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Eastern Europe 1945-1969: From Stalinism to Stagnation by Ben Fowkes 9780582326934
RRP: £29.99£29.24Here is an essential short guide to the history of Eastern Europe under the early decades of communist rule. The study explores the communists attempt to transpose a uniform economic and social system across the region copied from the Soviet model. Dr... -
Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West by David Rieff 9780684819037
£14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684819037Author David RieffFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm -
Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation by James Mark 9780192848857
RRP: £102.50£92.72This collectively written monograph is the first work to provide a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world. It ranges from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, but at its core is the dynamic of... -
The Making of Mamaliga: Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish by Alex Drace-Francis 9789633866245
RRP: £20.95£19.35Mamaliga, maize porridge or polenta, is a universally consumed dish in Romania and a prominent national symbol. But its unusual history has rarely been told. Alex Drace-Francis surveys the arrival and spread of maize cultivation in Romanian lands from... -
Poland: The First Thousand Years by Patrice M Dabrowski
RRP: £24.99£22.07Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern periods, the country grew to be the largest in continental... -
Guardians of the Ukraine: The Ukrainian Air Force Since 1992 by Babak Taghvaee
£40.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109619Author Babak TaghvaeeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
Cafe Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism by Slavenka Drakulic
RRP: £16.99£12.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134176Author Slavenka DrakulicFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Bosnia: A Short History by Noel Malcolm 9780814755617
£30.46This updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of... -
The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: £53.95£43.27The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Serhii Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history,... -
The Orthodox Church in Ukraine: A Century of Separation by Nicholas E. Denysenko
RRP: £35.00£30.74The bitter separation of Ukraine's Orthodox churches is a microcosm of its societal strife. From 1917 onward, church leaders failed to agree on the church's mission in the twentieth century. The core issues of dispute were establishing independence from... -
The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture by Larry Wolff 9780804783125
RRP: £24.99£22.07Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its... -
How to Write an IB History Essay: The Safe Hands Approach by Joe Thomas 9780956087362
RRP: £19.99£16.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956087362Author Joe ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Zouev PublishingPublisher Zouev PublishingWeight(grams) 305gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm... -
Stolen Childhood: A Saga of Polish War Children by Lucjan Krolikowski 9780595168637
RRP: £18.99£14.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595168637Author Lucjan KrolikowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 508g -
The Polish Saber by Richard Marsden 9780984771653
£45.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984771653Author Richard MarsdenFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Tyrant IndustriesPublisher Tyrant IndustriesWeight(grams) 1091g -
Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947 by Tadeusz Piotrowski 9780786429134
RRP: £28.99£23.78With the end of World War I, a new Republic of Poland emerged on the maps of Europe, made up of some of the territory from the first Polish Republic, including Wolyn and Wilno, and significant parts of Belarus, Upper Silesia, Eastern Galicia, and East... -
History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness by Lucian Boia 9789639116979
RRP: £22.95£21.10Taken from the precept that there is a considerable difference between real history and discourse history, Boia points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythified from the perspective of the present day, of present... -
The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR by Jonathan Brunstedt
RRP: £34.99£30.49This pioneering monograph - a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year - asks how a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconciled itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian... -
The Fall: A Comparative Study of the End of Communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland by Steven Saxonberg
RRP: £53.99£47.27With a foreword by Seymour Lipset, Hoover Institution and George Mason University, USAThe Fall examines one of the twentieth century's great historical puzzles: why did the communist-led regimes in Eastern Europe collapse so quickly and why was the... -
Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II by Roger Moorhouse 9780465095384
RRP: £32.00£19.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465095384Author Roger MoorhouseFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 155mm * 33mm -
Queer Budapest, 1873-1961 by Anita Kurimay
RRP: £28.00£27.39By the dawn of the twentieth century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the "Pearl of the Danube," it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class was... -
The Danube: A Cultural History by Director Andrew Beattie 9780199768356
£31.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199768356Author Director Andrew BeattieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)... -
Church and State in Communist Poland: A History, 1944-1989 by Marian Mazgaj 9780786459049
£61.45Prior to World War II, Poland was a nation of almost 35 million people, most of whom were Catholic. With the institution of a Communist Soviet regime following the war, a legal strategy for persecuting the church was implemented. This text explores the... -
Diplomats and Dreamers: The Stancioff Family in Bulgarian History by Mari A. Firkatian 9780761840695
RRP: £60.00£52.30This book chronicles a family of diplomats who experienced the world in transition. Subjects of capricious fate, they forged a destiny as a family that overcame some of the most cataclysmic events of the twentieth century. Diplomats and Dreamers is a... -
Witnesses to Interwar Subcarpathian Rus’: The Sojourns of Petr Bogatyrev and Ivan Olbracht by Patricia A. Krafcik 9781666931709
RRP: £100.00£91.64In the midst of a contentious atmosphere of the interwar period, the far-eastern province of Subcarpathian Rus’ attracted the personal curiosity and professional attention of Russian ethnographer and theoretician Petr Bogatyrev and Czech... -
The Untold Journey of the Nazarene Emigration from Yugoslavia to North America by Aleksandra Djuric Milovanovic 9781666922769
RRP: £77.00£70.88What role does religion play in migration processes? What is the reason behind migration of religious minorities? Is religious affiliation a deciding factor in choosing emigration? Some of these questions have been the focus of The Untold Journey of the... -
Navarodok: A Movement That Lived in Struggle and Its Unique Approach to the Problem of Man by Rabbi Dr. Meir Levin 9781568216034
RRP: £35.00£30.95To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9781568216034Author Rabbi Dr. Meir LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Jason Aronson Inc. PublishersPublisher Jason Aronson Inc... -
Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin Jeronim Perović 9781009449106
RRP: £80.00£72.17This is a very timely study of Russia's development into a global energy power from the Russian Revolution to the present day. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russia emerged not only as a key producer but also as one of the world's leading... -
The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR Jonathan Brunstedt 9781108712552
RRP: £22.99£19.56This pioneering monograph – a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year – asks how a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconciled itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian... -
Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin Jeronim Perović 9781009449144
RRP: £25.99£21.99This is a very timely study of Russia's development into a global energy power from the Russian Revolution to the present day. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russia emerged not only as a key producer but also as one of the world's leading... -
Montazstroj's Emancipatory Performance Politics: Never Mind the Score by Leo Rafolt 9781666921175
RRP: £89.00£77.95This book deals with the broader theoretical and philosophical context of the performance art in former Yugoslavia, focusing on more than three decades of politically engaged performance activity of the Montazstroj group. Their activity is only a... -
Nation, State, and Territory: Origins, Evolutions, and Relationships by George W. White 9780742530263
RRP: £44.00£38.64Globalization seems to be making nation-states increasingly irrelevant, yet their number has continued to grow in recent years. New nation-states emerged out of the ruins of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia; more still may come as Palestinians, Kurds,... -
The A to Z of Polish Cinema by Marek Haltof 9780810876170
RRP: £45.00£41.19In 1902, scientist and inventor Kazimierz Proszynski made the first Polish narrative film, The Return of a Merry Fellow (Powrot Birbanta). Since then, the Polish film industry has produced a diverse body of work, ranging from patriotic melodramas and... -
The A to Z of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Ante Cuvalo 9780810876477
RRP: £45.00£39.89Diversity has always been at the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina's character; even its dual name and physical geography display a particular heterogeneity. The medieval Bosnian state never enjoyed lasting political and ideological unity as its feudal,... -
The A to Z of the Gypsies (Romanies) by Donald Kenrick 9780810875616
RRP: £45.00£39.49Originating in India, the Gypsies arrived in Europe around the 14th century, spreading not only across the entirety of the continent but also immigrating to the Americas. The first Gypsy migration included farmworkers, blacksmiths, and mercenary... -
The A to Z of Turkey by Metin Heper 9780810872196
RRP: £45.00£39.89Turkey is both an old and a new country. While the Turks have been living in Anatolia for the last millennium, the country has gone through extensive Westernization since the end of the 18th century. However, in the case of Turkey, tradition has not... -
The A to Z of Moldova by Andrei Brezianu 9780810872110
RRP: £45.00£39.89The Republic of Moldova claims a European lineage reaching back in time long before its 14th century accession to statehood. In the 15th century, it managed against all odds to avoid being conquered by Islam and-albeit an intermittent vassal after... -
The A to Z of Latvia by Andrejs Plakans 9780810872097
RRP: £45.00£39.49Located on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, Latvia did not emerge as an independent country until the twentieth century, having been occupied at different times in the past by its larger neighbors: Russia, Germany, Poland, and Sweden. In 1993, Latvia... -
Bitter Harvest: Antecedents and Consequences of Property Reforms in Postsocialist Poland by Suava Zbierski-Salameh 9780739165140
RRP: £44.00£38.64Bitter Harvest, a historical ethnographic study, examines the property changes prompted by the early post-socialist neoliberal reforms designed to build capitalism in Poland. Historically, the book traces the halting but steady emergence of privatization... -
The Greeks of Odessa - Diaspora Leadership in Late Imperial Russia by John Athanasios Mazis 9780880335454
RRP: £35.00£31.73This book examines the activities of the Greeks of South Russia during the Imperial era by focusing on the Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa (GBAO). Odessa had the largest concentration of urban Greeks in the Russian empire, and the Greeks enjoyed... -
Committing Community - Carpatho-Rusyn Studies as an Emerging Scholarly Discipline by Elaine Rusinko 9780880336451
RRP: £58.00£45.58Leading scholars of Slavic, Russian, and Ukrainian national issues debate the history and place of Rusyns within East Central Europe.Book InformationISBN 9780880336451Author Elaine RusinkoFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint East European...