This book compares media and political systems in East-Central as well as in Western Europe in order to identify the reasons possibly responsible for the extensive and intensive party control over the media.
This book provides a broadly managerial perspective on key trends that affect business decision-making in Central and Eastern Europe twenty years after the beginning of the region's transition to market economy.
After the entry of the Red Army into Czechoslovak territory in 1945, Red Army authorities began to arrest and deport Czechoslovak citizens to labor camps in the Soviet Union.
This book proposes a new perspective on the role of literature in the Cold War and shifts the reader's attention to the gaps in the ostensibly impenetrable Iron Curtain. It uncovers the histories of the widely forgotten phenomenon of tamizdat: "publishing-over-there".
This monograph discusses Portuguese eugenics within a strong international historiographical comparative framework and situates it within different regional, scientific and ideological types of eugenics in the same period.
Turning Prayers into Protests is comparative study of grass-roots religious activity in Slovakia and East Germany prior to 1989.
Examines the resilient cultural heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on the transethnic character of folklore and customs shared by Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats, rather than the divisions that dominated their tragic recent past.
A provocative and unusual approach is illustrated in chapters that deal with the dialectics between literary writing and such fields as historical writing, or religious discourses, and is also illustrated by the socio-historical development of East-Central Europe.
Analyzes the processes of nation-building in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century south-eastern Europe.
This book interrogates the nature of anti-Americanism today and over the last century.
This anthology examines Estonia's traumatic 20th century experience: after a short period of independence, Estonia was occupied in World War II by the Red Army, then Nazi Germany, and again, for a lasting occupation, by the Soviets.
While focusing on international private law and international arbitration, the essays also address the questions of constitutional law and legal philosophy.