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Journal of Romanian Studies

Volume 1,1 (2019)

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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

This is the first issue of the biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press. The new interdisciplinary journal examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues...
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Seven Slovak Women

Portraits of Courage, Humanism, and Enlightenment

by Josette Baer
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015

This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English to portray the lives and fates of Slovak women. These seven life stories, ranging from the late nineteenth century to the present day, expose the often cruel political history of Slovakia through the eyes of prominent women...
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Journal of Romanian Studies

Volume 1,2 (2019)

by Lucian Leuștean, Florian Kührer-Wielach, Gavin Bowd
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2019

The new biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance, and serving as a forum for junior...
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Agricultural Finance for Smallholder Farmers

Rethinking Traditional Microfinance Risk and Cost Management Approaches

by Daniela Röttger
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015

Even though traditional microfinance has successfully paved the way for offering financial services to low-income populations without traditional collateral, many microfinance institutions (MFIs) are still reluctant to move into rural areas and agricultural finance, due to the perceived high risks...
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The Belzec Death Camp

History, Biographies, Remembrance

by Chris Webb
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016

This book is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland, which was the first death camp to use static gas chambers as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. It covers the construction and the development of the mechanisms of mass murder. The story is painstakingly told from...
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The Sobibor Death Camp

History, Biographies, Remembrance

by Chris Webb
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt—with intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. Following the construction of the extermination camp at Belzec in south-eastern Poland from November 1941 to March 1942,...
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by Elisa Kriza
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's reception in the U.S., U.K., and Germany before and after 1991. Elisa Kriza explores his corpus through the paradigm of witness literature and confronts contentious subjects, such as antifeminism, anti-Semitism, and revisionism. Redefining...
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Under Swiss Protection

Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest

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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017

This volume retraces Carl Lutz's diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Harald Feller, Ernst Vonrufs,...
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Higher Education in Post-Communist States

Comparative and Sociological Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018

To what extent have universities in post-Communist states adopted the practices and habits of their branded and consumer-oriented equivalents in the English-speaking world? While not assuming that university education in those states reflects in any mechanistic way the regulated, business-led system...
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Nazarbayev—Our Friend the Dictator

Kazakhstan's Difficult Path to Democracy

by Viktor Khrapunov
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

"Like David, I am battling against a Goliath that has almost immeasurable means and powerful allies. I don't think I can win, I just want to be heard. No dictatorship lasts forever, and if my contribution can sooner or later bring about its downfall, then I will have achieved what I set out to...
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Ukraine’s Euromaidan

Analyses of a Civil Revolution

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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

The essays in this volume analyze the civil uprising known as Euromaidan that began in central Kyiv in late November 2013, when the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych opted not to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union. Topics covered include the motivations and expectations of protesters,...
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British Fascism

A Discourse-Historical Analysis

by John Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

Fascism is inherently duplicitous, claiming one thing whilst being committed to something else. In examining this dishonesty, it is essential to distinguish between the surface arguments in fascist discourse and the underlying ideological commitments. Analyzing contemporary fascism is particularly...
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Skylarks and Rebels

A Memoir about the Soviet Russian Occupation of Latvia, Life in a Totalitarian State, and Freedom

by Rita Laima
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

Skylarks and Rebels is a story about the fate of Latvia in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima. Laima, a Latvian-American, chose to leave behind the comforts of life in America to explore the land of her ancestors, which in the 1980s languished behind the Iron Curtain. In writing about her own...
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by Oksana Kim
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

?Despite having an underdeveloped supporting infrastructure and limited resources, Kazakhstan was the first CIS country to require international financial reporting standards in 2004 for banks, and in 2005 for all public companies. What were the economic consequences of this important reform? In the...
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