BASEES 2024

Annual Conference


British Association for Slavonic & East European Studies


5-7 April 2024

Combined Academic Publishers Virtual book Exhibit

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From Incarceration to Repatriation

German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union

Susan C. I. Grunewald

Cornell University Press

15 July 2024

Monuments for Posterity

Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time

Antony Kalashnikov

Cornell University Press

15 July 2024

Orthodox Sisters

Religion, Community, and the Challenge of Modernity in Imperial and Early Soviet Russia

William G. Wagner

Cornell University Press

15 July 2024

Recollections

Ivan Bunin, Thomas Gaiton Marullo

Cornell University Press

15 July 2024

Stalin's Final Films

Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953

Claire Knight

Cornell University Press

15 July 2024

Reflections on Stalinism

J. Arch Getty, Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Cornell University Press

15 June 2024

The Geopolitics of Culture

James Billington, the Library of Congress, and the Failed Quest for a New Russia

John Van Oudenaren

Cornell University Press

15 June 2024

I Try Not to Think of Afghanistan

Lithuanian Veterans of the Soviet War

Anna Reich, Paul Robinson, Adrian Bonenberger

Cornell University Press

15 May 2024

To the Far North

Diary of a Russian World Traveler

Ivan Nikolaevich Akif’ëv, Andrew A. Gentes

Cornell University Press

15 April 2024

Engaging the Evil Empire

Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War

Simon Miles

Cornell University Press

15 March 2024

Dynasty Divided

A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism

Fabian Baumann

Cornell University Press

15 August 2023

Fyodor Dostoevsky—The Gathering Storm (1846–1847)

A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism

Thomas Gaiton Marullo

Cornell University Press

15 August 2023

Holy Sobriety in Modern Russia

A Faith Healer and His Followers

Kimberly Page Herrlinger

Cornell University Press

15 August 2023

Moscow's Heavy Shadow

The Violent Collapse of the USSR

Isaac McKean Scarborough

Cornell University Press

15 August 2023

Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room

Domestic Architecture before and after 1991

Kateryna Malaia

Cornell University Press

15 August 2023

Gleaning for Communism

The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice

Xenia A. Cherkaev

Cornell University Press

15 July 2023

Soviet Self-Hatred

The Secret Identities of Postsocialism in Contemporary Russia

Eliot Borenstein

Cornell University Press

15 June 2023

Tamizdat

Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era

Yasha Yakov Klots

Cornell University Press

15 May 2023

The Vortex That Unites Us

Versions of Totality in Russian Literature

Jacob Emery

Cornell University Press

15 May 2023

Everyday War

The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine

Greta Lynn Uehling

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

Cornell University Press

15 February 2023

Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine

Catherine Wanner

Cornell University Press

15 November 2022

Recording Russia

Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century

Gabriella Safran

Cornell University Press

15 November 2022

Creolizing the Modern

Transylvania across Empires

Anca Parvulescu, Manuela Boatcă

Cornell University Press

15 October 2022

Arrested Development

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

Alessandro Iandolo

Cornell University Press

15 August 2022

Staging Democracy

Political Performance in Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond

Jessica Pisano

Cornell University Press

15 July 2022

Fluid Russia

Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era

Vera Michlin-Shapir

Cornell University Press

15 December 2021

The Image of Christ in Russian Literature

Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak

John Givens

Cornell University Press

15 November 2021

Global Finance, Local Control

Corruption and Wealth in Contemporary Russia

Igor O. Logvinenko

Cornell University Press

15 October 2021

Love for Sale

Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia

Colleen Lucey

Cornell University Press

15 September 2021

On Russian Soil

Myth and Materiality

Mieka Erley

Cornell University Press

15 June 2021

Russian Conservatism

Paul Robinson

Cornell University Press

15 May 2021

Is Russia Fascist?

Unraveling Propaganda East and West

Marlene Laruelle

Cornell University Press

15 March 2021

Women of the Catacombs

Memoirs of the Underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia

Wallace L. Daniel, Roy R. Robson, Archpriest Aleksandr Men, Wallace L. Daniel

Cornell University Press

15 March 2021

Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900

A Sourcebook

Valerie A. Kivelson, Christine D. Worobec

Cornell University Press

15 November 2020

Haunted Empire

Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny

Valeria Sobol

Cornell University Press

15 September 2020

A Satellite Empire

Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941–1944

Vladimir Solonari

Cornell University Press

15 December 2019

Indiana UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Win or Else

Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921–1985

Larry E. Holmes

Indiana University Press

30 April 2024

As the Dust of the Earth

The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine

Harriet Murav

Indiana University Press

2 April 2024

Words and Silences

Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic

Laur Vallikivi

Indiana University Press

26 March 2024

Notes from the Valley of Slaughter

A Memoir from the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania

Aharon Pick, Gabriel Laufer, Andrew Cassel

Indiana University Press

4 April 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

Indiana University Press

4 April 2023

Beethoven in Russia

Music and Politics

Frederick W. Skinner

Indiana University Press

1 November 2022

Russia's Theatrical Past

Court Entertainment in the Seventeenth Century

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

Indiana University Press

1 June 2021

Russia's Hero Cities

From Postwar Ruins to the Soviet Heroarchy

Ivo Mijnssen

Indiana University Press

4 May 2021

The Socialist Good Life

Desire, Development, and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe

Cristofer Scarboro, Diana Mincyte, Zsuzsa Gille

Indiana University Press

2 June 2020

The Burden of the Past

History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

Anna Wylegała, Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper

Indiana University Press

11 February 2020

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Between the Wires

Waitman Wade Beorn

Nebraska

1 August 2024

Jews in the Soviet Union: A History

Gennady Estraikh

NYU Press

20 December 2022

Jews in the Soviet Union: A History

Oleg Budnitskii, David Engel, Gennady Estraikh, Anna Shternshis

NYU Press

20 December 2022

Party Politics in Russia and Ukraine

Bryon Moraski

NYU Press

7 June 2022

In Search of the Romanovs

Peter Sarandinaki

Potomac Books

1 July 2024

From Chernobyl with Love

Katya Cengel

Potomac Books

1 May 2023

Soviet-Born

Karolina Krasuska

Rutgers University Press

9 September 2024

The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov

F. Booth Wilson

Rutgers University Press

12 April 2024

Stalin's Usable Past

David Brandenberger

Stanford University Press

21 May 2024

Red Tape

Rosamund Johnston

Stanford University Press

26 March 2024

The Russian Way of Deterrence

Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky

Stanford University Press

31 October 2023

Secret Leviathan

Mark Harrison

Stanford University Press

6 June 2023

Atomic Steppe

Togzhan Kassenova

Stanford University Press

15 February 2022

Stalin's Failed Alliance

Michael Jabara Carley

University of Toronto Press

12 April 2024

Post-Soviet Graffiti

Alexis Lerner

University of Toronto Press

15 February 2025

Russia's Turkish Wars

Victor Taki

University of Toronto Press

23 February 2024

Red Hangover

Kristen Ghodsee

Duke University Press Books

13 November 2017

Spymaster's Prism

Jack Devine

Potomac Books

1 November 2023

Cold War Radio

Mark G. Pomar

Potomac Books

1 October 2022

Russian Colonization of Alaska

Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv, Richard L. Bland

Nebraska

1 October 2022

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