Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
by Miklos Josika
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
"The Scourge of God" tells the tale of the terrible Tartar invasion of Hungary during the reign of Bela IV. (1235-1270), when the Mongol hordes devastated Magyarland from end to end.
Baron Miklos Josika (1796–1865), the Walter Scott of Hungary, was born at Torda, in Transylvania,...
by Henry Albinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Bulgaria early history and civilization, Bulgaria culture, Bulgaria development, Bulgaria tourism, Bulgaria economic situation. In the past 150 years, vast changes have completely transformed the political and economic situation in Bulgaria, as well as the country's way of life. Poor peasants...
The Myth of Ethnic War
Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was drawing...
The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region
Evolution and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns, reveals the importance of the formation of the late medieval / early modern colonialism, the urban demography, and...
Privatisation in Russia - a successful experiment on the way to a market economy?
a successful experiment on the way to a market economy?
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Cultural Studies - East European Studies, grade: 1,0, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), course: Reforming Russia - Objectives and Obstacles. Seminar: MA, Soziale Bewegungen-Institutionen-Kulturelle Orientierungen, 20 entries in the bibliography,...
by Gabriel Nichols Raspe, Vincent Rospond
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Gabriel Raspe's portraits of the Polish Army in 1775 is one of the earliest and complete representations of the Polish Army in the eighteenth century. For almost two hundred years this complete work has not been readily available, but Winged Hussar has edited this translation of the publication making it available to students and enthusiasts
Estonian Animation
Between Genius and Utter Illiteracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Ever wonder why Estonian animation features so many carrots or why cows often perform pyramids? Well, neither question is answered in Chris Robinson’s new book, Estonian Animation. Robinson’s frank, humorous, and thoroughly researched book traces the history of Estonia’s acclaimed animation...
Paper Poppies
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
First published in Russia to critical acclaim, this eloquent and personal memoir by Marianna Vekhova describes the myriad of beliefs with which Russian people sought to fill their hungry souls during the Communist years. Her journey represents millions of Russians today, many of whom are orphans like...
Résurrection
Ce livre numérique comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.
Language: French
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Jeune militaire respecté, le prince Dmitri Ivanovitch Nekhlioudov retourne goûter à la vie civile quelque temps dans une riche ville de province près de Nijni Novgorod (Nijni Novgorod est l´une des principales villes de Russie. Elle est située dans la partie orientale de la Russie européenne...
Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States
One Hundred Years of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Between 1914 and the present day the political makeup of the Balkans has relentlessly changed, following unpredictable shifts of international and internal borders. Between and across these borders various political communities were formed, co-existed and (dis)integrated.
By analysing one hundred...
Worlds of Hungarian Writing
National Literature as Intercultural Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Worlds of Hungarian Writing responds to the rapidly growing interest in Hungarian authors throughout the English-speaking world. Addressing an international audience, the essays in the collection highlight the intercultural contexts that have molded the conventions, genres and institutions of Hungarian...
Nationalizing a Borderland
War, Ethnicity, and Anti-Jewish Violence in East Galicia, 1914–1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Nationalizing a Borderland enriches understanding of ethnic conflict by examining the factors in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia between 1914 and 1920 that led to the rise of xenophobic nationalism and to the ethnocide of World War II. From Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, and Austrian archival...
Evoking Polish Memory
State, Self and the Communist Past in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The book offers an interdisciplinary but very grounded look at the question of memory politics in contemporary Poland. It describes the conflicting ways in which two groups of people – the former anti-communist activists and the former officers of the repressive regime – have actively engaged...
Overcoming Obstacles to Peace
Local Factors in Nation-Building
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Following on a series of RAND Corporation studies of nation-building, this monograph analyzes the impediments that local conditions pose to successful outcomes in these interventions. It examines how external actors and local leaders in a variety of societies modified or worked around those conditions to promote enduring peace.