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  • Globalizing Southeastern Europe

    Emigrants, America, and the State since the Late Nineteenth Century

    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 that shaped social and political practices in Southeastern Europe long after the emigrants ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Frozen Mud and Red Ribbons

    A Romanian Jewish Girl’s Survival through the Holocaust in Transnistria and its Rippling Effect on the Second Generation

    by Avital Baruch ...
    When Sophica was abruptly separated from her father as a toddler, she found a haven in Grandmother Gitté. But one sunny day in July, when she was six years old, gendarmes marching and shouting in the streets stopped her dreamy childhood and her hopes to go to school and to be a big girl like her sister. She was deported together with her mother and the whole of the Jewish community of Mihaileni, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • To the Horizon and Beyond

    Six chapters in the book, like six stars in one constellation, contain the names Maria, Emma, Valentina, Gennady, Larissa and John. Maria, a Russian beauty, is a symbol of love, determination and devotion to the family- a stronghold and a real survivor through the Russian turmoil. Emma, Maria's eldest daughter, wounded during the second World War at age 7, carried her grief through her whole life. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

    Series series Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
    This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet Eastern Europe – Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – the epicentre of Soviet war suffering, and the heartland of the Soviet war myth. The ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Environmentalism in Central and Southeastern Europe

    Historical Perspectives

    Consisting of 12 chapters, the book presents the rise and development of environmentalism, environmental history as a discipline, and the history of environmental movements in the Central and South Eastern European region from an international point of view.The chapters—written by scholars from Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, Greece and Turkey—cover a wide range of ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Migration, New Nationalisms and Populism

    An Epistemological Perspective on the Closure of Rich Countries

    by Rada Ivekovic ...
    Series series Birkbeck Law Press
    This book examines the antagonistic relationship between new European nationalisms as these often go hand-in-hand with populism, and the phenomenon of migration.Migration has become a significant issue both in Europe and the whole world. Although it has always existed, much of public opinion sees it now as a problem. The latter has been exaggerated through a crisis in hospitality exacerbated by ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Tales from the Borderlands

    Making and Unmaking the Galician Past

    by Omer Bartov ...
    **The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II“A powerful combination of history and personal memoir . . . A richly contextual, skillfully woven historical study.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)**Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • National Development in Romania and Southeastern Europe

    Papers in Honor of Cornelia Bodea

    Series series Papers in Honor of Cornelia Bodea
    This book honors Cornelia Bodea, academician, scholar, professor, teacher, and, above all, friend and colleague to three generations of American and British students of the Romanian past and culture. The studies in this volume, apart from two contributions dedicated to the work of Cornelia Bodea, are arranged in chronological order. They range from an effort to elucidate the image of Napoleon, as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Birth of Democratic Citizenship

    Women and Power in Modern Romania

    What is it like to be a woman living through the transition from communism to democracy? What effect does this have on a woman's daily life, on her concept of herself, her family, and her community? Birth of Democratic Citizenship presents the stories of women in Romania as they describe their experiences on the journey to democratic citizenship. In candid and revealing conversations, women ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia

    Transforming the Everyday from WWII to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Across central and eastern Europe after World War II, the newly established communist regimes promised a drastic social revolution that would transform the world at great pace and pave the way to a socialist future. Although many aspects of this utopian project are well known - such as fast-paced industrialisation, collectivisation and urbanisation - the regimes even sought to transform the ways ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • A Concise History of Serbia

    by Dejan Djokić ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    This accessible and engaging book covers the full span of Serbia's history, from the sixth-century Slav migrations up to the present day. It traces key developments surrounding the medieval and modern polities associated with Serbs, revealing a fascinating history of entanglements and communication between southeastern and wider Europe, sometimes with global implications. This is a history of Serb ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Through the Back Door

    The Black Market in Poland 1944–1989

    Series Book 5 - Studies in Contemporary History
    This book analyzes the history of the black market in Poland before the 1940s and the development of black-market phenomena in post-war Poland. The author evaluates the interrelation between black-market phenomena and historical and geographical conditions. At first, the black market stabilized the system by making it more flexible and creating a margin of freedom, albeit in the short term. In the ... Read more

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  • Broadcast Policy in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

    Power Structures, Programming, Cooperation and Defiance at Czech Radio 1939-1945

    Series Book 8 - Prager Schriften zur Zeitgeschichte und zum Zeitgeschehen
    Hitler’s regime invested heavily into radio as the most modern media of its era. First in Germany, later in Austria and the Sudetenland, Joseph Goebbels motivated his Volksgenossen to become active radio listeners. But what approach did the regime take to the first non-German people occupied – the Czechs? How would Czech Radio’s staff and listeners respond to Nazi-dominated programming? What ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • A Comprehensive Account of the Nuclear Disaster

    Experience the gripping and harrowing tale of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, one of the most catastrophic accidents in human history. In this meticulously researched and insightful book, delve deep into the heart of the tragedy that shook the world.Unfolding with meticulous detail, "Chernobyl: Unveiling the Tragedy" takes you on a journey through the events leading up to the infamous explosion on ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood, Dust and Snow

    Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front, 1938-1943

    ‘The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our infantry came past him! That’s an old classic, pretending to be dead and then firing from the rear. But that isn’t a good idea when facing tank-men like us… floor the accelerator! Turn left and run over him!'The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust

    OUN and UPA’s Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941–1944

    One quarter of all Holocaust victims lived on the territory that now forms Ukraine, yet the Holocaust there has not received due attention. This book delineates the participation of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its armed force, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainska povstanska armiia—UPA), in the destruction of the Jewish population of Ukraine under German occupation in ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Soviet Politics of Emancipation of Ethnic Minority Woman

    Natsionalka

    This book provides a new perspective through a closer look on “Other”, i.e. ethnic minority women defined by the Soviet documents as natsionalka. Applying decolonial theory and critical race and whiteness studies, the book analyzes archive documents, early Soviet films and mass publications in order to explore how the “emancipation” and “culturalization” of women of “culturally backward nations” ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • War Over Kosovo

    Politics and Strategy in a Global Age

    Edited by Andrew Bacevich, Eliot Cohen ...
    More than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the conflict in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American "way of war." In so doing, Kosovo also brought into sharp focus the military, political, and moral dilemmas confronting a liberal democracy intent on wielding preeminent power on a global scale.What are the moral implications posed by waging high-tech warfare for ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Short History of Russia

    If this book seems to have departed from the proper ideal of historic narrative--if it is the history of a Power, and not of a _People_--it is because the Russian people have had no history yet. There has been no evolution of a Russian nation, but only of a vast governing system; and the words "Russian Empire" stand for a majestic world-power in which the mass of its people have no part. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Harbin

    A Cross-Cultural Biography

    by Mark Gamsa ...
    This book offers an intimate portrait of early twentieth-century Harbin, a city in Manchuria where Russian colonialists, and later refugees from the Revolution, met with Chinese migrants. The deep social and intellectual fissures between the Russian and Chinese worlds were matched by a multitude of small efforts to cross the divide as the city underwent a wide range of social and political changes ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Black Humor and the White Terror

    by Béla Bodó ...
    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    This book examines political humor as a reaction to the lost war, the post-war chaos, and antisemitic violence in Hungary between 1918 and 1922. While there is an increased body of literature on Jewish humor as a form of resistance and a means of resilience during the Holocaust, only a handful of studies have addressed Jewish humor as a reaction to physical attacks and increased discrimination in ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Communism

    by Archie Brown ...
    “A work of considerable delicacy and nuance….Brown has crafted a readable and judicious account of Communist history…that is both controversial and commonsensical.”—Salon.com“Ranging wisely and lucidly across the decades and around the world, this is a splendid book.”—William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His EraThe Rise and Fall of Communism is the definitive ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Technological Innovation, Globalization and the Cold War

    A Transnational History

    Edited by Wolfgang Mueller, Peter Svik ...
    Series series Cold War History
    This volume focuses on the interconnections between the Cold War, technological innovation and globalization.Although the consequences of globalization have received ample attention in both academia and the public discourse, only limited attention has so far been given to the factors that instigated various waves of this process. This holds particularly true for the period following World War II, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Beautiful and Damned

    by F. Fitzgerald ...
    Series series World Classics
    The book is a social commentary on the life and times of the wealthy and their disillusionment with the American Dream. The story follows the lives of Anthony Patch and his wife, Gloria, as they navigate the high-society world of New York in the early 20th century. As they wait for Anthony's inheritance, they indulge in the lavish lifestyle of the wealthy, but soon find themselves consumed by ... Read more

    $3.99 USD