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- Russia on the Danube
Russia on the Danube
One of the goals of Russia's Eastern policy was to turn Moldavia and Wallachia, the two Romanian principalities north of the Danube, from Ottoman vassals into a controllable...
- Stalinism Revisited
Stalinism Revisited
This title deals with the period of takeover and of 'high Stalinism' in Eastern Europe (1945-1955). These years are considered to be fundamentally characterized by institutional...
- Visoko Chronicle
Visoko Chronicle
This historical novel--Visoska kronika in the Slovene original--is about two generations of the owners of the Visoko estate in the Duchy of Carniola, a predominantly Slovene...
- Transforming Markets
Transforming Markets
The second volume of the history of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) takes up the story of how the Bank has become an indispensable part of the...
- Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle
Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle
- 2018
- 220
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The present volume of studies is the first Subsidium of the Central European Medieval Text series, accompanying CEMT vol. 9 on the Illuminated Chronicle (formerly called the...
- Everyday Life Under Communism and After
Everyday Life Under Communism and After
By providing a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half of the twentieth century, this book shows how common people lived during and after...
- From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition
From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition
- Ronald Dworkin
- 297
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The book contains twelve essays by Stephen Holmes, Frances M. Kamm, Maria Ludassy, Steven Lukes, Gyorgy Markus, Andras Sajo, Gaspar Miklos Tamas, Andrew Arato, Timothy Garton...
- Words in Space and Time
Words in Space and Time
- 2022
- 308
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With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe's languages have been made, unmade, and deployed...
- Philanthropy, Conflict Management and International Law
Philanthropy, Conflict Management and International Law
- 2022
- 324
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This book centers on the Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars, published in Washington in the early summer of 1914 by...
- War in Ukraine's Donbas
War in Ukraine's Donbas
This collective work analyzes the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, providing a coherent picture of Ukraine and Eastern Europe in the period 2013-2020. Giving voice to different...
- Making Sense of Dictatorship
Making Sense of Dictatorship
How did political power function in the communist regimes of East Central Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the...
- War in Ukraines Donbas
War in Ukraines Donbas
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This collection of essays offers an analysis of the roots of the armed conflicts in the Donbas region of Ukraine, by exploring local society and traditions, interpreting recent...
- Spirit Possession
Spirit Possession
- 2022
- 556
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Possession, a seemingly irrational phenomenon, has posed challenges to generations of scholars rooted in Western notions of body-soul dualism, self and personhood, and a whole...
- Moneywasting Machine
Moneywasting Machine
- 2022
- 156
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For five months in 2013-2014 Dusan Pavlovic took time off from teaching to accept a senior position in Serbia's Ministry of Economy. This short period was long enough for him to...
- Memory Crash
Memory Crash
This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the...
- Dynamics of an Authoritarian System - Hungary, 2010-2021 Csanadi Maria Institute of Economics Centre for Economic and Regional Studies HungaryPevná vazba
Dynamics of an Authoritarian System - Hungary, 2010-2021 Csanadi Maria Institute of Economics Centre for Economic and Regional Studies HungaryPevná vazba
- 2022
- 375
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This conceptually synthetic and empirically rich book demonstrates the vulnerability of democratic settings to authoritarianism and populism. Six scholars from various...
- Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes
Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes
- 2022
- 260
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While the literature of hybrid regimes has given up the presumption that post-communist countries must democratize, its language and concepts still mostly relate to Western...
- Women, Work, and Activism
Women, Work, and Activism
- 2022
- 368
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The thirteen critical and well-documented chapters of Women, Work and Activism examine women's labor struggle from late nineteenth-century Portuguese mutual societies to...
- Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism
Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism
- 2022
- 340
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Reined into the service of the Cold War confrontation, antifascist ideology overshadowed the narrative about the Holocaust in the communist states of Eastern Europe. This led to...
- Triumph of Uncertainty
Triumph of Uncertainty
- 2022
- 370
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Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by...
- Bombardment of Abo
Bombardment of Abo
- 2022
- Spitteler, Carl
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This farcical tale tells how the British bombing of a Finnish port city changes the life of the Russian governor, his wife, their cook, and the cook's Finnish fianc. The story...
- Keeping the World's Environment Under Review
Keeping the World's Environment Under Review
- 2022
- 534
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How do we take stock of the state and direction of the world's environment, and what can we learn from the experience? Among the myriad detailed narratives about the condition...
- Historical Construction of National Consciousness
Historical Construction of National Consciousness
- 2022
- 360
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A short essay entitled Three Historical Regions of Europe, appearing first in a samizdat volume in Budapest in 1980, instantly put its author into the forefront of the...
- Making of Mamaliga
Making of Mamaliga
- 2022
- 211
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Mămăligă, maize porridge or polenta, is a universally consumed dish in Romania and a prominent national symbol. But its unusual history has rarely been told. Alex Drace-Francis...