ChaeRan Freeze explores the impact of various forces on marriage and divorce among Jews in 19th-century Russia. Challenging romantic views of the Jewish family in the shtetl, she shows that divorce rates among Russian Jews in the first half of the ce...

The first full-length study of same-sex love in any period of Russian or Soviet history, "Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia" investigates the private worlds of sexual dissidents during the pivotal decades before and after the 1917 Bolshevik R...

For sale in CIS only! This is a first hand account of the first successful expedition to the South Pole, written by the leader Roald Amundsen. It constructs the character of the expedition and provides insight into Amundsen's philosophy of explorati...