Author: Defoe, Daniel Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: âA Journal of the Plague Yearâ is a brilliant historical novel by Daniel Defoe written with journalistic precision. It is one man's chronicles of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague str...
Author: Kniffel, Leonard Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Searching for the remnants of his family, Leonard Kniffel left Chicago in 2000 to live in Poland. A Polish Son in the Motherland is the story of a search for roots and for the reasons why one family&...
Author: Andjelic, Neven Publisher: Frank Cass Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Bosnian war is often explained in terms of ancient hatred or inability of post-communist society to go through a peaceful transition. Both arguments tend to omit a decade immediately prior to the ...
Author: Owen, Luisa Lang Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the wake of World War II, Yugoslavia purged its territory of ethnic Germans by exporting them to concentration camps, where many were murdered or died from the harsh conditions. Like thousands of o...
Author: Fleming, Michael Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines the establishment of communist rule in Poland from 1944-1950. It examines the fundamental role of nationalism and nationality policy in the consolidation of communist power, acting ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Purdue University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It has been two decades since Yugoslavia fell apart. The brutal conflicts that followed its dissolution are over, but the legacy of the tragedy continues to unsettle the region. Reconciliation is a lo...
Author: N/A Publisher: Purdue University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: It has been two decades since Yugoslavia fell apart. The brutal conflicts that followed its dissolution are over, but the legacy of the tragedy continues to unsettle the region. Reconciliation is a lo...
Author: Groueff, Stephane Publisher: Madison Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A fascinating biography of Bulgaria's tragic monarch, Boris III, based on private correspondence and extensive interviews with members of the Bulgarian royal family. The son of King Ferdinand of Saxe-...
Author: Nedelsky, Nadya Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Defining the Sovereign Community asks why the two nations have defined sovereignty so differently and what impact these choices have had on individual and minority rights and participation....
Author: Horowitz, Shale Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this systematic analysis of post-communist ethnic conflict, Horowitz examines the consequences for democratization and market reform in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Bosnia-Her...
Author: Ron, James Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: James Ron uses controversial comparisons between Serbia and Israel to present a novel theory of state violence. Formerly a research consultant to Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross, Ro...
Author: Kopp, Kristin Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain ...
Author: Genov, Nikolai Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this thought-provoking book, Nikolai Genov presents a systematic description and explanation of Eastern European societal transformations after 1989 as a consequence of global trends.
Author: Bucur, Maria Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Heroes and Victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes-from attempts to create pluralist democrati...
Author: Biskupski, M.B.B. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. They often portrayed the combatants in very simple terms: Americans an...
Author: Biskupski, M.B.B. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. They often portrayed the combatants in very simple terms: Americans an...
Author: James, Beverly A. Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The failed 1956 Hungarian uprising was a symbol of freedom for people throughout Eastern Europe, despite the Soviet Union’s attempts to obliterate the public’s memory of it. James shows ho...
Author: Nosek, Vladimir Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Independent Bohemia: An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty was written by Vladimir Nosek in 1918. Nosek discusses the struggle for national independence, the Czech political parties, t...
Author: Druzhnikov, Yuri Publisher: Transaction Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <p align="justify"> <span lang="EN">During the period when Russia was under Stalin, a young boy named Pavlik Morozov informed the OGPU (now called the KGB) that his fa...
Author: Cabada, Ladislav / Benedikt, Zdenek Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Intellectuals and the Communist Idea describes how the Communist ideology penetrated into Czech culture and politics from the dawn of the twentieth century into the late 1930s. This analysis examines ...
Author: Chodakiewicz, Marek Jan Publisher: Transaction Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <p align="justify"> <span lang="EN">The Intermarium refers to the lands between the Black and Baltic Seas of Eastern Europe. Since it is the most stable part of the po...
Description: This volume offers an analysis of the activities of the international community in the Balkans since the 1995 Dayton Agreement. There has been substantial investment in the region but so far the gains...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume offers an analysis of the activities of the international community in the Balkans since the 1995 Dayton Agreement. There has been substantial investment in the region but so far the gains...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume offers an analysis of the activities of the international community in the Balkans since the 1995 Dayton Agreement. There has been substantial investment in the region but so far the gains...
Author: Hazan, Pierre Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Justice in a Time of War is a translation from the French of the first complete, behindthescenes story of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, from its proposal by Balkan jou...
Author: Wynot, Jennifer Jean Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Wynot presents a concise history of the trials and evolution of Russian Orthodox monasteries and convents and the important roles they have played in Russian culture, both spiritually and politically,...
Author: Brown, Keith Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The underground Macedonian Revolutionary Organization recruited and mobilized over 20,000 supporters to take up arms against the Ottoman Empire between 1893 and 1903. Challenging conventional wisdom a...
Author: Paquet, Marie-Denise Publisher: FriesenPress Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Caught in a tragic situation during World War II, our protagonist incarnates the very essence of determination, courage and tenacity. He dreams of immigrating to a country where there is no war, where...
Description: Nearly twenty years after it ceased to exist as a multinational federation, Yugoslavia still has the power to provoke controversy and debate. Bringing together contributions from twelve of the leading...
Author: Kemp-Welch,A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first English-language history of Poland from the Second World War until the fall of Communism. Using a wide range of Polish archives and unpublished sources in Moscow and Washington, Tony...
Author: Terry, Sarah M. Publisher: ACLS Humanities E-Book Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This three-part study focuses on the efforts of Polish prime minister General Wladyslaw Sikorski to secure geopolitical stability, and how he was thwarted by resistance from American and British allie...
Author: Maciuszko, Dr. Jerzy Janusz Publisher: Thoughtworks, Ltd. Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Born in Warsaw, the author served on the front lines during the invasion of Poland by Hitler in 1939. He spent over five years as a prisoner-of-war. The book chronicles his and his family's stories as...
Author: Maciuszko, Dr. Jerzy Janusz Publisher: Thoughtworks, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Born in Warsaw, the author served on the front lines during the invasion of Poland by Hitler in 1939. He spent over five years as a prisoner-of-war. The book chronicles his and his family's stories as...
Author: Hornsby, Robert Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union explores the nature of political protest in the USSR during the decade following the death of Stalin. Using sources drawn from the archives ...
Author: Velikonja, Mitja Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Velikonja sees the former Ottoman borderland as a distinct cultural and religious entity where three major faiths—Islam, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy—managed to coexist in relative peace. It...
Author: Klaus, Vaclav Publisher: Cato Institute Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The inspiring story of how Václav Klaus brought the Czech Republic out of communism. Václav Klaus was appointed finance minister of the Czech Republic in 1990, shortly after the demise of that count...
Author: Heretz,Leonid Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Russia on the Eve of Modernity is a pioneering exploration of a world that has been largely destroyed by revolutionary upheavals and obscured in historical memory by scholarly focus on elites. Drawing...
Author: Kerlin, Janelle A. Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The politics of reform development—including political deals, exclusionary tactics, and hidden maneuvers by Polish policymakers—prevented any significant upgrade of social services in post...
Description: The A to Z of Moldova, through its chronology, introduction, appendixes, maps, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions ...
Author: Kenrick, Donald Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The A to Z of the Gypsies (Romanies) seeks to end such prejudice by clarifying the facts about this nomadic people. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-r...
Description: A unitary history of the Byzantine Empire and Eastern Europe. It addresses the history of relations between the two and their shared cultural tradition. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Huma...
Author: Obolonsky, Alexander V. Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Obolonsky notes that Russian history and life are full of paradoxes, most of them sad. Why, he asks, have the Russians, who possess enormous natural, human, and intellectual resources and a great lite...
Author: Easley, Roxanne Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the wake of the disastrous Crimean War, the Russian autocracy completely renovated its most basic social, political and economic systems by emancipating 23 million privately-owned serfs. This book ...
Description: In the wake of the disastrous Crimean War, the Russian autocracy completely renovated its most basic social, political and economic systems by emancipating some 23 million privately-owned serfs. This ...
Author: N/A Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The unforgettable tale of a man, a woman, and a nation divided. Written by Raffi, one of Armenia's most popular writers and translated by Mrs. Jane S. Wingate". Although not a novel of the Armenian ...
Author: Dennison, Tracy Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Russian rural history has long been based on a 'Peasant Myth', originating with nineteenth-century Romantics and still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows how Russian...
Author: Slucki, Dr. David Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The International Jewish Labor Bund after 1945 charts the efforts of the surviving remnants of the movement to salvage something from the wreckage. Covering both the Bundists who stayed in commu...
