Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
The Hotel Tito
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The most powerful autobiographical novel written about the Yugoslav wars. A timely and deeply accessible book that speaks to what it is like to be displaced by war.
Hotel Tito is an award-winning autobiographical novel of the Serbo-Croatian War. Author Ivana Bodroić was born in the Croatian...
Remarks on Architecture
The Vitruvian Tradition in Enlightenment Poland
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
At the end of the eighteenth century, the authors of Poland’s 3 May 1791 Constitution became the heirs to a defunct state whose territory had been partitioned by Russia, Prussia, and Austria. At this moment of intensive national postmortem, Ignacy Potocki, an eminent statesman and co-author of the...
Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures
From the Bad to the Blasphemous
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Investigating the genesis of the prosecuted "crimes" and implied sins of the female performing group Pussy Riot,the most famous Russian feminist collective to date, the essays in Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to Blasphemous examine what constitutes...
Letters from Readers in the Polish American Press, 1902–1969
A Corner for Everybody
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
A Corner for Everybody is a unique collection of close to five hundred letters from Polish American readers, which were published in the Polish-language weekly Ameryka-Echo between 1902 and 1969. In these letters, Polish immigrants speak in their own words about their American experience, and vigorously...
Remembering the Cold War
Global Contest and National Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Remembering the Cold War examines how, more than two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cold War legacies continue to play crucial roles in defining national identities and shaping international relations around the globe. Given the Cold War’s blurred definition – it has neither a...
Unbound
Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
What does it mean to be Ukrainian in contemporary Canada? The Ukrainian Canadian writers in Unbound challenge the conventions of genre – memoir, fiction, poetry, biography, essay – and the boundaries that separate ethnic and authorial identities and fictional and non-fictional narratives. These...
Describing Who?
Poland in Photographs by Jewish Artists
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
«Describing Who?» reveals the significance of photographs taken in contemporary Poland by professional American, French and Israeli Jewish photographers. Writing critically from the vantage point of her Polish and Jewish background, Joanna Auron-Górska argues that while visual representations of...
by Georgi Tenev
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Winner of the 2014 Contemporary Bulgarian Novelist Award co-sponsored by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and the America for Bulgaria Foundation.
First novel of Tenev's to be published in English despite Angela Rodel winning a PEN Michael Henry Heim Translation Grant for her work on his short...
by David S. Danaher
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
As a playwright, a dissident, and a politician, Václav Havel was one of the most important intellectual figures of the late twentieth century. Working in an extraordinary range of genres – poetry, plays, public letters, philosophical essays, and political speeches – he left behind a range of...
Zachary Stoyanoff
Pages From the Autobiography of a Bulgarian Insurgent
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
In Electronic Book Format for the First Time!
An All Time Insurgency Bestseller about Uprisings, Betrayal, and Unwavering Resolve of Determined Revolutionaries
Translated in 1913, 'Zachary Stoyanoff; Pages from the Autobiography of a Bulgarian Insurgent', is the first English interpretation...
Armored Bears
The German 3rd Panzer Division in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
First major treatment of the 3rd Panzer Division in English.
Armored Bears
The German 3rd Panzer Division in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
First major treatment of the 3rd Panzer Division in English.
by D. Philipp Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Third book in my series on German-Russians of the Volga Colonies. The goal of this book is to identify the hardships that my German-Russian ancestors endured and overcame in the Volga Colonies. The First Chapter covers their emigration to the Volga Colonies. The Second Chapter covers the Shock and...
by Alexander Petrunkevitch, Samuel Northrup, Harper Frank
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This edition features
• a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
PREFACE
MARCH 18, 1918. THE ROLE OF THE INTELLECTUALS IN THE LIBERATING MOVEMENT
FORCES BEHIND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION FORCES BEHIND THE RUSSIAN
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
THE JUGO-SLAV MOVEMENT
APPENDICES