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The Haunted Land
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 17.95The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Down with Big Brother
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 21.95"One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama." --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the extraordinary events that led to the unraveling of the Bolshevik Revolution. From... more...
Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 90.00This book showcases extensive research on gender under state socialism, examining the subject in terms of state policy and law; sexuality and reproduction; the academy; leisure; the private sphere; the work world; opposition activism; and memory and identity. more...
Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 124.95The essays gathered here examine the legacy of Roxolana, a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who, from harem slave, became legal wife and advisor of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The collection views Roxolana from Western and Eastern European perspectives, as source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and... more...
Alicia
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age 13, Alicia Appleman-Jurman went on to save the lives of thousands of Jews, offering them her own courage and hope in a time of upheaval and tragedy. Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has a young voice so vividly expressed the capacity for humanity and heroism in the face of Nazi brutality. more...
There Is No Freedom Without Bread!
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009; US$ 19.99The conventional story of the end of the cold war focuses on the geopolitical power struggle between the United States and the USSR: Ronald Reagan waged an aggressive campaign against communism, outspent the USSR, and forced Mikhail Gorbachev to ?tear down this wall.? In There Is No Freedom Without Bread! , a daring revisionist account of that... more...
Ivan's War
Henry Holt and Co. 2007; US$ 17.99A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier?s experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources Of the thirty million who fought, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the men and women of the Red Army, a ragtag mass of soldiers... more...
Trade and Urban Development in Poland
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 55.00This study uses the experience of Cracow to illuminate general patterns of trade and urban growth in central and eastern Europe over several centuries. more...
Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 22.00Comprehensive survey of the transformation of the Soviet Union from a largely agrarian economy to a world superpower. more...
Central and Eastern Europe, 19441993
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 40.00An ambitious, comparative analysis of 'Eastern Bloc' economies during a period of revolutionary change. more...









