Alexander Prusin: 3 books
Serbia under the Swastika
A World War II Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia initially left the German occupiers with a pacified Serbian heartland willing to cooperate in return for relatively mild treatment. Soon, however, the outbreak of resistance shattered Serbia's seeming tranquility, turning the country into a battlefield and an area...
Justice Behind the Iron Curtain
Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
In Justice Behind the Iron Curtain,Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Poland’s role in prosecuting Nazi German criminals during the first decade and a half of the postwar era. Finder and Prusin contend that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals were a pragmatic political response...
Nationalizing a Borderland
War, Ethnicity, and Anti-Jewish Violence in East Galicia, 1914–1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Nationalizing a Borderland enriches understanding of ethnic conflict by examining the factors in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia between 1914 and 1920 that led to the rise of xenophobic nationalism and to the ethnocide of World War II. From Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, and Austrian archival...