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A Case of False Consciousness
The political uncertainty following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rejection of the revolutionary model has brought Russian political though...
1865-1905
The interest of Russian intellectuals in the French Revolution demonstrates that some Russian thinkers of the 19th century had begun to question the c...
The First Encounter: the Life of Themistocles
The United States is possibly the last Western empire that has tried to impose the global predominance of the West. It was assumed in the beginning of...
From the Late Soviet Era to the Present
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Punishment and Control in Absolutist Regimes
Totalitarian rule is commonly thought to derive from spe- cific ideologies that justify the complete control by the state of social, cultural, and pol...
Memory of the Future
Shlapentokh asserts that asocial behavior in both medieval France and the contemporary West is not a marginal occurrence but rather a mainstream pheno...
This book examines the interplay between key rulers and intellectuals in creating and sustaining popular discourses that often help keep rulers in pow...
The Case of Belarus
"The United States is no longer the only global center of power as it was in the first years of post-Cold War era. Neither are there just two superpow...
Ideological Conflict and Social Reality
With a historical sweep that recent events have made definitive, the authors examine the influence of official ideology on the presentation of social ...
Responses to Brezhnev's Stagnation
The mid-1970s found almost all spheres of Soviet society in economic, social, and moral decline - a decline that generated conflicting ideologies offe...
An Intellectual Biography
Vasily Yan (Vassily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky, 1874-1954) was a writer of historical novels whose popularity survives the test of time. He was widely ...
Images of Thermidor and Napoleon at the Time of Russian Revolution and Civil War
The collapse of the Imperial regime in Russia excited intellectuals of all political persuasions to compare pre-Revolutionary Russia with revolutionar...
The Relationship with Russia, 1900-2015
This monograph utilizes three theoretical models to explain Kazakhstan's emergence as an independent state and its changing relationships with the bro...