Communism in Eastern Europe, Paperback - ***

Communism in Eastern Europe is a groundbreaking new survey of the history of Eastern Europe since 1945. It examines how Communist governments came ...

DescriptionHow homophobic backlash unexpectedly strengthened mobilization for LGBT political rights in post-communist Europe While LGBT activism ha...

This book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern E...

Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences in Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why many E...

The volume offers an exploration of communism in Central and Eastern Europe through the prism of generation and gender. Both concepts are used as a...

Reducere. Drakulic's composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to. --The New Yorker An evocative and time...

The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was supposed to bring about the "end of history" with capitalism and liberal democ...

At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin a...

National Book Award Finalist TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012Best Nonf...

Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, cu...

The most serious threat to Soviet rule in Eastern Europe before the collapse of communism in 1989.

There was life before the fall. 1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Ea...

This book intends to be a contribution to the varieties of capitalism paradigm. The theoretical background is Weber 's theory of legitimacy. Was co...

A riveting account of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

A stunningly evocative eye-witness account of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989, reissued with a new chapter to coin...

Reducere. Communist humor is the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. Th...

Will to Freedom is an eyewitness account of the social and political upheaval that shook Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. As an ...

Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Verdery investigates why certain corpse...

The contributions to this edited volume discuss constitutional politics in 20 Central and Eastern European countries. The country chapters describe...

Reducere. Develop geography literacy while learning about the unique characteristics of Europe The 7 Continents: Europe helps students learn about Europe thr...

Reducere. On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Michael Meyer recounts the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold ...

Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world's most acclaimed travel writer re-creates hi...

After an improbable beginning, Richard Thomas's diplomatic career took him to some unlikely places, like Bhutan where his motor-scooter spawned an ...

Reducere. Featuring an extensive, provocative introduction by historian Martin Malia, this authorized English translation of The Communist Manifesto, edited ...

DescriptionThe collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study...

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...

DescriptionWWII was over, but in 1947, the challenge of rebuilding France had just begun. Fields were still pock-marked with ordnance and weather h...

In this pathbreaking new history, Maja and Reuben Fowkes introduce outstanding artworks and major figures from across central and Eastern Europe to...

At the end of World War II, the Soviet Army pushed the Nazi's out of Eastern Europe and began to occupy it. It was 1945 when they invaded Hungary a...

DescriptionIn January 2006, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp's Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo's David...

Reducere. A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing c...

Reducere. From the bestselling, acclaimed author of Tully and The Bronze Horseman comes the unforgettable love story between a college-bound young woman and ...

Reducere. The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel PrizeThe south of Chi...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an 'Iro...

Reducere. Giving voice to people living on the periphery in post-communist Bulgaria, Four Minutes centers around Leah, an orphan who suffered daily horrors g...

This selection of writings from the most important moments in the history of Christianity has become established as a classic reference work, provi...

Reducere. PLEASE READ: "Dracula: But the Count Runs Half Marathons" is an affront to classic literature and everyone who loves it. By adding a single sentenc...

Reducere. Rich in the social upheaval of the communist revolution in Eastern Europe, Uncommon Providence is a first hand, journaled account of a young minist...

Reducere. In a book written while he was president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel combines the same powerful eloquence, moral passion, and abiding wisdom th...

Reducere. Competitive authoritarian regimes in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse proliferated ...

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

Reducere. Eloquent . . . immensely readable . . . the saga of the victory of capitalism over the brutal and irrational fraud that was state socialism.--The B...

In this modern classic of global feminist literature, the only novel by one of Romania's most heralded poets, styled as a long letter addressed to ...

Reducere. Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes is a story of movement. Moving from city to city characterized the author's growing up--from Poland to Be...

DescriptionKen Smith (1938-2003) was a major voice in world poetry, his work and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets. His...

It's Raining in Moscow is a novel that goes both beyond and stays this side of history -- the history of a family, of the post-1945 deportations, o...

Reducere. What exactly is film comedy and what is the basis for its widespread appeal? Film Comedy uses formal, socio-historical and industrial perspectives ...

Focusing on Romania from 1945 to 2016, Socialist Heritage explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy ...

DescriptionWhen the world held its breath ...It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 194...