With the first sentence of his kaleidoscopic guide to Eastern Europe’s past, the journalist Jacob Mikanowski reveals that his work is meant to discover, to unearth: “This is a history of a place that ...

When, upon graduation from college in 1973, I traveled for several months throughout communist Eastern Europe, I was warned that I would be entering a dreary gray zone pulverized by the regime-induced ...

Kept up to date by the Division's L.C. classification--additions and changes, and by 2 publications irregularly issued by Gale Research Company entitled: Library of Congress classification ...

Traveling through Europe is a dream for many, but it's often seen as an expensive destination. However, the general rule is that the further east you go, the more affordable it becomes. This is ...

From bewitching Prague, a medieval jewel, to Budapest, the pearl of the Danube, these capitals are reinventing themselves in ...

Living across Europe for over a decade has taught me something most guidebooks won't tell you. While everyone flocks to Paris ...

Begin with a geographic overview of Eastern Europe, a region that begins at the Baltic Sea in the north and spans 20 countries to the Black Sea in the south. Here, Professor Liulevicius introduces you ...

For most of the past three decades, the received view of eastern Europe, defined roughly as the territory between Germany and Russia, has been breezily optimistic. A region that exemplified the ...

European Review of Economic History, Vol. 21, No. 1 (FEBRUARY 2017), pp. 29-63 (35 pages) How did human capital develop in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and other eastcentral and eastern European ...

The spread of the Slavs stands as one of the most formative yet least understood events in European history. Starting in the 6th century CE, Slavic groups began to appear in the written records of ...

This collective work challenges readers with questions like: Is secularization a useful concept in understanding the long-term dynamics of religiosity in Eastern Europe? Is the picture of oppression ...

For Americans, authoritarian rule is theoretical. But in Eastern Europe, reminders of it are everywhere, as is dread of a partial return to those days. As I sat across a table from a minister in the ...