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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.

By 1989 it was obvious that the majority of Hungary's population wanted fundamental political, economic and social changes. These essays examine the components of the peaceful transition that over a ten-year period led to democracy in Hungary.

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.

Kornai presents an assessment of Hungary's transition from a socialist to a market economy. In a comprehensive critique of socialist economy reform, Kornai explains how the system's ideological and political attributes deny the idea of "market socialism."

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.

This collection of seminal studies sheds light on many controversial issues relating to the Holocaust in Hungary. The author, regarded as the world's leading authority on the catastrophe that befell Hungarian Jewry during the Nazi era, explores the factors that made the Hungarian chapter of the Holocaust unique.

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.

This text examines President Woodrow Wilson's policies regarding the future of the Danubian basin. It reveals that American attitudes and policies toward Hungarian participation in the Dual Monarchy were influenced by propaganda, the domestic American press and the demands of diplomacy.

MacKenzie deals in general terms with the historical relationship of the two groups and describes the roles of four important Serbian leaders who contributed to Yugoslav unification and national development before the second World War.

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.

The selections represent many generations of poets, from Veronica Micle and Matilda Cugler-Poni in the nineteenth century, to Magda Isanos and the interwar poets, to such important contemporary poets as Ana Blandiana and Daniela Crasnaru, and younger poets, such as Carmen Firan and Carmen Veronica Steiciuc

Low is the first historian to focus on the links between earlier post-war German judgments and those of the 1980s, showing that recent revisionist arguments are strikingly similar to older views by extremist German nationalists, neoconservatives, and unrepentant Nazis.

This collection of essays traces the roots of right-wing politics in pre-communistic Eastern Europe and examines right-wing tendencies following the break-up of the communist regimes. The common elements of nationalism, xenophobia and ethnic and religious intolerance are scrutinized.

Describes how the politics and culture of the American colonies - later the United States - had a crucial impact on Hungarian thought, deeply influencing the outcome of the Hungarian Age of Reform.

The second of a three-volume collection of studies focusing on Joseph Conrad's Polish roots and his contributions as a British writer.