The constructed Mennonite : history, memory, and the Second World War / by Werner, Hans, 1952-

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Islam in the Soviet Union : from the second World War to Gorbachev / by Ro'i, Yaacov

The superpowers : a short history / by Dukes, Paul, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Inheritance: nations and empires, before 1898; Conception: the First World War and revolution, 1898 1921; Gestation: new world orders and the Second World War, 1921 45; Youth: Cold War and decolonisation, 1945 68; Maturity: Cold War and the Third World, 1968 91; The legacy: death or rebirth? …”
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Russia's cultural statecraft /

Table of Contents: “…-- Fine Arts and International Relations: Russian Museum Diplomacy -- Forging Common History: Russia's Cultural Statecraft and the Soviet Second World War Monuments in Europe -- 'Russian literature will fix everything': The Read Russia Project and Cultural Statecraft -- The Future State: Russian Cinema and Neoliberal Cultural Statecraft -- Soviet Legacies and Global Contexts: Classical Music and Russia's Cultural Statecraft -- Stagecraft in the Service of Statecraft? …”
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The Chechens : a handbook / by Jaimoukha, Amjad M.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 People and land -- chapter 2 History from the earliest to the end of the eighteenth century AD -- chapter 3 History from the Russian-Caucasian War to the Second World War -- chapter 4 History from the deportation to the 'Second' Chechen War -- chapter 5 Politics and current affairs -- chapter 6 Society -- chapter 7 Economy -- chapter 8 Religion and beliefs -- chapter 9 Customs and traditions -- chapter 10 Folklore -- chapter 11 Arts, crafts and architecture -- chapter 12 Music and dance -- chapter 13 Language and linguistic policy -- chapter 14 Literature -- chapter 15 Media and film -- chapter 16 The diaspora -- chapter Afterword -- chapter Proverbs and sayings -- chapter Appendices -- chapter 2 The Vainakh Pantheon -- chapter 3 Bibliographies and journals -- chapter 4 Nakh lexicography.…”
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Economist video. what now? /

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The retreat : Hitler's first defeat / by Jones, Michael K.

A history of modern Russia : from tsarism to the twenty-first century / by Service, Robert, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…1900-1914 -- The Fall of the Romanovs 1914-1917 -- Conflicts and crises 1917 -- The October Revolution 1917-1918 -- New world, old world -- Civil wars 1918-1921 -- The new economic policy 1921-1928 -- Leninism and its discontents -- The first five-year plan 1928-1932 -- Fortresses under storm: culture, religion, nation -- Terror upon terror 1934-1938 -- Coping with big brothers -- The second World War 1939-1945 -- Coda -- Suffering and struggle 1941-1945 -- The hammers of peace 1945-1953 -- The despot and his masks -- 'De-Stalinization' 1953-1961 -- Hopes unsettled 1961-1964 -- Stabilization 1964-1970 -- 'Developed Socialism' 1970-1982 -- Privilege and alienation -- Towards reform 1982-1985 -- Glasnost and Perestroika 1986-1988 -- Imploding imperium 1989 -- Hail and farewell 1990-1991 -- Power and the market 1992-1993 -- The lowering of expectations 1994-1999 -- And Russia? …”
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The future of the Soviet past : the politics of history in Putin's Russia /

Table of Contents: “…Presentism, politicization of history, and the new role of the historian in Russia / Ivan Kurilla -- Secondhand history : outsourcing Russia's past to Kremlin proxies / Anton Weiss-Wendt -- The Soviet past and the 1945 victory cult as civil religion in contemporary Russia / Nikita Petrov -- Russia as a bulwark against antisemitism and Holocaust denial : the second World War according to Moscow / Kiril Feferman -- Part II: Museums, pop culture, and other memory battlegrounds. …”
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After defeat : how the East learned to live with the West / by Zarakol, Ayşe

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Life and fate : a novel / by Grossman, Vasiliĭ

A companion to Russian history /

Table of Contents: “…Wood -- Stalinism and the 1930s / Lynne Viola -- The Soviet Union in the Second World War / Nikita Lomagin -- The Cold War / David C. …”
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Memory laws, memory wars : the politics of the past in Europe and Russia / by Koposov, N. E.

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After defeat : how the East learned to live with the West / by Zarakol, Ayşe

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The cinematic bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia : between pain and pleasure /

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Greetings from Novorossiya : eyewitness to the war in Ukraine / by Pieniążek, Paweł

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The Viaz'ma Catastrophe, 1941 : the Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon. by Lopukhovsky, Lev

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