Amid the rapid international transformations affecting the hierarchy of powers within the global system and the dominating regional and international axes, ...
After the death of Stalin in 1953 and subsequent closure of the gulags, many of the former prisoners stayed on in the town to ...
Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...