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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This chapter reviews Andreas Kappeler’s oeuvre through the prism of entangled history. Even if Andreas Kappeler generally refrained from adhering dogmatically to any theoretical approach, he has ...

Grassroots exhibitions popping up in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland provide a window into ordinary lives during the communist era Alice Popovici - Freelance writer Visitors to the Red ...

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 ...

History loves unintended consequences. The latest example is particularly ironic: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to restore the Russian empire by recolonizing Ukraine has opened the door ...