Eastern category: 10105 books
The Taste of Ashes
The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
An inventive, wholly original look at the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives.
In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s The File, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding...
Dacia
Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This book tells the little known story of Dacia, the powerful and rich land that became Transylvania and Romania. This kingdom was once the cornerstone of Eastern Europe. By A.D. 1, Dacia was the third largest military power in Europe, after the Romans and Germans. Most historians mistook the Dacians...
Russia's Last Gasp
The Eastern Front 1916–17
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Despite the increasingly futile, bloody struggles for territory that had characterised the Eastern Front the previous year, the German and Austro-Hungarian commands held high hopes for 1916. After the success of the 1915 Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive, which had driven Russia out of Galicia and Poland,...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
The titanic armor battles of the Russian Front are widely known, but the role of Germany's eastern allies is not as well known. Two of these countries, Romania and Hungary, manufactured their own tanks as well as purchasing tanks from Germany. These ranged from older, obsolete types such as the PzKpfw...
Red Hangover
Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. Ghodsee's essays and short stories reflect on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive...
The Splintered Empires
The Eastern Front 1917–21
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the Kerensky Offensive, saw the final collapse of her...
Lost in Transition
Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Lost in Transition tells of ordinary lives upended by the collapse of communism. Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences with Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why it is that so many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communist past....
by Israel Bartal
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories...
Magnetic North
Conversations with Tomas Venclova
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksander Wat's classic My Century. Taking the form of an extended interview with Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova, the book interweaves Eastern European postwar...
Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe
Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This book explores the political imagination of Eastern Europe in the 1830s and 1840s, when Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian intellectuals came to identify themselves as belonging to communities known as nations or nationalities. Bilenky approaches this topic from a transnational perspective, revealing...
Become What You Are
Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2003
"Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever. . . . You may believe yourself out of harmony with life and its eternal Now; but you cannot be, for...
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2017
Many of Idries Shah's books are comprised of tales and teaching stories taken from both written and oral sources, which illustrate the instructional methods employed by Eastern wise men for thousands of years.The Magic Monastery differs from its predecessors in that it contains not only traditional tales,...
by Norman Stone
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship, Stone's boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War'...
Germany's Wild East
Constructing Poland as Colonial Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
In the 19th and early 20th 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 uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American...