Eastern Europe 45

„A forintot, amelyről itt szó van, Soroksáron hamisították. Kiveszőben levő nemének egyik utolsó példánya volt, egyébként kitűnően hamisított, csak egy kissé zsíros tapintású, szabályszerű kerek for……続きを見る

„A szertartás véget ért. Az orgona felzendült és diadalmas és édes indulóba fogott. Az oltár előtt a vőlegény – a fiatal férj – megfordult és lassan a karja alá fűzte a menyasszony – a fiatal asszon……続きを見る

Ця книга присвячена видатному полководцю, гетьману Петру Конашевичу-Сагайдачному. Автор приділяє увагу творенню образу цього персонажа як у історичній, так і художній літературі. Розглянуто його дія……続きを見る

Іван Мазепа (1644ー1709) ー політичний діяч, військовий, дипломат, меценат, одна з тих знакових постатей української історії, життя та вчинки котрих і сьогодні викликають гарячі суперечки. Приятель ……続きを見る

Анексія Криму, яка викликала найбільшу політичну кризу в Європі з часів Другої світової війни, зумовила й небачений розквіт політичної міфології. 2014 року з безлічі окремих міфів і сфальсифікованих……続きを見る

This is the first full account of a country that, following decades of isolation, has undergone unprecedented changes to its political system: the collapse of communism, the progression to multi-par……続きを見る

Azerbaijan's Soviet and post-Soviet political history has been tumultuous and varied, particularly with regard to the struggle for independence, democracy and sovereignty. Suha Bolukbasi here illust……続きを見る

Tulips and coffee are defining cultural products of the Ottoman eighteenth century, along with their related institutions of palace and coffeehouse. These cultural products hold multiple meanings in……続きを見る

This book situates the work of the Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria (1902-1977) in its historical context and explores the 'romantic' approach to scientific writing developed in h……続きを見る

This is a story written in 1904, which tells the vicissitudes of the Greek public debt since its own absolute beginning in 1824. At present this book, more than one hundred years old, is also a mode……続きを見る

This book sets out Ukraine's history from antiquity to the present day, offering a condensed overview of the turbulent history of this European country. This book will help answer the following ques……続きを見る

Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a postcommunist world, “alternative theatre” found ways to grapple with polit……続きを見る

Una storia scritta nel 1904, che narra la vicenda del debito pubblico greco proprio a partire dal suo inizio assoluto, nel 1824. Nel marzo del 2012 questo libro vecchio di cento e più anni è anche u……続きを見る

The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary peopleーand for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies’ abilit……続きを見る

In "Polnische Geschichte" thematisiert Clemens Brandenburger die faszinierende und oft turbulente Entwicklung Polens von der frühen Geschichte bis zur modernen Zeit. Der Autor nutzt einen klaren, pr……続きを見る

In the interwar years, émigré scholars in Czechoslovakia provided continuity and a bridge for Ukrainian scholarship from its inception at the end of the nineteenth century to the development of Ukra……続きを見る

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Men……続きを見る

Jacques Rossi is one of Stalin’s most well-known victims. Author of The Gulag Handbook, a fascinating encyclopedia of the Soviet forced labor camps, Rossi spent twenty years in interrogation, prison……続きを見る

The movement of millions of settlers to Siberia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked one of the most ambitious undertakings pursued by the tsarist state. Colonizing Russia’s P……続きを見る

The mighty Swedish Viking warrior, Oleg-Helge, standing on the shores of the Dnieper River, declared: “Garðaveldi (Gardarike) – Kyivan Rus!” The city of Kyiv (50:27N/30:31E) became the mother of all……続きを見る

This is the first volume of John Abercromby's extensive study of Finnish magic songs and their background. First, he details the history, ethnography, and linguistics of the Finns, indeed, construct……続きを見る

Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called “the ……続きを見る

La Révolution russe vue par une Française est un livre écrit par l'écrivaine féministe, poétesse et journaliste française Marylie Markovitch (1866 - 1926). Un témoignage inédit sur la révolution rus……続きを見る

Red Money for the Global South explores the relationship of the East with the “new” South after decolonization, with a particular focus on the economic motives of the Council for Mutual Economic Ass……続きを見る

Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projec……続きを見る

Forging Germans explores the German nationalization and eventual National Socialist radicalization of ethnic Germans in the Batschka and the Western Banat, two multiethnic, post-Habsburg borderland ……続きを見る

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of atheism, secularity and non-religion in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In contrast to scholarship that……続きを見る

This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power to combat current urban challenges in Kazakhstan. Fo……続きを見る

This book offers a unique approach to memory studies by focusing on local memory work conducted across the divide of the fall of Communism, whereas other histories have consistently used 1989 as a w……続きを見る

In "Roumania Past and Present," James Samuelson offers a comprehensive exploration of Romania's historical, cultural, and economic evolution from antiquity to the late 19th century. Samuelson's lite……続きを見る