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 ...
By Béla Bodó
October 14, 2024
This book examines political humor as a reaction to the lost war, the post-war chaos, and antisemitic violence in Hungary between 1918 and 1922. While there is an increased body of literature on Jewish humor as a form of resistance and a means of resilience during the Holocaust, only a handful of ...
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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 1957–1961, is the second 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 Tibor Valuch
September 06, 2024
This book examines social change in Hungary, commencing with the period of late-stage socialism, the country’s immediate post-communist transition, its subsequent consolidation and the emergence of authoritarian leadership since 2010. The volume seeks to employ a longitudinal and comparative ...
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By Julie Deschepper, Antony Kalashnikov, Federica Rossi
July 05, 2024
This edited volume offers an original exploration into the ways in which Soviet culture and experience of time were unique, examining the temporalities expressed in the world of socialist things: from the objects of everyday life to urban architecture. Grounding the analysis of Soviet temporalities...
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) ...
By Barbora Buzássyová
June 03, 2024
This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds during the three “development decades.” Starting in ...
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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. ...