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In 1900, some 100,000 people living in Bulgariaー2 percent of the country's populationーcould be described as Greek, whether by nationality, language, or religion. The complex identities of the popu……続きを見る

In 1944, the Nazis razed Warsaw’s historic Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. “They knew that the strength of the Polish nation was rooted in the Cross, Christ’s Passion, the spirit of the Gospels, ……続きを見る

In the current age where democratic and egalitarian ideals have preeminence, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, among other hierarchically organized religious traditions, faces the challenging questions……続きを見る

Conversations with Miloševic is a firsthand portrayal of the so-called Butcher of the Balkans, the Serbian president whose ambitions sparked the Bosnian conflict. At its heart the book is a portrait……続きを見る

Russia's Entangled Embrace traces the relationship between the Romanov state and the Armenian diaspora that populated Russia's territorial fringes and navigated the tsarist empire's metropolitan cen……続きを見る

Focusing on the experiences of people in Russia and Ukraine, Staging Democracy shows how some national leaders' seeming popularity rests on local economic compacts. Jessica Pisano draws on long-term……続きを見る

In this highly original and influential book, Catherine Wendy Bracewell reconstructs and analyzes the tumultuous history of the uskoks of Senj, the martial bands nominally under the control of the H……続きを見る

In Remains of Socialism**, Maya Nadkarni investigates the changing fates of the socialist past in postsocialist Hungary.** She introduces the concept of "remains"ーboth physical objects and cultural……続きを見る

Tales from Albarado revisits times of excitement and loss in early 1990s Albania, in which about a dozen pyramid firms collapsed and caused the country to fall into anarchy and a near civil war. To ……続きを見る

During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural communit……続きを見る

As Edin Hajdarpasic shows, formative contestations over Bosnia and the surrounding region began well the assassination that triggered World War I, emerging with the rise of new nineteenth-century fo……続きを見る

Twenty years ago, Allen Paul wrote the first post-communist account of one of the greatest but least-known tragedies of the twentieth century: Stalin's annihilation of Poland's officer corps and mas……続きを見る

How do peasants come to think of themselves as members of a nation? The widely accepted argument is that national sentiment originates among intellectuals or urban middle classes, then "trickles dow……続きを見る

Bringing together important new work by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe approaches emotions as a phenomenon compl……続きを見る

The revolution of 1905 in the Russian-ruled Kingdom of Poland marked the consolidation of major new influences on the political scene. As he examines the emergence of a mass political culture in Pol……続きを見る

In an effort to modernize criminal and civil investigations, early Bolsheviks gave forensic doctorsーmost of whom had been trained under the tsarist regimeーnew authority over issues of sexuality. R……続きを見る

Elidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe's longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughou……続きを見る

Winner of the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize Dynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in n……続きを見る

Traversing is about our ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and how they shape the kinds of people we become. Drawing from concepts developed by two phenomenological philosoph……続きを見る

In The Cold War from the Margins**, Theodora K. Dragostinova reappraises the global 1970s from the perspective of a small socialist stateーBulgariaーand its cultural engagements with the Balkans, th……続きを見る

Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conduct……続きを見る

The Czech Manuscripts is dedicated to one of the most important literary forgeries on the model of Macpherson's Ossianic poetry. The Queen's Court and Green Mountain Manuscripts, discovered in 1817 ……続きを見る

Romania's Holy War rights the widespread myth that Romania was a reluctant member of the Axis during World War II. In correcting this fallacy, Grant T. Harward shows that, of an estimated 300,000 Je……続きを見る

The bitter separation of Ukraine's Orthodox churches is a microcosm of its societal strife. From 1917 onward, church leaders failed to agree on the church's mission in the twentieth century. The cor……続きを見る

A Satellite Empire is an in-depth investigation of the political and social history of the area in southwestern Ukraine under Romanian occupation during World War II. Transnistria was the only occup……続きを見る

In Amoral Communities**, Mila Dragojević examines how conditions conducive to atrocities against civilians are created during wartime in some communities.** She identifies the exclusion of moderates……続きを見る

In A Minor Apocalypse**, Robert Blobaum explores the social and cultural history of Warsaw's "forgotten war" of 1914–1918**. Beginning with the bank panic that accompanied the outbreak of the Great ……続きを見る

Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubledーignored, appropriated, and obfuscatedーthroughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of t……続きを見る

Winner of the Society for Romanian Studies Book Prize Vacationing in Dictatorships examines the political effects of international tourism in socialist Romania and Francoist Spain in the postwar era……続きを見る

Ethnic conflict has been the driving force of wars all over the world, yet it remains an enigma. What is it about ethnicity that breaks countries apart and drives people to acts of savage violence a……続きを見る