Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
The Velizh Affair
Blood Libel in a Russian Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
On April 22, 1823, a three-year-old boy named Fedor finished his lunch and went to play outside. Fedor never returned home from his walk. Several days later, a neighbor found his mutilated body drained of blood and repeatedly pierced. In small market towns, where houses were clustered together, residents...
by Jerzy Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second, and reduced to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945. Yet it emerged in the vanguard of resistance to the USSR in the 1980s, albeit as...
by Lonely Planet, Marc Di Duca, Greg Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Ukraine is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sip morning coffee in Lviv’s cosy cafes, hike the flower-filled upland pastures...
The Fall
A Comparative Study of the End of Communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
With a foreword by Seymour Lipset, Hoover Institution and George Mason University, USA
The Fall examines one of the twentieth century's great historical puzzles: why did the communist-led regimes in Eastern Europe collapse so quickly and why was the process of collapse so different from country...
by Ernest Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
GERMANY stands in the centre of Europe, and on her soil all the great international struggles have been fought, the Thirty Years' War, the early campaigns of the Spanish Succession War, the Seven Years' War, the gigantic wars against Napoleon. It is the custom for modern educators to recommend the...
The Rhyton from Danilo
Structure and Symbolism of a Middle Neolithic Cult-Vessel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
The so called rhyton from Danilo, an archaeological site near the coastal town of Sibenik in Dalmatia, Croatia, is a four-legged Neolithic vessel made of fired clay that according to the consensus of archaeological opinion was most likely a cult vessel used in rituals of unknown origin and content....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
During the Cold War, jazz became a cultural weapon that was employed by both sides to advance their interests. This volume explores the history and roles of jazz in Poland, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Soviet Union, and the Baltic States by means of several case...
Meridianele clipei
Lecturi. Portrete. Teme
Language: Romanian
Release Date: November 11, 2005
CUPRINS LECTURI Monografii şi culegeri de studii Paul E. Michelson: Romanian Politics, 1859-1871 / 13 România lui Keith Hitchins / 20 România şi Primul Război Mondial / 28 Biografii Henri M. Berthelot, apărătorul României? / 37 Biografia Regelui Ferdinand? / 43 O biografie N....
Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style
Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945–1989
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This is the first account of sexual liberation in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Kateřina Lišková reveals how, in the case of Czechoslovakia, important aspects of sexuality were already liberated during the 1950s - abortion was legalized, homosexuality decriminalized, the female orgasm came...
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Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Le nationalisme européen a souvent été interprété comme la principale source de l’avènement des dictatures et en particulier des fascismes. Le retour actuel sur la scène politique d’un certain attachement à la nation, allant jusqu’à l’expression même de mouvements radicaux à caractère...
Between the Woods and the Water
On Foot to Constantinople: From the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts
The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933—to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day—proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed...
by William H. McNeill
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
In Europe’s Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment...
Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe
A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna, Kelles-Krauz...
Rival Power
Russia's Influence in Southeast Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A nuanced and comprehensive study of the political dynamics between Russia and key countries in Southeast Europe
Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades’ of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West...