Eastern European category: 472 books
Solidarity
The Great Workers Strike of 1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
In the summer of 1980, the eyes of the world turned to the Gdansk shipyard in Poland which suddenly became the nexus of a strike wave that paralyzed the entire country. The Gdansk strike was orchestrated by the members of an underground free trade union that came to be known as Solidarnosc [Solidarity]....
NATO Gladio - North Atlantic Treator Organization
Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit: Henry Kissinger Finanzierung durch die Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung der CSU
Language: German
Release Date: April 1, 2014
NATO Gladio North Atlantic Treator Organization Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit: Henry Kissinger Finanzierung durch die Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung der CSU
Gladio war der Codename für eine geheime paramilitärische Einheit der NATO in Italien, die im Fall einer Invasion von Truppen...
by Maria Todorova
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic...
by Erastus Snow
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The author was born in the State of Vermont, November 9th, 1818; first believed the fulness of the Gospel in the spring of 1832; first saw the Prophet Joseph Smith in December, 1835, in Kirtland, Ohio, which was then head quarters of the Church, was ordained one of the Seventies the following spring,...
Twilight of Empire
The Brest-Litovsk Conference and the Remaking of East-Central Europe, 1917–1918
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Twilight of Empire is the first book in English to examine the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference during the later stages of World War I with the use of extensive archival sources. Two separate peace treaties were signed at Brest-Litovsk – the first between the Central Powers and Ukraine and the second...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
This volume places the history of the Second World War and the Baltic states into a multidisciplinary and international perspective. It includes contributions from the fields of diplomacy, strategy, military operations, intelligence and propaganda. It presents not only a multi-layered interpretation...
by David L. Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Placing Stalinism in its international context, David L. Hoffmann presents a new interpretation of Soviet state intervention and violence. Many 'Stalinist' practices - the state-run economy, surveillance, propaganda campaigns, and the use of concentration camps - did not originate with Stalin or even...
Ideas and Identities
A Festschrift for Andre Liebich
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This volume gathers contributions at the intersection of history and politics. The essays, covering such topics as diverse as Italian identity in the Tientsin concession, international refugee policies in the interwar period and after, and the myths and realities of the Ukrainian-Russian encounter...
Velvet Totalitarianism
Post-Stalinist Romania
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
This book introduces students and the general public to the post-Stalinist phase of totalitarianism, focusing on Romania under the Ceausescu dictatorship, through the dual optic of scholarship and fiction, in a story about a family surviving difficult times under a totalitarian regime due to the strength of their love.
Broadcasting and National Imagination in Post-Communist Latvia
Defining the Nation, Defining Public Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book uses the case study of public television in post-communist Latvia to explore the question of how audiences respond to TV offerings, and how their choices can be seen as an act of agency. Jānis Juzefovičs builds his book around Albert O. Hirschman’s classic concepts of exit, voice, and...
A Short History of Europe
From Pericles to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe--a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great
In just a few hundred years, a modest peninsula off the northwest corner of Asia has seen the...
Valerii Pereleshin
The Life of a Silkworm
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Olga Bakich’s biography of Valerii Pereleshin (1913–1992) follows the turbulent life and exquisite poetry of one of the most remarkable Russian émigrés of the twentieth century. Born in Irkutsk, Pereleshin lived for thirty years in China and for almost forty years in Brazil. Multilingual, he...
