The shortest history of the soviet union

The acclaimed historian Sheila Fitzpatrick chronicles the Soviet Age—its rise, reign, and unexpected fall, as well as its afterlife in today’s Russia. Moving seamlessly from Lenin to Stalin to Gorbachev to Putin, this book provides an indispensable guide to one of the twentieth century’s great po...

The ukrainian oligarchy after the euromaidan

An analysis of how the Ukrainian super-rich converted wealth into political influence which brought more wealth via rent-extraction in the gas sector

The wild west of eastern europe

Ukraine is the new West Berlin of Eastern Europe. The Wild West of Eastern Europe by Pavlo Kazarin is a book about how such a transformation has become possible.

The years of great silence

This book provides a detailed yet concise narrative of the history of ethnic Germans in the Russian Empire and USSR. J. Otto Pohl begins with the settlement in the Russian Empire by German colonists in 1764, tracing Tsarist state policies toward them up until 1917. He chronicles Soviet repression...

This is how it was

The story of Serhiy Kazimir and his life after his return home from being a prisoner of war in Russia.

Three revolutions: mobilization and change in contemporary ukraine i

This multivolume project explores the revolutionary events that have unfolded in Ukraine since 1990: the Revolution on Granite (1990); the Orange Revolution (2004–2005); and the Euromaidan Revolution (2013–2014). It provides a comprehensive collection of firsthand accounts of the historic upheava...

Towards a new russian work culture

This innovative book offers a fresh perspective on the national work culture of Russia and the substantial role foreign institutional and cultural impact has had in shaping it. Russia's contemporary work culture is understood as a national system supplemented by new values and attitudes that have...

Transforming the administrative matryoshka

This volume delves into a key part of the comprehensive Russian administrative and territorial reform of the 2000s—the merger of six previously separate ethno-national regions into larger constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Ukraine and its western allies

This bookfocuses not only on Ukraine and the current war, but above all on Germanyʼs role—in economic, political, and media terms—in relation to the country invaded by Russia.

Ukraine calling

This book contains a selection of interviews that aired on Hromadske Radio’s Ukraine Calling show. They capture what people were thinking during a critical time in the country’s history, from the July 2016 NATO Summit through to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 2019 landslide election victories.

Ukraine in central and eastern europe

This book examines how countries in East-Central Europe and the Caucasus approach Ukraine and considers the potential for new multilateral structures. It also illustrates how Russia shapes politics in the post-Soviet space.

Ukraine lab

This unique collection presents creative nonfiction essays by employing cross-cultural dialog and the art of storytelling to open up Ukrainian perspectives on the challenges facing humanity worldwide.

Ukraine vis-à-vis russia and the eu

This book investigates the making of Ukraine’s foreign policy towards the European Union and Russia between February 2014 and February 2015.

Ukraine vs. darkness

This book draws on the author’s experience from 26 years of Ukrainian diplomatic service in, among others, Bonn, Berlin, Washington, and Vienna, and his work as a speechwriter to most Ukrainian foreign ministers for the last two decades. Scherba’s captivating essays reflect his views of internati...

Ukraine's maidan, russia's war

This book provides a chronicle of Ukraine’s Maidan and Russia’s ongoing war and puts forth an analysis of the Revolution of Dignity from the perspective of a participant observer.

Ukraine's post-communist mass media

Natalya Ryabinska calls into question the commonly held opinion that the problems with media reform and press freedom in former Soviet states merely stem from the cultural heritage of their communist (and pre-communist) past. Focusing on Ukraine, she argues that, in the period after the fall of c...

Ukraine: putin’s war for russia’s “near abroad”

Retired US Ambassador John J. Maresca draws on his personal papers to offer a first-hand account of his role in negotiating the end of the Cold War with the USSR.

Ukraine: what went wrong and how to fix it

Ukraine suffered unprecedented political, economic, and military turmoil following Russia's annexation of Crimea in early 2014. Russian military aggression in the east and a legacy of destructive policies and corruption have created an imminent existential crisis for this young democracy. Yet Ukr...

Ukraine’s decentralization

Ukraine’s euromaidan

The essays in this volume analyze the civil uprising known as Euromaidan that began in central Kyiv in late November 2013, when the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych opted not to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union. Topics covered include the motivations and expectations of ...

Ukrainian public nationalism in the general government

Ernest Gyidel’s book deals with a little-studied page in the history of nationalism, namely its public expression in the legal press under German occupation in World War II.

Uncanny allies

This book challenges widespread academic and media claims that Russia and Belarus are unwavering allies or that Russia has unquestioned control over Belarus.

Understanding contemporary russian militarism

Russia's New Generation War—a perpetual subversion of the West is based off a faulty conclusion, was not inevitable, and peace is not impossible on mutually acceptable terms.

Understanding contemporary ukrainian and russian nationalism

This monograph explores the causes and conditions of postcommunist nationalist revivals focusing on the reemergence of Cossack movements in Russia and Ukraine since the late 1980s. The study explores how different theories of nationalism underpinned different national policies and, ultimately, th...

Understanding ukraine

This book tackles the history of terror and violence in Ukraine, from the starvation of the Holodomor to the changing occupation regimes, from the ’Shoah by Bullets’ to the Chornobyl disaster.

Unfinished leninism

A stimulating collection of essays on the revolutionary socialist Vladimir Lenin that survey fierce controversies over his life and ideas.

United nations general assembly resolutions

This book analyzes the UN General Assembly resolutions from 2014 through 2023 in the context of Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine.

Unrecognized war

This essay collection argues that what is at stake in Ukraine is not just territory, but the historic trajectory for the world’s democracies.

Vanguard of the revolution

The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. A. James McAdams argue...

Wandering workers

This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia—the temporary departure of inhabitants from small towns and villages for short-term jobs in the major cities of Russia. Although otkhodnichestvo is a mass phenomenon, it is not ref...

War and the transformation of ukrainian society (2022–23)

This book examines the profound transformation that has occurred in Ukrainian society as a result of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022.

Weak strongman

Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually worksMedia and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies—and rec...

Webs of corruption

Webs of Corruption is an innovative study demonstrating that terrorist and criminal activity intersect more narrowly than is widely believed. Mariya Y. Omelicheva and Lawrence P. Markowitz analyze the links between the drug trade and terror financing in Central Asia, finding that state security s...

Who are the fighters?

This book discloses the micro-dynamics of the mobilization, group formation, and tactics of irregular armed groups fighting the war in Ukraine.

Wolves in sheep’s clothing

Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing examines the Russian Orthodox Church’s historic devolution from a church to a mere peddler of political power as a state intelligence instrument.

Year one of the russian revolution

Serge exposes the heart of the vital first year of the most important working class revolution in history.

“optimizing” higher education in russia

In 2012, the Russian government issued a “road map” for education that would eliminate 44% of the current teaching positions. David Mandel examines the impact of these reforms and the collective efforts of some teachers to organize themselves in an independent trade union to defend their professi...