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Peripheral cultures have been largely absent from the European canon of historiography. Seeking to redress the balance, Monika Baar discusses the achievements of five East-Central European historians in the nineteenth century: Joachim Lelewel (Polish);...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976704287Author Jelena Milojkovic-DjuricFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing,...

In 1870, the Orthodox Bulgarian Exarchate was established by the Sultan's decree without the consent of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The inability to reach a compromise led to a schism within Orthodoxy and divided Ottoman Christian communities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980081466Author Balazs AporFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 534g

It is usually claimed that serfs were oppressed and unfree, but is this assumption true? Freedom's Price, building on a new reading of archival material, attempts a fundamental re-appraisal of the continuing orthodoxy that a 'serf' economy embodied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870030321Author George KennanFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Carnegie Endowment for International PeacePublisher Brookings Institution

The first mass killings of the Romanian Holocaust in late June to early July 1941 brutally claimed thousands of victims and marked the beginning of the government's plan to """"cleanse the land"""" of Jews...

WITH A NEW POSTSCRIPT Situated between Greece on the south, the former Yugoslavia on the north and east, and the Adriatic Sea on the west, Albania is the country the world forgot. Throughout this century, Albania has been perceived as primitive and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814206010Author Stevan K. PavlowitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

The emergence of the Balkan national states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has long been viewed through an Orientalist lens, and their birth and evolution traditionally seen by scholars as the effect of the Ottoman Empire's decline. As a...

Nationalism is a key topic within Balkan Studies, and one of the driving forces behind the bloody and difficult history of the region. Using primary sources not previously utilized by western scholars, this book documents the 'Croatian Spring' - a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646963747Author Jean Lunt MarinovicFormat PaperbackImprint BookpodPublisher BookpodWeight(grams) 585g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645253559Author Colleen BolgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Interventions IncPublisher Interventions IncWeight(grams) 295g

This book was originally published in 1965. At the time of publication no nation had greater knowledge of, or interest in, the development and exploitation of the Arctic lands than the Soviet Union. The skills acquired through living in remote and cold...

In the wake of the Russian Revolution and the ensuing civil war, approximately one-&-a-half million Russians fled their country. Many settled in Prague where they were welcomed and supported by the newly formed Czechoslovak Republic. This book...

The Lands Between investigates the causes and dynamics of conflict in the 'borderlands' of Eastern Europe: the modern Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, the western provinces of Byelorussia and Ukraine, and the republic of Moldova -...

The Polish Revolution cast off the Russian hegemony that had kept the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth impotent for most of the eighteenth century. Before being overthrown by the armies of Catherine the Great, the Four Years' Parliament of 1788-92 passed...

Czech, German, and Noble examines the intellectual ideas and political challenges that inspired patriotic activity among the Bohemian nobility, the infusion of national identity into public and institutional life, and the role of the nobility in crafting...

The Romanian Orthodox Church expanded significantly after the First World War, yet Protestant Repenter and schismatic Orthodox movements such as Old Calendarism also grew exponentially during this period, terrifying church leaders who responded by...

Within three and a half years of its inception, the Bosnian Army had succeeded in fighting the Serbian army to a standstill - Serbia was forced to recognize Bosnia's independence. Yet the victory was ambiguous, leaving two thirds of the country under the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988099357Author Johann LoserthFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Gelassenheit PublicationsPublisher Gelassenheit PublicationsWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898098Author Jacob MikanowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 343g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959770404Author Stephen J VicchioFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Wisdom EditionsPublisher Wisdom EditionsWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955392310Author Léon BloyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Sunny Lou PublishingPublisher Sunny Lou PublishingWeight(grams) 222g

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality crisis which affected Eastern Europe and the republics of the former USSR at the time of the transition to a market economy was arguably the major peacetime health crisis of recent decades. Chernobyl and the...

This is a major new study of the successor states that emerged in the wake of the collapse of the great Russian, Habsburg, Iranian, Ottoman and Qing Empires and of the expansionist powers who renewed their struggle over the Eurasian borderlands through...

Anti-Jewish pogroms rocked the Russian Empire in 1881-2, plunging both the Jewish community and the imperial authorities into crisis. Focusing on a wide range of responses to the pogroms, this book offers the most comprehensive, balanced, and complex...

In the immediate aftermath of its successful revolution, Cuba was heralded by socialist nations as the vanguard of communism in Latin America in the early 1960s. But by the late 1980s, Cuba's inability to adopt the modes of socialist planning and Mikhail...

"The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist" is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Bandera and the first in-depth study of his political cult. In this fascinating book, Grzegorz...

Why do nations come into conflict? What factors lead to the horrors of ethnic cleansing? This timely book offers clear-eyed answers to these questions by exploring how national identity is shaped by place, focusing especially on Serbia, Hungary, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605201009Author Professor Jan GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941656181Author Aleksandra Miesak RohdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Dale Street BooksPublisher Dale Street BooksWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)...

A Research Guide to Southeastern Europe: Print and Electronic Sources is designed to aid those interested in exploring this dynamic region in locating the best resources available, whether looking for archival collections in Albania or dissertations and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666704761Author James R Payton, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 644g

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Czestochowa was the home of the eighth largest Jewish community in Poland. After 1765, when there were 75 Jews in Czestochowa, the community grew steadily. With emancipation in 1862, many Jews migrated to Czestochowa and contributed to its industrial and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786150048840Author Lasse SkyttFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint National Szechenyi LibraryPublisher National Szechenyi LibraryWeight(grams)...

The material effects of World War II, in combination with Eastern Europe's disappointingly undemocratic interwar history, placed radical social change on the postwar agenda across the region and shaped the debates that took place in immediate postwar...

This colorfully drawn and acutely observed book explores Russia by engaging all our senses. Today's Russia smells different from the Soviet Union. The country looks and sounds different, its touch is different and its food tastes different. Thus,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498125833Author J P WeetheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 652Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 1488g