This book is about the Christ Pantokrator, an imposing monumental complex serving monastic, dynastic, medical and social purposes in Constantinople, founded by Emperor John II Komnenos and Empress Piroska-Eirene in 1118.
The Latin-English bilingual volume presents the text of The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague.
Brings together authors to provide a state-of-the-art reassessment of intellectuals' ideological commitments and relationships... Læs mere
This work is the result of the Forum 2000 conferences initiated by Václav Havel and Elie Wiesel. The book is based mainly on the first five conferences which were held in Prague from 1997.
Examines theories about the morality of political action in response to contemporary political disillusionment, arguing for constrained realism and wide indirect motivation to... Læs mere
Provides a balanced analysis of the financial turbulence affecting developed economies, strongly criticizing... Læs mere
Examines the period of communist takeover and high Stalinism in Eastern Europe (1945-1955), characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based on radical transformism and cultural revolution.
Memoir that serves as both creative autobiographical writing and an important Holocaust document, describing Jewish life in German-occupied Budapest's ghetto and the author's nineteen-day internment in a labor camp during the extremist Arrow Cross regime in 1944.
This volume demonstrates the existence of alternatives and challenges to nationalism in the Balkans, countering the dominant narrative that presents the region as inevitably prone to ethnic conflict and nationalist violence.
The present volume brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking in east Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Having presented the physical conditions among which Hungarian Jews lived... Læs mere
Examines József Pogány, a prominent Hungarian communist who served as an international cadre for the Moscow-based Comintern during the interwar... Læs mere