New publications

New publications

Gregory F. Domber (ed.): Empowering Revolution. America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War, 2015, 416pp, ISBN: 978-1-4696-1851-7

As the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in understanding the end of the Cold War. During the 1980s, both the United States and the Soviet Union vied for influence over Poland’s politically tumultuous steps toward democratic revolution. In this groundbreaking…

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Patryk Babiracki (ed.): Soviet Soft Power in Poland, Culture and the Making of Stalin’s New Empire, 1943-1957, 2015, 368pp, ISBN 978-1-4696-2089-3

Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use “soft power” in order to galvanize broad support for the postwar order in the…

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Per-Arne Bodin, Stefan Hedlund, Elena Namli (eds.): Power and Legitimacy – Challenges from Russia, 2014, 256pp, ISBN: Paperback: 978-1-13-881671-8; Hardback: 978-0-415-67776-9

 This book sheds new light on the continuing debate within political thought as to what constitutes power, and what distinguishes legitimate from illegitimate power. It does so by considering the experience of Russia, a polity where experiences of the legitimacy of power and the collapse of power offer a contrast to Western experiences on which…

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Adam Moore: Peacebuilding in Practice: Local Experience in Two Bosnian Towns, 2014, 240pp. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5199-7

In November 2007 Adam Moore was conducting fieldwork in Mostar when the southern Bosnian city was rocked by two days of violent clashes between Croat and Bosniak youth. It was not the city’s only experience of ethnic conflict in recent years. Indeed, Mostar’s problems are often cited as emblematic of the failure of international efforts…

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Maria Koinova: Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States, Varieties of Governance in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo, UK 2014, 328pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4522-6

Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States investigates why some Eastern European states transitioned to new forms of governance with minimal violence while others broke into civil war. In Bulgaria, the Turkish minority was subjected to coerced assimilation and forced expulsion, but the nation ultimately negotiated peace through institutional channels. In Macedonia, periodic outbreaks of insurgent violence…

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P. Crowhurst: Hitler and Czechoslovakia in World War II, London 2013, 352 p., 978-1-78076-110-7

The history of East Central European countries has been widely rediscovered as a source of historical interest and inspiration after the collapse of Communism. This rediscovery particularly holds true for the history of Czechoslovakia in the era of the Second World War. There were numerous reasons for the outbreak of World War II, but because…

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Oleh Protsyk, Benedikt Harzl (eds.): Managing Ethnic Diversity in Russia, 2014, 282pp, ISBN: 978-1-13-881666-4

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the norms and practices of ethnic diversity management in the Russian Federation in the last twenty years. It examines the evolution of the legal framework, the institutional architecture and the policies intended to address the large number of challenges posed by Russia’s immense ethno-cultural diversity. It analyses the…

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Vera Sheridan, Sabina Stan (eds.): Life in Post-Communist Eastern Europe after EU Membership. Happy Ever After? 2014, 238pp, ISBN: 978-1-13-881573-5

This book examines how membership of the European Union has affected life in the ten former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe that are now members of the European Union. It attempts to answer some fundamental questions: Was the reward of EU membership worth the sacrifices made? How have the new member states fared?…

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Lucian N. Leustean (ed.): Eastern Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe, 2014, 288pp, ISBN: 9780823256068

Nation-building processes in the Orthodox commonwealth brought together political institutions and religious communities in their shared aims of achieving national sovereignty. Chronicling how the churches of Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia acquired independence from the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s decline, Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe examines…

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Alberto Febbrajo, Wojciech Sadurski (eds.): Central and Eastern Europe After Transition, Towards a New Socio-legal Semantics, 2014, 374pp ISBN: 9781409497226

How have national identities changed, developed and reacted in the wake of transition from communism to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe? Central and Eastern Europe After Transition defines and examines new autonomous differences adopted at the state and the supranational level in the post-transitional phase of the post-Communist area, and considers their impact on…

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