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This is a remarkable reconstruction of the idealogical evolution of a once idealistic young Romanian historian and journalist during the years of Romanian communist rule. It is based primarily on his personal acquaintance with notable Romanian and foreign intellectuals of that time, and their works.
This book explores the governance, population, trade, craftsmen, and churches of Kamianets-Podilsky and discusses city's enduring significance.
Why was it that Hungarian society ignored the dangers threatening Jews in Europe, including Hungary? Janos Pelle looks for answers in contemporary and modern literature in the psychology and contrasts theories in operation at those tragic times with current information.
Offers an account of the last two weeks of September 1938, chronicling Czechoslovakia's approach to the Munich pact. This book recounts the painful experience of the Sudeten Crisis, the Munich Diktatof September 1938, Hitler's invasion of Prague six months later, and the formation of Edvard Benes' government-in-exile.
Specialists focus on Hungary's outstanding achievments in various fields, notably technology, literature and the arts, and sport. The volume includes a biographical dictionary, map, and illustrations.
A survey of 500 years of change in Eastern Europe, this title looks at the structural elements in the early period, such as the lack of organized states and the existence of nomadic states, before examining the disappearance, assimilation, and recurrence of ethnic cultures over time and the formation of modern states.
This book examines an Austrian identity based on a civic, rather than an ethnic conception of a national community. It analyzes the ideas of Joseph Samuel Bloch, an Austrian Jewish writer and politician, and compares them to those of other Austrian political thinkers of various ethnic and political backgrounds in order to discover how these individuals imagined a supraethnic Austrian nation.
This book surveys and illustrates the historical forms of Romanian house decoration, elements of innovation in the tradition (in design, materials, methods, etc.) and examines the aesthetics of the designs as well as their metaphorical and symbolic functions.
Pavel Campeanu was a cellmate of the man who was to become Romania's leader--Nicolae Ceausescu. Based largely on hitherto unavailable documents, the book focuses on the ascendance of Nicolae Ceausescu from a mere member of the Romanian Communist Party to that of leader of the monstrous Party and State apparatus that collapsed in 1989.
An examination of the dual policy Hungary pursued in the 1930s, through which it aimed to revise the Peace Treaty of Trianon by enlisting the help of the fascist powers. Despite its preference for Italian support, Hungary was forced into the German orbit by the late 30s.
Lavishly illustrated, the book tells the story of the men and women, laity and clergy, who built and sustained the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America from 1873 to today.
Milovan Djilas, the Yugoslav writer, poet, and statesman, predicted that the Hungarian Revolution would be the beginning of the end of the Soviet Empire. Raymond Aron prophesied that 1956 was even in its defeat a victory. This book tests their vision.
After the coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948, the Communists tried to "reprogramme" the teachers and student body at the University and Medical School in Bratislava by intimidation, "re-education" and social engineering. This book documents the consequences on the university and Czech society.
The collapse of European communist regimes provided social scientists with an opportunity to observe the birth of new political institutions and to examine the effect of political behavior on institutional change. This book explores the extent to which social capital affected the performance of one such institution, the Romanian county council.
This book presents thirteen articles by leading scholars offering different approaches to mediating, facilitating, and resolving ethnic and class tensions, based on case studies in Hungary, Bulgaria, the Baltic States, and Yugoslavia. Among the topics discussed are higher education, the role of women, nationalism, minorities, and religion.
The third volume of a three-volume history of Transylvania, designed to present Transylvanian history in a European context and with due attention to Transylvania's links to Hungary, the Habsburg Empire, the Romanian Principalities, Turkey and other states of Europe.
This is the first systematic study of the Sovietization of northern Transylvania, ceded to Hungary by the Vienna Diktat of 1940. This historiography of that transitional period fills an imortant gap in the existing research.
This story of an anthropological expedition to Albania in 1929 is an account of the rugged Highlands as seen by an Albanian that presents a faithful portrayal of Northern Albania as it was more than seventy years ago.
This is detailed account of the character and problems of Polish emigres in the United States from the end of the Polish uprising of 1830 to the end of the second Polish uprising of 1863. Stasik presents the activities of the Polish political exiles in the United States over a period of more than thirty years, explaining many of the basic causes of the emigration.
This volume is a major contribution to Hungarian economic history since the middle of the nineteenth century. In this first volume of three on the evolution of that economy, the authors focus on the beginnings of the modern capitalist economy (1848-1914), on economic nationalism (1918-1944) and on the socialist attempt at modernization (1945-1989).
Provides a detailed historical account of the evolution of Hungarian politics and governmental structures and activities from the Revolution of 1848-1849 to the end of the twentieth century. It comprises 15 studies on various aspsects of the subject by distinguished Hungarian scholars.
This volume consists of twenty studies on problems related to "transition to democracy" in central and eastern Europe during the decade following the collapse of communist states. The book focuses on preconditions and problems of transitions, case studies, patterns of performance and consolidation and inter-regional comparative aspects.
This work examines Mikhail M. Speranskii's attempt to codify Russian law in the 1820s and 1830s - a major bureaucratic project. Based on material from the Manuscript Division of the Russian National Library and the Russian State Historical Archives, a picture of the codification efforts emerges.
This study examines the Austrian and Hungarian government's attempts to stabilize their international, domestic and social conditions and legitimize themselves in the new European order after World War I.
Dealing with the history and collapse of the Soviet empire, this work is an account of the atrocities committed behind the Iron Curtain. The book looks at the Ukraine, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia to give a picture of the suffering.
This book contains 19 studies by leading experts in the field of Hungarian political, cultural, economic, and literary history to honor Steven Bela Vardy, America's leading historiographer of Hungary and an internationally renowned scholar of Hungarian immigration studies.
In the aftermath of the Kosovo Crisis, it is said that Macedonia will be next. This volume provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of the Macedonian Question. The essays included illustrate the intimate connections between culture and ethnic politics in Macedonia
While most studies of the Holocaust stop in 1945, the year of the liberation and the official end of the Holocaust, Tamas Stark follows the fate of the Hungarian Jews until the Communist takeover in the late 1940s. The author goes on to cover the enlarged, war-years territory of Hungary, and then to a detailed comparison of the destruction of Jewish communities and the emigration of the survivors.
Exploring how the early 1970s were years of crucial significance in the bipolar world which prevailed until the collapse of the Soviet Union, this volume reveals this period as a stage of the decomposition of the Soviet empire.
There are many established theories concerning political quiescence and dissent in Soviet-era eastern Europe. This book--drawing on newly accessible archival data and over one hundred interviews conducted with communists, dissidents, and by-standers in Poland and East Germany--challenges them.
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