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Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe
An Unlikely Refuge?
Inbunden, 2026
1777 kr
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Visited by violence and wars, border changes and political instability, authoritarian and totalitarian regimes as well as ethnic conflict, cleansing, and genocide, East-Central Europe in the twentieth century seemed an unlikely place of protection for refugees. This volume challenges this …
Balkans
Mission Possible
Inbunden, 2026
1777 kr
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In this incisive book, Maria Todorova revisits the region she famously theorized, asking not only what has changed in the past thirty years but whether the conceptual tools used to understand the Balkans still make sense. Treating the Balkans as a historically contingent and ultimately transient …
Russia’s War on Ukraine and the Crisis of World Order
A Global Reader
Av Dennis Dierks, Katja Castryck-Naumann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2272 kr
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Russia’s war on Ukraine has been closely watched and widely debated worldwide. These discussions extend beyond the war itself to encompass its implications for the world order and the future of globalisation. This reader documents that debate by bringing together articles from all regions of the …
Notes from the EU’s Eastern Edge
How Migrants Were Weaponized on the Polish-Belarusian Border
Av Jo Harper
Inbunden, 2026
1837 kr
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Notes from the EU's Eastern Edge is a bold, singular book—auto-ethnography with analytic bite, theoretically literate without scholasticism, and ethically self-aware. It shows how Kremlin “migration engineering” met a ready-made European script of fear, pride, and denial along the Belarus-Poland …
Suffragettes in the Land of the Tsars
Jessie Kenney’s Diary of Revolutionary Russia
Av Lee Farrow
Inbunden, 2026
1553 kr
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During Russia revolutionary year of 1917, Emmeline Pankhurst and her secretary Jessie Kenney, both well-known suffragettes, traveled to the beleaguered country to talk with Russian women about suffrage, but also to persuade Russia to remain in the war. While there, Pankhurst and Kenney met many …
“Good Mothers”, Nations and Nationalisms
Cases from Lithuania, Russia and Sweden
Av Yulia Gradskova, Ieva Bisigirskaitė m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1725 kr
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This book explores constructions of the “good mother” within diverse nations and nationalisms, focusing on three contexts grappling with distinct forms of “demographic anxiety.” Inspired by Sara Farris’ inquiry into femonationalism and utilizing “maternalism” and “politics of care” as critical …
Constructing Peace
Conscientious Objectors and the Boundaries of State Power in East Germany in the 1960s
Inbunden, 2026
2002 kr
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In 1964, East Germany introduced an alternative, unarmed military service that recognized religious belief as a basis for conscientious objection. In a new category of military unit, pacifists performed construction tasks. While accepting a compromise to wear a military uniform, many construction …
Feminisms and Politics in the Interwar Balkans and East-Central Europe
Av Katerina Dalakoura, Krassimira Daskalova
Inbunden, 2026
1927 kr
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This volume is the outcome of a collective research project examining collaborations among interwar Balkan and East-Central European feminist and women’s associations, as well as their engagement with intergovernmental alliances and diplomatic forums. It brings together thematic case studies on the …
Women in Poland, 1945–1989
Modernity, Equality, Communism
Av Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz, Piotr Perkowski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1927 kr
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Women in Poland 1945–1989: Modernity, Equality, Communism offers a compelling and deeply researched exploration of women’s lives under state socialism in Poland. The book reveals how communist promises of emancipation intersected with everyday reality – shaping work, family life, political …
To Kill a Spy
Everyday Nationalism and Political Violence in Fin-de-Siecle Europe
Häftad, 2026
576 kr
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On an August afternoon in 1910, a Polish nationalist gunned down an alleged Russian spy on the streets of Kraków. Afterward the murderer claimed that he had done a great deed for “Poland,” though no such country existed at the time. The press lionized the assassin, justifying his act as necessary …
Women’s Political Representation in Central and Eastern Europe
Enduring Legacies and Complex Realities Amid the Promise of Progress
Inbunden, 2026
1463 kr
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Using the foundational framework of political representation first introduced by Pitkin’s seminal book The Concept of Representation, this work explores the progress made within women’s political representation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). After the region’s history and collective present …
Governing Divided Societies
Habsburg Austria’s Democratic Legacy and the Czechoslovak First Republic
Av Philip Howe, Thomas Lorman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1961 kr
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The authors of this volume challenge conventional notions about Habsburg and Czechoslovak politics, arguing that they were more democratic than they often appear. They use the consociational model of democracy as a means of combining political science and history. The theory, associated with Arend …
Explaining Modern Social Reality
The Basic Concepts in Norbert Elias’s Figurational Sociology
Av Kire Sharlamanov, Jana Perteska
Inbunden, 2024
1627 kr
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Few thinkers have contributed more to the understanding of modern civilization than Norbert Elias. Given the significance and relevance of his ideas in explaining social reality, this book seeks to make his complex concepts more accessible. A biographical account of his life (1897-1990) facilitates …
Decentring Race
The Politics of Welcoming Ukrainians in Romania
Av Raluca Bejan
Inbunden, 2026
1787 kr
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When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and people began to flee the country, the hospitality of neighbouring countries towards Ukrainians was set in stark contrast to their reluctance to accommodate refugees from Africa and the Middle East. Critics suggested that Europe was treating refugees from …
“Eastern Europe” and War
A New Kidnapping?
Av Aliaksei Kazharski, Andrey Makarychev
Inbunden, 2026
1880 kr
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This edited volume focuses on the effects that Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine had on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It includes chapters covering fourteen countries situated in different corners of the broader region. Individual contributions shed light on how these CEE countries …
Nourishing Victory
Food Shortages and Post-Imperial Transition in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia
Av Rok Stergar, Vaclav Smidrkal
Inbunden, 2026
2012 kr
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The aggravating food shortage was the central internal crisis in Habsburg Austria during the First World War and posed a major challenge to the consolidation of the successor states. Nourishing Victory offers a fresh comparative perspective on food and the collapse and rebuilding of political …
Revolutionary Dancer in Revolutionary Russia
Isadora Duncan in Russian and Soviet Culture
Inbunden, 2026
1903 kr
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In 1921, the legendary American dancer Isadora Duncan arrived in post-revolutionary Russia with an audacious goal: to build a new kind of dance school for a new world. Already celebrated for her groundbreaking performances across the Russian Empire from 1904 to 1913, Duncan had become an …
Laboratory of Transnational History
Ukraine and Recent Ukrainian Historiography
Av Georgiy Kasianov, Philipp Ther
Häftad, 2008
713 kr
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A first attempt to present an approach to Ukrainian history which goes beyond the standard 'national narrative' schemes, predominant in the majority of post-Soviet countries after 1991, in the years of implementing 'nation-building projects'. An unrivalled collection of essays by the finest …
