Artemy Kalinovsky’s Laboratory of Socialist Development investigates the Soviet effort to make promises of decolonization a reality by looking at the politics and practices of economic development in
Asking a question of both historical and contemporary significance, Kalinovsky (U. of Amsterdam), wonders why it took the Soviet Union so long to bring its troops home from Afghanistan even as many wi
Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East. Subsequently, different types of orientalism were discovered but the premise was that these took their lead from Weste
This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of current scholarship on the Cold War, with essays from many leading scholars. The field of Cold War history has consistently been one of the most vib
This collection provides a broad analysis of Afghanistan and its neighbors in recent decades and investigates the various historical and political contexts into which the region has been placed. It ex
This collection brings together an interdisciplinary array of scholars of late socialism in the USSR and challenges the dominant narrative of stagnation during the Brezhnev era. It demonstrates that t
