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"spirits that i've cited...?" vladimír clementis (1902–1952)
Baer's biography of the former Czechoslovak foreign minister Vladimír Clementis (1902–1952) is the first historical study on the Communist politician who was executed with Rudolf Slánský and other top Communist Party members after the show trial of 1952. Born in Tisovec, Central Slovakia, Clement...
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'our glorious past’
This timely book examines how the regime of President Aliaksandr Lukashenka has used the 'Great Patriotic War' (1941-45) as a key element in state and identity formation in Belarus. The campaign was discernible from 2003 and intensified after a rift with Russia that led to a re-examination of the...
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A brief history of the late ottoman empire
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most vola...
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A carnival of revolution
This is the first history of the revolutions that toppled communism in Europe to look behind the scenes at the grassroots movements that made those revolutions happen. It looks for answers not in the salons of power brokers and famed intellectuals, not in decrepit economies--but in the whirlwind ...
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A city on europe's steppe frontier
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A disastrous matter
Henryk Glebocki offers a new analysis of the Polish-Russian conflict in imperial Russia. He considers interactions among Russian public opinion, imperial policy, and the Polish conflict's impact on Russian political ideas, especially their relationship to the Polish national movement and the effe...
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A life dedicated to the republic
Josette Baer retraces the eventful life of Slovak politician Vavro Šrobár, the principal figure in the implementation of Czechoslovak democracy in Slovakia. From his student days and fight for Slovak civil rights in Upper Hungary to his active resistance to German fascism, Šrobár shaped Czechoslo...
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A murder in lemberg
How could a Jew kill a Jew for religious and political reasons? Many people asked this question after an Orthodox Jew assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Itshak Rabin in 1995. But historian Michael Stanislawski couldn't forget it, and he decided to find out everything he could about an obscure an...
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A village in revolutionary ukraine
This book explores the unique 30-year diary of Kostiantyn Sambursky, a villager from Huzhivka in Chernihiv province. His daily entries offer rare insights into rural life, local history, and revolutionary events, highlighting personal, social, and political dynamics often missing from official hi...
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Appropriating history
Popular media plays an important role in collective imaginations of history. The volume investigates this phenomenon by examining examples from Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian popular cultures.
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Archaeology on medieval knights' manor houses in poland
The relics of medieval knights' manors still shape the landscape of Poland today. The anonymous hills contain the remnants of wooden buildings, sometimes ones of stone or brick, as well as numerous tiny artifacts, the trace of the households of the past. Called "grodziska stozkowate" (motte), unl...
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Art and design in romania, 1866-1927
This study provides an in-depth overview of the development of a national identity in Romanian art, architecture and design at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. By exploring the political, cultural and artistic forces that molded the emerging art scene, the text ...
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Between prometheism and realpolitik
Between Prometheism and Realpolitik explores Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Soviet relations following the Treaty of Riga of March 1921. A Polish-Soviet cold war broke out on front including Ukraine and the Ukrainian question. Jan Jacek Bruski addresses the first, crucial phase of this Polish-Soviet...
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Bibliography of the holocaust in hungary
This is a unique and indispensable sourcebook for anyone interested in the catastrophe that befell Hungarian Jewry during the Nazi era. It includes close to six thousand annotated references to independent and periodical literature on all aspects of the history of Hungarian Jewry before, during, ...
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Born to be criminal
This collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes and ways of fighting it in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. It focuses on both the discourse on criminality and thus the conceptualisation of criminality in various di...
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British diplomacy and the concept of the eastern pact (1933–1935)
Dariusz Jeziorny explores British diplomatic relations in the years 1933–1935, illuminating London's attitude toward the Eastern Pact and highlighting British diplomacy's way of thinking and acting toward the European and global situation. He provides a look behind the scenes of British diplomacy...
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Bukovina
The making and remaking of Bukovina, a disputed Eastern European borderland, from the eighteenth century to the present dayBukovina, when it has existed on official maps, has always fit uneasily among its neighbors. The region is now divided between Romania and Ukraine but has long been a testing...
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Carpatho-rusyn studies
The fifth volume of Carpatho-Rusyn Studies follows the same format as previous volumes. It includes nearly 800 entries listing books, articles in journals, and chapters in books published during the years 2004 through 2009, and which deal with various aspects of Carpathian Rus' in Europe and of C...
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Communism, post-communism, and democracy
A leader of "the new Europe" offers a unique perspective on recent history.A stalwart ally and strategic partner in the war against terror and a new member of NATO, Romania with its vibrant democracy and robust economy is a far different place than it was in mid-twentieth century. According to so...
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Country of ash
A starkly compelling, original chronicle of survival in Nazi-occupied Poland, available in English for the first time
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Cultures of economy in south-eastern europe
This volume focuses on cultures of economy in regions of the former Yugoslavia, examining narratives and poetics of economy in literature, film, and art, as well as in public discourse. It spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Socialist Yugoslavia, and the transitional and neol...
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Dealing with the yugoslav past
This book analyzes the representation of the socialist past in the national history museums of the former Yugoslavia. Through travels to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Macedonia, the study elucidates the process of constructing the national narratives that maintain and l...
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Diversity in the east-central european borderlands
Built on up-to-date field material, this book suggests an anthropological approach to the palimpsest-like milieus of Wrocław, Lviv, Chernivtsi, and Chişinău. It features a novel multilevel approach to the analysis of engagements with the lost diversity of historical urban milieus full of postwar ...
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Economic nationalism and globalization
Szlajfer interprets economic nationalism as a significant world-wide phenomenon intimately linked with the birth, development and crisis of capitalist modernity
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Einstein in bohemia
A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended to make Prague his home, he lived there for j...
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Empires of the silk road
The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian em...
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Erased
In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--i...
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Explaining yugoslavia
Yugoslavia and its history are often in the news yet poorly understood. Traversing the politics, economics, demography, and culture of the former Yugoslavia, John B. Allcock examines and makes sense of the region's troubled past and troubling present. Though many think of the Balkans as a uniquel...
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Fighting communism from afar
The 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 this organization from a number of perspective...
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Forests, peasants, and revolutionaries
Forests, more than most natural resources, exist throughout Russia and constitute a clearly vital resource for both the State and public alike. The study of forests thus deeply intersects with a wide range of critical social and political issues central to early Soviet history. This book examines...
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Fortune favors the bold
In the early twentieth century, a teenage Greek girl in Constantinople loses both her parents and, together with her younger sister, gets thrown into a massive population exchange between Greece and Turkey. She ends up in a refugee camp in northern Greece. With determination she creates a life in...
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From peoples into nations
A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast and disparate possessions, but his actio...
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Geohistory of galicia
An edited collection of essays about geohistory in Polish histography.
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God's playground
The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present. Abandoning the traditional nationalist approach to Polish history, Norman Davies instead stresses the country's rich mult...
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God, hierarchy, and power
Presents an interpretation of power and authority in the Orthodox Christian theological tradition by examining four Byzantine authors on the topic of ecclesiastical hierarchy in theoretical, ritual, and pragmatic contexts. Discusses potential application of the interpretation for 21st century sch...
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Heritage under socialism
Heritage under Socialism enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies. Its transnational approach highlights the socialist world’s diverse interpretations of heritage and its trajectories in post-socialist preservation practices, thus providing new perspective...
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History of a disappearance
Winner of Asymptote Journal’s 2016 Close Approximations Translation Contest and Shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuscinski Prize, History of a Disappearance is the fascinating true story of a small mining town in the southwest of Poland that, after seven centuries of history, disappeared.Lying at th...
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Hitler, stalin and i: an oral history
The oral history of a renowned Czech writer, whose optimism and faith in people survived grueling experiences under authoritarian regimes.
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Hungarian-russian economic relations, 1920–1941
This book is the first monograph-length study based on archival research in Hungary and Russia. It examines the history of Hungary's attempts to establish and carry on trade relations with the Soviet Union during the interwar years. For Hungary, economic relations were motivated by the need for r...
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Hungary and the hungarian minorities
Thirteen essays by noted authorities, including Ferenc Glatz, Laszlo Szarka, Pal Peter Toth, and Judit Toth, cover such topics as the history of minority policies in Hungary, immigration and xenophobia from the middle to the end of the twentieth century, and the concept of the nation at the begin...
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Imagining an austrian nation
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In the shadow of the great war
Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effecti...
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Inner zone
Unearths a buried history of retributive violence that unfolded inside besieged SarajevoIn asymmetrical conflicts, how should we acknowledge suffering on the side of the perpetrators of violence? How can we do so without losing sight of the harm they inflicted, and without relativizing the suffer...
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
This issue features a special section on the memory of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the OUN-Bandera-wing’s military arm, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Historians and social scientists detail findings on interwar and wartime Ukrainian nationalism as well as its contemporary publi...
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Memory and change in europe
Offers a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. The authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.
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