Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
The Taste of Ashes
The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
An inventive, wholly original look at the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives.
In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s The File, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding...
Dacia
Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This book tells the little known story of Dacia, the powerful and rich land that became Transylvania and Romania. This kingdom was once the cornerstone of Eastern Europe. By A.D. 1, Dacia was the third largest military power in Europe, after the Romans and Germans. Most historians mistook the Dacians...
by Matthew J. Ouimet
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Since the sudden collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe in 1989, scholars have tried to explain why the Soviet Union stood by and watched as its empire crumbled. The recent release of extensive archival documentation in Moscow and the appearance of an increasing number of Soviet political...
Retuning Culture
Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 1996
As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition—and nowhere is this clearer than in the recent case of the Eastern Bloc. Retuning Culture presents an extraordinary picture of this phenomenon. This...
Stag & Hen Party Guide, Eastern Europe
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Stags behaving badly? You better believe it, but with all that cheap beer, who can blame them? After all, the women are all drop dead gorgeous and boys will be boys, right? Back in the bad old days of the Soviet Union, much of Eastern Europe was pretty much forbidden territory to the average Joe....
by Israel Bartal
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories...
Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe
Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This book explores the political imagination of Eastern Europe in the 1830s and 1840s, when Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian intellectuals came to identify themselves as belonging to communities known as nations or nationalities. Bilenky approaches this topic from a transnational perspective, revealing...
Eastern Europe!
Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region that Shaped Our World and Still Does
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The critically acclaimed, first comprehensive, English-language informative AND highly entertaining overview of a region of vital importance to the European--and global--economy and that represents the ancestry of tens of millions of North Americans and others throughout the world
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Battle for the Castle
The Myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe, 1914-1948
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
After World War I, diplomats and leaders at the Paris Peace Talks redrew the map of Europe, carving up ancient empires and transforming Europe's eastern half into new nation-states. Drawing heavily on the past, the leaders of these young countries crafted national mythologies and deployed them at...
Historical Sociology and Eastern European Development
A Rokkanian Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
An innovator in theoretical approaches in the social sciences, Stein Rokkan developed general models, developmental models, and conceptual maps that specified the main variables and important relationships in European political history. In Historical Sociology, Arne Kommisrud tests these general hypotheses...
by Stefano Bianchini
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This book presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the mainstream flows of ideas, politics and itineraries towards modernity in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans over two centuries from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the Gorbachev administration. Unlike other...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Focusing on the profound transformation in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain, this record analyzes complex cultural dimensions, such as lifestyles, habits, value markers, and identity. Written by a group of experts, it presents case studies from the former communist countries...
Memory Laws, Memory Wars
The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Laws against Holocaust denial are perhaps the best-known manifestation of the present-day politics of historical memory. In Memory Laws, Memory Wars, Nikolay Koposov examines the phenomenon of memory laws in Western and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Russia and exposes their very different purposes...
We Wait You
Waiting on God in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
“We wait you. Why did you take so long?” –Taryn Hutchison was asked this poignant question after her lecture on democracy to a class in Bucharest, Romania. Communism had just fallen. “We waited forty- five years for the Americans to come and set us free. We used to say that even if you were coming...