Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
Iron Curtain
The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.
At the end of...
The Walls Came Tumbling Down : The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1993
The rapid and unexpected collapse of the Communist systems of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe continues to mystify scholars and citizens alike. The recent flood of books on this topic (many of them excellent) poses special problems for librarians who will need to choose carefully not only as to...
Eastern Europe Since 1970
Decline of Socialism to Post-Communist Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
From the hardening grip of Soviet domination under Brezhnev to the collapse of communism and its aftermath, Bulent Gokay provides the essential introduction to Eastern Europe in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 spelt the end of reformist communism...
Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe
Bridging Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state...
The Near Abroad
Socialist Eastern Europe and Soviet Patriotism in Ukraine, 1956-1985
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
From the Soviet perspective, Eastern Europe was the near abroad – more accessible than the capitalist West, yet also unambiguously foreign. Observing their western neighbours, citizens of the USSR developed new ideas about the role of states, borders, and national identities in the Soviet empire.
In...
Eastern Europe Unmapped
Beyond Borders and Peripheries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Arguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural-economic elites to the poorest emigrants, have consistently forged or fathomed links to distant lands, populations, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
The collection of essays in Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe addresses institutions that develop the concept of collaboration, and examines the function, social representation and history of secret police archives and institutes of national memory...
Environmentalism in Central and Southeastern Europe
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Consisting of 12 chapters, the book presents the rise and development of environmentalism, environmental history as a discipline, and the history of environmental movements in the Central and South Eastern European region from an international point of view.
The chapters—written by scholars...
Poland and the Western Powers 1938-1938
A Study in the Interdependence of Eastern and Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
This study has two objectives. The first is to explain the nature and historical roots of the problems facing Polish foreign policy in 1938–39 and the manner in which they were approached by the men who shaped and directed Polish diplomacy. The second is to illustrate the political interdependence...
Social Currents in Eastern Europe
The Sources and Consequences of the Great Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Social Currents in Eastern Europe traces the diverse social currents that have developed alongside and interacted with political and economic forces to bring about change in Eastern Europe. In this second edition—which significantly updates and expands the previous edition to include a new introduction,...
by Tom Fort
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
'You have to be on your guard when you go back to special places. You may be able to locate them easily enough on the map, but maps tell only one story. Times change and places and people with them. The memory plays curious tricks, and things aren't always as you remember or expect.'
Twenty...
Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain
The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945–1989
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
The Cold War began in Europe in the mid-1940s and ended there in 1989. Notions of a “global Cold War” are useful in describing the wide impact and scope of the East-West divide after World War II, but first and foremost the Cold War was about the standoff in Europe. The Soviet Union established...
Borders Up!
Eastern Europe through the bottom of a glass
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
One would assume that with the collapse of Communism, East Europeans would drink much less than before. A democratic society should surely be able to provide many more means of escape than alcohol – books, free press, foreign travel and the cornucopia of consumer goods.
The reality, however,...
Britain and Interwar Danubian Europe
Foreign Policy and Security Challenges, 1919-1936
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Danubian Europe presented constant and serious security risks for European peace and stability and, for that reason, contrary to conventional wisdom, it commanded the attention of British diplomacy with a view to appeasing local conflicts. Britain and Interwar Danubian Europe examines the manner in...