and the Alexander Nove Prize

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