Bøger i East European Monograph serien

Greece was the first country to defeat communist aggression in Europe; Poland, the first Communist country to shake of Communist tyranny and set the stage for the collapse of the Soviet empire. This book shows how Greece and Poland have played key roles in European history. It also examines and compares the development of Hellenism and Polonism.

Focuses on the Horthy Period and assesses the immeasurable human and material costs caused by Arrow-Cross rule and the Soviet dominate provisional wartime administration. This book clarifies various historical factors that affected Hungarian society during this era-including the worldwide financial crisis of the Great Depression.

Moda Polska, young poland, emerged between 1890 and 1918. It was a movement in which Polish intellectuals attempted to combine native forms of expression with the ideals of European modernism to create artistically innovative and inherently Polish work. This title examines the impact of a contemporary movement, Irish-Ireland, on Polish culture.

The legacy of state socialism and Romanian history has affected change in Romania, causing such problems as social stratification, slow economic development, and the failure to create a solid national identity. This book addresses Romania's transition since the fall of the Ceausescu regime in 1989.

Important in light of the second democratic revolution in Russia, in which United States policies of friendship, encouragement, and support are playing a central role.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This book explores the governance, population, trade, craftsmen, and churches of Kamianets-Podilsky and discusses city's enduring significance.

Presents a comprehensive study of the contemporary Romanian economy and its problems. The author critically evaluates Romanian transition and the main issues facing the stability of the Romanian economy, and then proposes solutions to be undertaken by the Romanian government.

Contains the letters of Konstancija Bra eniene written in Lithuania, East Germany, and Siberia between 1944 and 1946. This work reveals a remarkable portrait of survival during the Cold War and post-Cold War period and adaptation to changing political conditions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Lithuania.

Laszlo Bardossy, the Hungarian prime minister who proclaimed war against the Soviet Union and was later executed as a war criminal, remains a controversial figure. Pal Pritz offers readers a rare, balanced interpretation of his life, along with documents from his postwar trial.

A biography of the outstanding Russian general and diplomat Count N.P.Ignat'ev (1832-1908), who negotiated the treaties of Beijing and San Stefano. The book focuses on his career in Central Asia and assesses whether his reputation for masking the truth is deserved.