On a winter’s day in 1943, 22-year-old Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight as he skied through Latvian woods-a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the…

Outright imposters, both criminal and political, also make their appearance in this book. The final chapter describes how, after decades of struggle to construct good Soviet socialist personae, Russians had…

Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin’s…

Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivisation and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life under Stalin was utterly transformed. The book is…

This is a history of Soviet education policy 1921-34 that places emphasis upon the theme of social mobility through education. A focal point of the book is the educational policies…

The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives…

A collection of essays that are at the forefront of developing an entirely new field of transnational study, which seeks to integrate scholarship from the areas of the history of…

While Brian Fitzpatrick has fallen into relative obscurity, efforts persist in discrediting Manning Clark’s name. This title examines the dual careers of Fitzpatrick and Clark as activists and historians during…