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Russian Cultural History

Collection developed thanks to a grant from the Interlibrary Loan Development Program of the Kansas Library Network Board.

To request one of the titles, please contact the Interlibrary Loan department of your local library.

Books in Collection (Purchased with grant funds):
Cafe Europa:  Life after Communism.  Slavenka Durkulic, 1996.
The Cambridge History of Russia, 3 vols.  Maureen Perrie, 2007.
Chernobyl:  Confessions of a Reporter.  Igor Kostin, 2006.
The Cold War: A New History. John Lewis Gaddis, 2005.
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel. Edited by Nathalie Babel, 2005.
Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society Since Gorbachev.  Adele Barker, Ed., 1999.
Defending the Border:  Identity, Religion and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia.  Mathijs Pelkmans, 2006.
The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and its Meanings. Michael Wachtel, 2006.
Dostoevsky: The Scandal of Reason. Maria Nemcová Banerjee, 2006.
Empire of Nations:  Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union.  Francine Hirsch, 2005.
Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Progpaganda. Edited by Kevin M. F. Platt and David Brandenberger, 2006.
Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siècle. Olga Matich, 2005.
Europe Undivided:  Democracy, Leverage & Integration after Communism.  Milada Vachudova, 2005.
The Food & Cooking of Russia.  Lesley Chamberlain, 2006.
Food Culture in Russia and Central Asia.  Glenn R. Mack and Asele Surina, 2005.
Foods of Russia. Barbara Sheen, 2006.
For Prophet and Tsar:  Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia.  Robert Crews, 2006.
From Nyet to Da:  Understanding the Russians.  Yale Richmond, 2003.
A History of Modern Russia.  Robert Service.  2005
A History of Russian Symbolism. Avril Pyman, 2006.
The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture. James H. Billington, 1970.
The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire. Harsha Ram, 2005.
Islam and Tolerance in Wider Europe.  Pameal Kilpadi, 2007.
Ivan the Terrible. Isabel deMadariaga, 2005.
Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution: Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy. Efraim Sicher, 2006.
Journey to Chernobyl:  Encounters in a Radioactive Zone.  Glenn Cheney, 1995.
The Last Soviet Avant-Garde. Graham Roberts, 1997.
Lenin:  A Biography.  Robert Service, 2000.
Life Exposed:  Biological Citizens after Chernobyl.  Adriana Petryna, 2002.
Literature and Revolution: Leon Trotsky. Edited by William Keach, 2005.
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia. Orlando Figes, 2003.
National Identity in Russian Culture: An Introduction. Edited by Simon Franklin and Emma Widdis, 2000.
Privatizing Poland:  Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor.  Elizabeth Dunn, 2004.
The Pushkin Handbook. Edited by David M. Bethea, 2005.
The Quest for Russia's Soul:  Evangelicals and Moral Education in Post-Communist Russia. Perry Glanzer, 2002.
Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia. Edited by Loren R. Graham and Richard Stites, 1984.
Redeeming the Communist Past:  The Regeneration of Communist Parties in East Central Europe.  Anna Grzymala Busse, 2002.
Remaining Relevant after Communism: The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe. Andrew Baruch Wachtel, 2006.
Return to Diversity:  A Political History of East Central Europe Since WWII.  Joseph Rothschild and Nancy Wingfield, 2000.
Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear:  Russia's War with Japan.  Richard Connaughton, 2007.
The Routledge Atlas of Russian History.  Martin Gilbert, 2007.
Rulers and Victims:  The Russians in the Soviet Union.  Geoffrey Hosking, 2006.
Russia:  Experiment with a People.  Robert Service, 2003.
Russia and the Russians: A History. Geoffrey Hosking, 2003.
Russia Gets the Blues:  Music, Culture and Community in Unsettled Times.  Michael Urban, 2004.
Russia in Search of Itself. James H. Billington, 2004.
Russian Baptists & Spiritual Revolution 1905-1929.  Heather Coleman, 2005.
Russian Conservatism and its Critics: A Study in Political Culture. Richard Pipes, 2005.
Russian Futurism: A History. Vladimir Markov, 2006.
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida. Edited by Robert Chandler, 2005.
Russian Thinkers.  Isaiah Berlin, 1994.
The Russian Way.  Zita Dabars, 2002.
The Russian's World:  Life and Languages.  Genevra Gerhart, 2001.
Russia's Islamic Threat.  Gordon Hahn, 2007.
Russia's Steppe Frontier:  The Making of a Colonial Empire 1500-1800.  Michael Khodarkovsky, 2002.
The Same Solitude. Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva, 2006.
Small Comrades:  Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1931.  Lisa Kirschenbaum, 2001.
The System Made Me Do It:  Corruption in Post-Communist Societies.  Rasma Karklins, 2005.
The Unmaking of Soviet Life:  Everyday Economies after Socialism.  Carline Humphrey, 2002.
The Vanishing Hectare:  Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania.  Katherine Verdery, 2003.
Voices from Chernobyl.  Svetlana Alexievich, 2006.
The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe.  Marc Howard, 2003.
Wormwood Forest:  A Natural History of Chernobyl.  Mary Mycio, 2005.

DVDs in Collection (Purchased with grant funds):
4 -- Ilya Khrzhanovsky, 2004/2006
100 Days Before the Command -- Hussein Erkenov, 1990
Agony:  The Life and Death of Rasputin -- Elem Klimov, 1975/2005
Aelita:  The Queen of Mars -- Yakov Protazanov, 1924/1999
Amphibian Man -- Alexander Belyaev, 1962/2000
The Ballad of Bering Strait -- Nina Seavey, 2003
Ballad of a Soldier -- Grigori Chukhrai, 1959/2002.
Bed and Sofa -- Viktor Shklovsky, 1930?/2004
Burnt by the Sun -- Nikita Mikhalkov, 1994/2003
The Dawns Here Are Quiet -- Stanislav Rostotsky, 1972/2004
Dersu Uzala -- Akira Kurosawa, 1974/2000
Destiny of a Man -- Sergey Bondarchuk, 1959/2000
The Glory of the Kirov -- Kirov Ballet, 1995
The Golden Horns -- Alexander Row, 1973/2003
Hamlet -- Grigori Kozintsev, 1964/2006
House of Fools -- Andrei Konchalovsky, 2003
Kino-Eye/Three Songs About Lenin -- Dziga Vertov, 1924/1999
The Lady with the Little Dog -- Josif Heifits, 1960/2005
The Legend of Suram Fortress/Ashik Kerib -- Sergei Paradjanov, 1988/2001
Man with the Movie Camera -- Dziga Vertov, 1929/1998
The Mirror -- Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974/2000
Moloch -- Aleksandr Sokurov, 2005
Mother and Son -- Alexkander Sokurov, 1997
Night Watch -- Timur Berkmambetov, 2004/2006
The Nutcracker -- Bolshoi Ballet, ?
Que viva Mexico! -- Sergei Eisenstein, 1931/2001
The Red and the White -- Miklos Jancso, 1968/2001
Russian Songs from the War Years --Dmitri Hvorostovsky, 2004.
Schizo -- Guka Omarova, 2005
The Second Circle -- Aleksandr Sokurov, 1990/2006
The Snow Queen -- Lev Atamanov, 2004
Stalker -- Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979/1993
The Steamroller and the Violin -- Andrei Tarkovsky, 1960/2002
Storm over Asia -- V. Pudovkin, 1928/1997
Strike -- Sergei Eisenstein, 1925/2000
Triple Agent -- Eric Rohmer, 2004
White Sun of the Desert -- Vladimir Motyl, 1969/2003

Kansas Virtual Library E-Audio Books (Purchased with grant funds):
    (Accessible at:  Kansas Overdrive Audiobooks)
Anton Chekhov.  Donald Rayfield & Fried Williams.
The Best Stories of Anton Chekhov.  Anton Chekhov.
The Brothers Karamazov.  Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy.  Donna Orwin.
Chekhov.  Anton Chekhov & Ralph Cosham.
The Cossacks.  Leo Tolstoy & David Thorn.
Crime and Punishment.  Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The Idiot.  Fyodor Dostoevsky & Robert Whitfield.
Iván El Imbecil Y Otros Cuentos.  Leon Tolstoi & Guillermo Piedrahita.
The Letters of Anton Chekhov.  Anton Chekhov.
Performing Chekhov.  David Allen.
Poor People.  Fydor Dostoevsky, Patrick Cullen and Julia Emlen.
The Possessed/The Devils.  Fydor Dostoevsky.
Seven Classic Plays.  Various Authors including Chekhov
Tolstoy on Death.  Leo Tolstoy, Simon Vance.
The Undiscovered Chekhov.  Anton Chekhov.
War and Peace (abridged).  Leo Tolstoy, Neville Jason.

Additional Acquisitions on this topic:
The Architecture of New Prague 1895-1945. Rostislav Švácha; photographed by Jan Malý, 1995.
Autonomies in Hungary and Europe.  Jozsa Hevizi, 2005.
Belarus: A Denationalized Nation. David Marples, 1999.
Belarus and Moldova: Country Studies. Edited by Helen Fedor, 1995.
Belarus at a Crossroads in History. Westview Series on the Post-Soviet Republics. Jan Zaprudnik, 1993.
Belarus at the Crossroads. Edited by Sherman W. Garnett and Robert Legvold, 1999.
Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform. Michael McFaul, Nikolai Petrov, and Andrei Ryabov, 2004.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Milan Kundera, 1996.
Contemporary Belarus: Between Democrary and Dictatorship. Edited by Elena Korosteleva, Colin Lawson, and Rosalind Marsh, 2003.
Democratic Changes and Authoritarian Reactions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. Edited by Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, 1997.
The Deserts of Bohemia: Czech Fiction and Its Social Context. Peter Steiner, 2000.
Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871. Joseph Frank, 1995.
The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia. Mark Ames and Matt Taibi, 2000.
Gentlemen of Fortune (DVD). Russian with English subtitles, 2001.
Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia. Gabriel Gorodetsky, 1999.
Great Romantic Cello Concertos (score) by Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns and Antonín Dvořák.
Helena Blavatsky.  Sylvia Cranston, 1993.
His Battalion & Live Until Dawn. Vasil Bykov, 1981
The Hungaria Csango of Moldova.  Ferenc Pozsony, 2006.
Hungary:  Eleven Hundred Years of Success. Corvinus Library, 1999..
Ignorance. Milan Kundera, 2003.
Independent Belarus: Domestic Determinants, Regional Dynamics, and Implications for the West. Edited by Margarita M. Balmaceda, James Clem, and Lisbeth Tarlow, 2002.
Interrogating the Real. Slavoj Žižek, 2005.
Kidnapping Caucasian Style (DVD). Russian with English subtitles, 2001.
Lacan: The Silent Partners. Edited by Slavoj Žižek, 2006.
The Land Beneath White Wings. Uladzimir Karatkevich, 1982.
Looking Awry. Slavoj Žižek, 1992.
Malevitch and Film. Margarita Tupitsyn, 2002.
Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism. Meghnad Desai, 2002.
Nine Sonatas for Piano (score) by Sergei Prokofiev.
Pack of Wolves. Vasil Bykov, 1981.
Pan Tadeusz. Adam Mickiewicz; translated by Kenneth R. Mackenzie, 1992.
The Parallax View. Slavoj Žižek, 2006.
Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941. David L. Hoffmann, 1994.
The Plague of Fantasies. Slavoj Žižek, 1997.
Political Parties in Post-Soviet Space: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, and the Baltics. Edited by Anatoly Kulik and Susanna Pshizova, 2005.
Postcommunist Belarus. Edited by Stephen White, Elena Korosteleva, and John Löwenhardt, 2005.
Putin's Russia. Lilia Shevtsova, 2005.
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999. Timothy Snyder, 2004.
Requiem for Communism. Charity Scribner, 2003.
Reviving Greater Russia? The Future of Russia's Borders with Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Ukraine. Herman Pirchner, Jr., 2005.
Revolution on My Mind:  Writing a Diary under Stalin. Jochen Hellbreck, 2006.
Romania and Transylvania in the 20th Century.  Ildiko Lipcsey, 2006.
Romanian Modernism: The Architecture of Bucharest, 1920-1940. Luminiţa Machedon and Ernie Scoffham, 1999.
Russia! The Majesty of the Tsars: Treasures from the Kremlin Museum. Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, 2005.
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism. Alain Badiou, 2003.
The Scared Generation. Vasil Bykov and Boris Yampolsky, 2005.
Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag. Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson, 2003.
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (DVD). Russian with English subtitles, 2000.
Theoretical Writings. Alain Badiou, 2004.
Treasury of Love Poems by Adam Mickiewicz. Compiled and edited by Krystyna Olszer, 1998.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Milan Kundera, 1999.
Vasil Bykaŭ: His Life and Work. Zina Gimpelevich, 2005.
Vasya (DVD). Russian with English subtitles, 2005.
Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World. Andrew Wilson, 2005.
Welcome to the Desert of the Real. Slavoj Žižek, 2002.

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