This expanded and highly illustrated book examines religious and personal photographs depicting people... Læs mere
This book focuses on regulatory challenges of creating and sustaining freedom of speech and freedom of information two decades after the fall of the Berlin wall, in global, comparative context.
Why do tyrants - of all people - often have poetic aspirations? Where do terror and prose meet? This book contains nine case studies that compare the cultural history of totalitarian regimes.
Applies the new religious history methodological and theoretical approaches to Eastern Europe, exploring the influence of Christian churches in the region's social, cultural, and political history through archival sources that fill a significant scholarly vacuum.
This work addresses the widely held belief that liberal democracy embodies an uneasy compromise of incompatible values - those of liberal rights on the one hand, and democratic equality on the other.
This is the autobiographic account of the experiences of a woman, then 19-20, in the closing months of World War II. When it was first published, in 1991, the book... Læs mere
The economic crisis of 2008–2009 marked the end of the Post-Washington Consensus on restricting state economic roles, leading to... Læs mere
Presents the history of the stateless Carpatho-Rusyns and their historic homeland of Carpathian Rus' in central Europe,... Læs mere
Introducing the concept of the post-communist mafia state, Balint Magyar has established a new interpretative framework and vocabulary to describe the Orban regime, which has become equally central to the main lines of argument in both scientific debate and public discourse.
This book is a deeply moving story of love and the pain of emancipation, set in the now vanished world of rural East European Jewish village life.
Written by a Brit who has lived in Poland for more than 20 years, this book challenges accepted Western thinking about Poland and the rise of Law and... Læs mere
This comprehensive work offers a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist... Læs mere