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Between 1900 and 1990, there were several periods of grain and other food shortages in Russia and the former Soviet Union, some of which reached disaster proportions resulting in mass famine and death on an unprecedented scale. This title explores the extent to which policy and vagaries in climate conspired to affect agricultural yields.

Details Hungary's place on the map of European literacy rates between the Renaissance and Reformation and the developed, state-organized educational systems of the later 19th century. A broad international comparative analysis between literacy rates and written and oral culture.

This study on the influence of Latin classical texts and traditions in medieval Hungary is based on philological and historical analysis of 11th century sources. It provides important contributions to the philological study of Medieval Latin and the classical tradition in medieval Central Europe. The book includes a bibliography and index.

A collection of essays about the many faces of violence during and after the Cold War. The main themes are war and peace, totalitarianism and nationalism. It concludes with a balance sheet of the 20th century and looks into elements of order and disorder in the current international system.

The story of one man's experiences during the Holocaust of Jews in Hungary in 1944. It provides a compassionate, yet non-judgmental, insight into the daily horrors suffered by all Hungarian Jews during this time.

This volume of essays is dedicated to George Soros in honour of his 70th birthday. The authors come from different worlds of academia, politics and business. The editors have chosen the title to encourage the contributors to adopt a dialogue-oriented approach.

Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This volume is the result of a yearlong project by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise this tumultuous century.

The ten-day 1956 revolution exerted a lasting effect on the fates of the families of those who were imprisoned and executed by the regime in the harsh reprisals that followed. The authors present excerpts from the interviews conducted with the children of those Hungarians.

This volume adds to the historiography of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Based on a multinational scholarly research effort, these formerly secret materials from the archives of both sides of the Cold War offer insights from a variety of national, bureaucratic and personal perspectives.

Until the previous decade, constitutionalism in Eastern Europe was considered to be an outmoded concept of the nineteenth century. Changes in the region, however, have brought back the fundamental question of the need to restrict government power through social self-binding.This book discusses the mechanisms of such restriction, including different forms of the separation of powers and constitutional review. It relates the theoretical and practical importance of the issue to the present world-wide discontent with majoritarian democracy and the growing disrepute of parliaments. Increasing executive efficiency is, however, a threat to fundamental rights, and the battlecry of efficiency is often only a means to new despotism and inefficiency. A careful re-evaluation of the concept of constitutionalism assists in the search for a useful balance between majoritarianism and rights, and in the avoidance of all forms of public tyranny.Written in non-technical language and using the most important English, American, French, and German examples of constitutional history, the book also examines East European (in particular, Russian) and Latin American examples, in part to illustrate certain dead-ends in constitutional development. It is intended to be an introduction for all those concerned with liberty.

The book contains twelve essays by Stephen Holmes, Frances M. Kamm, Mária Ludassy, Steven Lukes, Gyorgy Markus, András Sajó, Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Andrew Arato, Timothy Garton Ash, Béla Greskovits, Will Kymlicka, and Aleksander Smolar. The studies explore a wide scope of subjects that belong to disciplines ranging from moral philosophy, through theory of human rights, democratic transition, constitutionalism, to political economy. The common denominator of the studies collected is their reference to the scholarly output of János Kis, in honor of his sixtieth birthday.János Kis is a distinguished political philosopher who, after many years spent as a dissident under the Communist regime, emerged as an important political figure in Hungary's transition to democracy. Currently he is University Professor of Philosophy at Central European University, Budapest.

Iwaszkiewicz's work is familiar to every Polish reader, yet remains unknown to the outside world. These stories were all written in the 1930s, and provide an extraordinary evocation of Poland's first brief era of independence between the wars. They are also timeless sonatas of love and loss.

This is an analysis of the processes by which the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are being incorporated into a restrictive refugee regime established among the EU member states. It highlights the complex entanglement of domestic policies, European integration and international relations.

In these short stories, Sindbad, a voyager in the realms of memory and imagination, travels through the centuries in pursuit of an ideal love that is directed as much at the feminine essence as at his individual lovers. This text is an erotic elegy to the dying Habsburg empire.

Discusses the process of the economic annihilation of the Jews in Hungary, who- from the economic point of view - were more influential than any other Jewish community in Europe. Following the German occupation in March 1944 the collaborating Hungarian government attempted to assert its claim concerning the complete confiscation of Jewish assets at all stages of the road leading to the extermination camps. The cooperation with the Germans proved to be the most problematic in this area. The story of the Jewish Gold Train is a relatively small but all the more emblematic chapter of the economic annihilation. The circumstances of the freight's assembling, the German-Hungarian conflicts concerning the train, the looting attempts, the fate of the assets seized by the Allies (double victimization of the survivors) provide the reader with an insight into the history of the repeated looting of the Hungarian Jewry.

Polish liberalism has generally been considered weak or nonexistent. Janowski, however, argues that 19th century Poland inherited a strong protoliberal tradition and that in mid-19th century, liberalism was dominant in Polish intellectual life.

This title provides the first detailed, empirically based examination from a structural and organizational perspective of the new parties and political groupings that have emerged in Poland since the collapse of Communism in 1989.

This work addresses the widely held belief that liberal democracy embodies an uneasy compromise of incompatible values - those of liberal rights on the one hand, and democratic equality on the other.