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East European Monographs Joseph Conrad – Between Literary Techniques and Their Messages
Thirteen contributors from a variety of backgrounds tackle the use of irony, contrast, narrative, themes of belonging, Englishness, imperialism, portrayals of women, and conceptions of truth and evil as they were expressed in the work of Joseph Conrad. Wieslaw Krajka expands Conrad criticism to explore the modernist's mastery of literary technique and his contribution to visions of humanity. Krajka's collection opens with two essays that explore the identity of Conrad, his characters, and his narrators, and then engages with the ideology, philosophy, and ethics of Conrad's fiction, especially the balance he strikes between literary technique and the meanings those techniques convey.
£16.99
East European Monographs On Behalf of Their Homeland – Fifty Years of SVU: An Eyewitness Account of the History of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences
The Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) is a unique cultural organization established to rehabilitate Czechoslovakia's image abroad, which, in 1958, had become tarnished by communism. Founded by Czechoslovak intellectuals, SVU promotes scientific and cultural activities and has set up chapters in major cities around the world. This volume, written by one of the Society's founders, details the fascinating history of the SVU over the past fifty years.
£52.37
East European Monographs Linguistic Changes in Post–Communist Eastern Europe and Eurasia
The disintegration of the Marxist-Leninist sociopolitical system not only changed the political, economic, socio-cultural, and psychological realities of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, it changed the linguistic situation of the region as well. Written by distinguished scholars, the ten case studies in this volume focus on the language policies and linguistic developments in post-communist Eastern Europe and Eurasia and the impact of globalization, democratization, and technological advancements on their languages.
£48.99
East European Monographs Hungary Between the Two World Wars
Maria Ormos 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 all the historical factors that affected Hungarian society during this era-including the worldwide financial crisis of the Great Depression. Ormos analyzes Hungary's economic and market ties with Germany and the subsequent exploitation of Hungarian resources. She also identifies 1932 as a year when limited economic recovery and diplomatic success shifted to the exploitation of Hungary for German war preparation. Finally, this volume analyzes the process of realignment of Hungarian society in the context of vital areas of land tenure and educational, scientific, and social policy.
£59.27
East European Monographs Art and Design in Romania, 1866–1927 – Local and International Aspects of the Search for National Expression
This study provides an in-depth overview of the development of a national identity in Romanian art, architecture and design at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. By exploring the political, cultural and artistic forces that molded the emerging art scene, the text represents the first synthetic attempt to examine the interrelationship of the Romanian arts as a whole. Kallestrup also makes available relevant unpublished materials which highlight the international significance of artists who were previously little known outside of Romania.
£50.85
East European Monographs Brothers from the North – The Polish Democratic Society and the European Revolutions of 1848–1849
This volume is a study of the most important organization of Polish political exiles in Western Europe during the revolutions of 1848-1849, with a focus on the group's actions in France. It recounts the group's political and military activities in France, Germany, Hungary and their own partitioned Polish homeland. Founded in 1832, the Polish Democratic Society gradually emerged as the largest political organization engaged in the restoration of an independent Polish state. This study recounts the story of the Polish Democratic Society's fortunes from a time of complete optimism in March of 1848 to the time of defeat and repression in July of 1849 when the organization was banned by the French government and its leaders were expelled from France.
£40.32
East European Monographs The Second Life
Set in New York City and Eastern Europe, these stories explore the indelible mark left by unexpected historical and personal traumas. Firan effortlessly blends elements of realism and fantasy to create a rich and spellbinding narrative world. Each story revolves around a middle-aged male protagonist, who struggles to find meaning in his life as he experiences failure and desperately reaches out in pursuit of happiness.
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East European Monographs Romania in Harm′s Way 1939–1941
This books deals with the grave, some times insurmountable, difficulties encountered by the Romanian state in the period from 1939-1941. Occupying a strategic position and rich in economic resources, Romania was caught between the ambitions of the German Reich and the Soviet Union. An agreement reached between these two powers in 1939 caused Romania to lose territories to her neighbors in the east, west and south; their disagreement a year later, together with the German promise of recovering such lost territories in the east and west compelled Romania to join the Axis powers in their military campaign conducted in 1941 against the Soviet Union.
£49.61
East European Monographs Imagining an Austrian Nation – Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Search for a Supraethnic Austrian Identity, 1846 – 1918
This book examines attempts to cultivate an Austrian identity based on a civic rather than an ethnic conception of a national community. It focuses on the ideas of Joseph Samuel Bloch, an Austrian-Jewish writer and politician who sought to cultivate a civic identity to unify the nationalities of multiethnic Austria. Bloch called for a hyphenated Austrian consciousness that respected the desire to protect pre-existing ethnic, cultural, religious, and linguistic bonds while building transethnic ties based on citizenship. This study also analyzes the ideas of his mentor, Adolf Fischhof, another Austrian-Jewish reform-minded politician. Finally, it compares Bloch's ideas to those of other Austrian reformers of various ethnic and political backgrounds in order to discover how they conceived of a supraethnic Austrian consciousness. "Imagining an Austrian Nation" explores the meaning of nationalism and identity in a pluralistic society, issues that confound humanity as much in the twenty-first century as they did in the nineteenth.
£42.30
East European Monographs Through the Prism of the Habsburg Monarchy – Hungary in American Diplomacy & Public Opinion During World War 1
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.
£46.08
East European Monographs Studies on Kosova
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East European Monographs The Europeanization of Portuguese Democracy
Driven primarily by political concerns to secure democracy, Portugal's accession to the EU in 1986 also served as a catalyst for dynamic economic development following a complex process of democratization and the decolonization of Europe's last empire. This book analyses how the European Union has helped shape the political process in Portugal on key institutions, elites, and its citizen's attitudes.
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East European Monographs Hungarian–Russian Economic Relations, 1920–1941
This book is the first monograph-length study based on archival research in Hungary and Russia. It examines the history of Hungary's attempts to establish and carry on trade relations with the Soviet Union during the interwar years. For Hungary, economic relations were motivated by the need for raw materials for its industries and a market for its finished industrial products. For the Soviet Union economic ties with Hungary were based on political considerations.
£40.50
East European Monographs Minority Hungarian Communities in the Twentieth Century
The authors review the twentieth-century history of Hungarian communities that became minorities within Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Austria after World War I. They trace these developments over ninety years of social, political, economic, and cultural upheaval and examine in detail the relationship between such communities and the majority nations in which they found themselves. The volume also follows changes in these groups' political and legal statuses.
£61.20
East European Monographs The Memory of the Habsburg Empire in German, Austrian, and Hungarian Right–Wing Historiography and Political Thinking, 1918–1941
By reproducing the political and historiographical debates surrounding the legacy of the Habsburg Empire, this book follows the transformation of historico-political thinking during the two world wars. This transformation began in Germany, where volkish streams of the Conservative Revolution offered a radical new interpretation of history. These reading focused on the unchanging essence of the Volk and treated a certain idea of the Habsburg past as inorganic, "derailing" history and conflicting with the true calling of the German people. The volkish movement and its historiography both inspired and challenged Austrian and Hungarian intellectuals, asking them to either adopt or resist this new philosophy and the politics it represented. Building a history out of the realignment of German thought and its affect on small states within Germany's cultural orbit, this volume richly recounts the clash between domestic tradition and imported "innovations."
£61.20
East European Monographs The Place of Russia in Europe and Asia
Gyula Szvak selects essays from the proceedings of the international seminars that took place between 1998 and 2008 under the auspices of the Russian Studies Center, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. Among the contributors are Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Paul Dukes, Nancy S. Kollman, Maureen Perry, and the recently deceased Ruslan G. Skyrnnikov.
£37.80
East European Monographs Hungarian Americans in the Current of History
In twelve essays on Hungarian-American history, the authors discuss Louis Kossuth's tumultuous mid-nineteenth-century visit to the United States, the political activities of Hungarian-Americans during and after World War II, and the question of dual and multiple identities, among many other topics.
£45.00
East European Monographs Romania Since 1989
The history of post-communist Romania has largely been read through a prism of political and economic change: the rise of democracy and capitalism snuffed out the crimes of communism, and the country rejoiced at the prospect of increased liberty and prosperity. World authorities on the history of Romania challenge and expand these popular narratives of transition, painting a fuller portrait of the country's long and difficult liberation.
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East European Monographs Ruling Elites and Decision–Making in Fascist–Era Dictatorships
Focusing on the ruling elites of Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain, and Salazar's Portugal, this volume explains the relationships and power dynamics that support a dictator's rule.
£37.80
East European Monographs From Dictatorship to Democracy – The Birth of the Third Hungarian Republic, 1988–2001
Ignacs Romsics provides an in-depth account of Hungary's history between the collapse of Communism and the re-emergence of a Hungarian parlimentary republic. Drawing on the debates that have grown out of the political opposition, he focuses on the reformist efforts of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party. Romsics documents the period that brought a resurgence in mutliparty government and established a political and legal basis for the Third Hungarian Republic. Subsequently, in 1990, early measures of the Antall government and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and Comecon ushered in Hungary's decisive political and economic turn to the West. The author provides an additional historical account of economic, social, political, and cultural changes from 1990 to 2006, including a study of the policy regarding ethnic Hungarian minorities in neighboring countries.
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East European Monographs Ideas on Territorial Revision in Hungary, 1920–1945
After World War I, Hungarian society became focused on revising the terms of the Peace Treaty of Trianon. This title examines the thinking behind the renegotiation of post-treaty boundaries.
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East European Monographs From Dissident Party to Party Politics – The Struggle for Democracy on Post–Communist Hungary, 1989–1994
Bernard Ivan Tamas lays out the history of the struggle for democracy in the early years of transition, addressing the problem of competence in party politics and democratization and the consequences of amateurism and inexperience.
£34.20
East European Monographs Bibliography of Sources on the Region of Former Yugoslavia v2
In this second volume, Rusko Matulic continues to formulate a comprehensive bibliography of primarily published sources relating to the history, languages, literature, politics, government, religion, and social sciences of former Yugoslavia, including bibliographical materials on expatriates.
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East European Monographs Infamy and Revolt – The Rise of the National Problem in Early Modern Greek Thought
Historians have long speculated on the role played by the Enlightenment in the rise of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The present volume offers a new perspective on this subject through an examination of the Greek Enlightenment, its aspirations, and its relationship to the larger European Republic of Letters. Scholars of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe will gain access in these pages to rare and in some cases never before translated works from the time period; works that offer fresh and far-reaching insights into the nature, origin and development of nationalist movements.
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East European Monographs Jovan Ristic – Outstanding Serbian Statesman
This is the first comprehensive biography of Jovan Ristic, one of Serbia's leading political figures during the second half of the nineteenth century. Known for his diplomatic skills at the height of his career between 1868 and 1880, Ristic became one of the most successful negotiators during Serbia's dialogue with other European powers and the Ottoman Empire.
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East European Monographs National Reconciliation in Eastern Europe
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.
£36.00
East European Monographs The Soviet Administration in Northern Transylvania November 1944 – March 1945
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.
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East European Monographs U.S.–Soviet Relations During the Détente
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 the stage of the decomposition of the Soviet empire. For the first time, the superpowers engaged in a voluntary dialogue to normalize their strained relations after some 50 years of hostility and place their rivalries within a cooperative framework. as a privileged partner of the United States, the Soviet Union assumed the position of equality with the leading world power, a position which was exploited for political and moral advantage.
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East European Monographs An Anthology of Romanian Women Poets
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
£22.00
East European Monographs Aspects of Conrad′s Literary Language
Why did Joseph Conrad avoid using English, except when it came to the arduous task of writing fiction? And how do we account for his extensive "borrowing" from French writers? This psycholinguistic examination delves into the creative mind of Conrad in an attempt to decipher his learning and use of three languages, Polish, French, and English. Following a trail of syntactical eccentricities and considerable stylistic variations, Lucas shows how these features interact to produce Conrad's idiosyncratic style.
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East European Monographs The Second Vienna Award and the Hungarian–Romanian Relations, 1940–1944
This study examines the direct political and diplomatic antecedents, circumstances and consequences of the Second Vienna Award. It focuses on the development of the bilateral relations and the minority issues until the time of the Romanian breakaway from the war, August 23, 1944. The author sought to include a broad base of sources of Hungarian and Romanian archives, the available diplomatic collection of documents, the Hungarian and foreign scientific literature, the press, and the memoirs of contemporary actors.
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East European Monographs The Way We Lived – Memoirs from a Romanian Past, 1944–1988
This volume covers the author's life in the years 1944-1988. Born into privilege immediately before World War II, the author lived through the turbulent years of early Communism and later the Ceausescu-era dictatorship. Changes in government policy regarding class-warfare affected her family both professionally and personally.
£58.20
East European Monographs Balkan Cultural Legacies – Historical, Literary, and Fine Arts Perceptions
The land, people, and history of the Balkan Peninsula have often attracted the attention of foreign historians and writers. Yet a lack of research in primary sources and an absence of critical evaluations of Serbian, Bosnian, and Croatian histories undermines the credibility of such work. This collection, penned by eminent historians, examines Balkan cultural legacies in a variety of contexts. They combine approaches from history, literature, fine arts, and architecture, and address issues crucial to the cultural identities of the Balkans and Serbia in particular. Topics range from the activities of the Middle Ages to the early disintegration of Yugoslavia. Contributors focus on the question of territory and people and their geographical proximity. They examine commonalities of language, history, and cultural legacies, and revise perceptions of nationalism and ethnicity through an exploration of historical records and the political borders of state sovereignty.
£49.21
East European Monographs Risky Region – Memoirs of a Hungarian Righteous Gentile
Eugene de Thassy describes life in Hungary between 1920 and 1945. He details his wartime experiences as a young army officer and joining with the antifascist resistance. His absorbing recollections recount efforts to save Jews and others facing persecution at a time of extreme difficulty and danger.
£68.10
East European Monographs The Nature of Fascism Revisited
Leading experts review the theory and historiography of fascism, discussing how developments within the social sciences have changed research practices and how genocide, religion, ideology, political violence, and gender work withing the study's framework.
£48.80
East European Monographs Studies in Social Organization – Ethnicity, Class, Politics
In this third volume of the author's scholarly work, twenty-five articles address topics important to Greek society, culture, and politics. Topics discussed include ethnonationalism, civil-military relations, class consciousness, and the Olympic Games.
£59.51
East European Monographs The Soviet and Hungarian Holocaust – A Comparative Essay
Based on newly available archival sources, Krausz examines the holocaust in the Soviet Union and contrasts it with the genocide in Hungary. He studies the roots of Soviet anti-Semitism and its impact on politics before the holocaust. He also explains why the holocaust was a taboo subject in Eastern Europe before the collapse of communism.
£31.02
East European Monographs The Emancipation of the Serfs in Eastern Europe
This volume, by Hungary's preeminent scholar of Eastern European social history, illustrates the similarities and differences among the region's social and governmental structures by focusing on the cases of Prussia, Mecklenburg, the Habsburg Empire, the Russian empire, and Romania.
£58.54
East European Monographs Sowing the Seeds of Hatred – Anti–Jewish Laws and Hungarian Public Opinion, 1938–1944
Analysis of public opinion leading up to and including World War II inevitably raises the issue of responsibility for the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry. Reviewing both archival material and contemporary sources, this book asks how extremist publications, full of hatred against Jews, affected contemporaries. Why was it that Hungarian society ignored the dangers threatening Jews in Europe, including Hungary? Janos Pelle looks for answers in contemporary and modern literature in the psychology and contrasts theories in operation at those tragic times with current information.
£48.91
East European Monographs From Totalitarian to Democratic Hungary – Evolution and Transformation, 1990–1999
By 1989 it was obvious that the majority of Hungary's population wanted fundamental political economic and social changes. The situation resembled what prevailed in 1956 in Hungary, when massive Soviet aggression suppressed a newborn democracy. This time it was totally up to the Hungarians. This volume by leading Hungarian and Western scholars exposes the political, economic, moral, legal judicial and cultural components of the peaceful transition that over a ten-year period led to genuine democracy in Hungary.
£76.42
East European Monographs Semiotics of Visual Languages
Bogdan sets forth criteria and methods of a structural analysis of the pictorial language as a first step toward a more adequate understanding of the semiotic system of visual arts. A structural approach to this pictorial language is presented along with a discussion of an information-processing model applied to optical illusions and computer simulations, and treatment of specifically paradigmatic case studies. Bogdan also discusses the Funeral Monument of Targu Jiu by Constantin Brancusi, one of the most important innovators in modern art.
£35.54
East European Monographs The Politics of Genocide – The Holocaust in Hungary
The third revised and updated edition of this comprehensive two-volume history by one of the world's leading experts on the Holocaust provides unparalleled perspective on the destruction of Hungarian Jewry during the Nazi era. A critical component of any collection on the Holocaust, this work not only provides a detailed chronicle of the complex domestic and international developments that led to one of World War II's darkest events but also works as a complete reference of maps, dates, people, and other essential, hard-to-find materials. This edition identifies and analyzes within Hungarian history, world history, and international politics the historical, political, ideological, and socioeconomic factors that shaped the attitudes and policies of the Holocaust's main players. An exhaustive resource of everything we now know, The Politics of Genocide is essential reading for a richer understanding of this atrocity and its legacy.
£151.05
East European Monographs Frozen and Forgotten Conflicts in the Post–Soviet States – Genesis, Political Economy, and Prospects for Solution
Unsettled and uncertain situations still persist in the former Soviet states of Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, posing a serious threat to the stability of civil society, democratic institutions, and the pursuit of human rights. The cry "no peace, no war" drives the consolidation of separatist regimes and transforms them into de facto states. At the same time, this stalemate undermines the sovereignty and territorial integrity of legitimate states, obstructing their political, social, and economic development and contributing to an ongoing sense of tension. Ceslav Ciobanu identifies the historical roots of these conflicts and proposes effective solutions, paying attention to external factors, such as the EU, the UN, and the relationship between Russia and the United States.
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East European Monographs Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imaginary
Contributors follow the impact of post-Cold War globalization on Central-East European literatures, cultures, and theoretical-ideological debates, particularly literary and cultural-artistic trends such as experimentalism, the neo-avant-garde, and postmodernism. Essays investigate the new configurations of theme, form, and ideology that emerged in these former communist countries after 1989 and the ways artists, critics, and intellectuals have imagined themselves, their countries, and their world as it globalizes. Contributors combine literary-aesthetic and cultural-historical approaches while remaining sensitive to transnational developments.
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East European Monographs The Unfinished Peace – The Council of Foreign Ministers and the Hungarian Peace Treaty of 1947
Already published to critical acclaim in Romania and France, The Unfinished Peace examines the impact of the Council of Foreign Ministers on Hungary in the aftermath of World War II. The end of the war did not result in an overall, Versailles-type settlement. Instead, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain established a forum for peacemaking that resulted in the Hungarian Peace Treaty of 1947. With its harsh territorial redistribution and clauses demanding reparation, the treaty generated the opposite of peace. It failed to establish a true concord among the peoples of the Carpathian Basin and provoked further unrest. The book follows these tensions and connects them back to the flaws of the treaty.
£45.00
East European Monographs A Possible and Desirable Pension System
Josef Banyar and Jozsef Meszaros address issues surrounding the pension systems of developed countries, as well as societies that are experiencing falling birth rates and rising life expectancies. The authors focus on Hungary because it excellently illustrates the difficulties and demographic challenges facing Central Europe as it transforms economically.
£37.80
East European Monographs The Impact of Irish–Ireland on Young Poland, 1890–1918
Moda Polska (Young Poland) emerged between 1890 and 1918. It was a unique 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. John. A. Merchant examines the impact of a contemporary movement, Irish-Ireland, on Polish culture during the same period. He traces both Young Poland and Irish-Ireland's ideas of culture and politics while analyzing their geopolitical differences. Of all the different cultural and political influences that helped shape Young Poland, the Irish-Ireland movement represents one of the most intriguing and, historically, the most overlooked.
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East European Monographs On the Road to Freedom – Canadian–East European Relations, 1963–1991
Balawyder explores how cultural, academic, commercial, and scientific exchanges with Canada played an important role in the "confidence building" that led to independence throughout Eastern Europe. This volume also contains interviews with eleven Canadian diplomats who served in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
£31.50
