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Investigating the registers of fifteenth-century supplications to the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See, this title presents an analysis of a multiplicity of issues in which a context of the local needs of Western Christians and the central power of the Pope occurred.

This narrative of peasant unrest in Russia during 1905 - 1906 combines a chronology of incidents drawn from official documents, with close analysis of the villages associated with the disorders based upon detailed census materials compiled by local specialists. The analysis concentrates on a single province: Kursk Oblast.

Research on the folklore genre of charms became extremely dynamic around the turn of the millennium.A number of academic disciplines allied to explore manuscripts about healing and other textual relics of verbal magic from antiquity and the middle ages.

This book approaches the deportation process from the local level; its aim is to understand what these processes meant from the perspective of the Estonian rural population.

This volume is the first of two containing hagiographical narratives from medieval Central Europe. The lives of the saints in this volume, from the tenth to eleventh centuries, written not much later, are telling witnesses for the process of Christianization of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Dalmatia.

An autobiographical account of the armed resistance against the Soviet Union, which took place between 1944-1956. Published in English for the first time in unabridged form, Luksa's memoir remains one of the few reliable eye-witness accounts of the "e;Invisible Front"e;, as dubbed by Soviet security forces. At its zenith 28,000 guerilla fighters participated in battles and skirmishes throughout Lithuania, LukA a (partisan codename Daumantas) being one of the leaders.Forest Brothersalso documents the role of women in the resistance, giving equal credit to these often silent partners. In 1948 LukA a and two comrades broke through the Iron Curtain on the Polish border. He sought training from the French intelligence and from the CIA. LukA a was flown back into the Soviet Union under the radar on the night of October 4, 1950. He managed to survive and operate eleven months until his near capture and death on the night of September 5, 1951. His account, written during 1948-1950, while he was living in hiding in Paris, describes in vivid scenes and dialogue the daily struggles of the resistance.

An anthology of life stories collected from 20th-century Estonians describing the travails of ordinary people under numerous regimes from a perspective where time is placed in the context of life-spans, and subjects grounded in personal experience.

Interrogates the nature of anti-Americanism. This work tackles the potential political consequences of anti-Americanism in Eastern and Central Europe, the region that has been perceived as strongly pro-American.

This collection of essays responds to the need to approach questions of race and racism from a feminist perspective, focusing on the intersections of race, class and gender.

Analyzes the processes of nation-building in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Southeastern Europe. This work represents a coordinated interpretation based on ten varied academic cultures and traditions.

The first work that covers the post-Communist development of historical studies in six Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. A uniquely critical and qualitative analysis from a comparative and critical perspective, written by scholars from the region itself. Focusing on the first post-Communist decade, 1989-1999, the book offers a longer-term perspective that includes the immediate 'prehistory' of that momentous decade as well as its 'posthistoire'. The authors capture the spirit of 1989, that heady mix of elation, surprise, determination, and hope: l'ivresse du possible. This was the paradoxical beginning of Eastern European post-Communism: ushered in by 'anti-Utopian' revolutions, and slowly finding its course towards a bureaucratic, imitative, challenging, and anachronistic restoration of a capitalism that had changed almost beyond recognition when it had mutated into the negative double of Communism. Each individual chapter has numerous and detailed notes and references.

Having presented the physical conditions among which Hungarian Jews lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries--the kind of neighborhoods and apartments they lived in, and the places where they worked--this second volume addresses the spiritual aspects and the lighter sides of their life.

This book presents and interprets the archival records pertaining to the last meetings between Reagan, Gorbachev and Bush between 1985 and 1990, and the transcripts which include direct quotes by top leaders, as far as the interpreters and the notetakers managed to capture them.

This book takes a new approach to interwar Prague by identifying religion as an integral part of the city's cultural history.

The essays in the book compare the Czech Republic and Slovakia since the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The papers deal with the causes of the divorce and discuss the political, economic and social developments in the new countries.

The present volume brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking in east Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Thirteen essays by scholars from seven countries discuss the political use and abuse of history in the recent decades with particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe.

Three portraits of men who were at the very center of governance in thirteenth-century France.

This volume presents the evolution of the Moscow-based conceptual artist group called Collective Actions, proposing it as a case-study for understanding the transformations that took place in Eastern European art after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The book addresses the issue of war and women from a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective.

Jozsef Pogany played a major role in the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, the "March Action" in Germany in 1921, and, under the name of John Pepper, in the development of the American Communist Party of the 1920s

Deals with the period of takeover and of 'high Stalinism' in Eastern Europe (1945-1955). These years are considered to be fundamentally characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based upon the premise of radical transformism and of cultural revolution. Both a balance-sheet and a politico-historical synthesis that reflects the archival and thematic novelties which came about in the field of communism studies after 1989.Contains contributions analyzing various aspects related these topics for each country of the former Soviet bloc (with the exception of Albania). The essays are based on new archival research, some are reassessments of the author's previous research and others are critical appraisals of the specific literature published on issues related to the main topic. A path-breaking comparative framework for interpreting the relationship between late Stalinism and the communist takeovers in former Eastern Europe. A bonus for the volume is that it also provides detailed, sectorial analyses for the Romanian case, something that the field paritcularly lacks.

Offers an overview of the financial turbulences that have hit the developed economies. Criticizing the excesses of neoliberal capitalism, this title calls for implementing necessary regulatory reforms in the financial sector and for restoration of a proper balance between the functions of the state and the market.

Provides an introduction to the Cyrillic collection, and contains descriptions of the fifty-six Slavonic Cyrillic codices or fragments thereof held by the National Szechenyi Library in Budapest.

The essays in this book analyze the interaction between two processes: the evolving influence of the European Union in the wider European space, and its adaptation to the changing global environment.