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Imperial Designs, Postimperial Extremes: Studies in Interdisciplinary and Comparative History of Russia and Eastern Europe by Andrei Cusco 9789633866269
RRP: €82.11€74.87Anchored 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... -
The Making of Mamaliga: Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish by Alex Drace-Francis 9789633865835
RRP: €63.07€57.83Mamaliga, 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... -
Austerities and Aspirations: A Comparative History of Growth, Consumption, and Quality of Life in East Central Europe Since 1945 by Bela Tomka 9789633863510
RRP: €107.10€98.32This 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... -
Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age by Bruce R. Berglund 9789633861578
RRP: €96.39€89.13Prague 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... -
Recherches Archeologiques de 1993-1998 by Archeobooks 9788371887352
€54.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788371887352Author ArcheobooksFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint ArcheobooksPublisher ArcheobooksWeight(grams) 671g -
The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe: Comparison and Entanglements by Constantin Iordachi 9786155225635
RRP: €116.62€108.09Despite 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... -
Negotiating Marian Apparitions: The Politics of Religion in Transcarpathian Ukraine by Agnieszka Halemba 9786155053368
RRP: €86.87€80.53This 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,... -
Polish-Belarusian Relations: Between a Common Past and the Future by Andrzej Wierzbicki 9783848747498
€57.47Apologies 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 -
Analysing Discourse, Analysing Poland: The Case of a Political Interview by Lukasz Kumiega 9783847116479
RRP: €57.11€46.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847116479Author Lukasz KumiegaFormat HardbackPage Count 50Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbH -
The History of Scientific Atheism: A Comparative Study of Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union (1954a1991) by Jan Tesar 9783525310861
RRP: €79.72€64.47The 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... -
Religion in the Mirror of Law: Eastern European Perspectives from the Early Modern Period to 1939 by Yvonne Kleinmann 9783465041818
RRP: €127.33€103.49Apologies 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 -
A Dream Deferred: New Studies in Russian and Soviet Labour History by Donald A. Filtzer 9783039117970
RRP: €107.34€87.87This 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... -
Jews in the East European Borderlands: A Festrchrift in Honor of John Doyle Klier by Eugene M. Avrutin 9781936235599
RRP: €101.14€97.06John 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... -
Life is War: Surviving Dictatorship in Communist Albania: 2016 by Shannon Woodcock 9781910849040
RRP: €85.62€82.03Apologies 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 -
The Extraordinary Lives of Ukrainian-Canadian Women: Oral History of the Twentieth Century by Iroida Wynnyckyj 9781894865654
RRP: €36.88€16.72Apologies 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... -
Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe by Sandor Horvath 9781783087235
RRP: €83.30€79.86Apologies 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 under Stalin: Institutions, Dynamics, Discourses by Evgeny Dobrenko 9781783086979
RRP: €119.00€113.35Socialist 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... -
Boleslaw Prus and the Jews by Agnieszka Friedrich 9781644695739
RRP: €92.81€69.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644695739Author Agnieszka FriedrichFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Academic Studies PressPublisher Academic Studies PressWeight(grams) 156g -
The Origins of the Changos by Dumitru Martinas 9781592110797
RRP: €35.64€34.06The term Chango (CsÁngÓ) is the name of a population whose ethnic origin has been the subject of much controversy. The term originates from the Magyar language in which it means “mixed” or “impure.” Most Changos live on the territory of Romania, the... -
The Formation of the Albanian National Consciousness by A Brackob 9781592110506
RRP: €43.97€23.42As the multi-national Ottoman Empire began to fall apart in the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish war of 1878, the Albanian people faced the peril of being absorbed into the surrounding newly formed nation-states of Southeastern Europe. Albanian leaders met... -
Entangled Interactions between Religion and National Consciousness in Central and Eastern Europe by Yoko Aoshima 9781644693568
RRP: €92.81€88.77This book elucidates the complicated relationship between religion and national consciousness in the modern world, highlighting various cases in Central and Eastern Europe. Though those analyses, the authors show how religion, far from disappearing,... -
Embroidering History: An Englishwoman's Experience as a Humanitarian Aid Volunteer in Post-war Poland 1924-1925 by Jane Cooper 9781780911434
€16.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911434Author Jane CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
Post-communism, Democracy, and Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union by Matei Gheboianu 9781666953787
RRP: €91.63€80.47Post-communism, Democracy, and Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union explores how the downfall of communism brought about a difficult transition for Eastern and Central Europe. The collapse of communism in this... -
Courage and Fear by Ola Hnatiuk 9781644690741
RRP: €38.07€28.00Courage and Fear is a study of a multicultural city in times when all norms collapse. Ola Hnatiuk presents a meticulously documented portrait of Lviv's ethnically diverse intelligentsia during World War Two. As the Soviet, Nazi, and once again Soviet... -
For the Good of the Nation: Institutions for Jewish Children in Interwar Poland by Sean Martin 9781618115676
RRP: €92.81€89.25Tens of thousands of Jewish children were orphaned during World War I and in the subsequent years of conflict. In response, Jewish leaders in Poland established CENTOS, the Central Union of Associations for Jewish Orphan Care. Through CENTOS, social... -
The Struggle Against Russia in the Romanian Principalities: A Study in Anglo-Turkish Diplomacy, 1821-1854 by Radu R. Florescu 9781592110261
RRP: €41.59€40.42The period leading up to the unification of the Romanian principalities is one of the most dynamic periods in modern Romanian history. It was a time of effervescence, which witnessed the birth of new ideas and the struggle between revolution and reaction... -
Enemies of the State: Personal Stories from the Gulag by Donald T. Critchlow 9781566635219
RRP: €14.27€10.73Long before Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) shocked the Western world with its frightening description of a typical day in a forced-labor camp during the Stalin era, some readers in the West already knew of prison... -
Enemies of the State: Personal Stories from the Gulag by Donald T. Critchlow 9781566634564
RRP: €23.79€17.87Excerpts from nine of the most widely read Gulag books. In addition to providing a ghastly record of Communist terror, the Critchlows also explain why Western readers developed such deep mistrust of peaceful coexistence with any Communist nation. The... -
The Czech Manuscripts: Forgery, Translation, and National Myth by David L. Cooper 9781501771934
RRP: €59.50€52.13The Czech Manuscripts is dedicated to one of the most important literary forgeries on the model of Macpherson's Ossianic poetry. The Queen's Court and Green Mountain Manuscripts, discovered in 1817 and 1818, went on to play an outsized role in the Czech... -
Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires by Anca Parvulescu 9781501765728
RRP: €128.52€111.15How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system... -
Staging Democracy: Political Performance in Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond by Jessica Pisano 9781501764202
RRP: €26.17€22.84Focusing on the experiences of people in Russia and Ukraine, Staging Democracy shows how some national leaders' seeming popularity rests on local economic compacts. Jessica Pisano draws on long-term research in rural communities and company towns,... -
Staging Democracy: Political Performance in Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond by Jessica Pisano 9781501764066
RRP: €128.52€111.15Focusing on the experiences of people in Russia and Ukraine, Staging Democracy shows how some national leaders' seeming popularity rests on local economic compacts. Jessica Pisano draws on long-term research in rural communities and company towns,... -
English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era: The Muscovy Company, 1603-1649 by Maria Salomon Arel 9781498550239
RRP: €129.71€113.73In English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era, Maria Salomon Arel revisits Anglo-Russian trade in first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on largely neglected Russian and English sources, she reconstructs the history of the... -
Globalizing Southeastern Europe: Emigrants, America, and the State since the Late Nineteenth Century by Ulf Brunnbauer 9781498519557
RRP: €136.85€119.88At the end of the nineteenth century, Southeastern Europe became a prime sending region of emigrants to overseas countries, in particular the United States. This massive movement of people ended in 1914 but remained consequential long thereafter, as... -
The British and the Turks: A History of Animosity, 1893-1923 by Justin McCarthy 9781399500050
RRP: €35.69€33.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399500050Author Justin McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Mother and Me: Escape from Warsaw 1939 by Julian Padowicz 9780897335706
RRP: €22.55€15.85In 1939, Julian Padowicz says, ""I was a Polish Jew-hater. Under different circumstances my story might have been one of denouncing Jews to the Gestapo. As it happened, I was a Jew myself, and I was seven years old.""Julian's mother... -
The Legionary Movement After Corneliu Codreanu - From the Dictatorship of King Carol II to the Communist Regime (February 1938-August 1944) by Ilarion Tiu 9780880336598
RRP: €59.50€53.25Corneliu Codreanu was a far-right, Romanian politician who established the Legion of the Archangel Michael in 1927. Alternately known as the Legionary Movement, this organization supported an ultra-nationalist, anti-Semitic, anti-communist, and... -
Fighting Communism from Afar - Council of Free Czechoslovakia by Francis D. Raska 9780880336260
€69.13The Council of Free Czechoslovakia was the first organized political exile group to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain and became a symbol of hope to many Czechoslovakians suffering under the yoke of Communism. This volume analyzes the activities of... -
The War Crimes Trial of Hungarian Prime Minister Laszlo Bardossy by Pal Pritz 9780880335492
RRP: €49.98€39.32Laszlo Bardossy was a wartime prime minister executed for his role in mass murder, but his role remains controversial. His trial was riddled with blunders and some, especially those on the extreme right, now call him a martyr and are demanding a retrial... -
White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition by Robert E. Alvis 9780823271719
RRP: €36.89€32.56In 1944, the Nazis razed Warsaw's historic Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. "They knew that the strength of the Polish nation was rooted in the Cross, Christ's Passion, the spirit of the Gospels, and the invincible Church," argued Cardinal Stefan...