Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite

By Simon Pirani

The Russian revolution of 1917 was a defining event of the twentieth century, and its achievements and failures remain controversial in the twenty-first. This book...

Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge.

A Reappraisal

Edited by Frederic Bozo, Marie-Pierre Rey, N. Piers Ludlow, Leopoldo Nuti

This book seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of German unification.

Much of the existing...

Published January 24th 2008 by Routledge.

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

Edited by Joad Raymond

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for...

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.

Concepts for the Comparison Of Dictatorships - Theory & History of Interpretations

Edited by Hans Maier

Available for the first time in English language translation, the third volume of Totalitarianism and Political Religions completes the set. It provides a comprehensive overview...

Published December 21st 2007 by Routledge.

Edited by Sabrina P. Ramet

This special issue provides important new scholarship from a variety of perspectives on the structure, ideology and political history of the central fascist group in...

Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.

Civil Disobedience and the German Courts

The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective

By Peter E. Quint

In the 1980s the West German Peace Movement -- fearing that the stationing of NATO nuclear missiles in Germany threatened an imminent nuclear war in...

Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish.

Soviet Karelia

Politics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1920–1939

By Nick Baron

In 1920, Lenin authorised a plan to transform Karelia, a Russian territory adjacent to Finland, into a showcase Soviet autonomous region, to show what could...

Published December 14th 2007 by Routledge.

Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere

By Frances Nethercott

Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the Gorbachev and Yel’tsin eras, the issue of individual legal rights and freedoms occupied...

Published November 30th 2007 by Routledge.

Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

By Richard Wittman

This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a...

Published November 29th 2007 by Routledge.

The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany

By Roderick Stackelberg

The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany combines a concise narrative overview with chronological, bibliographical and tabular information to cover all major aspects of Nazi Germany....

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.