Skip to content
MIT Press
  • MIT Press
  • Books
    • Column
      • View all subjects
      • New releases
      • Catalogs
      • Textbooks
      • Series
      • Awards
    • Column
      • Authors
      • Distributed presses
      • The MIT Press Reader
      • Podcasts
      • Collections
    • Column
      • MIT Press Direct

        MIT Press Direct is a distinctive collection of influential MIT Press books curated for scholars and libraries worldwide.

        • Learn more
  • Journals
    • column
      • Journals all topics
      • Economics
      • International Affairs, History, & Political Science
    • column
      • Arts & Humanities
      • Science & Technology
      • Open access
    • column
      • MIT Press journals

        MIT Press began publishing journals in 1970 with the first volumes of Linguistic Inquiry and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Today we publish over 30 titles in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

        • Learn more
  • Open Access
    • column
      • Open access at the MIT Press
      • Open access books
      • Open access journals
    • column
      • Direct to Open
      • MIT Open Publishing Services
      • MIT Press Open on PubPub
    • Column
      • Open access

        The MIT Press has been a leader in open access book publishing for over two decades, beginning in 1995 with the publication of William Mitchell’s City of Bits, which appeared simultaneously in print and in a dynamic, open web edition.

        • Learn more
  • Resources
    • column
      • Current authors
      • Prospective authors
      • Instructors
    • column
      • Media inquiries
      • Booksellers
      • Rights and permissions
    • column
      • Resources

        Collaborating with authors, instructors, booksellers, librarians, and the media is at the heart of what we do as a scholarly publisher. If you can’t find the resource you need here, visit our contact page to get in touch.

        • Learn more
  • Give
  • About
    • Column
      • About
      • Jobs
      • Internships
      • MIT Press Editorial Board
      • MIT Press Management Board
      • Our MIT story
    • Column
      • Catalogs
      • News
      • Events
      • Conferences
      • Bookstore
    • Column
      • The MIT Press

        Established in 1962, the MIT Press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design.

        • Learn more
  • Contact Us
Newsletter
MIT Press
Newsletter

History / Russia & the Former Soviet Union

Showing results 1-10 of 18

  • Books
  • Site Content
Filter Results OPEN +
Searching...
‹12›
In Visible Presence

In Visible Presence

In Visible Presence

Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos

by Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko

ISBN: 9780262048279

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 26, 2023

Forthcoming from the MIT Press
Detroit–Moscow–Detroit

Detroit–Moscow–Detroit

Detroit–Moscow–Detroit

An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945

Edited by Jean-Louis Cohen, Christina E. Crawford and Claire Zimmerman

ISBN: 9780262047982

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 25, 2023

Ideologically opposed, technologically cooperative—an original account of US and USSR industrialization between the world wars.
Bone Music

Bone Music

Bone Music

Soviet X-Ray Audio

Edited by Stephen Coates

ISBN: 9781913689476

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: January 10, 2023

Stories of the secret underground Cold War–era Soviet music subculture that distributed forbidden music on used hospital x-rays.
Stalin’s Architect

Stalin's Architect

Stalin's Architect

Power and Survival in Moscow

by Deyan Sudjic

ISBN: 9780262046862

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 14, 2022

The story of Boris Iofan—designer of the iconic but unbuilt Palace of the Soviets—whose buildings came to define the language of Soviet architecture.
Russian Cosmism

Russian Cosmism

Russian Cosmism

Edited by Boris Groys

ISBN: 9780262037433

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 16, 2018

Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism.
How Not to Network a Nation

How Not to Network a Nation

How Not to Network a Nation

The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

by Benjamin Peters

ISBN: 9780262534666

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 8, 2017

How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists.
Homo Sovieticus

Homo Sovieticus

Homo Sovieticus

Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny

by Wladimir Velminski

Translated by Erik Butler

ISBN: 9780262035699

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 10, 2017

How Soviet scientists and pseudoscientists pursued telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and mass hypnotism over television to control the minds of citizens.
X-Ray Audio

X-Ray Audio

X-Ray Audio

The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone

Edited by Stephen Coates

ISBN: 9781907222382

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: December 8, 2015

Telling the story of forbidden culture, bootleg technology and human endeavour, this is the secret history of Russian X-ray records and of the people who made, bought and sold them.
Producing Power

Producing Power

Producing Power

The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry

by Sonja D. Schmid

ISBN: 9780262538800

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 6, 2015

An examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear industry leading up to Chernobyl.
Russia

Russia

Russia

A Long View

by Yegor Gaidar

Translated by Antonina W. Bouis

Foreword by Anders Aslund

ISBN: 9780262526838

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 29, 2014

An important Russian economist and politician takes a long view of economic history and Russia's development.
‹12›

logo
  • Column 1
    • Books
    • Journals
    • The MIT Press Reader
    • Podcasts
    • Imprints
  • Column 2
    • The MIT Press
      • About
      • Bookstore
      • Catalogs
      • Conferences
      • Press Editorial Board
      • Jobs
      • Internships
      • Press Management Board
      • News
      • Staff
      • Code of Conduct
      • Give
  • Column 3
    • Site Help
      • Accessibility
      • FAQ
      • Our eBooks
      • Privacy Policy
      • Terms of Use
  • Column 4
    • Resources
      • Current Authors
      • Prospective Authors
      • Booksellers
      • Instructors
      • Rights and Permissions
      • Media Inquiries
      • MIT Discounts
  • Column 5
    • Digital
      • CogNet
      • Digital Partners and Products
      • Knowledge Futures Group
      • MIT Press Direct
  • US

    One Broadway 12th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142

  • UK

    Unit 57710 PO Box 6945 London W1A 6US UK

  • Contact

Connect

© 2023 MIT Press. All Rights Reserved.

Powered by Supadu