Eastern Europe 3

“The material contained in this book is drawn from lectures, some of which were delivered in 1957-1958 in the schools at Oxford University, others ー in the spring of 1960 ー at Harvard University..……続きを見る

Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decadesーand he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, ……続きを見る

What is your mother tongue? Sometimes the simplest questions take a book to answer. Such is the case with Tania Romanov’s story. Mother Tongue is an exploration of lives lived in the chaos of a part……続きを見る

Polish populism, which advocated agrarian socialism by either revolutionary or reformist means, emerged first among the émigrés who had left Poland after the Russians defeated the nationalist uprisi……続きを見る

Founded in 1927, Romania’s Legion of the Archangel Michael was one of Europe’s largest and longest-lived fascist social movements. In Holy Legionary Youth, Roland Clark draws on oral histories, memo……続きを見る

"Zahra handles this immensely complicated and multidimensional history with remarkable clarity and feeling." ーRobert Levgold, Foreign Affairs Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans m……続きを見る

Fondată în 1927, Legiunea Arhanghelul Mihail a fost una dintre cele mai puternice și mai longevive mișcări fasciste din Europa. Cu rădăcini în mișcările naționaliste care în secolul al XIX-lea cerea……続きを見る

In 13th century, the Szeklers were granted a territory (Terra Sirulorum) on the eastern border of the kingdom of Hungary. These lands were donated by the king to the community as a whole, in exchang……続きを見る

Beginning in the 1860s, the Russian Empire replaced a poll tax system that originated with Peter the Great with a modern system of income and excise taxes. Russia began a transformation of state fis……続きを見る

“This is the first book to systematically examine the variation in policies of Eastern European countries. There is a theoretical contribution to understandings of variation in tax policies, but jus……続きを見る

Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages rethinks the role of prophecy in the Middle Ages by examining how professional theologians responded to new assertions of divine inspiration. Drawing on ……続きを見る

A groundbreaking examination of a little-known but defining episode in early modern Jewish history A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the……続きを見る

Acclaimed author Andrey Kurkov gives powerful insight into life in Kyiv following the 2013 protests and before the 2022 Russian invasion. -16°C, sunlight, silence. I drove the children to school, th……続きを見る

Chopin was a romantic era Polish composer. "Life of Chopin" is a memoir written in 1852 by composer Franz Liszt who knew Chopin both as man and artist. This memoir gives a unique understanding to th……続きを見る

This book provides a comprehensive insight into one of the key episodes of the Cold War – the process of reconciliation between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. At the time, this process had shocked……続きを見る

Apariţia revistei „VITRALII...” - publicaţie a veteranilor din serviciile de informaţii secrete române - este expresia unui interes naţional, evident şi imperativ, conjugat cu o necesitate socială, ……続きを見る

An astonishing and heartbreaking study of the Polish Holocaust survivors who returned home only to face continued violence and anti-Semitism at the hands of their neighbors “[Fear] culminates in so ……続きを見る

Ryszard Kapuscinski's last book, The Soccer War -a revelation of the contemporary experience of war -- prompted John le Carre to call the author "the conjurer extraordinary of modern reportage." Now……続きを見る

Following on from Jeffries' 2001 Economies in Transition: A Guide to China, Cuba, Mongolia, North Korea and Vietnam at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, this comprehensive survey of economic and……続きを見る

2008 Orion Book Award The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastat……続きを見る

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1836 edition by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London. In 1835 Leitch Ritchie (1800–1865) a Scottish novelist and journalist took a trip to Russia.
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Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union explores the nature of political protest in the USSR during the decade following the death of Stalin. Using sources drawn from the archive……続きを見る

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This book analyses the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middl……続きを見る

The conflict on the Eastern Front in World War II was colossal in both scale and intensity, as the two infamous dictators of the twentieth century Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin vied for supremacy in……続きを見る

Inventing the Enemy uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behaviour of ordinary people during Stalin's terror. Communist Party leaders strongly encouraged ordinary citizens and party……続きを見る

…Toate însemnările câte le făcusem zi cu zi pe hârtie mi s-au pierdut. Multe amănunte s-au șters din amintirea mea, unele mi-au rămas prea confuze și poate că le-am uitat ordinea în care sau petrecu……続きを見る

Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook by Susan Rubin Suleiman (71,000 words and 2 photographs) Can you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In thi……続きを見る

This sketch of Tolstoy concentrates on the period of the later part of the 1860's, written twenty years after Schuyler, Tolstoy's first translator, met the Count. A good background piece. 続きを見る

The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland’s first free parliame……続きを見る