Eastern Europe category: 1864 books

In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshakeable and immense boredom. Focusing on Bucharest, Romania, where the 2008 financial crisis compounded the failures of the postsocialist state to deliver...

Après le meurtre de la famille impériale à Ekatérinenbourg, en juillet 1918, on recueillit, entre autres objets lui ayant appartenu, un coffret de bois noir, aux initiales N. A. (Nicolas Alexandrovitch). Ce coffret contenait des lettres de Guillaume II à Nicolas II, publiées il y a quelques...

The tragic national epic of Polish history began in these late 18th-century wars. Under Poland's Saxon monarchy, Russia and Prussia constantly meddled in the affairs of the Kingdom. In 1768 a civil war broke out between pro-Russian 'Commonwealth' Poles and 'Confederate' patriots who opposed foreign...

In a forgotten chapter of history, 1.5 million Polish civilians—arbitrarily arrested by Stalin as enemies of the people following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939—were deported to slave labor camps throughout the most inhospitable forests and steppes of the Soviet Union. The Ice...

On August 1, 1944, Miron Białoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland’s most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five years of Nazi occupation, an uprising that...

A harrowing account of the Armenian Genocide documented through the stories of those who managed to survive and descendants who refuse to forget The grandchild of Armenians who escaped widespread massacres during the Ottoman Empire a century ago, Varujan Vosganian grew up in Romania hearing firsthand...

Of the fifteen famous scientists, economists and statesmen sketched in this collection of essays, which was first published in 1933, John Maynard Keynes was directly acquainted with all but three. The unique quality of immediacy in these biographical fragments contributes immensely to our more intimate...

The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part two (1832-1864) analyses the growing importance of the intelligentsia in the epoch marked by the triumph of the Polish romanticism. The stress is put...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Osteuropa, Note: 1,0, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Institut für Europäische Ethnologie / Kulturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: SE Geschlechterdifferenzen in Nationalstereotypen, 35 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Das Buch befasst sich mit bedeutenden Dolmetschern und Übersetzern aus 5000 Jahren auf der Basis umfangreicher Recherchen in Archiven und Bibliotheken. Aus der Geschichte der Translation sind erstmals aufgearbeitet: die Dolmetscher im Alten Testament, die Rolle der Pfortendolmetscher im Osmanischen...

Im Brennpunkt der Ereignisse: Im Kosovo tobte der Bürgerkrieg, als die 29-jährige Reporterin Susanne Glass sich 1999 freiwillig als Berichterstatterin für die ARD meldete. Seitdem hat sie Südosteuropa nicht mehr losgelassen und mehr als einmal geriet sie bei ihren Reportagen buchstäblich zwischen...

„Nun, die Bilanz war einfach. Innerhalb kurzer Zeit tötete der Graue einen Menschen und verlor selbst einen Arm. Das hieß, er hatte Gewinn gemacht.“ Sind erdachte Kriege besser als wirkliche? Natürlich, und es wäre schön, wenn alle modernen Kriege bloß erdacht wären! In der russischen Millionenstadt...

An American visits Siberia, along the Amoor river, during the mid nineteenth century. This piece includes a description of a wedding as well as the usual cultural comments and landscape and business descriptions in a country where dogs were used to haul boats and sledges. Various tribes are encountered as this border river between Russia and China is explored. Well illustrated.