Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
Eastern Europe 1945-1969
From Stalinism to Stagnation
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Here is an essential short guide to the history of Eastern Europe under the early decades of communist rule. The study explores the communists attempt to transpose a uniform economic and social system across the region copied from the Soviet model. Dr Fowkes shows how this did not always succeed and...
East European Diaries
Essays and Vignettes
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Some twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this account of post-communist Eastern Europe offers perspective beyond a nostalgic glance back at a unique moment in time. Written by a former expat, the focus is not on young Americans living it up in Prague or Budapest, but rather on the...
Unknown Fronts
The "Eastern Turn" in First World War History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
One hundred years ago Europe unleashed a storm of violence upon the world: The First World War had an enormous impact on the lives of Europeans, European history and culture. To this day, the iconic images of trench warfare in Belgium and France are burned onto our retinas, the names of its major...
History of Russia and Eastern Europe
A Concise Outline
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Jack J. Kanski brings us a concise, illustrated book covering the history of Russia and Eastern Europe, presenting the histories of ten countries. The book begins with the history of Russia from the ancient Kievan State to the present Russian Federation under Vladimir Putin.
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The Fault Line
Traveling the Other Europe, from Finland to Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
An award-winning writer travels the eastern front of Europe, where the push/pull between old empires and new possibilities has never been more evident. Paolo Rumiz traces the path that has twice cut Europe in two—first by the Iron Curtain and then by the artificial scaffolding of the EU—moving...
The Mountains of Romania
A guide to walking in the Carpathian Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Walking and trekking guidebook to Romania's Carpathian Mountains. one of the wildest parts of Eastern Europe. This is a complete guide to exploring the Carpathian mountains and Transylvania, including both remote and more popular areas, such as Poiana Brasov, with detailed descriptions of main bases...
by Rebecca Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Romania is one of the most beautiful countries in southeastern Europe and an emerging tourist destination with beautiful villages, well-preserved medieval castles and good Black Sea resorts. The World Travel and Tourism Council recently ranked Romania as the fourth-fastest-growing tourist destination....
The Economy of East Central Europe, 1815-1989
Stages of Transformation in a Peripheral Region
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
From a widely published expert in the field, this major survey reviews two centuries of modernization and examines the dramatic changes in the economies of Eastern Europe.
This is a new and comprehensive overview which incorporates fresh research and recent changes to the region to trace this...
Red Hangover
Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. Ghodsee's essays and short stories reflect on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive...
Magnetic North
Conversations with Tomas Venclova
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksander Wat's classic My Century. Taking the form of an extended interview with Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova, the book interweaves Eastern European postwar...
Germany's Wild East
Constructing Poland as Colonial Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American...
by Samantha Lafferty
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
If, like me, you are a bit tired of the ethnocentric social commentary that seems to come with certain well known guidebooks then you could do worse than try this one. Simple to use, well written and accurate, I found it invaluable and couldn't fault any of its recommendations nor descriptions. -- Yurt...
The Politics of Greed
How Privatization Structured Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
With the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, it seemed that market capitalism had triumphed and that democracy might replace authoritarian regimes. Economic reformers in the former Eastern Bloc rushed to liberalize prices and transfer state assets to private hands. They assumed that private owners in...
Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of Central and Eastern Europe (Part 1
The Eastern Mountains)
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A compelling chronicle of a hiking and wildlife research expedition along the length of the Carpathian Mountains, from Romania to Poland, some 1,700 miles as the crow flies. (This volume, Part 1, covers the first half of the journey, through Romania and Ukraine.) On the trail of wolves, we are led...