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- Democracy Fatigue
Democracy Fatigue
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- 286
- 2023
Over the early 21st century, democracy worldwide has deteriorated significantly. At the same time, new populist forces have appeared that challenge democracies through legal...
- History in My Life: A Memoir of Three Eras Berend Ivan T.
History in My Life: A Memoir of Three Eras Berend Ivan T.
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- 286
- 2023
Ivan T. Berend is Distinguished Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, Director of the European Studies Program. He was one of the masterminds of regime change...
- Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials: Volhynia, Podolia, and Ruthenia, 17th-18th Centuries Dysa KaterynaPaperback
Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials: Volhynia, Podolia, and Ruthenia, 17th-18th Centuries Dysa KaterynaPaperback
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- 266
- 2023
Drawing on quantitative data drawn from a range of trials Kateryna Dysa first describes the ideological background of the tribunals based on works written by priests and...
- Living the High Life in Minsk: Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and Belarus Impending Crisis Balmaceda Margarita M.
Living the High Life in Minsk: Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and Belarus Impending Crisis Balmaceda Margarita M.
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- 234
- 2023
Living the High Life in Minsk looks at the sources of stability and instability in post-Soviet authoritarian states through the case study of President Lukashenka's firm hold on...
- Globalization and Nationalism: The Cases of Georgia and the Basque Country Sabanadze Natalie
Globalization and Nationalism: The Cases of Georgia and the Basque Country Sabanadze Natalie
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- 218
- 2023
This book argues for an original, unorthodox conception about the relationship between globalization and contemporary nationalism. While the prevailing view holds that...
- Shortcut or Piecemeal: Economic Development Strategies and Structural Change Winiecki JanPaperback
Shortcut or Piecemeal: Economic Development Strategies and Structural Change Winiecki JanPaperback
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- 226
- 2023
Alternative strategies of economic development have received little attention in the literature. Academics rarely compare certain strategic features or assess the performance of...
- Where Currents Meet: Frontiers of Memory in Post-Soviet Fiction of Kharkiv, Ukraine Zaharchenko TanyaPaperback
Where Currents Meet: Frontiers of Memory in Post-Soviet Fiction of Kharkiv, Ukraine Zaharchenko TanyaPaperback
- Zaharchenko, Tanya
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- 228
- 2023
Where Currents Meet, Tanya Zaharchenko's path-breaking study of literature and cultural memory, moves decisively beyond the simplistic view of a post-Soviet Ukraine divided...
- Living Beyond the Pale: Environmental Justice and the Roma Minority Filck Richard
Living Beyond the Pale: Environmental Justice and the Roma Minority Filck Richard
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- 258
- 2023
We find Roma settlements on the outskirts of villages, separated from the majority population by roads, railways or other barriers, disconnected from water pipelines and sewage...
- Hitlers Library Miskolczy Ambrus
Hitlers Library Miskolczy Ambrus
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- 186
- 2023
The first book to present the so-called Hitler Library. It sheds new light on the readings of Hitler and on his techniques how to read a book. Hitler presented himself as an...
- Struggle Over Identity: The Official and the Alternative Belarusianness Bekus NellyPaperback
Struggle Over Identity: The Official and the Alternative Belarusianness Bekus NellyPaperback
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- 314
- 2023
Rejecting the clich about "weak identity and underdeveloped nationalism," Bekus argues for the co-existence of two parallel concepts of Belarusianness--the official and the...
- Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880-1914
Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880-1914
- Horel, Catherine
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- 460
- 2020
Catherine Horel has undertaken a comparative analysis of the societal, ethnic, and cultural diversity in the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy as represented in twelve...
- Secularism and Its Ambiguities: Four Case Studies Ginzburg CarloPaperback
Secularism and Its Ambiguities: Four Case Studies Ginzburg CarloPaperback
- Ginzburg, Carlo
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- 146
- 2023
In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, dissects four moments of European intellectual...
- Belarusian Nation-Building in Times of War and Revolution Kasmach LizavetaPevná vazba
Belarusian Nation-Building in Times of War and Revolution Kasmach LizavetaPevná vazba
- Kasmach, Lizaveta
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- 288
- 2023
The proclamation of Belarusian independence on 25 March 1918, and the rival establishment of the Soviet Belarusian state on 1 January 1919 created two distinct and mutually...
- UkraineS Patronal Democracy and the Russian Invasion
- Anti-Fascism in European History
Anti-Fascism in European History
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- 308
- 2023
The increasing radicalization of political life in most countries in Europe lends special relevance to studies of the antifascist legacies on the continent. This insightful...
- Poet a the Baroness
- Russia'S Imperial Endeavor and its Geopolitical Consequences
- Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation
- Leadership in the Time of Covid
Leadership in the Time of Covid
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- 214
- 2023
The Covid pandemic has put all modern societies to a serious test of resilience. The interdisciplinary research on which this book is based examined how four European...
- Fugue
- Yugoslavia's Sunny Side: A History of Tourism in Socialism 1950s-1980s Grandits HannesPevná vazba
Yugoslavia's Sunny Side: A History of Tourism in Socialism 1950s-1980s Grandits HannesPevná vazba
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- 438
- 2010
Despite the central role of tourism in the political making of the Yugoslav socialist state after WWII and in everyday life, the topic has remained neglected as an object of...
- Martin KacUr
Martin KacUr
- Cankar, Ivan
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- 244
- 2009
The novel Martin Kačur, which dates from 1907, tells the engrossing story of a young schoolteacher who moves from one provincial Slovene town to the next, trying to enlighten...
- Emotions in History Lost and Found
Emotions in History Lost and Found
Emotions, as argued in this book, are contingent on historical variables. Even though men and women may have always felt and shown emotions, those have differed in style,...
- Three Chestnut Horses
Three Chestnut Horses
- Margita Figuli
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- 171
This gem of Slovak naturalism was written in 1940. The story takes the reader to a mountain village. The protagonist narrates the vicissitudes, suffering, and success he...