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Today's Euroscepticism contrasts sharply with the idealism of the thousands of Poles thrust out of their country after 1939 by war, occupation and communism. How could a future Poland find security and progress, but by membership in a union of European states? This book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-17
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From award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe is the definitive history of Ukraine that helps us understand the country's past and the current crisisLocated at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires...
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Penguin
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2015-12-01
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During the Cold War, Estonia lay behind the Iron Curtain. Even in the grip of Soviet rule, the country underwent many important developments. This volume brings together fourteen papers on the political, economic, and cultural history of Estonia during the Cold War....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-25
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Russia played a fundamental role in the outcome of Napoleonic Wars; the wars also had an impact on almost every area of Russian life.Russia and the Napoleonic Wars brings together significant and new research from Russian and non-Russian historians and their work...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-09-15
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The Crimean War was fought far from its namesake peninsula in Ukraine. Until now, accounts of Britain's and France's naval campaigns against Czarist Russia in the Baltic, White Sea, and Pacific have remained fragmented, minimized, or thinly-referenced. This book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-18
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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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-07-31
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This unique volume examines how and to what extent former victims of Stalinist terror from across the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were received, reintegrated and rehabilitated following the mass releases from prisons and labour camps which came in the wake of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-28
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The Text and the World is a study of an exceptionally interesting primary source - the Henryków Book - and of the local and regional world which that source reflected and helped shape.The source is a history of the Cistercian monastery in Henryków, about forty...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-07-02
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Famed and outspoken Russian poet, Maximilian Voloshin's notoriety has grown steadily since his slow release from Soviet censorship. For the first time, Landa showcases his vast poetic contributions, proving his words to be an overlooked solution both to the political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-10
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Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the property, jobs, and businesses of local Jews and Roma/Gypsies and their legal resistance strategies to such an unjust policy.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-24
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The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societies.The status of women was immediately affected.The contributors to this volume contrast the status of women in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-14
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The 'Cominternians' who staffed the Communist International in Moscow from its establishment in 1919 to its dissolution in 1943 led transnational lives and formed a cosmopolitan but closed and privileged world.The book tells of their experience in the Soviet Union...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-07
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A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Eastern borderlands comes to life'...
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Penguin
Parution :
2015-03-05
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Common Wealth,Common Good is a study of the political discourse of the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It argues that the Polish-Lithuanian political tradition was preoccupied during this period with moral...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-03-05
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This work explores the reasons for the Allied intervention into Russia at the end of the Great War and examines the military, diplomatic and political chaos that resulted in the failure of the Allies and White Russians to defeat the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-26
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Aleksandr Nikolaevic Radišcev, geboren 1749, erhielt seine juristische Ausbildung an der Leipziger Universität. Er gehört zu den bedeutenden Schriftstellern Rußlands in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Seine von der europäischen Aufklärung beeinflußten radikalen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-28
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In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather than comprising a "master narrative," these fascinating and varied accounts bring to light the often divergent perspectives,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-16
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Awarded Honorable Mention for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award
In nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, the Jewish-run tavern was often the center of leisure, hospitality, business, and even religious festivities. This unusual situation came about because the nobles who...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-11-01
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The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a 'dual role': SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-20
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This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters consider diverse practices of mobility and their different contexts of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-23
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