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The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks by Jeffrey Brooks
RRP: £26.99£22.80Showcasing the genius of Russian literature, art, music, and dance over a century of turmoil, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it, The Firebird and the Fox explores the shared traditions, mutual influences and enduring themes that recur... -
Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City by Gordon J. Horwitz 9780674045545
RRP: £23.95£19.54Under the Third Reich, Nazi Germany undertook an unprecedented effort to refashion the city of Lodz. Home to prewar Poland's second most populous Jewish community, this was to become a German city of enchantment-a modern, clean, and orderly showcase of... -
Why So Easily . . . Some Family Reasons for the Velvet Revolution: A Sociological Essay by Ivo Možný
RRP: £16.00£13.84A famed essay examines the Velvet Revolution from a sociological perspective. Thirty-two years after its initial publication, this respected sociological essay, written in the history-making years of 1989 and 1990, is available for the first time in... -
A Traveller's History of Croatia by Benjamin Curtis 9781566568081
RRP: £10.99£9.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566568081Author Benjamin CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)... -
Albania and the Albanians in the Annual Reports of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1820-1924 by David Hosaflook 9781946244079
RRP: £9.24£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946244079Author David HosaflookFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Institute for Albanian and Protestant StudiesPublisher Institute for Albanian and... -
Communist Gourmet: The Curious History of Food in the People's Republic of Bulgaria by Albena Shkodrova
RRP: £22.95£20.71Communist Gourmet presents a lively, detailed account of how the communist regime in Bulgaria determined people's everyday food experience between 1944 and 1989. It examines the daily routines of acquiring food, cooking it, and eating out at restaurants... -
Odessa Recollected: The Port and the People by Patricia Herlihy
RRP: £29.99£29.07The present Ukrainian city of Odessa, formerly an economic asset for the Russian Empire and a resort town for the Soviet Union, always a non-conformist city at once rambunctious and European in style, has become a contested area. Imperial Russian tsars... -
The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy by Matthew J. Ouimet 9780807854112
RRP: £46.95£43.73Since the sudden collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe in 1989, scholars have tried to explain why the Soviet Union stood by and watched as its empire crumbled. The recent release of extensive archive documentation in Moscow and the... -
Orphan Eagles: Polish Armies of the Napoleonic Wars by Vincent W. Rospond
RRP: £30.00£17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990364900Author Vincent W. RospondFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Winged Hussar PublishingPublisher Winged Hussar PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Holy Legionary Youth: Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania by Roland Clark
RRP: £38.00£33.27Founded in 1927, Romania's Legion of the Archangel Michael was one of Europe's largest and longest-lived fascist social movements. In Holy Legionary Youth, Roland Clark draws on oral histories, memoirs, and substantial research in the archives of the... -
A Concise History of Bosnia by Cathie Carmichael
RRP: £22.99£18.29A Concise History of Bosnia integrates the political, economic and cultural history of this fascinating, beautiful, but much misunderstood country. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary literature, this objective and engaging history covers... -
A Concise History of Serbia by Dejan Djokić 9781107028388
RRP: £79.99£72.56This accessible and engaging book covers the full span of Serbia's history, from the sixth-century Slav migrations up to the present day. It traces key developments surrounding the medieval and modern polities associated with Serbs, revealing a... -
Vlad the Impaler: A Captivating Guide to How Vlad III Dracula Became One of the Most Crucial Rulers of Wallachia and His Impact on the History of Romania by Captivating History 9781647488178
RRP: £15.97£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488178Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)... -
The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene by Theodora K. Dragostinova
RRP: £17.99£15.90In The Cold War from the Margins, Theodora K. Dragostinova reappraises the global 1970s from the perspective of a small socialist state-Bulgaria-and its cultural engagements with the Balkans, the West, and the Third World. During this anxious decade,... -
Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800 by Sebouh David Aslanian 9780300247534
RRP: £60.00£57.15A history of the continent-spanning Armenian print tradition in the early modern period Early Modernity and Mobility explores the disparate yet connected histories of Armenian printing establishments in early modern Europe and Asia. From 1512, when the... -
The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland by Antony Polonsky 9780691113067
RRP: £48.00£38.00Neighbors--Jan Gross's stunning account of the brutal mass murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors--was met with international critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the United States. It has also been, from... -
Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956 by John Connelly 9780807848654
RRP: £60.00£56.65This comparative history of the higher education systems in Poland, East Germany and the Czech lands reveals an unexpected diversity within East European Stalinism. With information gleaned from archives in each of these places, the author offers a case... -
Life and Love in Nazi Prague: Letters from an Occupied City by Marie Bader
RRP: £35.00£27.13Prague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of deportation and an unknown, but widely feared, fate. Amidst... -
Vlad the Impaler: A Captivating Guide to How Vlad III Dracula Became One of the Most Crucial Rulers of Wallachia and His Impact on the History of Romania by Captivating History 9781647488321
RRP: £21.99£15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488321Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm)... -
The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey by Dawn Anahid Mackeen
RRP: £15.95£10.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544811942Author Dawn Anahid MackeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Ivan Franko and His Community by Yaroslav Hrytsak 9781618119681
RRP: £29.99£24.83In this Ukrainian bestseller, now available in English for the first time, Yaroslav Hrytsak examines the first three decades (1856-86) in the life of Ivan Franko, a prominent writer, scholar, journalist, and political activist who became an indisputable... -
Agrarian Reform in Russia: The Road from Serfdom by Carol S. Leonard
RRP: £105.00£87.32This book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Stolypin reforms, the NEP, the Collectivization, Khrushchev reforms, and finally farm enterprise privatization in... -
The Habsburg Empire under Siege: Ottoman Expansion and Hungarian Revolt in the Age of Grand Vezir Ahmed Koeprulu (1661-76) by Georg B. Michels 9780228005759
RRP: £83.00£73.11During the seventeenth century Hungary's diverse population of peasants, townsmen, soldiers, and county nobles rose up against the violent imposition of the Counter-Reformation, the Habsburg military occupation, and exhorbitant war taxes. In The Habsburg... -
Velvet Revolutions: An Oral History of Czech Society by Miroslav Vanek
RRP: £27.49£24.68The Velvet Revolution in November 1989 brought about the collapse of the authoritarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia, marking the beginning of the country's journey towards democracy. Though members of the elite have spoken about the... -
The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland: Strategic Misperceptions and Unanticipated Outcomes by Jacqueline Hayden
RRP: £135.00£117.28Based on extensive original research, including interviews with key participants, this book investigates the sudden and unforeseen collapse of communist power in Poland in 1989. It sets out the sequence of events, and examines the strategies of the... -
Zero Point Ukraine - Four Essays on World War II by Olena Stiazhkina
RRP: £31.00£26.05In her Four Essays on World War II, Olena Stiazhkina inscribes the Ukrainian history of World War II into a wider European and world context. Among other aspects, she analyses the mobilization measures on the eve of the war, and reconsiders Soviet... -
Poland: The First Thousand Years by Patrice M Dabrowski 9780875804873
RRP: £36.00£28.87Since 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... -
The Velvet Revolution: 30 Years After by Monika Macdonagh-Pajerova
RRP: £24.00£20.12On the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia from November to December 1989, this book gathers dissident academics, a student leader, and a foreign correspondent to discuss the revolution... -
Along Ukraine's River: A Social and Environmental History of the Dnipro (Dnieper) by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky 9789633862049
RRP: £56.00£51.28The River Dnipro (formerly better known by the Russian name of Dnieper) is intimately linked to the history and identity of Ukraine. Cybriwsky discusses the history of the river, from when it was formed and its many uses and modifications by human... -
Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski
RRP: £30.00£22.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524748500Author Jacob MikanowskiFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 165mm... -
The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism by Marianne Kamp
RRP: £23.99£20.84Winner of the Association of Women in Slavic Studies Heldt PrizeWinner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society History and Humanities Book AwardHonorable mention for the W. Bruce Lincoln Prize Book Prize from the American Association for the Advancement... -
Nobody's Soldier: The Life of Andrii Antonenko by Peter Antonenko 9781925230604
RRP: £18.00£12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925230604Author Peter AntonenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Sid Harta PublishersPublisher Sid Harta Publishers -
Polish Saber by Richard Marsden 9781950626076
£40.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950626076Author Richard MarsdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Tyrant IndustriesPublisher Tyrant IndustriesWeight(grams) 803gDimensions(mm) 279mm *... -
Primed for Violence: Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland by Paul Brykczynski 9780299307042
RRP: £19.95£19.00In 1922, voters in the newly created Republic of Poland democratically elected their first president, Gabriel Narutowicz. Because his supporters included a Jewish political party, an opposing faction of antisemites demanded his resignation. Within hours,... -
Genocide on the Drina River by Edina Becirevic 9780300192582
£55.96In this scholarly yet intensely personal history, author Edina Becirevic explores the widespread ethnic cleansing that occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 through 1995, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Serbs against Bosnian... -
Polish Political Emigres in the United States of America 1831-1864 by Florian Stasik 9780880334860
£41.14This is detailed account of the character and problems of Polish emigres in the United States from the end of the Polish uprising of 1830 to the end of the second Polish uprising of 1863. Stasik presents the activities of the Polish political exiles in... -
Europe: Serbian Despotate of Srem and the Romanian Area: Between the 14th and the 16th Centuries by Michael M Dediu 9781939757807
RRP: £60.08£45.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939757807Author Michael M DediuFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Derc Publishing HousePublisher Derc Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 948gDimensions(mm)... -
The Albanian National Awakening by Stavro Skendi
RRP: £65.00£50.91Professor Skendi, a native of Albania, traces the progress and setbacks of Albania's long struggle for national unity during this least-known period of its intricate history. He discusses the heritage of its people and examines in detail the developments... -
Eastern Europe Unmapped: Beyond Borders and Peripheries by Irene Kacandes 9781789205305
RRP: £27.95£22.58Arguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural-economic elites to the poorest emigrants, have consistently forged or... -
Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria by Gerald W. Creed
RRP: £19.99£17.54Gerald W. Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural Bulgaria for what they reveal about life after socialism-and the current state of postsocialist studies. Mumming rituals have flourished in the post-Soviet era. Elaborately costumed dancers...