Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
The Land of Weddings and Rain
Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In The Land of Weddings and Rain, Gediminas Lankauskas examines the components of the contemporary urban wedding – religious and civil ceremonies, “traditional” imagery and practices, and the conspicuous consumption of domestic and imported goods – in the context of the Western-style modernization...
by Tomáš Zmeškal
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, Tomáš Zmeškal’s stimulating novel focuses on one family’s tragic story of love and the unspoken. Josef meets his wife, Kveta, before the Second World War at a public lecture on Hittite culture. Kveta chooses to marry Josef over their mutual...
by Wojciech Nowicki
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
"It all blends here unexpectedly: that past and memory with the present and space. [. . .] At times, your skin will crawl with pleasure from reading."-Andrzej Stasiuk
Lying in bed in Gotland after a writer's conference, thinking about his compulsive desire to travel-and the uncomfortable...
The Hungarian nation concept in the 20th century
Radical changes and their translation into politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Cultural Studies - East European Studies, grade: 9,00 (niederländ. Notenskala), Maastricht University (Faculteit der Cultuur- en Maatschappijwetenschappen), 32 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The underlying essay deals with...
Disrupted Landscapes
State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstakingly researched volume focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist...
Polish Revolutionary Populism
A Study in Agrarian Socialist Thought From the 1830s to the 1850s
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
Polish populism, which advocated agrarian socialism by either revolutionary or reformist means, emerged first among the émigrés who had left Poland after the Russians defeated the nationalist uprising of 1830. In exile they came into contact with the ideas of French ‘Utopian’ socialists such...
by Robert A. Kann, Zdenek David
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918
Cold War Crossings
International Travel and Exchange across the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Approaching the early decades of the “Iron Curtain” with new questions and perspectives, this important book examines the political and cultural implications of the communists’ international initiatives. Building on recent scholarship and working from new archival sources, the seven contributors...
Globalizing Southeastern Europe
Emigrants, America, and the State since the Late Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
At the end of the nineteenth century, Southeastern Europe became a prime sending region of emigrants to overseas countries, in particular the United States. This massive movement of people ended in 1914 but remained consequential long thereafter, as emigration had created networks, memories, and attitudes...
by George Liber
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Between 1914 and 1954, the Ukrainian-speaking territories in East Central Europe suffered almost 15 million “excess deaths” as well as numerous large-scale evacuations and forced population transfers. These losses were the devastating consequences of the two world wars, revolutions, famines, genocidal...
An Uncanny Era
Conversations between Václav Havel and Adam Michnik
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Czech playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel first encountered Polish historian and dissident Adam Michnik in 1978 at a clandestine meeting on a mountaintop along the Polish-Czechoslovak border. This initial meeting of two extraordinary thinkers who “plotted” democracy, and designed an effective peaceful...
From Stalin to Mao
Albania and the Socialist World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Elidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe’s longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli’s unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful globalism...
Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands
Kyiv, 1800-1905
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
In the nineteenth and early twentieth century Kyiv was an important city in the European part of the Russian empire, rivaling Warsaw in economic and strategic significance. It also held the unrivaled spiritual and ideological position as Russia’s own Jerusalem. In Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands,...
by James Samuelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Although the earliest authentic records of Romania or, more correctly speaking, of Dacia, the Roman province which embraced Romania, Transylvania, and some adjoining territories of to-day, do not reach further back than about the century immediately preceding the Christian era, a good deal of information...