Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
Facing the Nazi Past
United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2001
Facing the Nazi Past examines how the communist East viewed the events of these years very differently from West Germany during the Cold War. Following the unification of Germany, these contrasting memories of the Third Reich have contributed to a new perspective on this period of German history.
Facing...
Tell It to the World
International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2014
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction — Shortlisted
On April 5, 1999, Serbian police found a truck half-submerged in the Danube River. When they looked inside, they found it filled with human bodies. Following orders, they hid the truck and its contents. Two weeks later, on the...
After Yugoslavia
The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
The book brings together many of the best known commentators and scholars who write about former Yugoslavia. The essays focus on the post-Yugoslav cultural transition and try to answer questions about what has been gained and what has been lost since the dissolution of the common country. Most of...
by Paula Huntley
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2004
A moving testimony to the power of literature to bring people together in even the most difficult of circumstances.
In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians poured over Kosovo's borders, bringing with them stories of torture, rape, and massacre. One year...
Don't Mourn, Balkanize!
Essays After Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Presenting a radical leftist perspective on the recent history of the Balkan region, this collection of essays, commentaries, and interviews argues that the dismantling of Yugoslavia is just another milestone in the long history of colonialism, conquest, and interventionism. Written between 2002...
The Social Construction of Man, the State and War
Identity, Conflict, and Violence in Former Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2004
The Social Construction of Man, the State, and War is the fist book on conflict in the former Yugoslavia to look seriously at the issue of ethnic identity, rather than treating it as a given, an unquestionable variable. Combining detailed analysis with a close reading of historical narratives, documentary...
Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv
Narratives, Identity, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Intelligentsia assumes the right to speak in the name of the entire nation and to extrapolate its own tastes, values and choices to it. Therefore, intelligentsia's voices have been in many ways decisive in the discussions about Ukrainian national identity, which gained momentum in the post-Soviet...
Worlds of Dissent
Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Czech resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces these heroic victory narratives with a picture of the struggle against state repression as dissidents themselves understood and lived it. Their diaries, letters, and essays convey the texture of dissent in a closed society.
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv
A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and fundamental transformation ethnically, linguistically,...
Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds
Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1917
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds examines the phenomenon of Jewish bureaucracy in the Russian empire—its institutions, personnel, and policies—from 1850 to 1917. In particular, it focuses on the institution of expert Jews, mid-level Jewish bureaucrats who served the Russian state both in the Pale...
by Léon Tolstoï, J.-Wladimir Bienstock
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
La fin du siècle, dans le langage évangélique, cela ne signifie point la fin d’une période de cent ans et le commencement d’une autre, mais la fin d’une certaine conception du monde, la fin d’une religion, d’un moyen de communion des hommes et le commencement...
The Great Fear
Stalin's Terror of the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great Terror', it is also among the most misunderstood...
Making the Soviet Intelligentsia
Universities and Intellectual Life under Stalin and Khrushchev
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Making the Soviet Intelligentsia explores the formation of educated elites in Russian and Ukrainian universities during the early Cold War. In the postwar period, universities emerged as training grounds for the military-industrial complex, showcases of Soviet cultural and economic accomplishments...
The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24
Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
The Russian revolution of 1917 was a defining event of the twentieth century, and its achievements and failures remain controversial in the twenty-first. This book focuses on the retreat from the revolution’s aims in 1920–24, after the civil war and at the start of the New Economic Policy –...