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The book addresses authoritarian legacies of politically motivated justice and its unwritten practices that have re-emerged in the recent trials related to both political and ordinary criminal charges against prominent opposition leaders in many former Soviet republics....
Editeur :
T.M.C. Asser Press
Parution :
2021-03-31
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?“This book is very timely: the instrumentalization of history for political goals has become a pressing issue and worrisome feature of many polities, to the point of challenging even the most consolidated democracies. Focusing on Yugoslavia’s fragile successor states,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-19
Collection :
Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
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This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief. What began as observations of some startling narratives preserved in folklore archives where sex, violence and curses are recurring themes gradually led to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-26
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The book distinctive is listed in points (i) it focuses on Eastern European art covering the historical avant-garde to the post-war and contemporary periods of; (ii) it looks at some key artists in the countries that have not been given so much attention within this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-16
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This book examines the role of imperial narratives of multinationalism as alternative ideologies to nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East from the revolutions of 1848 up to the defeat and subsequent downfall of the Habsburg and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-05
Collection :
Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
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“This book provides a deep reading of Nikolai Karazin’s works and his relationship with Central Asia. Elena Andreeva shows how Karazin’s prolific creations have much to tell us about Russian imperialism, colonial and local society as well as Russians’ self-identity as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-03
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The final page in the political history of the Soviet Union was turned on March 19, 2019, when Nursultan Nazarbayev, the last former Chairman of a Soviet Republic who had managed to stay in power following the collapse of USSR, unexpectedly decided to resign. This...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship –-not only theologically, but also politically. In most cases such relationships remain to this day; indeed, in some cases the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-15
Collection :
Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
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This book is aimed both at researchers and advanced students of Central Asia, the space of the former USSR, and the foreign policy of Russia and China. The authors adopt a sociological approach in understanding how power structures emerged in the wake of the Soviet...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-12
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This book presents cross-national insights into spatial fragmentation in post-socialist cities in Europe. Trying to rethink the heritage of the last 30 years of transformation and grasp current processes taking urban units of various categories as examples, the book...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-15
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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T?his edited volume offers a descriptive analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and cumulative stock, industrial composition, and important spatial trends for each successor state of former Yugoslavia: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-11-16
Collection :
Economic Geography
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This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. While several scholars have recognized the problems which various outlaw groups caused in the region during the Middle Ages, few have given much attention to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-28
Collection :
New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-22
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This volume provides an overview of selected major areas of legal and institutional development in Lithuania since the Restoration of Independence in 1990. The respective chapters discuss changes in fields varying from the constitutional framework to criminal law and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-17
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A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way."Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics' most...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2020-10-15
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This book analyzes the central vision of three student movements organized by different generations of Kosovo Albanian students in 1968, 1981 and 1997. By examining the dynamics of the demonstrations, the author explores the dimensions, forms and implications of student...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-06
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Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However, this theory obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic revolution and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-09-03
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Care of the State blends archival, oral history, interview and ethnographic data to study the changing relationships and kinship ties of children who lived in state residential care in socialist Hungary. It advances anthropological understanding of kinship and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-28
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This book explores the Romanian Orthodox Church’s arguments on national identity to legitimize its own place in a post-communist Romania. The work traces the clergy’s deployment of the concepts of Christian Orthodoxy and Latin legacy as part of an uncharted...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-17
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This book focuses on the highly complex and intertwined relationship between civil aviation, technological globalization and Cold War politics. It explores how the advancement of Soviet civil aircraft engineering during the 1950s technically triggered the globalization...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-10
Collection :
Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
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