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Candles in the Dark: A New Spirit for a Plural World by Barbara Sundberg Baudot
RRP: $182.70$159.45Candles in the Dark is an international compendium of essays that share a sense of the importance of introducing ethical and spiritual concepts and values into the public discourse on progress and globalization issues. They offer a new approach to... -
Russian Central Asia 1867-1917: A Study in Colonial Rule by Richard A. Pierce
RRP: $168.00$129.97This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
People in the Face of Modern Warfare: Relationships Between Resource Distribution and Behaviour of Participants in the Hostilities in Ukraine by Stanislaw Fel
RRP: $81.88$67.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847115069Author Stanislaw FelFormat HardbackImprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 155g -
Dystopia's Provocateurs: Peasants, State, and Informality in the Polish-German Borderlands by Edyta Materka
RRP: $50.38$43.76Toward the end of the Second World War, Poland's annexation of eastern German lands precipitated one of the largest demographic upheavals in European history. Edyta Materka travels to her native village in these "Recovered Territories," where... -
Violent Resistance: From the Baltics to Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe 1944-1956 by Michael Gehler
RRP: $186.90$182.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783506703040Author Michael GehlerFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Brill SchoninghPublisher Brill SchoninghWeight(grams) 748g -
Eastern Europe Since 1970: Decline of Socialism to Post-Communist Transition by Bulent Gokay
RRP: $283.50$246.29From the hardening grip of Soviet domination under Brezhnev to the collapse of communism and its aftermath, Bulent Gokay provides the essential introduction to Eastern Europe in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The Soviet invasion of... -
Tito's Secret Empire: How the Maharaja of the Balkans Fooled the World by William Klinger
$79.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197572429Author William KlingerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
Identitatsentwurfe Im Ostlichen Europa - Im Spannungsfeld Von Selbst- Und Fremdwahrnehmung by Hans-Jurgen Bomelburg
RRP: $144.90$141.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447104692Author Hans-Jurgen BomelburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 5120g -
The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive: Catalog and Guide by Robert Moses Shapiro
RRP: $155.40$140.39Retrieved after World War II from metal boxes and milk cans buried beneath the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, the Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive was clandestinely compiled between 1940 and 1942 under the leadership of historian Emanuel Ringelblum. Members... -
Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania by Maria Bucur-Deckard
RRP: $52.48$45.51Heroes and Victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes-from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts... -
The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw after the Holocaust by Karen Auerbach
RRP: $46.18$40.30In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While most surviving Polish Jews were making their homes in new countries, these... -
The Struggle for Form: Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film, 1916-1989 by Kamila Kuc
RRP: $52.50$41.14This is the first comprehensive English-language account of the Polish avant-garde film, from its beginnings in the early decades of the last century to the collapse of communism in 1989. Taking a broad understanding of avant-garde film, this collection... -
A Tale of Two Villages: Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
RRP: $117.60$107.69A non-fiction book about the social engineering operated in rural Eastern Europe by the Communist regime, based on the history of two villages in Romania. One of the two villages is the birthplace of Nicolae Ceausescu, the former Communist dictator,... -
Uranium Matters: Central European Uranium in International Politics, 1900-1960 by Zbynek Zeman
RRP: $153.30$142.11Examines the impact of the Czechoslovak and East German uranium industries on local politics and on societies, particularly in the decade or so after the end of the Second World War. The Erzgebirge - the Ore Mountains - on the border of Czechoslovakia... -
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Cold War Icon, Gulag Aut - A Study of His Western Reception by Elisa Kriza
RRP: $104.79$85.34Alexander Solzhenitsyn was one of the Cold War's most iconic writers. This book offers an in-depth analysis of his reception in the US, UK, and Germany before and after 1991. Elisa Kriza skilfully explores how Solzhenitsyn's work can be understood with... -
Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania by Michael L. Galaty
RRP: $119.70$113.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931745710Author Michael L. GalatyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLAPublisher Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at... -
For the Good of the Nation: Institutions for Jewish Children in Interwar Poland. A Documentary History by Sean Martin
RRP: $52.48$43.89Tens 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... -
Making Sense of Dictatorship: Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe After 1945 by Celia Donert
RRP: $128.10$117.92How did political power function in the communist regimes of East Central Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the acquiescent behavior of the majority of the population until, at the end of... -
The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties by Anat Plocker
RRP: $50.38$43.76In March 1968, against the background of the Six-Day War, a campaign of antisemitism and anti-Zionism swept through Poland. The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland is the first full-length study of the events, their precursors, and the aftermath of... -
Peace as War: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Post-Dayton by Drazen Pehar
RRP: $153.30$141.27Peace as War is about the peace implementation process in Bosnia-Herzegovina viewed, or interpreted reasonably, as a continuation of war by other means. Twenty years after the beginning of the Dayton peace accords, we need to examine the results. The... -
Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice by Dominique Kirchner Reill
RRP: $130.20$113.32We can often learn as much from political movements that failed as from those that achieved their goals. Nationalists Who Feared the Nation looks at one such frustrated movement: a group of community leaders and writers in Venice, Trieste, and Dalmatia... -
Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present: Revisiting the 50 Years of Discussions from East and Central Europe by Aleksandra Konarzewska
RRP: $283.50$246.29Why does 1968 matter today? The authors of this volume believe that it is a crucial point of reference for current developments, especially the 'illiberal turn' both in Europe and America. If we want to understand it, we need to look back into 1968 - the... -
Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe by Nancy M. Wingfield
RRP: $44.08$38.58This volume explores the role of gender on both the home and fighting fronts in eastern Europe during World Wars I and II. By using gender as a category of analysis, the authors seek to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the subjective nature of... -
The Rise and Fall of the International Organization of Journalists: Based in Prague 1946-2016 by Kaarle Nordenstreng
RRP: $42.00$40.74In this book, Finnish scholar Kaarle Nordenstreng provides a unique account of the Prague-based International Organization of Journalists, a group that was at one time the world's largest media association. The IOJ expanded from a postwar fraternity of... -
Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials: Volhynia, Podolia and Ruthenia, 17th and 18th Centuries by Kateryna Dysa
RRP: $134.40$122.70The ideological background of the tribunals is studied on the basis of works written by priests and theologians, reflecting the attitude of spiritual authorities towards the devil and witches. The main focus of work, however, is the process of shaping... -
Coming of Age under Martial Law - The Initiation Novels of Poland`s Last Communist Generation by Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova
RRP: $168.00$160.88Examines a selection of post-1989 coming-of-age novels authored by the generation of Polish writers whose transition from adolescence to adulthood coincided with Poland's transition from communism to liberal democracy. 2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic... -
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Ms Anne Applebaum
RRP: $44.10$28.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Arthur Ross Book Award 2013 and National Book Award Finalist 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781400095933Author Anne ApplebaumFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires: A Comparative Approach by Adrian Brisku
RRP: $71.38$22.64Throughout the 'long 19th century', the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a similar vision for imperial state renewal, with the goal of avoiding revolution, decline and isolation within Europe. ... -
Ideals Face Reality: Jewish Law and Life in Poland, 1550-1655 by Edward Fram
RRP: $46.20$45.30Jewish life in early modern Poland was characterized by an adherence to Jewish law (halakhah) that Polish Jewry had inherited from medieval Franco-German Jewry, and almost all aspects of Jewish activity, even the most personal of matters, fell within its... -
Denazification in Soviet-Occupied Germany: Brandenburg, 1945-1948 by Timothy R. Vogt
RRP: $170.00$136.33In his study of Brandenburg, Germany, Timothy Vogt directly challenges both the "antifascist" paradigm employed by East German historians and the "sovietization" interpretive model that has dominated western studies. He argues that... -
World Order after Leninism by Vladimir Tismaneanu
RRP: $54.58$27.01World Order after Leninism examines the origins and evolution of world communism and explores how its legacies have shaped the post-Cold War world order. The lessons of Leninism continue to exert a strong influence in contemporary foreign affairs--most... -
Serbian Dreambook: National Imaginary in the Time of Milosevi by Marko Zivkovi
RRP: $46.18$24.00The central role that the regime of Slobodan Milosevic played in the bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia is well known, but Marko Zivkovic explores another side of this time period: the stories people in Serbia were telling themselves (and others) about... -
The Value of Labor: The Science of Commodification in Hungary, 1920-1956 by Martha Lampland
RRP: $73.50$72.05At the heart of today's fierce political anger over income inequality is a feature of capitalism that Karl Marx famously obsessed over: the commodification of labor. Most of us think wage-labor economics is at odds with socialist thinking, but as Martha... -
Jewish Communal Service in Romania and Poland 1986-2006: Partnership, Challenges, and Transitions by Zvi Feine
RRP: $86.08$56.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652299611Author Zvi FeineFormat HardbackPage Count 558Imprint Gefen BooksPublisher Gefen BooksWeight(grams) 1225g -
A Pragmatic Alliance: Jewish-Lithuanian Political Cooperation at the Beginning of the 20th Century by Darius Staliunas
RRP: $134.40$122.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155053177Author Darius StaliunasFormat HardbackPage Count 281Imprint Central European University PressPublisher Central European University... -
The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia by Daniel L. Unowsky
RRP: $130.20$112.48In the spring of 1898, thousands of peasants and townspeople in western Galicia rioted against their Jewish neighbors. Attacks took place in more than 400 communities in this northeastern province of the Habsburg Monarchy, in present-day Poland and... -
The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture by Larry Wolff
RRP: $226.80$196.98Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its... -
Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia by Rebekah Klein-Pejsova
RRP: $67.20$59.24In the aftermath of World War I, the largely Hungarian-speaking Jews in Slovakia faced the challenge of reorienting their political loyalties from defeated Hungary to newly established Czechoslovakia. Rebekah Klein-Pejsova examines the challenges Slovak... -
Bulgaria: The Uneven Transition by Vesselin Dimitrov
RRP: $283.50$246.29The communist regime in Bulgaria was perhaps the most stable in Eastern Europe and its demise was brought about only by the general collapse of the Soviet bloc. In the light of this, what is surprising about the country's transitions to democracy and a... -
Boris Yeltsin and Russia's Democratic Transformation by Herbert J. Ellison
$51.58Boris Yeltsin is one of modern history's most dynamic and underappreciated figures. In this vivid, analytical masterwork, Herbert J. Ellison establishes Yeltsin as the principal leader and defender of Russia's democratic revolution - the very embodiment...