For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian lit...

In Russia, food has a hugely important role in political, symbolic, and practical terms. In this ...

This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the St...

On April 22, 1823, a three-year-old boy named Fedor finished his lunch and went to play outside. ...

The Velizh case was the longest ritual murder investigation in the modern world. Drawing on newly...

This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in his...

This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in his...

John Doyle Klier's pioneering publications on the relations between Jews and the Russian social o...

The Russian internet is a hotbed for memes and viral videos: the political, satirical and simply ...

This book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1...

Pogroms: A Documentary History surveys the complex history of anti-Jewish violence by bringing to...

Tracing the evolving nature of popular and official beliefs about the purported nature of the Jew...

In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes ...

The Velizh case was the longest ritual murder investigation in the modern world. Drawing on newly...

Gennady Estraikh's book explores the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewis...