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Drawing on the Folger's rich collections of 16th- and 17th-century books, manuscripts, and works of art, Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution tells the story of the struggle between tolerance and persecution. It traces the roots of our quest for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963058799Author N. MuhammedFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Pamphleteer's Press,U.S.Publisher Pamphleteer's Press,U.S.

The studies in A Polyethnic Region in East-Central Europe are devoted to the Hungarian minority in Slovakia, examining the altered Hungarian- Slovak relationship from various angles. They analyze the conflicts between Slovak and Hungarian nationalism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853459224Author Catherine SamaryFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

General Ioan Emanoil Florescu modernized the Romanian army in the second half of the 19th century, following the union of the Romanian principalities but predating the war for Romanian independence. This title stresses the role of General Florescu, whose...

This fourth volume includes 743 entries listing books, articles, and chapters in books published between 2000 and 2004 that concern various aspects of the Carpatho-Rusyns wherever they may live. Each entry includes full bibliographical data, followed by...

Thirteen essays by noted authorities, including Ferenc Glatz, Laszlo Szarka, Pal Peter Toth, and Judit Toth, cover such topics as the history of minority policies in Hungary, immigration and xenophobia from the middle to the end of the twentieth century,...

This volume is a major contribution to Hungarian economic history since the middle of the nineteenth century. In this first volume of two on the evolution of that economy, the authors focus on the beginnings of the modern capitalist economy (1848-1914),...

This book addresses the form and nature of the transition Romania has undergone since the fall of the Ceausescu regime in 1989. The reconstruction of Romania has taken place not only within the context of the legacy of state socialism, but within an even...

By 1989 it was obvious that the majority of Hungary's population wanted fundamental political economic and social changes. The situation resembled what prevailed in 1956 in Hungary, when massive Soviet aggression suppressed a newborn democracy. This time...

This volume - containing 14 previously unpublished essays - is devoted to exploring the 1000 years of Ukranian economic history prior to the outbreak of World War I. The contributions are divided chronologically into three parts covering Kievan Rus, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880336116Author Augustin BuzuraFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint East European MonographsPublisher East European MonographsWeight(grams) 326g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880336093Author Steven OluicFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint East European MonographsPublisher East European MonographsWeight(grams) 380g

Ottoman survey registers are recognized as sources on the demographic, economic, and linguistic characteristics of the regions for which they were made. The register for Kamanice (the region of Podolia and the city of Kam'janec', which the Ottomans...

This anthology represents many generations of female Romanian poets, from Veronica Micle and Matilda Cugler-Poni in the 19th century to such important contemporary poets as Ana Blandiana and Daniela Cru-snaru.Book InformationISBN 9780880332941Author Adam...

The Romanian "elections" of November 19, 1946, were staged by the Soviet Union to manufacture support for their supposedly "democratic-popular" regime. The techniques used to secure the vote were echoed all over Europe: bands of goons...

Renowned Russian historian Reginald E. Zelnik's final manuscript is a biography of Anna Pankratova, a woman from Odessa who became a leading labor historian and academic administrator in the Soviet Union from the 1920s to her death in 1957. Drawing upon...

The triumph of independent statehood after World War I became a tragedy for Yugoslavia seventy years later. Dragnich discusses the ideals and hopes of the South Slavs, their tortured attempt to create a workable political system, and the reasons behind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312424398Author Courtney Angela BrkicFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 426g

A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.Book InformationISBN 9780156225915Author Milovan DjilasFormat PaperbackPage Count...

As the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in understanding the end of the Cold War. During the 1980s, both the United States and the Soviet Union vied for...

Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, was a unique political leader whose speeches, lectures, newspaper articles, and historical essays greatly influenced his people. Although the Nazi and Communist regimes tried to suppress Masaryk's ideas,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016099Author Peter DemetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595151387Author Jane Zebrowski-BlumahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Writer's Showcase PressPublisher Writer's Showcase PressWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996487061Author Ron RidenourFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Punto Press, LLCPublisher Punto Press, LLCWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987908001Author Altin DervishiFormat PaperbackImprint Altin Dervishi (Quince&green)Publisher Altin Dervishi (Quince&green)Weight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986600906Author Rebecca A EmrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint For Love of BooksPublisher For Love of BooksWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060977757Author Senior Research Fellow Noel MalcolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060954949Author Author and Historian Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312420666Author Jason GoodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887191027Author Andrii PortnovFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Academic Studies PressPublisher Academic Studies Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783643913722Author Judith Wermuth-AtkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Lit VerlagPublisher Lit VerlagWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm...

Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters—soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters—who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions,...

" . . . a fascinating read for everyone interested in Russia, religion, and modernity." -Nadieszda KizenkoIn the early 20th century, Baptists were the fastest-growing non-Orthodox religious group among Russians and Ukrainians. Heather J. Coleman traces...

Conscience on Trial reveals the startling story, kept secret for sixty years, of ordinary citizens caught up in the elaborate machinery of political terror in Stalinist Ukraine. In 1952, fourteen poor, barely literate Seventh-Day Adventists living on the...

After 1948, the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust became one of the main sources of immigration for the new state of Israel as almost all left their homeland to settle in Palestine and Israel. Romania's decision to allow its Jews to...

Among Eastern Europe's postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe's liberal democracies. This book charts the evolution of the relationship between Yugoslavia and its labour migrants who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789949326174Author Meelis SaueaukFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint University of Tartu PressPublisher University of Tartu PressWeight(grams) 621g

Serbia's national movement of the 1980s and 1990s, Nick Miller suggests, was not the product of an ancient, immutable, and aggressive Serbian national identity; nor was it an artificial creation of powerful political actors looking to capitalize on its...

How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today's Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history...