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Russia in World History uses a comparative framework to understand Russian history in a global context. The book challenges the idea of Russia as an outlier of European civilization by examining select themes in modern Russian history alongside cases drawn from the British Empire. Choi Chatterjee analyzes the concepts of nation and empire, selfhood and subjectivity, socialism and capitalism, and revolution and the world order in the 19th, 20t...

Russia in World History uses a comparative framework to understand Russian history in a global context. The book challenges the idea of Russia as an outlier of European civilization by examining select themes in modern Russian history alongside cases drawn from the British Empire. Choi Chatterjee analyzes the concepts of nation and empire, selfhood and subjectivity, socialism and capitalism, and revolution and the world order in the 19th, 20t...

Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists experienced and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. It critically engages with postcolonial theories which posit that a self-valorizing, unmediated west dictated the colonial encounter. In examining the fiction, film, journalism, treatises, and histories Americans produced out of their `Russian experience, ¿ this volume closely analyzes ...

Three grand themes characterized the twentieth century: crises on a scale that outstripped any in human history, revolutionary ideology and action that brought social and political transformation on a global scale, and new technologies breathtaking in their pace and innovation. Through a discussion of overarching ideas and through case studies, this book explores the contradictions, commonalties, and varieties of human experience. Thematic cha...

Choi Chatterjee is Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles.David L. Ransel is Robert F. Byrnes Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington.Mary Cavender is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University at Mansfield.Karen Petrone is Professor of History at the University of Kentucky.

Choi Chatterjee is Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles.David L. Ransel is Robert F. Byrnes Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington.Mary Cavender is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University at Mansfield.Karen Petrone is Professor of History at the University of Kentucky.

Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, this is a comprehensive yet accessible textbook that situates modern Russia in the context of world history. Moving beyond the traditional Cold War framework, it covers topics such as the construction of the socialist order under Bolshevik government and the development of a new state structure, political ideology and foreign policy in the decades since the...

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Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists experienced and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. It critically engages with postcolonial theories which posit that a self-valorizing, unmediated west dictated the colonial encounter. In examining the fiction, film, journalism, treatises, and histories Americans produced out of their `Russian experience, ¿ this volume closely analyzes ...