Bøger i Eastern European Studies serien

Travel to post-Soviet Siberia and the Russian Far East with author Sharon Hudgins as she takes readers on a personal adventure through the Asian side of Russia - an area closed to most Westerners and many Russians prior to the 1990s.

Painting a picture not only of her own life, but also of the lives of other Muslims, especially women, in the former Yugoslavia, Hadzisehovic sheds light on the history of Yugoslavia from the interwar kingdom to the break-up of the socialist state.

An account of the Balkans war during the 1990s. Greece being the only member of NATO and the EU to support Milosevic's regime in the conflict, it looks at Greek-Serbian relations and the difficult question of how the Greek people could ignore Serbian war crimes.

Gives readers a look at the brief, doomed struggle of Hungarian freedom fighters against Russian oppressors. This work sketches the conflict between university students, factory workers, and Hungarian nationalists on the one side and the hated Hungarian secret police and Russian army troops on the other.

In the spring and summer of 1956 the Soviet Union invaded Hungary to reassert control of the country. This text is a full analysis, drawing on archival collections from the Eastern bloc countries to reinterpret decision making during this Cold War crisis.

Author Obolonsky interprets Russian history from the Time of Troubles and the reign of Ivan the Terrible to perestroika, glasnost and the dismantling of the Soviet system. Through a reconsideration of Russia's past, he assesses the social and political realities that will shape the future.

This memoir assesses life under a Communist regime. It attacks the stigma of the grim, fightening and oppressive regime but also describes the author's own coming to terms with the harm done by compliance and his gradual shift into a more active political stance.

Surrounded by terror and genocide, Naza Tanovic-Miller and her family witnessed starvation, rape and murder during the war in Bosnia and the tense days and nights that led up to it. In this testimony, she gives a personal account of these events and identifies the perpetrators of the crisis.

During World War II, German units known as the Einsatzgruppen were formed with the charge of executing targeted groups. After the war, many Einsatzgruppen members were brought to trial. This work examines the trial evidence in search of characteristics shared by these mass murderers.