Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
Trail of Hope
The Anders Army, An Odyssey Across Three Continents
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Following the conquest of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish families were torn from their homes and sent eastwards to the arctic wastes of Siberia. Prisoners of war, refugees, those regarded as 'social criminals' by Stalin's regime, and those rounded...
Magnetic Mountain
Stalinism as a Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 1997
This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly...
by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
From June 1941, the Soviets were forced to undertake large-scale defensive operations in the face of the overwhelming German blitzkrieg assault, operations which ran counter to their preference for highly mobile, offensive warfare. Lessons were quickly learned across a wide variety of terrain and...
by R. Craig Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
The Balkans is often described as a grim backwater, a "no man's land of world politics" in the words of a post-World War II study "foredoomed to conflict springing from heterogeneity." The stereotype is false, but it has been distressingly influential in shaping perceptions of...
Violence as a Generative Force
Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today’s border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. This frenzy—in which victims were...
Circles on the Mountain
Bosnian Women in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
This book combines scholarly research with first-person interviews to examine the current state of women in Bosnia twenty years after the Balkan War—their emotional recovery, their economic situation, and their prospects for the future. It describes how two of the worst issues affecting Bosnian...
by Marko Attila Hoare
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The story of the Bosnian Muslims in World War II is an epic frequently alluded to in discussions of the 1990s Balkan conflicts, but almost as frequently misunderstood or falsified. This first comprehensive study of the topic in any language sets the record straight. Based on extensive research in...
by Dr Kenneth Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of political and social developments in Montenegro from the processes that led to the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Montenegro's eventful trajectory towards independence and, later, towards Euro-Atlantic integration....
Experiencing Dominion
Culture, Identity, and Power in the British Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2002
Experiencing Dominion pushes contemporary literature on historical anthropology in a new direction by moving the discussion away from an emphasis on a simple polarity between hegemony and resistance, and instead focusing on the shared interactions between colonizers and colonized, rulers and ruled,...
by Kevin Secours, Brett Jacques, Scott Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Russia is rich in martial traditions deriving from a highly diverse population. Sambo—developed by the Soviet Red Army—became the most recognize martial art associated with Russia mainly because of its presence in international competitions. Another style to become recognized for its great practicality...
The Afghan Way of War
How and Why They Fight
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Focusing on key episodes in Afghanistan's long history of conflict with foreign forces from the early nineteenth century to the present, this book sheds new light on the Afghan "Way of War." Robert Johnson shows that, contrary to the stereotypes of primitive warriors enflamed with religious...
Internment during the First World War
A Mass Global Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Although civilian internment has become associated with the Second World War in popular memory, it has a longer history. The turning point in this history occurred during the First World War when, in the interests of ‘security’ in a situation of total war, the internment of ‘enemy aliens’...
Stalin's Legacy in Romania
The Hungarian Autonomous Region, 1952–1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This study explores the little-known history of the Hungarian Autonomous Region (HAR), a Soviet-style territorial autonomy that was granted in Romania on Stalin’s personal advice to the Hungarian Székely community in the summer of 1952. Since 1945, a complex mechanism of ethnic balance and power-sharing...
Behind the Iron Curtain
Soviet Estonia in the Era of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
During the Cold War, Estonia lay behind the Iron Curtain. Even in the grip of Soviet rule, the country underwent many important developments. This volume brings together fourteen papers on the political, economic, and cultural history of Estonia during the Cold War. Their topics range from international...