On Shaky Ground is a modernist novel written in the late 1930s and early 1940s and was originally published in Nazi occupied Kharkiv in 1942.
Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and waterways.
The Thickets is the first volume of Polish poet and novelist Józef Lobodowski’s Ukrainian Trilogy, written between 1955 and 1960. Set primarily in Russia’s Kuban region, the novel unfolds... Læs mere
Assessing issues related to the Orthodox Church from an academic, secular point of view is a sensitive matter.
Provides an objective, quantitative analysis of Hungary's post-World War II people's courts that tried wartime atrocity participants, with special focus on the gender aspects of these trials and their contribution to discussions of Hungarian war guilt.
In this book, Makarychev and Medvedev examine the importance of biopolitics in fueling Russia’s confrontation with the West. In their view, the development of Putin’s illiberal authoritarianism was largely triggered by what they call a biopolitical turn.
The main issues arising from the encounter between Roma people and surrounding European society since the time of their arrival in Medieval Europe until today are discussed in this work.
The book focuses on Mariupol, formerly Ukraine's tenth largest city, and the second largest in the Donbas region, examining this coastal town during a critical period of Ukrainian history.
This book examines how environmental threats can transform personal attachments to natural spaces into powerful political movements, using the Una River dam controversy to explore the emergence of riverine citizenship.
People face serious difficulties in making sense of each other's feelings, behaviour, and discourse in everyday life and after traumatic experiences. Acknowledging and working through these difficulties is the subject of this book.
By using a micro-historical approach, this innovative book tells the story of the garrison in times of peace and war, describing the way in which the Austro-Hungarian administration rapidly transformed Trebinje into a tree-lined city dominated by the army.