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Dive into the shadowy corridors of Renaissance power in this gripping account of some of the most controversial popes in history. From Pope Alexander VI, a Borgia whose ambition was surpassed only b……続きを見る

The so-called Slovak question asked what place Slovaks heldーor should have heldーin the former state of Czechoslovakia. Formed in 1918 at the end of World War I from the remains of the Hungarian Em……続きを見る

The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, profes……続きを見る

Al pedirme escribir el prefacio de una de sus novelas, El precio de la libertad, Matéo Maximoff me da un honor y un placer. Porque me da la oportunidad de expresar mi gusto por la obra y mi estima p……続きを見る

This book analyzes the process of national identity formation and identification of children born into formal and informal Polish-German relationships in Poland and Germany, and how that process is ……続きを見る

This book is the first major study exploring archival and memorial practices of the Soviet unofficial culture. The creation of counter-archives was one of the most important forms of cultural resist……続きを見る

La fin de l’espace post-soviétique ? Sous la direction de Lukas Aubin et Sami Ramdani Plus de trois décennies après la chute de l’Union soviétique, l’espace post-soviétique semble en proie à des tra……続きを見る

Documents British hauliers' adventures through the Soviet Union, detailing challenges, corruption, and change. The long-haul overland run to the old Soviet Union, prior to Perestroika, Glasnost and ……続きを見る

This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but……続きを見る

Step into the heart of Eastern Europe and discover the rich and captivating history of Romania in "Romania History Unveiled: The Untold Evolution of Ancient Dacia." This gripping story transports yo……続きを見る

"Bosnia-Herzegovina" was originally published in French in Geneva, Switzerland in 1917, as a way of familiarising the reading public with the land that was often in the headlines in the late XIX and……続きを見る

Traditional methods of studying the past have always given greater importance to nationalist, religious and moral interests, which subordinated the historical fact to the System point of view. That'……続きを見る

Traditional methods of studying the past have always given greater importance to nationalist, religious and moral interests, which subordinated the historical fact to the System point of view. That'……続きを見る

Since the Russian Federation's illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 – 160 years after the Crimean War – the peninsula has returned to the fore on the global geopolitical stage. Th……続きを見る

In early modern Europe, the emergence and development of print culture proved a powerful new method for producing and disseminating knowledge of Russia through visual means. By examining the images ……続きを見る

The decades following World War I were a period of political, social, and economic transformation for Central and Eastern Europe. This book considers the role of foreign aid in Romania between 1918 ……続きを見る

"Souvenez-vous de la Tchécoslovaquie. Impossible, pour tous ceux qui ont vécu l’effondrement de l’ex-URSS et du bloc soviétique, d’oublier l’ensemble que formaient autrefois l’actuelle République tc……続きを見る

The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. With a storyteller's sensibility, Cristina Vatule……続きを見る

Early hours of 22 June 1941, under the codename of “Barbarossa” Germany and its allies attacked the Soviet Union. At the time of the attack, approximately 3.6 million German and Axis soldiers with 3……続きを見る

"Belarus History Unveiled: The Untold Story of White Rus" takes you on a fascinating trip through time. This well researched book delves into Belarus' rich and complicated history, presenting a tape……続きを見る

Montenegro was admitted to the UN as its 192nd member in June 2006, thus recovering the independence it had lost nearly ninety years earlier at the Versailles Peace Conference. This is the first ful……続きを見る

Nelle prime ore del 22 giugno 1941, con il nome in codice di “Barbarossa”, la Germania e i suoi alleati attaccarono l’Unione Sovietica. Al momento dell’attacco, circa 3,6 milioni di soldati tedeschi……続きを見る

Tisser un récit cohérent à partir des épisodes connus de l’histoire des Cosaques serait une tâche difficile et, à bien des égards, impossible. En outre, un tel travail nécessiterait des années de pr……続きを見る

Lorsque la Guerre mondiale a éclaté en 1914, l’heure la plus sombre de la longue servitude de la Pologne semblait avoir été atteinte. Le point culminant de la tragédie nationale sembla venir lorsque……続きを見る

Хорватия – страна с долгой и противоречивой историей. В своей книге Патрисия Бартолич рассказывает о событиях, происходивших на территории этого региона, начиная с древних времен и заканчивая XXI ве……続きを見る

Les assassins du roi Alexandre1 et de la reine Draga2 qui, en cet horrible matin du 11 juin 1903, s’emparèrent de Belgrade et, par conséquent, de la Serbie, prirent soin de ne pas rendre publics les……続きを見る

Anna Komnene was a Byzantine Greek princess and historian, whose ‘Alexiad’ provides a detailed account of the reign of her father, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Her work constitutes the most important……続きを見る

This first of a two-part examination of the economic development of the Czech lands deals with the period from the mid-eighteenth century (the accession of Maria Theresa to the Austrian throne) to t……続きを見る

The literature on the fall of communism contains numerous interpretations of the changes that took place in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989, while debates about how best to characterize the fall ……続きを見る

Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic 'Little Paris' of interwar Bucharest, and examines how their material and c……続きを見る