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This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in history, folklore, ethnography, and literature. Favoring dynamic explanations of the mechanisms, evolution, popular appeal, and responses to the blood libel,...

What is it like to be a woman living through the transition from communism to democracy? What effect does this have on a woman's daily life, on her concept of herself, her family, and her community? Birth of Democratic Citizenship presents the stories of...

Jewish life was changed fundamentally as Jews joined the Bolshevik movement and populated the front lines of the revolutionary struggle. Andrew Sloin's story follows the arc of Bolshevik history but shows how the broader movement was enacted in factories...

On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central-geographically,...

Post-Soviet Handbook: A Guide to Grassroots Organizations and Internet ResourcesBook InformationISBN 9780295996547Author M. Holt RuffinFormat HardbackPage Count 413Imprint University of Washington PressPublisher University of Washington...

Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental ConstraintsBook InformationISBN 9780295996455Author Kurt EngelmannFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Washington PressPublisher University...

The life story of a Serbian woman over a period of more than 70 years, preserved in memoirs, letters and mostly diaries, recounts the triumphs and tragedies of a life that takes place against the backdrop of extraordinary turbulence in the Balkans. It...

Despite the central role of tourism in the political making of the Yugoslav socialist state after WWII and in everyday life, the topic has remained neglected as an object of historical research, which has tended to dwell on war and ethnicA" conflict in...

The situation of the Roma in Europe, especially in the former communist states, is one of the more important human rights issues on the agenda of the international community, especially in the Euro-Atlantic bodies of integration. Within European states...

95 documents on the events that represent a pivotal moment in modern Polish and world history: 16 months between August 1980 when the Solidarity trade union was founded and December 1981 when Polish authorities declared martial law and crushed the...

This book is about the Americanization of Yugoslav culture and everyday life during the nineteen-sixties. After falling out with the Eastern bloc, Tito turned to the United States for support and inspiration. In the political sphere the distance between...

This book covers the full story of the Ustasha, a fascist movement in Croatia, from its historic roots to its downfall. The authors address key questions: In what international context did Ustasha terrorism grow and develop? How did this movement rise to...

By exploring the development of ethnic diversity and national tensions in Bulgaria and Bosnia, while also drawing parallels with Macedonia, this volume uses the three most diversely populated areas in the Balkans to tackle complex issues. What...

The treatise was meant as an analysis of problems connected with the monumental work of Samuel Pufendorf on the reign of Charles X Gustav, King of Sweden. Printed in Nuremberg in 1696, it has not been systematically explored so far. The book of Pufendorf...

The book provides an analysis that takes into account the complexities of the Soviet bloc, the events' impact upon Europe, and their re-interpretation within a larger global context. Departs from static ways of analysis (events and their significance);...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503565118Author Agnieszka BartoszewiczFormat HardbackPage Count 508Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 998g

Icons and murals depicting the biblical scene of the Last Judgment adorned many Eastern-rite churches in medieval and early modern Ukraine. Dating from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, these images were extraordinarily elaborate, composed of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894865425Author Orest T. MartynowychFormat HardbackPage Count 674Imprint Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher Canadian Institute of Ukrainian...

In War on the Eve of Nations: Conflicts and Militaries in Eastern Europe, 1450-1500, Vladimir Shirogorov examines how Eastern European armed forces produced critical geopolitical changes in the region. Analyzing the interactions between changes in...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Berliners grappled with how to rebuild their devastated city. In East Berlin, where the historic core of the city lay, decisions made by the socialist leadership about what should be restored, reconstructed, or...

Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011 is the first study that looks at the literary process in post-independence Ukraine comprehensively and attempts to draw the connection between literary...

At 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 Polish Experience through World War II explores Polish history through the lives of people touched by the war. The touching and terrible experiences of these people are laid bare by straightforward, first-hand accounts, including not only the...

Jacques Rossi is one of Stalin's most well-known victims. Author of The Gulag Handbook, a fascinating encyclopedia of the Soviet forced labor camps, Rossi spent twenty years in interrogation, prison, and Gulag detention. Born to a prominent Polish father...

Lilka Trzcinska was fourteen years old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. The daughter of an architect, Lilka was a high school student at the time. When schools were closed by the occupier, she, along with her siblings, continued their education in...

«Armenian Paradigms» provides a systematic presentation of the morphology of classical Armenian. Developed in the context of a course in Armenian at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, it serves as a pedagogical aid for any who are learning or reviewing...

The book points to the church-state conflict in Gomutka's Poland as the catalyst for events over the following decades, and as paving the way to the dramatic changes that took place in 1989.Book InformationISBN 9789639241169Author Hannah DiskinFormat...

A writer who does stupid things in his youth is like a woman with a shameful past-never forgiven, never forgotten. E. M. Cioran, the renowned Romanian-French nihilist philosopher and literary figure, knew this better than anyone. Alongside Heidegger,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447067003Author Fernando VelizFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503582429Author Marco GurrieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 839g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867284894Author Martin ElbelFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint ViellaPublisher ViellaWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848722105Author Myroslava RapFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 540g

The many young people who fled the conflicts inundating the former Yugoslavia describe their experiences of the horors of war, their feelings of loss and uncertainty, their hope for a better future.Book InformationISBN 9781858660417Author Zdenko...

Workers' self-management was one of the unique features of communist Yugoslavia. Goran Music has investigated the changing ways in which blue-collar workers perceived the recurring crises of the regime. Two self-managed metal enterprises, one in Serbia...

Book has a two-fold ambition: to excavate the hitherto unknown eugenic movements in Central and Southeast Europe and to explain their relationship with racism, nationalism and anti-Semitism.About the AuthorMarius Turda is Professor in 20th Century...

Dynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in nineteenth-century Ukraine, the most pivotal borderland of the Russian Empire. The Shul'gins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922582782Author Zvonimir GavranovicFormat HardbackImprint ATF PressPublisher ATF Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922582775Author Zvonimir GavranovicFormat PaperbackImprint ATF PressPublisher ATF Press

This book centers on the Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars, published in Washington in the early summer of 1914 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The volume was born from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501762499Author Mary C. NeuburgerFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 152g