How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking
democracy Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent …

Stanislavsky in Focus brilliantly examines the history and actual premises of Stanislavsky's'
System', separating myth from fact with forensic skill. The first edition of this now classic …

One of Stalin's most heinous acts was the ruthless repression of millions of peasants in the
early 1930s, an act that established the very foundations of the gulag. Solzhenitsyn barely …

Despite tense relations between the USSR and the West, Soviet readers were voracious
consumers of foreign culture and literature. This book explores this ambivalent and …

This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian
cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the …

In 1920, Lenin authorised a plan to transform Karelia, a Russian territory adjacent to Finland,
into a showcase Soviet autonomous region, to show what could be achieved by socialist …

When periods, or phenomena, are designated with a title including the prefix 'post-
'(postmodern, post-communist, post-industrial) the intention is usually to signal that, although …

Bringing together empirical studies of former communist countries of Central and Eastern
Europe, this Special Issue explores the relationship between censorship and self …

A study of the musical discourse among Ottoman Greek Orthodox Christians during a
complicated time for them in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the late …

Although many facets of Lev Vygotsky's life have drawn considerable attention from
historians of science, perhaps the most popular feature of his personal narrative was that his …