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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 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...

Historical revisionism, far from being restricted to small groups of 'negationists,' has galvanized debates in the realm of recent history. The studies in this book range from general accounts of the background of recent historical revisionism to focused...

This is the first work that covers the post-Communist development of historical studies in six Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. It offers a uniquely critical and qualitative analysis from a...

The history of eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe is a neglected topic of analysis in contemporary scholarship. The 20 essays in this volume, written by distinguished scholars of eugenics and fascism alongside a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789633867020Author Richard FilcákFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Central European University PressPublisher Central European University Press

Anchored in the Russian Empire, but not limited to it, the eight studies in this volume explore the nineteenth-century imperial responses to the challenge of modernity, the dramatic disruptions of World War I, the radical scenarios of the interwar period...

Mamaliga, maize porridge or polenta, is a universally consumed dish in Romania and a prominent national symbol. But its unusual history has rarely been told. Alex Drace-Francis surveys the arrival and spread of maize cultivation in Romanian lands from...

This monograph updates existing scholarship on the economic performance of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland since 1945, contrasting it to Western Europe. For this longitudinal comparative exercise, the author goes beyond the traditional growth...

Prague in the early twentieth century was the city of cubists, surrealists, and the Good Soldier Svejk. This book takes a new approach to interwar Prague by identifying religion as an integral part of the city's cultural history. As Prague emerged as a...

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Despite its profound, long-term socio-political implications, the collectivization of agriculture in Eastern Europe after the Second World War has remained a relatively under-researched field. In order to understand the post-communist transformation of...

This book concerns the politics of religion as expressed through apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Dzhublyk in Transcarpathian Ukraine. On the one hand, the analysis provides insights into the present position of Transcarpathia in regional, Ukraine-wide,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848747498Author Andrzej WierzbickiFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 318g

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The book analyses under what conditions was it possible to develop scientific atheism which was by the contemporaries in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia understood not only as a branch of propaganda but as a specific scholarly discipline.It maps out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783465041818Author Yvonne KleinmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Verlag Vittorio KlostermannPublisher Verlag Vittorio KlostermannWeight(grams) 127g

This volume brings together the latest work in Russian labour history, based on exciting materials from previously closed archives and collections. Sixteen essays, focusing on peasants and workers, explore the lives and struggles of working people...

John Doyle Klier's pioneering publications on the relations between Jews and the Russian social order-on topics such as public opinion, governance, conversion, Russification politics, antisemitism, and pogroms-have influenced an entire generation of new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910849040Author Shannon WoodcockFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint Hammeron PressPublisher Hammeron Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894865654Author Iroida WynnyckyjFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher Canadian Institute of Ukrainian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783087235Author Sandor HorvathFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures' is the first published work to offer a variety of alternative perspectives on the literary and cultural Sovietization of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II and emphasize the...