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, ...

In search of legality

The soviet and hungarian holocaust

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...

The romanian nationalists and the holocaust

Army and politics in hungary, 1938-1945

This volume surveys Hungary's defense policies in the era of 1938-1945. It focuses on the gradual involvement of the country in Germany's war and the partial rectification of Hungary's borders as defined by the Trianon Peace Treaty. It concludes with Hungary's failure to join the Grand Alliance, ...

The impact of irish-ireland on young poland, 1890–1918

Moda Polska (Young Poland) emerged between 1890 and 1918. It was a unique movement in which Polish intellectuals attempted to combine native forms of expression with the ideals of European modernism to create artistically innovative and inherently Polish work.John. A. Merchant examines the impact...

The hungarian pocahontas

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...

U.s.–soviet relations during the détente

Romania under the tyranny of small figures

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...

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...

Hungarian jews during the holocaust and after the second world war, 1939-1949

While most studies of the Holocaust stop in 1945, the year of the liberation and the official end of the Holocaust, Tamás Stark follows the fate of the Hungarian Jews until the Communist takeover in the late 1940s. The basic problem confronting quantitative experts in Holocaust studies is the dif...

The treatment of the holocaust in hungary and romania during the post-communist era

The bulgarian orthodox church

After a discussion of the Byzantine and early Ottoman eras, the author examines church-state relationships in the latter Ottoman, Communist, and post-communist periods.

Grinding of the soul

From one of Albania's leading novelists, a powerful historical novel that explores life under the extreme Stalinist-Maoist regime of Enver Hoxha.

The third reich and the holocaust in german historiography

Ruling elites and decision-making in fascist-era dictatorships

Focusing on the ruling elites of Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain, and Salazar's Portugal, this volume explains the relationships and power dynamics that support a dictator's rule.

Tibor eckhardt: his american years, 1941-1972

Katalin Kadar Lynn writes a political biography of the Hungarian politician Tibor Eckhardt, with special emphasis on his years in the United States when he was the leader of the Hungarian National Committee. This is a unique study of Hungarian émigré politics and American policies before Word War...

Just one moment more

This volume contains the letters of Konstancija Bražèniené written in Lithuania, East Germany, and Siberia between 1944 and 1946. It reveals a remarkable portrait of survival during the Cold War and post-Cold War period and adaptation to changing political conditions in Russia, Eastern Europe, an...

Linguistic changes in post-communist eastern europe and eurasia

The disintegration of the Marxist-Leninist sociopolitical system not only changed the political, economic, socio-cultural, and psychological realities of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, it changed the linguistic situation of the region as well. Written by distinguished scholars, the ten case studies ...

Sowing the seeds of hatred

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 ...

Count n. p. ignat'ev

Romania since 1989

The history of post-communist Romania has largely been read through a prism of political and economic change: the rise of democracy and capitalism snuffed out the crimes of communism, and the country rejoiced at the prospect of increased liberty and prosperity. World authorities on the history of...

Remember hungary in 1956

Reflections of twentieth century hungary

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...

A city on europe's steppe frontier

The fall and rise of a nation

Imagining an austrian nation

The auschwitz reports and the holocaust in hungary

A collection of papers read at the International Conference held in New York in April 2011 under the sponsorship of the Institute for Holocaust Studies of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. The studies deal with the domestic an...

National reconciliation in eastern europe

Through mirdite in winter

This is the story of an anthropological expedition to Albania in 1929. The author, an Albanian educator, accompanied Dr. Carleton S. Coon of Harvard University. He said that his motive in writing the book was to given an account of the rugged Highlands as seen by an Albanian, in contrast to "trav...

From habsburg neo-absolutism to the compromise, 1849–1867

In 1848, Francis Joseph became Emperor of the Hapsburg Monarchy, and the Russian army helped the Austrians take control of Hungary. The Austrian Council of Ministers ordered the arrest of all political and military officers of the Revolution and dissolved the Hungarian Kingdom. A planned constitu...

Women, the bureaucracy, and daily life in postwar moscow, 1945-1953

This monograph examines the Soviet state's attempt to rebuild and repopulate following World War II by offering to support families while encouraging women to enter the full-time work force. However, combined with the realities of postwar life and broken promises, this program was lacking and for...

Frozen and forgotten conflicts in the post-soviet states

Unsettled and uncertain situations still persist in the former Soviet states of Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, posing a serious threat to the stability of civil society, democratic institutions, and the pursuit of human rights. The cry "no peace, no war" drives the consolidation of se...