The Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Woodrow Wilson Center Press is the book publishing program of the Center. We publish the work of fellows, other scholars in residence, and staff of the Center, as well as books derived from the Center’s programming. Subjects range throughout the areas pursued at the Center, with particular strengths in Cold War history, urban studies, international relations, Latin American studies, Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet studies, and Asian studies. The press is an associate member of the Association of American University Presses.
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Featured Book
The Great Game, 1856–1907
"A monumental and readable assessment of the Great Game that makes the Russian side clearly intelligible in relation to the British."—Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin.
"Sergeev is evenhanded in his definition of the game, in his delineation of its stages, and in his ability to view the game in its full context. It is unlikely that any other scholar of the Great Game displays Sergeev's virtuosity with primary sources across several languages and from diverse archives."—Bruce W. Menning, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
Current Releases
Communism on Tomorrow Street
This fascinating and deeply researched book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of Soviet citizens moved from the overcrowded communal dwellings of the Stalin era to modern single-family apartments, later dubbed khrushchevka. Arguing that moving to a separate apartment allowed ordinary urban dwellers to experience Khrushchev's thaw, Steven E. Harris fundamentally shifts interpretation of the thaw, conventionally understood as an elite phenomenon.
The Great Game, 1856–1907
"The Great Game, 1856–1907" presents a new view of the British-Russian competition for dominance in Central Asia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Evgeny Sergeev offers a complex and novel point of view by synthesizing official collections of documents, parliamentary papers, political pamphlets, memoirs, contemporary journalism, and guidebooks from unpublished and less studied primary sources in Russian, British, Indian, Georgian, Uzbek, and Turkmen archives.
State Secularism and Lived Religion in Soviet Russia and Ukraine
State Secularism and Lived Religion in Soviet Russia and Ukraineis a collection of essays written by a broad cross-section of scholars from around the world that explores the myriad forms religious expression and religious practice took in Soviet society in conjunction with the Soviet government's commitment to secularization.
Divided Together
Divided Together studies US and Soviet policy toward the United Nations during the first two decades of the Cold War. It sheds new light on a series of key episodes, beginning with the prehistory of the UN, an institution that aimed to keep the Cold War cold.
The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union
Yaacov Ro’i and his collaborators provide the first scholarly survey of one of the most successful Soviet dissident movements, one which ultimately affected and reflected the demise of a superpower’s stature.
Woodrow Wilson Center Press Reviews
Policing Democracy, Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America
"Very few scholars in the field have the grasp of recent changes in and problems of systems of citizen security in Latin America that this author has. His vision is comprehensive, extending from policing to the judiciary to the prison system."
—Anthony W. Pereira, Tulane University