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A collection of Jan Neruda's intimated, wry, bitter-sweet stories of life among the inhabitants of Mala Strana, the Little Quarter of nineteenth ce...

In Avala Is Falling, Jovanovic's breakout success in 1978, a young woman challenges the expectations that teachers, parents, bus drivers and doctor...

Writing on Water is an attempt to grasp the phenomenon of sound in prayer, that is: a meaning in sounds and soundscapes, and a musical essence in t...

Reducere. Hybrid Renaissance introduces the idea that the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe is an example of cultural...

Reducere. This is the story of an illustrious Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking, Vienna-schooled, Columbia-educated and Harvard-formed middle-class Jewish pr...

Reducere. The Coming Spring (Przedwiosnie), Zeromski's last novel, tells the story of Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who finds himself in Baku, Azerbaijan, then...

The essays in the book compare the Czech Republic and Slovakia since the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The papers deal with the causes of the ...

Reducere. Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz's work is familiar to every Polish reader, yet remains unknown to the outside world. The stories in this selection were all w...

Reducere. Forgacs examines the development of the Bauhaus school of architecture and applied design by focusing on the idea of the Bauhaus, rather than on it...

Publisher: Central European University PressAuthor(s): Alfrun (Professor of West Slavonic Literatures and Cultures, Humboldt University of Berlin) ...

This monograph discusses Portuguese eugenics within a strong international historiographical comparative framework and situates it within different...

Why has communism's humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this c...

After the Berlin Wall tells the inside story of an international financial institution, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)...

This collective volume enhances the discourse on the ideological prerequisites for the emergence of Balkan nationalisms. The Balkans offer classic ...

This volume examines the legacy of the East-West divide since the implosion of the communist regimes in Europe. The ideals of 1989 have largely bee...

Despite an increase in the number of EU and government initiatives in their favor, the situation of Roma in Europe has only worsened.

This collection of essays offers an analysis of the roots of the armed conflicts in the Donbas region of Ukraine, by exploring local society and tr...

Reducere. In an article in 2001 the author analyzed the way Fidesz, the party on government for the first time then, was eliminating the institutional system...

This book illuminates a set of crisis and conflicts that marked the 1920s and 1930s in the area between the Baltic and the Black Seas, demonstratin...

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes this is the most co...

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes this is the most co...

While there are still occasional uses of it today, the term "Central Europe" carries little of the charge that it did in the 1980s and early 1990s,...

In this volume, leading social scientists, empirical analysts, and policy practitioners demonstrate the various ways in which the insights of J nos...

Reducere. An autobiographical account of the armed resistance against the Soviet Union, which took place between 1944-1956. Published in English for the firs...

Reducere. Without the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With An...

Dimitris Stamatopoulos undertakes the first systematic comparison of the dominant ethnic historiographic models and divergences elaborated by Greek...

Reducere. This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used an...

Publisher: Central European University PressAuthor(s): Tibor (Research Chair, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) ValuchIllustration(s): 68 Figures; 17 ...

Publisher: Central European University PressAuthor(s): CsepeliNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 162 x 237 x 19Cover type: Hardb...

Publisher: Central European University PressAuthor(s): Jekatyerina (Assistant Professor, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest) DunajevaIllus...

Publisher: Central European University PressIllustration(s): 11 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 175...

Workers' self-management was one of the unique features of communist Yugoslavia. Goran Music has investigated the changing ways in which blue-colla...

Reducere. This collective work analyzes the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, providing a coherent picture of Ukraine and Eastern Europe in the period 2013-2020. ...

The renowned historian Ivan Berend discusses populist demagoguery through the presentation of 18 politicians from 12 European countries from World ...

This book of thirteen conversations introduces us to the life of an exceptional person--theatre critic, Germanist, and long-time chair of the Open ...

Communist Gourmet presents a lively, detailed account of how the communist regime in Bulgaria determined people's everyday food experience between ...

Publisher: Central European University PressNumber of pages: 320Collection: Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central EuropePublic...

This highly original book provides a social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of ...

Three generations of a family of lawyers have run a firm founded in 1893 in the small city of Becskerek (today in Serbian Zrenjanin), first part of...

Publisher: Central European University PressAuthor(s): Tomasz (Reader in Modern history, University of St Andrews) KamusellaIllustration(s): 42 Map...

By examining the myriad myths surrounding Central European universities, Czech historians Luk s Fasora and Jiř Hanus take a diachronic approach to ...

Fills an important gap in Roth scholarship, placing Roth's major works of fiction in the context of a generational interest in religious redemption...

Reducere. DescriptionEminent social historian Jacob Katz examines the rise and transformation of Jewish communal leadership in Central Europe. It is a story ...

This book clarifies the ways in which the defense policies of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia have responded to the new atmospher...

DescriptionIn this book, James W. Peterson and Jacek Lubecki construct a comparative framework through which to explore post-Cold War defense polic...