Deborah A. Field Libros

Choi Chatterjee analyzes both Bolshevik attitudes towards women and the invented state rituals surrounding Women's Day to demonstrate the ways these celebrations helped construct gender notions in the Soviet Union.

Drawing on previously inaccessible records, this book discusses love, sex, marriage, divorce, and child-rearing during Khrushchev's «thaw» of the 1950s and early 1960s. It analyses the Soviet government's attempts to supervise private life and enforce communist morality, and it describes the diverse ways in which people responded to official prescriptions. Written in a lively and accessible style, this book provides an innovative exploration of the interactions between Soviet ideology and everyday life.

The book presents a thorough exploration of Russian history, spanning from the empire through the Soviet era to the post-Soviet period, while placing modern Russia within a global context. It examines the establishment of the socialist regime under the Bolsheviks and the evolution of political ideology and foreign policy after the Soviet Union's fall. Enhanced with images, maps, primary sources, and discussion questions, it serves as an essential introductory resource for understanding twentieth-century Russian history.

In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip. Lisa Kirschenbaum reconstructs their epic journey and their encounters with a vast cast of characters in order to reveal the role of ordinary individuals in shaping foreign relations between the two countries.