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Forging a Unitary State: Russia’s Management of the Eurasian Space, 1650–1850 by John P. LeDonne

Jacques the Frenchman: Memories of the Gulag by Jacques Rossi and Michèle Sarde
Edited by Golfo Alexopoulos and Translated by Kersti Colombant

Stalin's Ninos: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937–1951 by Karl D. Qualls

Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin by Megan Swift

Conspiracy Culture: Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination by Keith Livers

Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine by Jessica Zychowicz

Georgia: From Autocracy to Democracy Edited by Stephen F. Jones and Neil MacFarlane

Our German and European Studies Series showcases original monographs and collaborative research in German and European Studies, highlighting work in the scholarly fields that compose the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies: German Languages and Literatures, History, Political Science, and Sociology. The first books published in the series include monographs and collected volumes, including work undertaken in conjunction with JIGES. With a decided interdisciplinary focus, the series is currently taking up the challenge of rethinking research on Germany during an age of globalization, postcolonialism, and the "transnational turn."

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Covering two centuries of Russian history, Forging a Unitary State is a comprehensive account of the creation of what is commonly known as the "Russian Empire," from Poland to Siberia. In this book, John P. LeDonne demonstrates that the so-called empire was, for the most part, a unitary state, defined by an obsessive emphasis on centralization and uniformity. Learn more: https://utorontopress.com/us/forging-a-unitary-state-2

Contemporary Russia stands apart as one of the most prolific generators of conspiracy theories and paranoid rhetoric. Conspiracy Culture traces the roots of the phenomenon within the sphere of culture and history, examining the long arc of Russian paranoia from the present moment back to earlier nineteenth-century sources, such as Dostoevsky’s anti-nihilist novel Demons. Learn more: https://utorontopress.com/us/conspiracy-culture-2.

Georgian policy-makers, practitioners, and scholars who have worked in the administration, in the opposition, in the Third Sector, and in academia provide first-hand perspectives on Georgia’s political and economic life. They demonstrate unusual insight into the extraordinary transformations in Georgia over the last twenty-five years, to democracy today. Learn more: https://utorontopress.com/us/georgia-2.

Jacques Rossi is one of Stalin’s most well-known victims. Author of The Gulag Handbook, a fascinating encyclopedia of the Soviet forced labor camps, Rossi spent twenty years in interrogation, prison, and Gulag detention. This book represents a conversation between Jacques Rossi and Michèle Sarde, professor emerita at Georgetown University, and weaves together personal reflections and historical analysis. Learn more: https://utorontopress.com/us/jacques-the-frenchman-2.

Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page offers a vivid exploration of illustrated children’s literature and reading under Lenin and Stalin – a period when mass publishing for children and universal public education became available for the first time in Russia. Learn more: https://utorontopress.com/us/picturing-the-page-4.
Download a colouring page based on one of the images found in Picturing the Page.

Stalin’s Niños examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. An analysis of the archival record and numerous letters, oral histories, and memoirs reveals that this little-known story exemplifies the Soviet transformation of children into future builders of communism and illuminates the educational techniques shared with other modern states. Learn more: https://utorontopress.com/us/stalin-s-ni-os-2.

Superfluous Women tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. With a focus on new media, Zychowicz demonstrates how contemporary artist collectives in Ukraine have contested Soviet and Western connotations of feminism to draw attention to a range of human rights issues with global impact. Learn more: https://utorontopress.com/us/superfluous-women-3.

An exceptional document of an extraordinary life, The Soul of Things is the memoir of Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi. Since the memoir was first published in Hungarian in 2004 under the title Anima Rerum, Fahidi has become a household name in Hungary and in Germany. Featured in countless interviews and several prize-winning documentary films, at the age of ninety-five she is a frequent speaker at Holocaust commemorations. Learn more: https://utorontopress.com/us/the-soul-of-things-2.

Bridging East and West explores the literary evolution of Ol’ha Kobylians'ka, one of Ukraine’s foremost modernist writers. Investigating themes of feminism, populism, Nietzscheanism, nationalism, and fascism in her works, this study presents an alternative intellectual genealogy in turn-of-the-century European arts and letters whose implications reach far beyond the field of Ukrainian studies. Learn more: https://utorontopress.com/us/bridging-east-and-west-2.

Comintern Aesthetics shows how the cultural and political networks emerging from the Comintern have persisted, even after the Comintern’s demise in 1943. Tracing these networks through a multiplicity of artistic forms geared towards advancing a common, liberated humanity, this volume captures both the failure and the enduring allure of a Soviet-centred world revolution. Learn more: https://utorontopress.com/us/comintern-aesthetics-3.

My Final Territory is a collection of Andrukhovych’s philosophical, autobiographical, political, and literary essays, which demonstrate his enormous talent as an essayist to the English-speaking world. This volume broadens Andrukhovych’s international audience and will create a dialogue with Anglophone readers throughout the world. Learn more: https://utorontopress.com/us/my-final-territory-1.

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