Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
A Little War That Shook the World
Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out of the blue that was gone as quickly as it came. Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Ronald Asmus contends that it was a conflict that was prepared and planned for some time by Moscow, part of...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
The titanic armor battles of the Russian Front are widely known, but the role of Germany's eastern allies is not as well known. Two of these countries, Romania and Hungary, manufactured their own tanks as well as purchasing tanks from Germany. These ranged from older, obsolete types such as the PzKpfw...
Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection,...
The Burdens of Freedom
Eastern Europe since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
From Estonia to Macedonia, this book is a history of 15 countries as they negotiate their transition from communism. For some, the story ends happily, with triumphant entry into the European Union in 2004.Others are caught in limbo, destroyed by nationalist politics, war and genocide, or crippled...
Slovenia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Slovenia seems closer to Austria or Italy than to its Balkan neighbors. The richest of the Slavic nation-states, it has an entirely Western tradition, having belonged in the past to the Roman Empire, the Frankish kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Habsburg monarchy, and the...
The Greengrocer and His TV
The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the...
The Splintered Empires
The Eastern Front 1917–21
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the Kerensky Offensive, saw the final collapse of her...
by Georgi Gospodinov
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Finalist for the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation
Winner of the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature
"A quirky, compulsively readable book that deftly hints at the emptiness and sadness at its core."-New York Times
A finalist for both the Strega Europeo and...
THE GUILLOTINE AT WORK Vol. 1
The Leninist Counter-Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
The Guillotine At Work Vol 1 develops the theme that the Stalinist terror of the 1930s-1950s, the bureaucratisation of Russian society, the imperialist escapades, through to the total disregard for human rights in the Soviet Union and other East European countries under its dominion were not aberrations...
A Tale of Two Villages
Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
This dramatic story of land and power from twentieth-century Eastern Europe is set in two extraordinary villages: a rebel village, where peasants fought the advent of Communism and became its first martyrs, and a model village turned forcibly into a town, Dictator Ceauşescu’s birthplace. The two...
Bagnowka
A Modern Jewish Cemetery on the Russian Pale
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
In the last decade of the nineteenth century, a traditional Jewish cemetery was established in the small town of Bagnowka, located near the urban center of Bialystok in current northeastern Poland. Though governed then by Tsarist Russia, Bialystok was still inspired by the teachings of the Torah,...
by Timothy Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including...
Soviet Soft Power in Poland
Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943-1957
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use "soft power" in order...
by Norman Stone
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship, Stone's boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War'...