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Presenting the history of an unexplored yet significant institution in East Germany, this book analyses the development of the Parteihochschule Karl Marx (PHS), a training institute for Communist party officials and members of the functional elite. By chronicling the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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?Die DDR und Polen haben von 1945 bis 1989 versucht, das kollektivistische Modernisierungsprojekt zu verwirklichen – den real existierenden Sozialismus. Das Buch vergleicht die unterschiedliche Entwicklung der systemtheoretischen und wirtschaftspolitischen Ideen in...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-12-03
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This edited volume sheds light on the lives of young people in various central and peripheral regions of Russia, including youth belonging to different ethnic and religious groups and who have differing views on contemporary politics. While the literature continues to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-02
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This book explores the uncharted territory of the history of archaeology under Communism through the biographies of five women archaeologists from the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Poland. They were working in medieval archaeology, with a specific focus...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-27
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This book examines the making and breaking of peripheral selves in and from postsocialist Bosnia in an empirically rich self-reflexive account of politico-economic and ideological developments. Through world systems and postcolonial theory, historical and new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-12
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This book focuses on Biopreparat, the Soviet agency created in 1974, which spearheaded the largest and most sophisticated biological warfare programme the world has ever seen. At its height, Biopreparat employed more than 30,000 personnel and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-12
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This book examines the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games. It tells the story of the extensive infrastructural transformation of the city and its changing global image in relation to hosting of the Games. Reviewing different cultural representations of Sarajevo in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-19
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Heritage became a target during the Yugoslav Wars as part of ethnic cleansing and urbicide. Out of the ashes of war, pasts were remodelled, places took on new layers of meaning, and a wave of new memorialization took hold. Three decades since the fall of Vukovar and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-11
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This book focuses upon the secret agricultural biological warfare programme codenamed Ekologiya – which was pursued by the Soviet Union from 1958 through to the collapse of the USSR in 1991. It was the largest offensive agricultural biowarfare project the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-18
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In Researching Yugoslavia and its Aftermath, a common thread is the authors’ path through the time and space context in which fieldwork has taken place. Accordingly, this collection tackles problems that have always existed but have not been dealt with in a single...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-06-14
Collection :
Societies and Political Orders in Transition
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Mit der Gründung des ungarischen Staates vor 1.000 Jahren entstand im Karpatenbecken inmitten Europas eine besondere Formation aus Sprache, Sitten, Geschichte und Politik. In den letzten tausend Jahren verschmolzen die verschiedenen historischen Epochen, die Völker, die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-09
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This book uses a specialized corpus of public language-related discourse to investigate links between language ideologies and ethnonationalism in contemporary West Central Balkans. Despite a century and a half of shared linguistic history, the nations making up...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-03
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When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an unstoppable force. The Luftwaffe bombed towns and cities across the country, and fifty divisions of the Wehrmacht crossed the border. Yet only two decades earlier, at the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-05-28
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This volume is a comprehensive Handbook of Russian thought that provides an in-depth survey of major figures, currents, and developments in Russian intellectual history, spanning the period from the late eighteenth century to the late twentieth century. Written by a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-22
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This book sheds new light on the political economy of Russia under Putin’s rule. The author, a former EU diplomat, presents a historical review of the Russian economy and 60 years of state-communist mismanagement, followed by oligarchic privatization. The book offers...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-05-20
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This book presents key works of Boris Hessen, outstanding Soviet philosopher of science, available here in English for the first time. Quality translations are accompanied by an editors' introduction and annotations. Boris Hessen is known in history of science circles...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-05-17
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The book aims to trace and explain the historical evolution of Moscow, the capital of the Tsardom of Russia, Soviet Union and Russian Federation, as a political entity and political community, and to understand what place Moscow occupied within the Russian political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-30
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This book looks at the different ways in which Russian historians and authors have thought about their country’s first Antarctic expedition (1819-21) over the past 200 years. It considers the effects their discussions have had on Russia’s Antarctic policy and may yet...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-26
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“A provocative, revisionist take on the Second World War” (Financial Times) by a prize-winning historianWe remember World War II as a struggle between good and evil, with Hitler propelling events and the Allied powers saving the day. But Hitler’s...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2021-04-20
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The book reflects upon the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing developments in Russia, the rest of the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere in the world. It discusses the impact of the legacies of the Russian Revolution on political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-07
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