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Croatia: Land, People, Culture Volume II by Francis H Eterovich
RRP: £37.00£33.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598419Author Francis H EterovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams)... -
Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930 by Irina Livezeanu
RRP: £31.00£27.36Since the fall of the Ceausescu regime, Romanian politics have been haunted by unresolved issues of the past. Irina Livezeanu examines a critical chapter in Eastern European history-the trajectory of the aggressive nationalism that dominated Romania... -
Estonia as a Captive Nation: International Cooperation in Exile Within the Assembly of Captive European Nations, 1954-1972 by Pauli A Heikkilä
RRP: £124.00£114.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783506791825Author Pauli A HeikkiläFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Brill SchoninghPublisher Brill SchoninghWeight(grams) 658g -
Diversity in the East-Central European Borderlan - Memories, Cityscapes, People by Eleonora Narvselius
RRP: £45.00£37.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838215235Author Eleonora NarvseliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem Press -
Croatia: Land, People, Culture Volume I by Francis H Eterovich
RRP: £37.00£33.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598402Author Francis H EterovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams)... -
Reclaiming the Personal: Oral History in Post-Socialist Europe by Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
£57.31The first twenty-five years of life in post-socialist Europe have seen vast political, economic, and cultural changes, as societies that lived under communist rule struggle with the traumas of the past and the challenges of the future. In this context,... -
Born to Be Criminal: The Discourse on Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in Late Imperial Russia and Early Soviet Union. Interdisciplinary Approaches by Riccardo Nicolosi
RRP: £44.99£36.74This collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes, and ways of fighting it in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. It focuses on both the discourse on criminality and thus the... -
A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989 by Padraic Kenney
RRP: £42.00£33.04This is the first history of the revolutions that toppled communism in Europe to look behind the scenes at the grassroots movements that made those revolutions happen. It looks for answers not in the salons of power brokers and famed intellectuals, not... -
Albanian Letters: Nationalism, Independence and the Albanian League by Arthur Evans
£77.21Although best known as an eminent classical archaeologist, Sir Arthur Evans was also passionately interested in the history of Albania. An authority on ancient Illyria, his sophisticated sense of the region's ancient roots infused his understanding of... -
An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934 by Zara Witkin
RRP: £53.00£41.79In 1932 Zara Witkin, a prominent American engineer, set off for the Soviet Union with two goals: to help build a society more just and rational than the bankrupt capitalist system at home, and to seek out the beautiful film star Emma Tsesarskaia. His... -
Another Hungary: The Nineteenth-Century Provinces in Eight Lives by Robert Nemes
RRP: £62.00£53.56Another Hungary tells the stories of eight remarkable individuals: an aristocrat, merchant, engineer, teacher, journalist, rabbi, tobacconist, and writer. All eight came from the same woebegone corner of prewar Hungary. Their biographies illuminate how... -
The Roots of Solidarity: A Political Sociology of Poland's Working-Class Democratization by Roman Laba
RRP: £40.00£31.53In 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 the... -
War, Revolution, and Nation-Making in Lithuania, 1914-1923 by Tomas Balkelis
£98.42In this book, Tomas Balkelis explores how the Lithuanian state was created and shaped by the Great War from its onset in 1914 to the last waves of violence in 1923. As the very notion of independent Lithuania was constructed during the war, violence is... -
The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914 by Keely Stauter-Halsted
RRP: £25.99£22.49How do peasants come to think of themselves as members of a nation? The widely accepted argument is that national sentiment originates among intellectuals or urban middle classes, then "trickles down" to the working class and peasants. Keely... -
The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economics and Politics from the Middle Ages until the Early Twentieth Century by Daniel Chirot
RRP: £27.00£24.12Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world, and useful to those who want to understand... -
Lodz Ghetto: A History by Isaiah Trunk
RRP: £32.00£29.21In his comprehensive examination of the Lodz Ghetto, originally published in Yiddish in 1962, historian Isaiah Trunk sought to describe and explain the tragedy that befell the Jews imprisoned in the first major ghetto imposed by the Germans after they... -
The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe by Frank Schimmelfennig
RRP: £28.99£24.96In May 2004, eight former Eastern Bloc countries joined the European Union: the three Baltic republics, Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak republics, and Slovenia. What is involved in "accession"? How have accession dynamics affected and been affected... -
Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900-1949 by Theodora Dragostinova
RRP: £48.00£42.12In 1900, some 100,000 people living in Bulgaria-2 percent of the country's population-could be described as Greek, whether by nationality, language, or religion. The complex identities of the population-proud heirs of ancient Hellenic colonists, loyal... -
Stanislaw Brzozowski and the Migration of Ideas: Transnational Perspectives on the Intellectual Field in Twentieth-Century Poland and Beyond by Jens Herlth
RRP: £55.99£45.46As a writer, critic, and philosopher, Stanislaw Brzozowski (1878-1911) left a lasting imprint on Polish culture. He absorbed virtually all topical intellectual trends of his time, adapting them for the needs of what he saw as his primary mission--the... -
Whose Bosnia?: Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840-1914 by Edin Hajdarpasic
RRP: £27.99£24.14As Edin Hajdarpasic shows, formative contestations over Bosnia and the surrounding region began well the assassination that triggered World War I, emerging with the rise of new nineteenth-century forces-Serbian and Croatian nationalisms, and Ottoman,... -
World War II as an Identity Project: Historicism, Legitimacy Contests, and the (Re-)Construction of Political Communities in Ukraine, 19391946 by Oleksandr Melnyk
RRP: £45.00£36.75This book explores the relationship between history, legitimacy, and violence in the building and breaking of nations and states on the territory of contemporary Ukraine during the Second World War and in its aftermath. At its center are various... -
Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe by Melissa Feinberg
RRP: £89.00£66.64While the Cold War governments of Eastern Europe operated within the confines of the Soviet worldview, their peoples confronted the narratives of both East and West. From the Soviet Union and its satellites, they heard of a West dominated by imperialist... -
The British and the Turks: A History of Animosity, 1893-1923 by Justin McCarthy
£111.19Analyses British pressure to partition and ultimately destroy the Ottoman EmpireAbout the AuthorJustin McCarthy, Professor of History, University of Louisville.Book InformationISBN 9781399500043Author Justin McCarthyFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint... -
Slavic Thinkers or the Creation of Politics: Intellectual History and Political Thought in Central Europe and the Balkans in the 19th Century by Josette Baer 9780979448805
RRP: £22.00£19.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979448805Author Josette BaerFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 398g -
The Vistula-Oder Offensive: The Vistula–Oder Offensive, the Soviet Destruction of German Army Group a, 1945 by Ian Baxter 9781636243597
RRP: £24.95£18.75The Vistula-Oder offensive was a massive Soviet Army operation on the Eastern Front which was launched on 12 January 1945 and paved the way for the Battle of Berlin. Its main objective was a major advance from the River Vistula to the River Oder,... -
The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe by Marie-Janine Calic
£37.40A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions.We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the... -
Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression by Wendy Z. Goldman 9780521685092
RRP: £39.99£33.26Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin is the first book devoted exclusively to popular participation in the 'Great Terror', a period in which millions of people were arrested, interrogated, shot, and sent to labor camps. The book shifts attention... -
The Czech Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Jan Bazant 9780822347941
RRP: £23.99£21.24The Czech Reader brings together more than 150 primary texts and illustrations to convey the dramatic history of the Czechs, from the emergence of the Czech state in the tenth century, through the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 and the Czech Republic... -
Resistance: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Yisrael Gutman
£14.96One of the few survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Holocaust scholar Gutman draws on diaries, personal letters, and underground press reports in this compelling, authoritative account of a landmark event in Jewish history. Here, too, is a... -
Stalinism Revisited: The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe by Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu 9789639776630
RRP: £33.95£31.95Deals with the period of takeover and of 'high Stalinism' in Eastern Europe (1945-1955). These years are considered to be fundamentally characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based upon the premise of radical transformism and of... -
The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution by Marci Shore
RRP: £25.00£22.27A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential "Shore brilliantly captures the contingency, uncertainty, and chaos that was transmuted into the remarkable, seemingly transcendent... -
A Cardboard Castle?: An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991 by Vojtech Mastny 9789637326073
RRP: £41.95£39.71The first book to document, analyze, and interpret the history of the Warsaw Pact based on the archives of the alliance itself. The introductory study is followed by 193 documents, most of them top secret when created and have only recently been obtained... -
The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Break-up, 1980-90 by Branka Magas
RRP: £24.99£24.91The year 1992, scheduled to be a milestone on the road to European unity, saw Sarajevo and other European cities bombarded slowly to pieces and their inhabitants starved before the TV eyes of the world. It saw two million Bosnian Muslims threatened with... -
Bulgaria by R. J. Crampton 9780199541584
RRP: £51.00£40.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s by V. P. Gagnon, Jr. 9780801472916
RRP: £19.99£15.86"The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact... -
Summer Meditations by Vaclav Havel
RRP: £16.00£11.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744979Author Vaclav HavelFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 197gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Bucharest Diary: Romania's Journey from Darkness to Light by Alfred H. Moses 9780815732723
RRP: £30.00£24.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815732723Author Alfred H. MosesFormat HardbackPage Count 363Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm)... -
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein 9780241632703
RRP: £16.99£13.19'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In... -
Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
RRP: £18.95£11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643137698Author Erika FatlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
The Balkans in World History by Andrew Wachtel 9780195338010
RRP: £25.99£17.13In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of small and spiteful peoples, racked by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent...