https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/A-History-of-the-Thirteen-in-the-USSR https://booksandideas.net/A-History-of-the-Thirteen-in-the-USSR 2023-04-27T07:00:00Z text/html en Grégory Dufaud History Russia Soviet Union Cairn.info <p>The “New Thinking,” a complete recasting of Soviet foreign policy under Gorbachev, paradoxically precipitated the fall of the regime. A generation of reformers who cut their intellectual teeth in the 1950s were the source of the doctrine.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Thorny-Memory-of-the-Russian-Revolution https://booksandideas.net/The-Thorny-Memory-of-the-Russian-Revolution 2017-07-03T07:00:00Z text/html en Korine Amacher History memory Russia revolution Soviet Union Florence Gould Foundation <p>During the Soviet era, October 1917 was the central political and cultural reference. One hundred years later, Russian society is still deeply divided over its past. Will the centenary of the Revolution be the great moment of national reconciliation the Russian power wants it to be?</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Trouble-with-Truth https://booksandideas.net/The-Trouble-with-Truth 2015-11-05T08:00:00Z text/html en Ekaterina Pravilova Society historiography history Soviet Union Institut français Public Books <p>In Russia, the government's propaganda machine is not limited to<br class='autobr' /> the political sphere. In rewriting the country's history, it is promoting “the decay of rationality and the de-installation of a scientific worldview”. Historian Ekaterina Pravilova addresses the effects of this crisis of knowledge for Russia's intelligentsia and academic community.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Borders-as-Thickening-Zones https://booksandideas.net/Borders-as-Thickening-Zones 2015-05-13T05:30:00Z text/html en Jane Burbank International Russia Soviet Union borders <p>How can a state expect its borders to be respected and at the same time deny the existence of borders to spread revolution? Historian Sabine Dullin's unique reconstruction of Soviet political imagination gives provocative answers to this apparent paradox. Her new way of looking at frontiers also has tremendous relevance to explain Russia's border politics of today.</p> https://booksandideas.net/An-Environmental-History-of-Russia https://booksandideas.net/An-Environmental-History-of-Russia 2015-02-12T06:30:00Z text/html en Étienne Forestier-Peyrat History Russia environment Soviet Union <p>With the publication of a book on the environmental history of Russia, Étienne Forestier-Peyrat analyses the link between politics and environment in Russian and Soviet history, from the Czarist campaigns to expand territories to the current and highly controversial construction of the Sochi Olympic Village.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Burry-and-let-die https://booksandideas.net/Burry-and-let-die 2011-10-12T11:50:35Z text/html en Anna Lawton History cinema censorship Soviet Union Soviet Union <p>Film censorship in post-Stalin Russia was neither rational, nor a product of ideology. As, historian Martine Godet convincingly shows, it was rather the result of a fluid and unpredictable process, where status and stratagems played a key role.</p>