Övriga länders historia

The end of the Cold War was an opportunity – our inability to seize it has led to today’s renewed era of great power competition   1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring …

A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library   “[A] fascinating new study.”—Michael O’Donnell, Wall Street Journal   In this engaging life of the …

A dramatic and timely account of Stalin’s failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed   In November 1939, Stalin directed his …

A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021  “Sarotte has the receipts, …

A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present   Russia and China, the largest and most populous …

Antarctica is, and has always been, very much “for sale.” Whales, seals, and ice have all been marketed as valuable commodities, but so have the stories of explorers. The modern …

The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union   Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the “sixties” era in …

The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life   “Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking …

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them …

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them …