Books from Russian and East European Stud
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Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King
By John McCannonJohn McCannon's engaging and scrupulously researched narrative moves beyond traditional perceptions of Roerich as a saint or a villain to show that he was, in many ways, both in equal measure.
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Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic
By Karla HuebnerPart art book and part biography, Magnetic Woman examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová, 1902-80), a founding member of the Prague surrealist group, and focuses on her construction of gender and eroticism.
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Religious Freedom in Modern Russia
By Paul William Werth, Randall Allen PooleThis volume gathers leading scholars to provide an extensive exploration of the evolution, experience, and contested meanings of religious freedom in Russia from the early modern period to the present, with a particular focus on the ...
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Bread Upon the Waters: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703-1811
By Robert E. JonesBread upon the Waters chronicles how the unparalleled effort put into the building of a wide infrastructure to support the provisioning of the newly created but physically isolated city of St. Petersburg profoundly affected all of Russia's ...
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Organized Labor in Postcommunist States: From Solidarity to Infirmity
By Paul KubicekPaul Kubicek offers a comparative study of organized labor's fate in four postcommunist countries, and examines the political and economic consequences of labor's weakness.