Eastern Europe 28

Straordinaria terra di confine tra Est e Ovest, l’Ucraina è luogo pressoché sconosciuto al lettore italiano. Spesso confusa con la Russia o associata a una stereotipata immagine di grigiore post-sov……続きを見る

In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. Ghodsee's essays and short stories reflect on the lived experience ……続きを見る

This book concerns the mass deportation of Poles and others to Siberia following the failed 1863 Polish Insurrection. The imperial Russian government fell back upon using exile to punish the insurre……続きを見る

Histoire de l’empire de Russie sous Pierre-le-Grand est un essai de l'écrivain et philosophe français Voltaire (1694 – 1778). Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale (Les 2 Tomes) et comport……続きを見る

This volume continues the story of the cultural and political history of the Croatian people who have long been noted for their significant contributions to the arts and the humanities. It examines ……続きを見る

This book represents a survey of the cultural and economic life of the Croatian people, who have long been noted for their significant contributions to the arts and the humanities. It contains a wea……続きを見る

The wars that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s were the deadliest European conflicts since World War II. The violence escalated to the point of genocide when, over the course of te……続きを見る

The specter of a prison punishment for even slight political offenses became an element of daily life in post-war Poland. In interwar Poland, imprisonment, especially for communists, had served as a……続きを見る

In a world dominated by poverty, a central characteristic has been the plight of orphans and abandoned children. Over the centuries, State, Church and individuals have all attempted to tackle the is……続きを見る

After World War I, diplomats and leaders at the Paris Peace Talks redrew the map of Europe, carving up ancient empires and transforming Europe's eastern half into new nation-states. Drawing heavily ……続きを見る

Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thin……続きを見る

Rudolf Stratz' historischer Roman 'Du Schwert an meiner Linken' entführt den Leser in die Wirren des Mittelalters. Mit einem packenden Schreibstil beschreibt er die Intrigen und Machtkämpfe am könig……続きを見る

This book deals with film adaptations of literary works created in Communist Czechoslovakia between 1954 and 1969, such as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Zeman 1958), Marketa Lazarová (Vláčil 19……続きを見る

This book is the first scholarly exploration of how Christian Democracy kept Cold War Europe’s eastern and western halves connected after the creation of the Iron Curtain in the late 1940s. Christia……続きを見る

Poland's relationship with its Jewish population has long been a subject of often agonizing debate. In September 1939, there were approximately 3.3 million Jews living in Poland, the largest populat……続きを見る

Anarchism, dissent, poetry, and the avant-garde mix in this playful retelling of the assassination of Bulgaria's greatest poet. 続きを見る

This book analyses the efforts of British civil society to help a Russia seen to be struggling between 1890 and the 1920s. Luke Kelly seeks to show why churches, pressure groups, charities, politici……続きを見る

This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ago. They examine urban and rural witchc……続きを見る

This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federatio……続きを見る

Magnificent castles and legendary heroes from the age of the Hungarian-Turkish wars, second edition. Between the 15th and 17th centuries while Europe was being torn apart by religious and dynastic w……続きを見る

This book explores the role played by families in the Russian revolutionary movement and the first decades of the Soviet regime. While revolutionaries were expected to sever all family ties or at th……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage réunissant des textes écrits par Serge Persky en 1917 et 1918 nous plonge au coeur même de cette période trouble pour la Russie que fut celle de l'écroulement du tsarisme et de la montée……続きを見る

Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (History) Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the East Hampton Star Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize Separating hist……続きを見る

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 me……続きを見る

Тук ви поднасяме забравената книжка от благородния чех "Гробовете на Трикери", показваща отношението на гърците към българските военнопленници и свидетелство за незачитането на международните конвен……続きを見る

Das Buch 'Die Frau Bürgemeisterin' von Georg Ebers ist ein fesselnder Roman, der im 19. Jahrhundert in Deutschland spielt. Ebers verwendet einen detaillierten und prägnanten Schreibstil, der es dem ……続きを見る

This definitive study provides a comprehensive diplomatic history of Poland during the most seminal period in its existence, when its destiny lay in the hands of France, Great Britain, and the Unite……続きを見る

The Cold War began in Europe in the mid-1940s and ended there in 1989. Notions of a “global Cold War” are useful in describing the wide impact and scope of the East-West divide after World War II, b……続きを見る

Es sind eher die Badestrände und die vielen abgelegene Buchten, die Urlauber seit Jahrzehnten anziehen und dieser Region ihre Bezeichnung verliehen – die Türkische Riviera. Auf den zweiten Blick abe……続きを見る

Diese Farben kennzeichnen die drei geologisch-geografischen Regionen von Istrien – der größten Halbinsel an der nördlichen Adria. Es ist die Bevölkerung der drei Länder, Italien, Slowenien und Kroat……続きを見る