Collection: East European Monographs
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Models of representation in czech literary history
Petr A. Bílek, Vladimir Papousek,In the last twenty years of their academic engagement in the field of literary history, the authors have focused predominantly on the explorations of various possible ways of writing literary history with the impulses and inspiration produced by recent literary theory. Their long discussions resu...
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Carpatho-rusyn studies
Paul Robert Magocsi, Paul Robert Magocsi,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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Romania's communist takeover
Dinu C. Giurescu,Regular price $38.50Sale price $38.50 Regular price $38.50Unit price / per -
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Confrontation in kosovo
Peter R. Prifti,Regular price $38.00Sale price $38.00 Regular price $38.00Unit price / per -
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The europeanization of portuguese democracy
Antonio Costa Pinto, Nuno S. Teixeira,Driven primarily by political concerns to secure democracy, Portugal's accession to the EU in 1986 also served as a catalyst for dynamic economic development following a complex process of democratization and the decolonization of Europe's last empire. This book analyses how the European Union ha...
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Postcommunism, postmodernism, and the global imagination
Christian Moraru, Aaron Chandler,Contributors follow the impact of post-Cold War globalization on Central-East European literatures, cultures, and theoretical-ideological debates, particularly literary and cultural-artistic trends such as experimentalism, the neo-avant-garde, and postmodernism. Essays investigate the new configu...
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Communism, post-communism, and democracy
Ion Iliescu, Vladimir Tismaneanu,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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The austro-hungarian monarchy revisited
András Gerő,Nine established Hungarian scholars reexamine various aspects of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
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From dictatorship to democracy
Ignac Romsics,Ignacs Romsics provides an in-depth account of Hungary's history between the collapse of Communism and the re-emergence of a Hungarian parlimentary republic. Drawing on the debates that have grown out of the political opposition, he focuses on the reformist efforts of the Hungarian Socialist Work...
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From dissident to party politics
Bernard Ivan Tamas,Bernard Ivan Tamas lays out the history of the struggle for democracy in the early years of transition, addressing the problem of competence in party politics and democratization and the consequences of amateurism and inexperience.
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A history of eastern europe since the middle ages
Emil Niederhauser,Regular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price / per -
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Contemporary portugal
Antonio Costa Pinto,Contemporary Portugal: Politics, Society and Culture is an introduction to the evolution of Portuguese politics, society and culture in the twentieth century. Eminent historians, political scientists and experts in literature and art explore a wide spectrum of topics: international relations, aut...
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On behalf of their homeland
Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.,The Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) is a unique cultural organization established to rehabilitate Czechoslovakia's image abroad, which, in 1958, had become tarnished by communism. Founded by Czechoslovak intellectuals, SVU promotes scientific and cultural activities and has set up...
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On the road to freedom
Aloysius Balawyder,Balawyder explores how cultural, academic, commercial, and scientific exchanges with Canada played an important role in the "confidence building" that led to independence throughout Eastern Europe. This volume also contains interviews with eleven Canadian diplomats who served in the Soviet Union ...
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Polish political emigrés in the united states of america, 1831-1864
Florian Stasik, James S. Pula, Eugene Podraza,This is detailed account of the character and problems of Polish emigres in the United States from the end of the Polish uprising of 1830 to the end of the second Polish uprising of 1863. Stasik presents the activities of the Polish political exiles in the United States over a period of more than...
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The holocaust in hungary
Randolph L. Braham, Bela Vago, Julie Bock,This volume is a systematic and extensive bibliography of studies published between 2000 and 2007.
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A social bandit in nineteenth century hungary
Shingo Minamizuka,Rozsa Sandor, the betyar (social bandit), played a pivotal role in the agrarian socialism that swept Hungary in the 1890s, demanding better working conditions and land tenure reforms. Drawing on the theoretical underpinnings of the significance of "social bandits," the author presents a compellin...
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The silent conspiracy
Zoltan G. Mesko,Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price / per -
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Ceausescu
Pavel Campeanu,Regular price $52.50Sale price $52.50 Regular price $52.50Unit price / per -
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The unfinished peace
Mihály Fülöp,Already published to critical acclaim in Romania and France, The Unfinished Peace examines the impact of the Council of Foreign Ministers on Hungary in the aftermath of World War II. The end of the war did not result in an overall, Versailles-type settlement. Instead, the United States, the Sovie...
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The eastern question and the voices of reason
Jelena Milojković-Djurić,Regular price $38.50Sale price $38.50 Regular price $38.50Unit price / per -
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Through the prism of the habsburg monarchy
Tibor Glant,Regular price $46.00Sale price $46.00 Regular price $46.00Unit price / per -
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Tadeusz bobrowski’s “a memoir of my life”
Addison Bross,Many will recognize the name of Tadeusz Bobrowski-Joseph Conrad's uncle-a Polish landowner living in the Ukraine. A member of one of Tsar Alexander II's regional committees charged with abolishing serfdom, Bobrowski angered many of his fellow landowners by his commitment to land reform, yet he al...
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Conrad and turgenev
Katarzyna Sokolowska,The twentieth volume in the Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives series, Conrad and Turgenev: Towards the Real offers a comparative analysis of Joseph Conrad's and Ivan Turgenev's output and focuses on their outlooks and ideas concerning art, personality, and history. The analysis is based on...
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At home there is only speaking in a whisper
Stelian Tanase,Stelian Tanase includes excerpts from his diary recounting the surveillance of his activities during the late years of the Ceausescu regime. Tanase's book also includes a unique documentary collection of archival documents contained in the files of the Romanian security police.
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The terror of illusion
Augustin Buzura,Regular price $40.00Sale price $40.00 Regular price $40.00Unit price / per -
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Evolution of the hungarian economy, 1848-1998
János Kornai, Iván T. Berend, Tamás Csató,Regular price $37.50Sale price $37.50 Regular price $37.50Unit price / per -
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Language and national identity
Anna Plishkova,Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price / per -
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Hungary in the age of the two world wars
Maria Ormos,Maria Ormos focuses on the Horthy Period and assesses the immeasurable human and material costs caused by Arrow-Cross rule and the Soviet dominate provisional wartime administration. This book clarifies all the historical factors that affected Hungarian society during this era-including the world...
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Conrad in france
Josiane Paccaud-Huguet,In this collection, French intellectuals and scholars comment on the relationship between British novelist Joseph Conrad's work and French culture and criticism. The book presents readings of Conrad's major texts by several generations of critics, such as André Gide, André Maurois, and Ramón Fern...
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The kingdom of hungary and the habsburg monarchy in the sixteenth century
Géza Pálffy,Géza Pálffy traces the complex relations between Hungary and the Habsburgs, including the integration of the country into a conglomerate central European state ruled from Vienna and Prague. Focusing on institutions and symbols of sovereignty, Pálffy demonstrates how Hungary was integrated into a ...
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Romania in harm's way, 1939-1941
Nicholas Constantinesco,Regular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price / per -
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The second life
Carmen Firan,Set in New York City and Eastern Europe, these stories explore the indelible mark left by unexpected historical and personal traumas. Firan effortlessly blends elements of realism and fantasy to create a rich and spellbinding narrative world. Each story revolves around a middle-aged male protagon...
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The politics of rite
William O. Oldson,Oldson examines the efforts of religious authorities in Western Europe to reconstruct a Catholic majority in Transylvania after the Ottoman Empire ceded control of the region. These attempts sparked a pronounced sense of Romanian historical consciousness that resulted in an impassioned religious ...
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The legionary movement after corneliu codreanu
Ilarion Tiu,Corneliu 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 anti-parliamentary position that would later become ...
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State and minority in transylvania, 1918–1989
Attila Gábor Hunyadi,This volume of studies presents the relationship between society and state in 20th century Transylvania belonging since 1918 to Romania. The articles written mainly by Transylvanian historian, political scientist and anthropologist scholars, university lecturers present and emphasise the politica...
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The hungarian pocahontas
Judith Szapor,This book sheds light on the life of the intellectual refugee Laura Polanyi Stricker, whose contributions to the progressive counterculture and women's movement of turn-of-the-century Austria-Hungary have remained unexplored. Stricker, the elder sister of Karl and Michael Polanyi, was a pioneerin...
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Tibor eckhardt in his own words
Katalin Kadar Lynn,Regular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price / per -
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U.s.–soviet relations during the détente
Anne de Tinguy,Regular price $53.50Sale price $53.50 Regular price $53.50Unit price / per -
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Romania under the tyranny of small figures
Ilie Serbanescu,Ilie Serbanescu, a distinguished economist, launches a comprehensive study of the contemporary Romanian economy and its problems. He critically evaluates Romanian transition and the main issues facing the stability of the Romanian economy, and then proposes solutions to be undertaken by the Roman...
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Infamy and revolt
Dean Kostantaras,Historians have long speculated on the role played by the Enlightenment in the rise of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The present volume offers a new perspective on this subject through an examination of the Greek Enlightenment, its aspirations, and its relationship to the larger ...
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Hungary and the hungarian minorities
László Szarka,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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Hungarian-russian economic relations, 1920–1941
Attila Seres,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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Bibliography of the holocaust in hungary
Randolph L. Braham,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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The soviet and hungarian holocaust
Tamas Krausz,Based on newly available archival sources, Krausz examines the holocaust in the Soviet Union and contrasts it with the genocide in Hungary. He studies the roots of Soviet anti-Semitism and its impact on politics before the holocaust. He also explains why the holocaust was a taboo subject in Easte...
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In search of legality
William Benton Whisenhunt,Regular price $33.00Sale price $33.00 Regular price $33.00Unit price / per -
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The romanian nationalists and the holocaust
Randolph L. Braham,Regular price $40.50Sale price $40.50 Regular price $40.50Unit price / per -
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Essays on world war i
Peter Pastor, Graydon A. Tunstall,This collection of essays from military historians focus on various aspects of the eastern front during World War I.
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The eagle and the cross
John Radzilowski,The Polish Roman Catholic Union of America (PRCUA) is the oldest Polish organization in the United States. At a time when many Polish Americans were disenchanted with the Irish-dominated American Catholic hierarchy, the PRCUA was a bastion of loyalty to the Church and was America's largest Polish...
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