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È difficile dopo trent’anni di vita e di lavoro in Italia reintegrarsi nel proprio Paese d’origine, sconvolto dalla guerra degli anni Novanta. Soprattutto quando quel Paese, la Bosnia Erzegovina, è ……続きを見る

Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Imagining New Europe provides a comprehensive study of the way in which contemporary writers, filmmakers, and the media have represented the……続きを見る

With more than 25 years since the collapse of communism, the end of the wars and billions of dollars in aid, the Balkans are still characterized by corruption, state capture, and decidedly unmodern ……続きを見る

Catastrophic wartime casualties and postwar discomfort with the successes of women who had served in combat roles combined to shatter prewar ideals about what service meant for Soviet masculine iden……続きを見る

Understand the Hungarian Mentality through 33 Captivating Stories of Inherently Magyar Personalities Whether you’re in search of your Hungarian roots, are living in or travelling to Hungary or you’r……続きを見る

A Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst ……続きを見る

Après la chute du mur de Berlin, le monde a changé et des peuples entiers ont dû s'adapter. Est alors venu le temps des déconvenues, des désillusions et de la nostalgie, voire de l’Ostalgie. De 1989……続きを見る

In English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era, Maria Salomon Arel revisits Anglo-Russian trade in first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on largely neglected Russian and E……続きを見る

A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions. We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by ……続きを見る

A prize-winning, magisterial history of World War I from the perspective of the defeated Central Powers **For the Central Powers, the First World War started with high hopes for an easy victory. But……続きを見る

A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe--a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great……続きを見る

A prizewinning historian tells the dramatic story of the siege that changed the course of the First World War In September 1914, just a month into World War I, the Russian army laid siege to the for……続きを見る

The book investigates the rather neglected "intellectual" collaboration between National Socialist Germany and other countries, including views on knowledge and politics among "pro-German" intellect……続きを見る

This book analyzes energy security dynamics in Europe through the prism of security logics. Drawing on the literature on securitization, security logics and security contexts, it scrutinizes energy ……続きを見る

This eBook explores the life and legacy of former Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, as well as his rise to power. 続きを見る

Details a critical period in the Red Army’s advance along the southwest strategic direction during the general offensive that followed the fighting in the area of the Kursk salient in July-August 19……続きを見る

The drying up of the Aral Sea - a major environmental catastrophe of the late twentieth century - is deeply rooted in the dreams of the irrigation age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth cent……続きを見る

Social Aspects of Memory presents a compelling study of how ordinary people remember war. Whilst the book focuses on the cities of Sarajevo and East Sarajevo during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herze……続きを見る

These nine case studies, written by Russian, German and Austrian scholars and based on archival findings, should shed new light on deportations and resettlement in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia an……続きを見る

Liberalism in Russia is one of the most complex, multifaced and, indeed, controversial phenomena in the history of political thought. Values and practices traditionally associated with Western liber……続きを見る

Zoltán Böszörményi begins THE REFUGEE with his harrowing escape from the threat of imprisonment in an Eastern European dictatorship but devotes the bulk of the book to his equally adventurous detent……続きを見る

In the seventeenth century, previously peaceful relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth deteriorated into a series of military confrontations over the principalit……続きを見る

Cercetările pe care le-am întreprins cu privire la religia geto-dacilor au început în anul 2011 când am elaborat lucrarea de licenţă, atunci am analizat multiplele ipostaze ale lui Zalmoxis şi am re……続きを見る

Living in the Merry Ghetto reframes how people use music to build resistance. Author Trever Hagen addresses the social context of illegal music-making in Czechoslovakia during state socialism. He te……続きを見る

Narratives of War considers the way war and battle are remembered and narrated across space and time in Europe in the twentieth century. The book reflects on how narratives are generated and deploye……続きを見る

Throughout Eastern Europe, the unexpected and irrevocable fall of communism that began in the late 1980s presented enormous challenges in the spheres of politics and society, as well as at the level……続きを見る

Prague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of depor……続きを見る

Το βιβλίο πραγματεύεται τις σχέσεις και τη συνεργασία του ΚΚΕ με την Αλβανία από την εποχή της Κατοχής έως την πτώση της δικτατορικής εξουσίας των στρατιωτικών στην Ελλάδα (1943-1974), τις συνωμοτικ……続きを見る

The contributors to this book set out to show that NATO's post-Cold War troubles are largely self-generated and almost exclusively "eastern". They focus in particular on the issue of what to do with……続きを見る

Despite the Holocaust’s profound impact on the history of Eastern Europe, the communist regimes successfully repressed public discourse about and memory of this tragedy. Since the collapse of commun……続きを見る