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Magnetic North
Conversations with Tomas Venclova
Av Tomas Venclova, Ellen Hinsey
Inbunden, 2017
543 kr
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Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer.Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and …
Utopia of Terror
Life and Death in Wartime Croatia
Av Rory Yeomans
Inbunden, 2015
1346 kr
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Offers a complex consideration of the relationship of mass terror and utopianism under the fascist government of wartime Croatia.The essays in The Utopia of Terror provide new perspectives on the relationship between the politics of construction and destruction in the wartime Independent State of …
Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941
Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization
Av Alex J. Kay, Jeff Rutherford m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
409 kr
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Essays provide current interpretations of Germany's military, economic, racial, and diplomatic policies in 1941.Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and events on the Eastern Front that same year were pivotal to the history of World War II. It was during this year that the …
Globalization and Catching-Up in Transition Economies
Inbunden, 2002
1242 kr
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Globalization and post-communist transition are currently two of the most important economic issues. Kolodko considers the links between them, and the way forward for post-socialist economies.Kolodko, former finance minister of Poland, considers the links between issues of globalization and …
Critical Thinking in Slovakia after Socialism
Inbunden, 2013
1288 kr
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Critical Thinking in Slovakia after Socialism interrogates the putative relationship between critical thought and society through an ethnographic study of civic discourse in post-1989 Slovakia.Critical thinking is the civic virtue of a liberal democracy. Citizens who think for themselves, …
Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context
Av Ewa Mazierska, Michael Goddard
Inbunden, 2014
1374 kr
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This volume introduces a novel treatment of Polish cinema by discussing its international reception, performance, co-productions, and subversive émigré auteurs, such as Andrzej Zulawski and Walerian Borowczyk.The opening up of Poland economically and politically to global influences after the fall …
Smolensk under the Nazis
Everyday Life in Occupied Russia
Av Laurie Cohen
Inbunden, 2013
1748 kr
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Drawing on oral-history interviews and other sources, this work provides fascinating accounts of how Soviets, Jews, and Roma fared in the Russian city of Smolensk under the 26-month Nazi occupation.The 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union ("Operation Barbarossa") significantly altered the lives …
Coming of Age under Martial Law
The Initiation Novels of Poland's Last Communist Generation
Av Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova
Inbunden, 2015
1428 kr
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Examines a selection of post-1989 coming-of-age novels authored by the generation of Polish writers whose transition from adolescence to adulthood coincided with Poland's transition from communism to liberal democracy.2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleThis volume is a study of approximately …
Revolution and Counterrevolution in Poland, 1980-1989
Solidarity, Martial Law, and the End of Communism in Europe
Inbunden, 2015
1748 kr
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Examines the 1980 Solidarity revolution in Poland, the government's subsequent establishment of martial law in response, in 1981, and the eventual transition to democracy in 1989.The 1980 general strike in Poland and the establishment of the independent Solidarity movement, which sought to create a …
Kyiv as Regime City
The Return of Soviet Power after Nazi Occupation
Inbunden, 2016
1279 kr
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Charts the resettlement of the Ukrainian capital after Nazi occupation and the returning Soviet rulers' efforts to retain political legitimacy.Kyiv as Regime City charts the resettlement of the Ukrainian capital after Nazi occupation, focusing on the efforts of returning Soviet rulers to regain …
Witnessing Romania's Century of Turmoil
Memoirs of a Political Prisoner
Av Nicolae Margineanu, Dennis Dennis Deletant
Inbunden, 2017
1346 kr
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Combining the intimacy of memoir and the precision of history, the story of psychologist Nicolae Margineanu's imprisonment and survival conveys in striking detail the corrosive impact of Communist rule in Romania.Nicolae Margineanu's journey started in 1905 in the village of Obreja in Transylvania …
Plebeian Modernity
Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 1906-1916
Inbunden, 2018
1346 kr
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Deciphers typical social practices as a hidden language of communication in urban plebeian societyCovering the interrevolutionary decade of 1906-16 in imperial Russia, this book tells the story of the "silent majority" of urban inhabitants in four major cities: Vilna (today Vilnius, Lithuania), …
Making Martyrs
The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin
Inbunden, 2018
1242 kr
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Examines the ideology of sacrifice in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, analyzing a range of fictional and real-life figures who became part of a pantheon of "heroes" primarily because of their victimhood.In Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin, Yuliya …
Balkans as Europe, 1821-1914
Av Timothy Snyder, Katherine Younger
Inbunden, 2018
677 kr
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WINNER: 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardFocusing on state formation and the identity-geopolitics relationship, makes the case that the Balkans were at the forefront of European history in the century before World War IThis collection of essays places the Balkans at the center of …
Magnetic North
Conversations with Tomas Venclova
Av Tomas Venclova, Ellen Hinsey
Häftad, 2018
531 kr
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Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer.Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and …
American in Warsaw
Selected Writings of Hugh S. Gibson, US Minister to Poland, 1919-1924
Av Vivian Reed, Jochen Böhler, M. B. B. Biskupski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
691 kr
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Hugh Gibson, US Minister to Poland from 1919 to 1924, recorded his involvement with the rocky first years of Polish statehood in this collection of official dispatches and personal letters.This book presents the writings of Hugh S. Gibson, who served from 1919 to 1924 as the first US Minister to …
Polish Literature and National Identity
A Postcolonial Perspective
Inbunden, 2020
1307 kr
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A postcolonial study of Polish literature from Romanticism to the twenty-first centuryFor nearly half a century East-Central Europe was part of the Soviet empire and was subject to its "civilizing" mission. Despite its colonial status, this part of the world has escaped the attention of most …
Universe behind Barbed Wire
Memoirs of a Ukrainian Soviet Dissident
Av Myroslav Marynovych, Katherine Younger
Inbunden, 2021
638 kr
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Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile.This memoir by a prominent Ukrainian dissident, now in English translation, offers a unique …
Borders on the Move
Territorial Change and Ethnic Cleansing in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938-1948
Inbunden, 2020
1267 kr
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An examination of territorial changes between Czechoslovakia and Hungary and their effects on the local populations of the borderlands in the World War II eraThe movement of borders and people was a remarkably common experience for mid-twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europeans. Such was the …
Beyond the Pale
The Holocaust in the North Caucasus
Av Crispin Brooks, Kiril Feferman
Inbunden, 2020
1333 kr
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The first book devoted exclusively to the Holocaust in the North Caucasus, exploring mass killings, Jewish responses, collaboration, and memory in a region barely known in this contextWhen war between the Soviet Union and Germany broke out in 1941, thousands of refugees - many of whom were Jews - …
Toward Xenopolis
Visions from the Borderland
Av Krzysztof Czyżewski, Mayhill C. Fowler
Inbunden, 2022
457 kr
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Essays by a founder of the Borderland Foundation in East-Central Europe explore the meanings of community in a fractured world.How do we build civil society? How does a society repair itself after violence? How do we live in a world with others different from ourselves? These questions lie at the …
Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe
A People’s Justice?
Av Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1731 kr
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The thirst for post-World War II justice transcended the Cold War and mobilized diverse social groups. This is a story of their multilayered and at times conflictual interactions.In this edited collection, sixteen historians develop a new approach to the trials against persons accused of war crimes …
Great Power Competition and the Path to Democracy
The Case of Georgia, 1991-2020
Inbunden, 2022
1267 kr
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A close examination of the competing influences of the West and Russia over the fate of democracy in Georgia and other former Soviet bloc nationsFollowing the collapse of the Soviet Union, newly formed transitional regimes took up the challenging task of democratization, a task that was complicated …
Kyiv as Regime City
The Return of Soviet Power after Nazi Occupation
Häftad, 2022
309 kr
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How the Soviet Union reestablished power in a changed Kyiv following the retreat of Nazi forces, consolidating its regime as it headed into the Cold War.Kyiv as Regime City charts the resettlement of the Ukrainian capital after Nazi occupation, focusing on the efforts of returning Soviet rulers to …
Universe behind Barbed Wire
Memoirs of a Ukrainian Soviet Dissident
Av Myroslav Marynovych, Katherine Younger
Häftad, 2022
401 kr
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Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile.This memoir by a prominent Ukrainian dissident, now in English translation, offers a unique …
Rethinking Modern Polish Identities
Transnational Encounters
Av Agnieszka, Pasieka, Agnieszka Pasieka m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1933 kr
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A critical examination of the category of "Polishness" - that is, the formation, redefinition, and performance of various kinds of Polish identities - from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.Inspired by new research in the humanities and social sciences as well as recent scholarship on …
Individualism and the Rise of Democracy in Poland
Inbunden, 2023
1681 kr
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A fascinating story of the rise of individualism in the formerly German Western Territories of Poland after World War II and how this new culture powered Poland's democratic-capitalist development.What does it take for a traditional society based on the primacy of the group over the individual to …
Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust
On the Origins of a Heroic Narrative
Häftad, 2023
450 kr
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CO-WINNER: John D. Bell 2024 Memorial Book PrizeA profoundly original historical inquiry, this work offers a critical reflection on the silences of the past and the remembrance of the Holocaust.During World War II, even though Bulgaria was an ally of the Third Reich, it never deported its Jewish …
Doctor’s Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust
Survival in Lager Vapniarka and the Ghettos of Transnistria
Av Arthur Kessler, Leo Spitzer
Inbunden, 2024
896 kr
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Based on notes kept while incarcerated in the concentration camps and ghettos of Transnistria, Dr. Kessler's gripping Holocaust memoir tells a story of calculated murder, resistance, and survival.In the aftermath of the Romanian Holocaust, Transnistria, a little-known region north of Odessa, …
Museums, Monuments, and Memory in Poland
Collecting Stories
Av Anna Krakus
Inbunden, 2026
1333 kr
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Demonstrates how museums, public monuments and private collections in Poland generate competing interpretations of the past-particularly the Holocaust. Highlights political tensions and offers universal insights into the power of curated memory.Even before the Museum of the Second World War in …
