Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
by Tara Zahra
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
"Zahra handles this immensely complicated and multidimensional history with remarkable clarity and feeling." —Robert Levgold, Foreign Affairs
Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out...
Antisemitism in an Era of Transition
Continuities and Impact in Post-Communist Poland and Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
The post-Communist transition in Eastern Central Europe has brought about democratic reform, liberalized economies and accession to the European Union, but also the emergence of political movements that revert to antisemitic rhetoric and arguments. This volume compares the genealogies and impact of...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II
Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This volume offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos. Regional essays outline the patterns of ghettoization in 19 German...
Legacies of Totalitarian Language in the Discourse Culture of the Post-Totalitarian Era
The Case of Eastern Europe, Russia, and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and fairly detailed look into the lingering legacies of the communist totalitarian modes of thought and expression in the new discourse forms of the post-totalitarian era. The book gives also new and interesting...
Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This book presents an unconventional history of minority nationalism in interwar Eastern Europe. Focusing on an influential group of grassroots activists, Tatjana Lichtenstein uncovers Zionist projects intended to sustain the flourishing Jewish national life in Czechoslovakia.The book shows that Zionism...
Another Hungary
The Nineteenth-Century Provinces in Eight Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Another Hungary tells the stories of eight remarkable individuals: an aristocrat, merchant, engineer, teacher, journalist, rabbi, tobacconist, and writer. All eight came from the same woebegone corner of prewar Hungary. Their biographies illuminate how the region's residents made sense of economic...
Jewish People, Yiddish Nation
Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki's dramatic path - from russified...
Leipzig Travel Guide
Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Located in the Federal State of Saxony, the city of Leipzig is a popular tourist destination in eastern Germany. Not only is it ranked as one of the most livable cities in the country, Leipzig was also ranked as a city with one of the ‘highest quality of living in Europe’. The city’s fortune...
The Left Side of History
World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.P. Thompson, and fourteen-year-old Elena Lagadinova, the youngest female member of the...
by Jan Zaprudnik, Vitali Silitski Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
The political map of Eastern Europe changed dramatically in December 1991 when the leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine huddled together in a Bielavieza Forest retreat and decided to dissolve the 15 union republics, which composed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). One of those republics...
Whose Memory? Which Future?
Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe, reconstructing specific events, state policies, and the lived experiences of victims. Yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume...
The Odyssey and Dr. Novak
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
• Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and invaded Eastern Ukraine, the plight of Ukraine has continued to attract much media attention; this book offers an intimate portrait of a time just before that invasion and the subsequent return of a Russian presence in both Central and Eastern Europe. •...
Preying on the State
The Transformation of Bulgaria after 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Immediately after 1989, newly emerging polities in Eastern Europe had to contend with an overbearing and dominant legacy: the Soviet model of the state. At that time, the strength of the state looked like a massive obstacle to change; less than a decade later, the state's dominant characteristic was...
Socially Engaged Art after Socialism
Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The post-1989 period has seen artists in Central and Eastern Europe embrace socially engaged practices. Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, reciprocity...