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Re/Imaginations of Disability in State Socialism: Visions, Promises, Frustrations by Katerina Kolarova
RRP: $84.00$80.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783593513485Author Katerina KolarovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Campus VerlagPublisher Campus VerlagWeight(grams) 165g -
Ukraine in the Crosshairs of Geopolitical Power Play by Peter W Schulze
RRP: $109.20$104.39An overview of both European and Russian objectives in Ukraine. Peace in Ukraine seemed possible following Volodymyr Zelensky's 2019 election. The new president reopened conversations with both the European Union and separatist authorities, bringing an... -
Narratives of War: Remembering and Chronicling Battle in Twentieth-Century Europe by Nanci Adler
RRP: $79.78$70.10Narratives of War considers the way war and battle are remembered and narrated across space and time in Europe in the twentieth century. The book reflects on how narratives are generated and deployed, and on their function as coping mechanisms, means... -
White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition by Robert E. Alvis
RRP: $239.40$207.71In 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... -
No Way Out: The Politics of Polish Jewry, 1935-1939 by Emanuel Melzer
RRP: $55.65$51.70This scholarly study sheds important new light on the politics of Polish Jewry on the eve of its destruction. Drawing from sources in the Polish Jewish and non-Jewish press and from archives in Europe, Israel, and the United States, Emanuel Melzer... -
Preying on the State: The Transformation of Bulgaria after 1989 by Venelin I. Ganev
RRP: $52.48$45.51Immediately after 1989, newly emerging polities in Eastern Europe had to contend with an overbearing and dominant legacy: the Soviet model of the state. At that time, the strength of the state looked like a massive obstacle to change; less than a decade... -
The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc by Lewis H. Siegelbaum
RRP: $56.68$48.97Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the... -
The History of Siberia by Igor V. Naumov
RRP: $113.38$98.43Siberia has had an interesting history, quite distinct from that of Russia. Absolutely vast, containing many non-Russian nationalities, and increasingly important at present because of its huge energy reserves, Siberia was at one time part of the Mongol... -
Sites of the Dictators: Memories of Authoritarian Europe, 1945-2020 by Xose M. Nunez Seixas
RRP: $77.68$68.31This book explores the changing evolution of memory debates on places intimately linked to the lives and deaths of different fascist, para-fascist and communist dictators in a truly transnational and comparative way.During the second decade of the... -
Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe by Jan . Fellerer
RRP: $83.98$68.82This volume addresses the question of 'identity' in East-Central Europe. It engages with a specific definition of 'sub-cultures' over the period from c. 1900 to the present and proposes novel ways in which the term can be used with the purpose of... -
Composing for the Screen in Germany and the USSR: Cultural Politics and Propaganda by Phil Powrie
RRP: $35.68$33.35Despite the long history of music in film, its serious academic study is still a relatively recent development and therefore comprises a limited body of work. The contributors to this book, drawn from both film studies and musicology, attempt to rectify... -
Polish Encounters, Russian Identity by David L. Ransel
RRP: $37.78$33.39At a time when Poland is emphasizing its distance from Russia, Polish Encounters, Russian Identity points to the historical ties and mutual influences of these two great Slavic peoples. Whether Poland adopted a hostile or a friendly stance toward Russia,... -
Stalinism Revisited: The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe by Vladimir Tismaneanu
RRP: $189.00$174.34This title deals with the period of takeover and of 'high Stalinism' in Eastern Europe (1945-1955). These years are considered to be fundamentally characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based upon the premise of radical transformism and... -
Political Justice in Budapest After WWII by Ildiko Barna
RRP: $98.70$90.76In Hungary, which fell under Soviet influence at the end of WWII, those who had participated in the wartime atrocities were tried by so called people's courts. This book analyses this process in an objective, quantitative way, contributing to the present... -
The Temptation of Homo Europaeus by Victor Neumann
RRP: $42.00$29.23The Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment - these seismic developments in Western thought were not confined to Italy and her near neighbours, but were paralleled across the vast and culturally diverse territory stretching from Vienna to... -
Journey to Poland: Documentary Landscapes of the Holocaust by Maurizio Cinquegrani
RRP: $189.00$179.05Journey to Poland' addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polish Republic.Book InformationISBN 9781474403573Author Maurizio CinquegraniFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academic Publishing, 1969-89: Snakes and Ladders by Libora Oates-Indruchova
$230.33How did writers convey ideas under the politically repressive conditions of state socialism? Did the perennial strategies to outwit the censors foster creativity or did unintentional self-censorship lead to the detriment of thought? Drawing on oral... -
Between Empire and Nation: Muslim Reform in the Balkans by Milena B. Methodieva
RRP: $140.70$112.48Between Empire and Nation tells the story of the transformation of the Muslim community in modern Bulgaria during a period of imperial dissolution, conflicting national and imperial enterprises, and the emergence of new national and ethnic identities. In... -
Historical Memory of Central and East European Communism by Agnieszka Mrozik
RRP: $83.98$73.63Every political movement creates its own historical memory. The communist movement, though originally oriented towards the future, was no exception: The theory of human history constitutes a substantial part of Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’s... -
The Formation of Turkey: The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum: Eleventh to Fourteenth Century by Claude Cahen
RRP: $283.50$247.13From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed book offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power. Turkey forms a historical bridge between Europe and Asia and as such has... -
God, Hierarchy, and Power: Orthodox Theologies of Authority from Byzantium by Ashley M. Purpura
RRP: $126.00$108.91In the current age where democratic and egalitarian ideals have preeminence, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, among other hierarchically organized religious traditions, faces the challenging questions: "Why is hierarchy maintained as the model of... -
Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia by Patrick Hyder Patterson
RRP: $92.40$81.35Yugoslavia was unique among the communist countries of the Cold War era in its openness to mixing cultural elements from both socialism and capitalism. Unlike their counterparts in the nations of the Soviet bloc, ordinary Yugoslavs enjoyed access to a... -
An Environmental History of Russia by Paul R. Josephson 9780521689724
RRP: $54.58$46.18The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas and coal; various ores; major rivers such as the Volga, Don and Angara; and extensive biodiversity. These resources and animals, as well... -
Long Awaited West: Eastern Europe since 1944 by Stefano Bottoni
RRP: $67.20$59.24What is Eastern Europe and why is it so culturally and politically separate from the rest of Europe? In Long Awaited West, Stefano Bottoni considers what binds these countries together in an increasingly globalized world. Focusing on economic and social... -
Memory Crash: Politics of History in and Around Ukraine, 1980s-2010s by Georgiy Kasianov
RRP: $178.50$164.01This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020. Georgiy Kasianov details practices... -
The Albanian Operation of the CIA and MI6, 1949-1953: Conversations with Participants in a Venture Betrayed by Nicholas Bethell 9781476663791
RRP: $46.18$37.74The Albanian Operation, carried out by British and American secret services from 1949 to 1953, was one of the first Western attempts to subvert a country behind the Iron Curtain. The British liaison officer for the project in Washington was Kim Philby, a... -
The Eastern Front Day by Day, 1941-45: A Photographic Chronology by Steve Crawford 9781862273597
RRP: $42.00$33.68Taking a chronological approach, this work looks at key battles, such as the great encirclement engagements of 1941 - Minsk, Smolensk and Kiev - the sieges of Leningrad and Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk, and Operation Bagration in June 1944. It also... -
Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia by Rachel Applebaum
RRP: $94.50$82.28The familiar story of Soviet power in Cold War Eastern Europe focuses on political repression and military force. But in Empire of Friends, Rachel Applebaum shows how the Soviet Union simultaneously promoted a policy of transnational friendship with its... -
Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector by Chiara Bonfiglioli 9780755636006
$67.79Women's emancipation through productive labour was a key tenet of socialist politics in post-World War II Yugoslavia. Mass industrialisation under Tito led many young women to join traditionally 'feminised' sectors, and as a consequence the textile... -
The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 by Harold B. Segel 9780231114042
RRP: $237.30$186.63For nearly half a century, the Iron Curtain obscured from Western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Seen as a whole, the literatures of Eastern Europe during the second half of the twentieth century are extraordinarily rich, and in... -
The Balkans by Arnold Toynbee 9788027309221
RRP: $16.80$12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027309221Author Arnold ToynbeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm -
In the Maelstrom: The Waffen-SS 'Galicia' Division and Its Legacy by Myroslav Shkandrij
RRP: $243.60$210.46An estimated 25,000 Ukrainians served in the Fourteenth Waffen-SS "Galicia" Division. Conflicting accounts of their reasons for enlistment and continuing accusations of wartime criminality have fuelled controversial debate for decades.The first... -
To Make a Village Soviet: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland by Emily B. Baran
RRP: $65.10$56.01In June 1949 the Soviet state arrested seven farmers from the village of Bila Tserkva. Not wealthy or powerful, the men were unknown outside their community, and few had ever heard of their small, isolated village on the southwestern border of Soviet... -
Ideology and the Rationality of Domination: Nazi Germanization Policies in Poland by Gerhard Wolf
RRP: $113.40$99.10Following the brutal invasion and occupation of Poland, the Nazis moved swiftly to realize one of their key ideological aims, the expansion of German living space: deport Jews, bring in German settlers and subjugate the rest of the population to a... -
The Great Powers and Poland: From Versailles to Yalta by Jan Karski 9781442226647
RRP: $149.10$130.41This definitive study provides a comprehensive diplomatic history of Poland during the most seminal period in its existence, when its destiny lay in the hands of France, Great Britain, and the United States. Although sovereign in principle, Poland was... -
Ukrainian Dissidents - An Anthology of Texts by Dmytro Stus
RRP: $65.10$54.71This anthology of seminal texts documents the development of the post-war anti-Soviet Ukrainian dissident movement. The collection is designed to introduce, via some crucial primary sources, Western and other non-Ukrainian readers to various forms of... -
Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930s by Igor Lukes 9780195102673
RRP: $205.80$172.47This is a diplomatic history of events leading up to the Munich crisis in 1938 in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudetenland. While much has been written on this period, this book will be the most... -
Journey to Poland: Documentary Landscapes of the Holocaust by Maurizio Cinquegrani 9781474463232
RRP: $50.38$45.89Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polish Republic.Book InformationISBN 9781474463232Author Maurizio CinquegraniFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 by Jean W. Sedlar 9780295972916
RRP: $73.50$65.39Although the Middle Ages saw brilliant achievements in the diverse nations of East Central Europe, this period has been almost totally neglected in Western historical scholarship. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages provides a much-needed overview of... -
In Confidence: Moscow’s Ambassador to Six Cold War Presidents by Anatoly Dobrynin 9780295980812 [USED COPY]
RRP: $62.98$34.80Anatoly Dobrynin arrived in Washington, D.C., in 1962 -- at 43 the youngest man ever to serve as Soviet Ambassador to the United States -- and remained through the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Dobrynin became the...