The nations of Central and Eastern Europe experienced a time of momentous change in the period following the Second World War. The vast majority were subject to Communism and central planning while events such as the Hungarian uprising and Prague Spring stood out as key watershed moments against a distinct social, cultural and political backcloth. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, German reunification and the break-up of the Soviet Union, changes from the 1990s onwards have also been momentous with countries adjusting to various capitalist realities. The volumes in this series will help shine a light on the experiences of this key geopolitical zone with many lessons to be learned for the future.
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By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
October 15, 2024
These volumes bring together key documents detailing Israeli-Soviet relations between 1954 and 1967. A very significant and turbulent period is covered, during which there was a steady deterioration in Soviet-Israeli relations, culminating in their severance following the Six Day War in 1967. They ...
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By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
October 04, 2024
This book, spanning the years 1954–1957, is the first in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. Most of the documents are ...
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By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
October 04, 2024
This book, spanning the years 1961–1964, is the third in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. Most of the documents are ...
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By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
October 04, 2024
This book, spanning the years 1965–1967—the years leading up to and culminating in the June 1967 Six Day War—is the fourth in a four-volume collection of documents from the Russian Federation and the Israeli State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. Most ...
By Iva Jelušić
September 13, 2024
This book analyzes how the cultural memory of women’s participation in the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Struggle (1941–1945), especially female soldiers, was treated in socialist Yugoslavia’s popular printed press, and how it contributed to the creation of the figure of the Yugoslav New Woman. By ...
By Aleksandra Konarzewska
June 12, 2024
This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century literature and theatre, providing intertextual perspectives that allow readers to analyze his short stories, plays, and novels in broad contexts. Gombrowicz (1904-1969) ...
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By Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Joachim von Puttkamer, Immo Rebitschek
May 27, 2024
The field of biopolitics encompasses issues from health and hygiene, birth rates, fertility and sexuality, life expectancy and demography to eugenics and racial regimes. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive view on these issues for Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. ...
By Małgorzata Hanzl
May 27, 2024
Across a range of disciplines, urban morphology has offered lenses through which we can read the city. Reading the urban form, when conflated with ethnographic studies, enables us to return to past situations and recreate the long-gone everyday life. Urbanscapes – the artefacts of urban life – have...
By Andriy Zayarnyuk, Ostap Sereda
May 27, 2024
This is the first synthetic book-length study in English of the Ukrainian nation-building during the "long" nineteenth century. The narrative follows the evolution of the Ukrainian intellectuals and their ideas from the Age of Enlightenment at the end of the eighteenth century and to the era of ...
By Tomaž Ivešić
March 05, 2024
The Rise and Fall of Communist Yugoslavism: Soft Nation‑Building in Yugoslavia examines how the Communist Party of Yugoslavia incorporated the idea of a Yugoslav nation into its ideology and created the Yugoslav Soft Nation‑Building project after the Second World War. With an innovative approach of...
By Gintarė Malinauskaitė
February 23, 2024
This volume aims to offer a fresh perspective towards the evaluation of Soviet war crimes trials of Holocaust perpetrators, their representation through various means of media, and their reception in the context of the Cold War.By examining the 1964 Klaipėda war crimes trial in Soviet ...
By Sergei I. Zhuk
January 29, 2024
Oriented for a general reading audience, this book gives a unique and rare perspective on the KGB "special operations" in Soviet Ukraine, which targeted especially the USA and Canada, using issues related to Soviet Ukrainian identity and cultural diplomacy of Soviet Ukraine after Stalin’s death in ...