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With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist Splits in Yugoslav Communism by Ivo Banac 9780801421860
RRP: £87.00£75.93In 1948 in a series of moves that culminated in the famous Cominform Resolution, Stalin struck at the Communist Party in Yugoslavia, provoking the first split in the Communist state system. With this long-awaited book, Ivo Banac becomes the first scholar... -
The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011 by Misha Glenny 9780142422564
RRP: £28.00£19.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142422564Author Misha GlennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 737gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *... -
The Shining Beacon of Socialism in Europe: The Albanian State and Society in the Period of Communist Dictatorship, 1944-1992 by Tadeusz Czekalski 9788323335153
£40.80In the history of European communist dictatorships, the Albanian case deserves particular attention. Half a century of Albanian communism saw an attempt to apply the model of forceful industrialisation, combined with a brutal and multifarious... -
Loyal Unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia by Keith Brown 9780253008404
RRP: £23.99£20.84The underground Macedonian Revolutionary Organization recruited and mobilized over 20,000 supporters to take up arms against the Ottoman Empire between 1893 and 1903. Challenging conventional wisdom about the role of ethnic and national identity in... -
Studies on Istanbul and Beyond: The Freely Papers, Volume 1 by Robert G. Ousterhout 9781934536018
RRP: £25.00£23.27Written by recipients of the John Freely Fellowship awarded annually through the American Research Institute in Turkey from a major gift from the Joukowsky Family Foundation of New York to honor a celebrated author of travel and history books, this... -
The Stark Carpathians: Ritual, Text, and Authority Among Ukraine's Hutsuls by Anthony J Amato 9781793608383
RRP: £115.00£100.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793608383Author Anthony J AmatoFormat HardbackPage Count 538Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
Faces of Community in Central European Towns: Images, Symbols, and Performances, 1400-1700 by Katerina Hornickova 9781498551120
RRP: £123.00£107.63Concepts of visual communication form an explanatory framework for discussing the visual expressions of urban symbolic communication in urban life in towns in the center of Europe in the late medieval and early modern period, including the dramatic times... -
Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians by John-Paul Himka 9781487523411
RRP: £33.00£29.99Few subjects in Christianity have inspired artists as much as the last judgment. Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians examines images of the last judgment from the fifteenth century to the present in the Carpathian mountain region of Ukraine,... -
Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine by Jessica Zychowicz 9781487501686
£67.01Superfluous Women tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. With a focus on new media, Zychowicz demonstrates how contemporary artist collectives in... -
The Auschwitz Reports and the Holocaust in Hungary by Randolph Braham 9780880336888
£53.19A collection of papers read at the International Conference held in New York in April 2011 under the sponsorship of the Institute for Holocaust Studies of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt... -
Chess Game for Democracy: Hungary between East and West, 1944-1947 by Maria Palasik 9780773538504
RRP: £32.00£28.61In Chess Game for Democracy, Maria Palasik examines this ill-fated conflict to explain how it was possible for the parties to work together in a coalition government, while constantly at odds with each other. Her reconstruction of the debates over the... -
The Roots of Solidarity: A Political Sociology of Poland's Working-Class Democratization by Roman Laba 9780691635583
£103.97In July 1980, two weeks before the Gdansk shipyard strikes, Roman Laba arrived in Poland as an American graduate student. He stayed there for almost two and a half years before he was arrested and expelled from the country for "activities noxious to... -
Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, 1918-1948 by Mark Cornwall 9780197263914
£73.68This volume presents fresh and original writing on the history of Czechoslovakia, a state neglected in British historiography, but which is vital for understanding Europe after 1918. The country twice lost its independence, firstly to Hitler's Germany... -
Art and Design in Romania, 1866-1927 - Local and International Aspects of the Search for National Expression by Shona Kallestrup 9780880335829
£50.81This study provides an in-depth overview of the development of a national identity in Romanian art, architecture and design at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. By exploring the political, cultural and artistic forces... -
Remembering Cold Days: The Novi Sad Massacre in Hungarian Politics and Society by Arpad von Klimo 9780822965459
£46.75Between three and four thousand civilians, primarily Serbian and Jewish, were murdered in the Novi Sad massacre of 1942. Hungarian soldiers and gendarmes carried out the crime in the city and surrounding areas, in territory Hungary occupied after the... -
Yugoslavia: Oblique Insights and Observations by Dennison Ivan Rusinow 9780822960102
£51.30Defying Stalin and his brand of communism, Tito's Yugoslavia developed a unique kind of socialism that combined one-party rule with an economic system of workers' self-management that aroused intense interest throughout the Cold War. As a member of the... -
The Swiss and their Neighbours, 1460-1560: Between Accommodation and Aggression by Tom Scott 9780198725275
£85.30Renewed interest in Swiss history has sought to overcome the old stereotypes of peasant liberty and republican exceptionalism. The heroic age of the Confederation in the fifteenth century is now seen as a turning-point as the Swiss polity achieved a... -
Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II by Joseph Rothschild 9780195334746
£49.96Written by one of the world's foremost authorities on East Central Europe,Return to Diversity has proven to be an invaluable guide to students of modern European history and politics. The addition of co-author Nancy M. Wingfield on the current third... -
Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945-1989 by Mark Kramer 9781498520515
RRP: £61.00£53.56The Cold War began in Europe in the mid-1940s and ended there in 1989. Notions of a "global Cold War" are useful in describing the wide impact and scope of the East-West divide after World War II, but first and foremost the Cold War was about the... -
The Slovak National Awakening: An Essay in the Intellectual History of East Central Europe by Professor of History Peter Brock 9781442652316
RRP: £15.99£14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442652316Author Professor of History Peter BrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto... -
Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union by Erica L. Fraser 9781442637207
£66.94Catastrophic wartime casualties and postwar discomfort with the successes of women who had served in combat roles combined to shatter prewar ideals about what service meant for Soviet masculine identity. The soldier had to be re-imagined and resold to a... -
In Confidence: Moscow’s Ambassador to Six Cold War Presidents by Anatoly Dobrynin 9780295980812
£34.27Anatoly Dobrynin arrived in Washington, D.C., in 1962 -- at 43 the youngest man ever to serve as Soviet Ambassador to the United States -- and remained through the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Dobrynin became the... -
Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography by Mark Gamsa 9781487544249
RRP: £29.99£27.38This book offers an intimate portrait of early twentieth-century Harbin, a city in Manchuria where Russian colonialists, and later refugees from the Revolution, met with Chinese migrants. The deep social and intellectual fissures between the Russian and... -
The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town by Eugene M. Avrutin 9780190640521
RRP: £39.99£30.70On April 22, 1823, a three-year-old boy named Fedor finished his lunch and went to play outside. Fedor never returned home from his walk. Several days later, a neighbor found his mutilated body drained of blood and repeatedly pierced. In small market... -
Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe by Paulina Bren 9780199827657
£116.41Communism Unwrapped is a collection of essays that unwraps the complex world of consumption under communism in postwar Eastern Europe, featuring new work by both American and European scholars writing from variety of disciplinary perspectives. The result... -
To Make a Village Soviet: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland by Emily B. Baran 9780228010548
RRP: £108.00£93.40In June 1949 the Soviet state arrested seven farmers from the village of Bila Tserkva. Not wealthy or powerful, the men were unknown outside their community, and few had ever heard of their small, isolated village on the southwestern border of Soviet... -
The Fall: A Comparative Study of the End of Communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland by Steven Saxonberg 9789058230973
RRP: £135.00£117.68With a foreword by Seymour Lipset, Hoover Institution and George Mason University, USA The 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... -
The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia by Stefan B. Kirmse 9781108499439
RRP: £90.00£81.43The Russian Empire and its legal institutions have often been associated with arbitrariness, corruption, and the lack of a 'rule of law'. Stefan B. Kirmse challenges these assumptions in this important new study of empire-building, minority rights, and... -
Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia by Nikolay Koposov 9781108419727
RRP: £81.99£74.33Laws against Holocaust denial are perhaps the best-known manifestation of the present-day politics of historical memory. In Memory Laws, Memory Wars, Nikolay Koposov examines the phenomenon of memory laws in Western and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and... -
The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev by Maria Rogacheva 9781107196360
RRP: £92.99£83.67Rogacheva sheds new light on the complex transition of Soviet society from Stalinism into the post-Stalin era. Using the case study of Chernogolovka, one of dozens of scientific towns built in the USSR under Khrushchev, she explains what motivated... -
The Stalinist Era by David L. Hoffmann 9781107007086
RRP: £49.00£44.10Placing Stalinism in its international context, David L. Hoffmann presents a new interpretation of Soviet state intervention and violence. Many 'Stalinist' practices - the state-run economy, surveillance, propaganda campaigns, and the use of... -
Assessing Russian Reactions to U.S. and NATO Posture Enhancements by Bryan Frederick 9780833098634
RRP: £26.99£22.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833098634Author Bryan FrederickFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 680g -
Paramilitarism in the Balkans: Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania, 1917-1924 by Dmitar Tasic 9780198858324
£97.41Paramilitarism in the Balkans analyses the origins and manifestations of paramilitary violence in three neighbouring Balkan countries - Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania - after the First World War. It shows the role of paramilitarism in internal and... -
Forging Germans: Youth, Nation, and the National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918-1944 by Caroline Mezger 9780198850168
RRP: £107.50£97.59Forging Germans explores the German nationalization and eventual National Socialist radicalization of ethnic Germans in the Batschka and the Western Banat, two multiethnic, post-Habsburg borderland territories currently in northern Serbia. Deploying a... -
Scholars in Exile: The Ukrainian Intellectual World in Interwar Czechoslovakia by Nadia Zavorotna 9781487504458
£58.89In the interwar years, emigre scholars in Czechoslovakia provided continuity and a bridge for Ukrainian scholarship from its inception at the end of the nineteenth century to the development of Ukrainian studies in the twenty-first century. These... -
Detente and Beyond: Anglo-Romanian Relations in the Aviation Industry (1966-1993) by Mauro Elli 9782807606746
RRP: £50.80£44.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782807606746Author Mauro ElliFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint PIE - Peter LangPublisher PIE - Peter LangWeight(grams) 360g -
Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland by Dr Michael Ostling 9780198867111
RRP: £24.99£22.52Outside the imagination, witches don't exist. But in Poland and in Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, people imagined their neighbours to be witches, with tragic results. For the first time in English, Michael Ostling tells the story of... -
The History of a Forgotten German Camp: Nazi Ideology and Genocide at Szmalcowka by Tomasz Ceran 9781780768861
RRP: £120.00£119.52Although often overlooked, anti-Polish sentiment was central to Nazi ideology. At the outset of World War II, Hitler initiated a process of 'depolonization' (Entpolonisierung) which resulted in the death or displacement of a significant number of Polish... -
Poland: A History by Adam Zamoyski 9780781813013
RRP: £14.99£13.68As Adam Zamoyski set out to update The Polish Way, his bestselling first history of Poland, he realized the task required not so much re-writing as re-thinking the known facts well as the assumptions of the past. The events of the last twenty years and... -
Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World by Anna Procyk 9781487505080
£59.87Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830-1. Focusing on the political ideas brought to...