Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
Down with Big Brother
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
"One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."
--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Cold War Icon, Gulag Author, Russian Nationalist?
A Study of His Western Reception
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's reception in the U.S., U.K., and Germany before and after 1991. Elisa Kriza explores his corpus through the paradigm of witness literature and confronts contentious subjects, such as antifeminism, anti-Semitism, and revisionism. Redefining...
The Polish Experience through World War II
A Better Day Has Not Come
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
The Polish Experience through World War II explores Polish history through the lives of people touched by the war. The touching and terrible experiences of these people are laid bare by straightforward, first-hand accounts, including not only the hardships of deportation and concentration and refugee...
Germany's Conquest of the Balkans
Germany's first conquest
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
What has happened in former Yugoslavia over the past several years reaches far beyond the boundaries of that region. It is so shocking that the nations of this world would be paralyzed with fear if they truly understood! Shamefully, America is its chief architect.
In this booklet:
• The First...
Moldova
Arena of International Influences
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Moldova: Arena of International Influences brings international perspective to Moldova’s foreign relations since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Eighteen chapters analyze the policy toward Moldova of selected international actors: Belarus, Bulgaria, China, the Czech Republic and...
by James J. Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
What Tennyson thus said of his own first essay in the Idyls of the King, in the introduction to the Morte D'Arthur, occurs as probably the aptest expression of most men's immediate thought with regard to such a subject as The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries. Though Tennyson was confessedly only...
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The Pleasures of England: Lectures given in Oxford written by John Ruskin. The Pleasures of England: Lectures Given in Oxford, During his Second Tenure of the Slade Professorship (delivered 1884, published 1884–85) (Works 33). And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally...
by William Goodell
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This is an American View of the reign of the Ottoman Sulton during the declining years of Ottoman Rule in Constantinople.
Their Childhood and the Holocaust
A Childs Perspective in Polish Documentary and Autobiographical Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Children have a specific perception of the Holocaust: it did not destroy their earlier world view, but became the field of first experiences. This book focuses on the traumatic dimension of the Holocaust and how it is expressed (or left unexpressed) in children’s diaries. «Here and Now» under...
by Radka Yakimov
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2006
Dreams and Shadows is a story about the lives of people trapped in the oppressive reality of a totalitarian regime. This is Bulgaria, a Balkan country, which was overrun by the Red Army on September 9, 1944 and became one of the "satellites" to the former USSR. It remained in the Soviet...
Choosing Slovakia
Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak Language and Accidental Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Hungary was the site of a national awakening. While Hungarian-speaking Hungarians sought to assimilate Hungary's ethnic minorities into a new idea of nationhood, the country's Slavs instead imagined a proud multi-ethnic and multi-lingual state whose citizens...
by Joseph Roth
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Radetzkymars is de geschiedenis van het verval van de Habsburgse monarchie, gezien door de ogen van de hoofdpersoon, luitenant von Trotta. Het verhaal begint in 1859 met diens grootvader, die door toeval het leven van de jonge keizer Franz Joseph redt, en eindigt met de dood van de keizer in 1916....
不曾結束的一戰：帝國滅亡與中東歐民族國家興起
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923
Language: Chinese
Release Date: June 22, 2018
一戰過後，帶給歐洲的不是和平，
而是一連串悲慘的戰亂，
並宣告「歐洲內戰延長」的時代到來！
● 2018年第一次世界大戰終戰百年必讀佳作
●《泰晤士報文學副刊》年度好書
● 獲第一次世界大戰歷史協會（WW1HA）頒發湯姆林森獎（Tomlinson...
The Demon in Democracy
Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think....