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Developments in Central and East European Politics

Duke University Press, 2007

The face of Central and Eastern Europe has been dramatically transformed since the collapse of communism. The region faces new challenges, including the needs to find a balance between effective leadership and accountability and to reverse the economic decline of the late communist years. Addressing these concerns and others, Developments in Central and East European Politics 4 brings together specially commissioned chapters by leading ...

Troubled Waters: The Origins of the 1881 Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Russia (Series in Russian and East European ...

1 review
Irwin Michael Aronson

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt), 1991

Good book on Jewish pogroms in Russia
In the spring of 1881, a wave of anti-Jewish rioting and violence engulfed southern Russia, specifically areas within Ukraine. Called pogroms, they spread through both city and countryside following the assassination of Alexander II. The interpretation of the pogroms directly following the events and continued by subsequent historians saw them as being well-planned in advance, and that the ...

Sacred Stories: Religion And Spirituality in Modern Russia (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East ...

Indiana University Press, 2007

Sacred Stories brings together the work of leading scholars writing on the history of religion and religiosity in late imperial Russia during the critical decades preceding the 1917 revolutions. Embodying new research and new methodologies, this book reshapes our understanding of the place of religion in modern Russian history. Topics examined include miraculous icons and healing, pilgrim narratives, confessions, women and Orthodox domesticity, ...

European Integration and Disintegration: East and West
R. Bideleux

Routledge, 1996

European Integration and Disintegration deals with the principle problems and challenges confronting Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War and the collapse of European communism. While endeavouring to strike a balance between East, West, North and South, the volume is more concerned with the changing political, economic and cultural morphology of Europe, and of the relations within it, than with the formal institutional arrangements of the ...

Bandits and Partisans: The Antonov Movement in the Russian Civil War (Pitt Russian East European)
Erik C. Landis

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008

Beginning in the fall of 1920, Aleksandr Antonov led an insurgency that became the largest armed peasant revolt against the Soviets during the civil war. Yet by the summer of 1921, the revolt had been crushed, and popular support for the movement had all but disappeared. Until now, details of this conflict have remained hidden. Erik Landis mines recently opened provincial and central Soviet archives and international collections to provide a ...

The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics
Zoltan Barany

Cambridge University Press, 2001

This book is the first attempt by a social scientist to explain the age-old predicament of Gypsies (or Roma), Eastern Europe's largest ethnic minority, and their relationship to the region's states and societies. Professor Barany comparatively examines the Gypsies' socioeconomic and political marginality and the policies toward them through seven centuries and in seven East European states. He illuminates the reasons why the Roma have ...

Central and East European Politics: From Communism to Democracy
Jane L. Curry

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007

This long-needed text explores the other half of Europe--the new and future members of the European Union along with the problems and potential they bring to the region and to the world stage. Clear and comprehensive, it offers an authoritative and up-to-date analysis of the transformations and realities in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and Ukraine. The book presents a set of comparative country case studies as well as thematic ...

A Terrible Revenge, Second Edition, Fully Revised and Updated: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European ...

34 reviews
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Time the World Put Communism on Trial.
I have this book, and glad I bought it. It's very enlightening. I'll have to find out what that "Konzentrationslager Dokument F321 fuer den Internationalen Miltaergerichtshof Nuerenberg" is... seems very little info exists for it on the web. and... I am wondering when they will put the Nuremberg trials on a second hearing like Trotsky got... Dewey Investigating Committee found Moscow trials ...

Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions (Pitt Russian East European)

1 review

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008

An enlightening array of essays about a lesser known gear in how the world works
The development of one nation's politics is the business of another's, apparently. "Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions" is a look at western Europe and America's involvement in Eastern Europe's affairs. It is a collection of scholarly essays on both the positive and negative effects of these practices and the various subjects they are making themselves involved in from ...

The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East

6 reviews
Robert Drews

Princeton Univ Pr, 1988

Chariots of the Steppes
This is a fascinating look at the development of chariot warfare and an examination of early migrations across Anatolia. These accomplishments are even more impressive when you explore Eastern Turkey and see the formidable geographic challenges these people faced. Several recent proposals (for both the Greeks, and the Israelites) is that mythical ancestral migrations were actually later ...

The Practical Encyclopedia of East European Cooking

1 review
Lesley Chamberlain

Lorenz Books, 1999

The best Easter European cook book!
The best Easter European cook book!

Memoirs of Peasant Tolstoyans in Soviet Russia (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)

Indiana University Press, 1993

Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience (Studies in Contemporary German Social ...
Claus Offe

The MIT Press, 1996

Claus Offe has spent most of his career analyzing the inner workings (and nonworkings) of Western democracies. After the upheavals of the late 1980s, however, his attention was drawn increasingly to the East, and particularly to the transformations occurring in the former German Democratic Republic. The nine essays collected here, all written within the last few years, report what Offe has learned. They explore such topics as the ...

A History of East European Jews

1 review
Heiko Haumann

Central European University Press, 2003

a fascinating read
I read this book in german a few years back. The german publisher in paper back, "Heiko Haumann:Geschichte der Ostjuden", was Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. It was a fascinating read. If you want to know about jews and the lives they led in europe during the last millenium, this is the book for you. I intend to read " A History of East European Jews" as a refresher. Geschichte der Ostjuden

Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics, rev. ed. (Duke Press Policy Studies)
Pedro Ramet

Duke University Press, 1988

Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and ...
Anne E. Gorsuch

Indiana University Press, 2000

Youth in Revolutionary Russia explores the everyday activities of urban youth in Soviet Russia, including communist ritual and performance, popular pleasures like the foxtrot, and the subcultural activities of homeless and hooligan youth. Gorsuch examines the relationship between the realities of youth and Bolshevik ideals for youth, between popular culture and official ideology, and the meaning of these relationships for the making of a ...

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