The Harbour of All This Sea and Realm offers an overview of Famagusta's Lusignan, Genoese and Venetian history.
Features essays by leading Hungarian and foreign authors examining the various social movements and parties seeking influence in Hungary... Læs mere
The first concise history of Russian-Jewish literary prose, this book discusses Russian-Jewish literarature in four periods, analyzing the... Læs mere
Kuti examines property reparations that occurred after 1989 in Eastern European societies—which had undergone large-scale property deprivations by authoritarian regimes from World War II through the early 1960s kolkhoz movement.
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.
Jan Weiss shared the fate of tens of thousands of Czechs and Slovaks, by spending the decisive years of the birth of Czechoslovakia away from his homeland - first on the... Læs mere