Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist
Fascism, Genocide, and Cult
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Bandera and the first in-depth study of his political cult. In this fascinating book, Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe illuminates the life of a mythologized personality...
by Bruno Mugnai, Chris Flaherty
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Chris Flaherty and Bruno Mugnai in this second volume of the ‘Lange Türkenkrieg’ examines in deep eastern European warfare and its implications in the global debate on infantry firepower, cavalry tactics and engineering techniques in this period. Covering relatively unknown corps and military...
by Melech Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1987
The stirring story of the economic and cultural struggles of the eastern European immigrants to the United States in the early 1900's, as witnessed through the lives and contributions of eleven different men. Their contributions in politics, education, trade-unionism, philosophy, poetry and drama...
Lemberg, Lwów, L'viv, 1914 - 1947
Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Known as Lemberg in German and Lwów in Polish, the city of L'viv in modern Ukraine was in the crosshairs of imperial and national aspirations for much of the twentieth century. This book tells the compelling story of how its inhabitants (Roman Catholic Poles, Greek Catholic Ukrainians, and Jews)...
by Adam Manterys, Stanisław Manterys, Józef Zawada
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
On 1 November 1944 a total of 733 Polish children and their 105 guardians landed in Wellington Harbour in New Zealand. Together they had shared the fate of 1.7 million Poles who had been ethnically cleansed from their homes in eastern Poland by the Russian Secret Police, under Stalin’s orders at...
Red Army Sniper
A Memoir on the Eastern Front in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
'I did not regard myself as a slacker. Even in childhood I taught myself to carry out tasks entrusted conscientiously and carefully. In war, it is no secret that the casual don't survive'.
Yevgeni Nikolaev was one of Russia’s leading snipers of World War II and his memoir provides and unparalleled...
Communist Parties Revisited
Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The ruling communist parties of the postwar Soviet Bloc possessed nearly unprecedented power to shape every level of society; perhaps in part because of this, they have been routinely depicted as monolithic, austere, and even opaque institutions. Communist Parties Revisited takes a markedly different...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This is a professionally-formatted, free flowing ebook reproduction of unique, up-to-date guides produced by the Department of Defense that provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Turkey, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military...
Greetings from Novorossiya
Eyewitness to the War in Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Introduction by Timothy Snyder
Polish journalist Pawel Pieniazek was among the first journalists to enter the war-torn region of eastern Ukraine and Greetings from Novorossiya is his vivid firsthand account of the conflict. He was the first reporter to reach the scene when Russian troops in...
Economies of Violence
Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order. In Economies of Violence Jennifer Suchland directly critiques these explanations and approaches, as they obscure the reality...
Imperial Spheres and the Adriatic
Byzantium, the Carolingians and the Treaty of Aachen (812)
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Although often mentioned in textbooks about the Carolingian and Byzantine empires, the Treaty of Aachen has not received much close attention. This volume attempts not just to fill the gap, but to view the episode through both micro- and macro-lenses. Introductory chapters review the state of relations...
The Second World War (5)
The Eastern Front 1941–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
In 1940, fresh from the success in France, Hitler turned his attention to the East. In this volume Geoffrey Jukes explains what led to Hitler's decision to instigate the invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) and offers a concise account of the campaign that followed. The Germans expected...
by S.E. Al-Djazairi
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
This work charts the history of modern Turkey from 1911 until 1922. It looks at the four conflicts which involved Turkey during that period and their impact on the map and the people of Turkey.
First it deals with the Italian invasion of Libya in 1911 and the military conflict that ensued...
Croatia
Land, People, Culture Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
This volume continues the story of the cultural and political history of the Croatian people who have long been noted for their significant contributions to the arts and the humanities. It examines the Croatian language, literature to 1835, the maritime history of the eastern Adriatic, Croatian political...