The monograph is dedicated to the activities of censorship, by which the Soviet state exercised total control over life and public consciousness of its citizens, as an example of post-war Belarus. An attempt was made to reveal the forms, methods and characteristics of the work of censorship (ideological, state, military, economic and institutional), show the specifics of Glavlit (General...

In this book the most important changes that have happened in the world during the last decades are analyzed. These changes are so significant, that using Ronald Inglehart´s definition we should refer to them as postmodernization rather than modernization. Russia in the present moment gives a hostile reception to postmodernization, denies many important changes and refuses to accept many...

PEASANT QUARREL A Study of Rural Everyday Life (based on materials from the European part of Russia, second half of the XIX — beginning of the XX c.) This book problematizes everyday quarrel as a type of social interaction in Russian peasant society of the late 19th and early 20th c. The author argues that quarrel may be used as a new lens for the understanding of social relations in peasant...

400th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY. Mnemonic Policies and Idea of Monarchy, 1613-2013. The contributors to this volume describe various technologies of shaping the Romanov myth, the mechanisms of constructing the images of royal personae on the ethnic outskirts of the Empire, the representation of the Emperors of 18-19cents. in the Soviet historiography and popular history books, as...

Левана Бердзенишвили в Грузии знают все. Он один из основателей Республиканской партии, президент неправительственной организации «Республиканский институт», авторитетный филолог-классик, бывший диссидент и заключенный печально знаменитого мордовского Дубравлага ЖК 385/3-5, а теперь – автор этой, мгновенно разошедшейся на его родине книги, принесшей ему славу «грузинского Довлатова».

What is modern post-communist Hungary, one of the Central European states that were part of the so-called socialist bloc and burdened with the sad legacy of totalitarianism? What socio-political metamorphoses did its system have to undergo, how can the regime formed in the country be characterized and how does it differ from the regimes in neighboring countries focused on the model of Western...

Full title: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting”.