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This book offers a comparative analysis of value and identity changes in several post-Soviet countries. In light of the tremendous economic, social and political changes in former communist states, the authors compare the values, attitudes and identities of different...
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Springer
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2018-04-04
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Societies and Political Orders in Transition
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In this book, Tomas Balkelis explores how the Lithuanian state was created and shaped by the Great War from its onset in 1914 to the last waves of violence in 1923. As the very notion of independent Lithuania was constructed during the war, violence is seen as an...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-02
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This book describes the life, times and science of the Soviet physicist Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov (1901-1937). From 1926 to 1930 Shubnikov worked in Leiden where he was the co-discoverer of the Shubnikov-De Haas effect. After his return to the Soviet Union he...
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Springer
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2018-02-27
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Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey explores the history of organized crime in Turkey and the roles which gangs and gangsters have played in the making of the Turkish state and Turkish politics. Turkey's underworld, which has been at the heart of...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-26
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The first major study of the early Reformation and the Polish monarchy for over a century, this volume asks why Crown and church in the reign of King Sigismund I (1506-1548) did not persecute Lutherans. It offers a new narrative of Luther's dramatic impact on this...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-29
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The first major study of the early Reformation and the Polish monarchy for over a century, this volume asks why Crown and church in the reign of King Sigismund I (1506-1548) did not persecute Lutherans. It offers a new narrative of Luther's dramatic impact on this...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-29
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Was ist an dem Blick der Autorin auf Russland anders? In diesem Buch geht es der Autorin darum, gegenwärtige Lebensformen, Denkweisen, Geschichtsbilder, Werte, Selbstbilder, Fremdbilder und russisch-deutsche bzw. deutsch-russische Wahrnehmungen zu erkennen, sie aber vor...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-27
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This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-05
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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This book explores the role played by families in the Russian revolutionary movement and the first decades of the Soviet regime. While revolutionaries were expected to sever all family ties or at the very least put political concerns before personal ones, in practice...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-04
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This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapters extend the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-30
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This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ago. They examine urban and rural witchcraft conflicts from early modern times to the present, from a region...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-29
Collection :
Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Poland's relationship with its Jewish population has long been a subject of often agonizing debate. In September 1939, there were approximately 3.3 million Jews living in Poland, the largest population in Europe. In May 1945, between 40,000 and 60,000 remained. Most of...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-11-28
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This book analyses the efforts of British civil society to help a Russia seen to be struggling between 1890 and the 1920s. Luke Kelly seeks to show why churches, pressure groups, charities, politicians and journalists came to promote religious and political liberty and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-27
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Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. During his brief life in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-16
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This book deals with film adaptations of literary works created in Communist Czechoslovakia between 1954 and 1969, such as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Zeman 1958), Marketa Lazarová (Vlácil 1967), and The Joke (Jireš 1969). Bubenícek treats a historically...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-07
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This book is the first scholarly exploration of how Christian Democracy kept Cold War Europe’s eastern and western halves connected after the creation of the Iron Curtain in the late 1940s. Christian Democrats led the transnational effort to rebuild the continent’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-06
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This book concerns the mass deportation of Poles and others to Siberia following the failed 1863 Polish Insurrection. The imperial Russian government fell back upon using exile to punish the insurrectionists and to cleanse Russia’s Western Provinces of ethnic Poles. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-20
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This text considers the prevalence of Lao-Zhuang Daoism and Huang-Lao Daoism in late pre-imperial and early imperial Chinese traditional thought. The author uses unique excavated documents and literature to explore the Huang-Lao tradition of Daoist philosophy, which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-20
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From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine -- only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to...
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Basic Books
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2017-10-10
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The volume deals with the fundamentals of the contemporary relations between civic actors and state power structures.The main focus lies on public control of armed forces and the question of why civilians should have a vigilant eye on the military institution as well as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-06
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