From the eighteenth century until its collapse in 1917, Imperial Russia - as distinct from Muscovite Russia before it and Soviet Russia after it - officially held that the Russian nation consisted ...
This text presents valuable research on the political and economic elites that have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe since the demise of state socialism. Integrating theoretically informed ana...
Nihil Obstat;Latin for "nothing stands in the way";examines the interplay between religion and politics in East-Central Europe and Russia. While focusing on the postcommunist, late twentieth centur...
After the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan the important but overlooked former Soviet states of Central Asia became for a brief time key players in the US-led war on terror. American a...
'An excellent history of Ukrainians.' (Paul Robert Magocsi, Journal of Ukrainian Studies ) 'Orest Subtelny's Ukraine: A History is the standard work on the subject ... Enormously readable and em...
In this unique study, Alan Palmer traces the history of the peoples and nations on the shores of the Baltic Sea primarily Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. This penetrating overview of the Baltic re...
Although English-language histories of Ukraine have been published since the 1930s, there has been no one-volume compendium of articles covering Ukrainian history from ancient times to the present,...
The political map of Eastern Europe changed dramatically in December 1991 when the leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine huddled together in a Bielavieza Forest retreat and decided to dissolve th...
Dieses Buch ist keine Chronik der Ereignisse und auch keine Geschichte der Vereinigung Deutschlands nach 45 Jahren der Teilung. Viel bessere sind geschrieben worden. Ich mчchte einfach berichten...
Political Parties and Democracy: Volume III: Post-Soviet and Asian Political Parties is the third volume in this five-volume set. It offers clearly written, up-to-date coverage of post-Soviet and A...
This book examines the critical role that the economic ideas of state leaders play in the creation and maintenance of the international economic order. Drawing on a detailed study of the fifteen p...
Nadat de nazi’s in 1945 door de geallieerden waren verslagen, hoopten de Oost-Europeanen dat ze de vrijheid in hun land zoals ze die hadden gekend voor de oorlog, zouden terugkrijgen. In plaats d...
In the much-anticipated follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning "Gulag," acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World ...
De opmerkelijke geschiedenis van Oekraine.Meer dan tien eeuwen geleden liet de vorst van Kiev zijn onderdanen massaal dopen in de rivier de Dnepr. Het was het begin van de Russische orthodoxe staat...