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April 2008
Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag

Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity

Feldman, J.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Jewish Studies Memory Studies Travel and Tourism
June 2015
Achieving Procreation

Childlessness and IVF in Turkey

Demircioğlu Göknar, M.

Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master. With ethnographic research gathered in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population and how social experience leads to a decision for — or against — having an IVF.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
August 1996
After Socialism

Land Reform and Social Change in Eastern Europe

Abrahams, R. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
March 2009
After the 'Socialist Spring'

Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR

Last, G.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present
October 2013
Against the Grain

Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times

Mendelsohn, E., Hoffman, S., & Cohen, R. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
November 2013
Alienating Labour

Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary

Bartha, E.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
eBook available July 2019
Ambiguous Transitions

Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania

Massino, J.

Ambiguous Transitions provides an accessible, intimate exploration of gender and citizenship in socialist Romania. Author Jill M. Massino connects women’s everyday lives to larger political, economic, and social processes, challenging conventional understandings of life in socialist Romania as uniformly oppressive.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available December 2006
Andrzej Wajda

History, Politics & Nostalgia In Polish Cinema

Falkowska, J.

Subject: Film and Television Studies
eBook available August 2020
Antisemitism in Galicia

Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Buchen, T.

Antisemitism in Galicia investigates the interaction of agitation, violence, and politics against Jews on the periphery of the Danube monarchy. In its comprehensive analysis of the functions and limitations of propaganda, rumors, and mass media, it shows just how significant antisemitism was to the politics of coexistence among Christians and Jews on the eve of the Great War.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies
December 2013
The Armenian Genocide

Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916

Gust, W. (ed)

The 1915-1916 annihilation of the Armenians was the archetype of modern genocide, in which a state adopts a specific scheme geared to the destruction of an identifiable group of its own citizens. Official German diplomatic documents are of great importance in understanding the genocide, as only Germany had the right to report day-by-day in secret code about the ongoing genocide. The motives, methods, and after-effects of the Armenian Genocide echoed strongly in subsequent cases of state-sponsored genocide. Studying the factors that went into the Armenian Genocide not only gives us an understanding of historical genocide, but also provides us with crucial information for the anticipation and possible prevention of future genocides.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available October 2018
The Art of Resistance

Cultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century

Fiddler, A.

The 1999 Austrian election results produced an uprising against a turn to the political right. The Art of Resistance examines artworks created in responses to the Freedom Party of Austria and analyses the styles and strategies deployed by a large range of artists who clashed against increased normalization of far-right thinking.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
October 1996
Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Cross-disciplinary Perspectives

Good, D. F., Grandner, M., & Maynes, M. J. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)
eBook available May 2009
Balkan Departures

Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe

Bracewell, W. & Drace-Francis, A. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies
May 2014
Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia

Mühlfried, F.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies
May 2010
Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory

Visible Man and The Spirit of Film

Balázs, B.

Subject: Film and Television Studies
November 2004
Between Utopia and Disillusionment

A Narrative of the Political Transformation in Eastern Europe

Vogt, H.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
September 1997
Beyond 1989

Re-reading German literature since 1945

Bullivant, K. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies
eBook available November 2018
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion

Jewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe

Crouthamel, J., Geheran, M., Grady, T., & Köhne, J. B. (eds)

Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion recaptures the multifariousness of Central European Jewish life through the experiences of both soldiers and civilians during World War I. This collection explores rare sources and employs novel interdisciplinary methods to illuminate four interconnected themes: minorities and the meaning of military service, Jewish-Gentile relations, the cultural legacy of the war, and memory politics.

Subject: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
September 2008
Biography Between Structure and Agency

Central European Lives in International Historiography

Berghahn, V. R. & Lässig, S. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
November 2000
Black Lambs and Grey Falcons

Women Travelling in the Balkans

Allcock, J. & Young, A.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available August 2015
Boro, L'Île d'Amour

The Films of Walerian Borowczyk

Kuc, K., Mikurda, K., & Oleszczyk, O. (eds)

There has been a revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and “escape artist” if there ever was one. This volume, markedly experimental in character, allows scholars to gain insight into previously unnoticed aspects of Borowczyk’s complex and ambiguous oeuvre.

Subject: Film and Television Studies
September 2012
Bridging Divides

Ethno-Political Leadership among the Russian Sámi

Overland, I. & Berg-Nordlie, M.

Subject: Development Studies
March 2009
Bringing Culture to the Masses

Control, Compromise and Participation in the GDR

Richthofen, E. von

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
August 2023
Broken Glass, Broken Class

Transformations of Work in Bulgaria

Kofti, D.

Based on a long-term study of the everyday postsocialist politics of labour in the wider context of intense socio-economic transformation in Bulgaria, this book tells the story of the flexibilization of production, the precaritization of work, shifting managerial practices, and ways in which people with different employment statuses live and work together.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available August 2018
Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front

The War Diaries of Bernhard Bardach, 1914-1918

Bardach, B.

Care and Carnage on the Eastern Front documents the day-to-day life of a doctor serving on the Eastern Front between 1914-1918. Bardach’s meticulous records offer a personal glimpse into the critical first weeks of fighting as well as the ultimate collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

Subjects: History: World War I Jewish Studies
May 2009
Central European Crossroads

Social Democracy and National Revolution in Bratislava (Pressburg), 1867-1921

Duin, P. C. van

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century
eBook available September 2022
The Chernobyl Effect

Antinuclear Protests and the Molding of Polish Democracy, 1986–1990

Szulecki, K., Waluszko, J., & Borewicz, T.

Empirically rich, The Chernobyl Effect shows how the Chernobyl catastrophe sparked a new kind of protest against the communist authorities of Poland. Drawing on samizdat, archival sources, and open-ended interviews with participants the authors show how a qualitatively new phenomenon was created on the opposition scene and challenge the dominant narrative of the Cold War’s end.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
October 2023
Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe

From Communism to Capitalism

Brasiskis, L. & Shpolberg, M. (eds)

Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe traces from the 1970s through the post 1989 period how documentaries and filmmakers began to articulate alternative, aesthetically and ideologically provocative visions of the relationship between human and natural worlds.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
December 2015
Cinema in Service of the State

Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960

Karl, L. & Skopal, P. (eds)

Despite being two key sites for filmmaking in the Soviet bloc, the national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany have received comparatively little attention from scholars. This volume comprehensively explores these film cultures using a “stereoscopic” approach that traces their similarities and divergences to form a multifaceted, richly contextualized portrait.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available June 2017
Civil Society Revisited

Lessons from Poland

Jacobsson, K. & Korolczuk, E. (eds)

In contrast to a social scientific literature that characterizes Polish civil society as weak and passive, this volume focuses on forms of collective action that researchers too often ignore due to their theoretical and methodological blind spots. It constitutes a powerful critique of a model of civil society that is ‘made from above’ by elites, media, and public institutions.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
May 2000
Cold Fusion

Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia

Barabtarlo, G. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
eBook available July 2019
Comical Modernity

Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna

Hakkarainen, H.

Comical Modernity looks at the years between 1857–1890, a period of dramatic urban renewal within Vienna during which the city’s rapidly changing face was a popular topic in publications. This book shows how humor provided access to understanding modernity in an era of radical change, thus broadening our understanding of the cultural history of nineteenth-century Vienna.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)
June 2002
Coming Home to Germany?

The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic since 1945

Rock, D. & Wolff, S. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available January 2018
Communist Parties Revisited

Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991

Bergien, R. & Gieseke, J. (eds)

Drawing from perspectives from within the everyday life of basic organizations and the practices of the party apparatuses, Communist Parties Revisited sheds light on the inner workings the Eastern Bloc, and the effects of state socialist policy on a micro historical level.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available December 2005
Conjuring Hope

Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia

Lindquist, G.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
November 2004
Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe

Judson, P. & Rozenblit, M. (eds)

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
November 2009
Conversion After Socialism

Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union

Pelkmans, M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
May 2023
Coproducing Europe

An Ethnography of Film-markets, Creativity and Identity

Sideri, E.

By focusing on regional film markets in Thessasloniki, Sarajevo, and Tbilisi, Coproduction Europe uses comparative ethnography to look beyond the economic nature of film coproductions to explore their role in Europeanisation, memories of the Cold War, and preconstructed political agendas.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
October 2003
Creating the Other

Ethnic Conflict & Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe

Wingfield, N.M. (ed)

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
January 2007
Crime, Jews and News

Vienna 1890-1914

Vyleta, D.M.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies
eBook available October 2011
Crude Domination

An Anthropology of Oil

Behrends, A., Reyna, S. P. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2010
Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities

The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era

Gdaniec, C. (ed)

Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available May 2012
Czechs, Germans, Jews?

National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia

Capkova, K.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General)
eBook available December 2018
Democracy Struggles

NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia

Vetta, T.

This book explores the “associational revolution” in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. It traces the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of Aid, neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, and unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed in the democracy-promotion project.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
January 2007
Disenchantment with Market Economics

East Germans and Western Capitalism

Müller, B.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available March 2016
Disrupted Landscapes

State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania

Dorondel, S.

The fall of the Soviet Union led not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the landscape itself. This study focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
March 2011
Diversity and Dissent

Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800

Louthan, H., Cohen, G. B. & Szabo, F. A. J. (eds)

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern
eBook available February 2022
Durable Solutions

Challenges with Implementing Global Norms for Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia

Funke, C.

Focusing on Georgia, this book presents a theoretical and empirical study on the implementation of durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Building on extensive field research, it describes and explains the considerable problems which Georgia faces in establishing global norms, as well as the ongoing hardship that IDPs experience.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available October 2017
Eastern Europe Unmapped

Beyond Borders and Peripheries

Kacandes, I. & Komska, Y. (eds)

Arguably more than any other world regions, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Rather than expound on borders and neighbors, Eastern Europe Unmapped raises questions about the meaning and relevance of the area’s non-contiguous, frequently global or extraterritorial, entanglements.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
February 2015
Economy and Ritual

Studies of Postsocialist Transformations

Gudeman, S. & Hann, C. (eds)

Common sense suggests that rituals drain economic wealth and that rational actions are antithetical to rituals. These six ethnographies offer a different vision. Comparative, historical, and contemporary, the studies stretch from Macedonia to Kyrgyzstan, each one illuminating the changes in an area as it emerged from socialism and (re-)entered market society.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available November 2018
Embers of Empire

Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918

Miller, P. & Morelon, C. (eds)

The end of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy radically reshaped the political structures and national identity of East-Central Europe. Embers of Empire focuses on this complex and disruptive transition and sheds new light on the efficacity of imperial institutions, as well as the sources for instability in the newly formed nations.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
July 2008
Embodiments of Power

Building Baroque Cities in Europe

Cohen, G. B. & Szabo, F. A. J. (eds)

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century Urban Studies
March 2008
Empathy and Healing

Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology

Skultans, V.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available March 2020
Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries

The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland

Berecz, Á.

Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalizing projects reinterpreted various types of proper names as symbols of their national histories, how the related mass constituencies resonated with the new meanings and how names were utilized, manipulated and changed in the process.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
June 2015
The Enemy on Display

The Second World War in Eastern European Museums

Bogumił, Z., Wawrzyniak, J., Buchen, T., Ganzer, C. & Senina, M.

Eastern European museums represent the traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the bombardment of Dresden, in ways that cast the enemy in a specific light. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence over the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can play an important role in this process.

Subject: Museum Studies Memory Studies
September 2019
Entangled Entertainers

Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Hödl, K.

Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was shaped jointly by Jews and non-Jews alike, though their relationship was not immune to bouts of anti-Semitism. The case studies in this book provide new findings in understanding what it meant to be Jewish among artists, performers and impresarios at the turn of the twentieth century.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available June 2006
The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe

Bochniarz, Z. & Cohen G. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
October 2011
Ernst L. Freud, Architect

The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home

Welter, V. M.

Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General) History (General)
eBook available April 2007
Escape From Hell

The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol

Wetzler, A.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Literary Studies
eBook available September 2020
Estates and Constitution

The Parliament in Eighteenth-Century Hungary

Szijártó, I. M.

Estates and Constitution provides a rich account of Hungarian politics during the eighteenth century, restoring the Diet to its rightful place as one of the era’s major innovations in government. István M. Szijártó traces the religious, economic, and partisan forces that shaped the Diet, putting its historical significance in international perspective and demonstrating that it played a critical role in the eventual dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
July 2003
Exiles From European Revolutions

Refugees in Mid-Victorian England

Freitag, S. & Muhs, R. (eds)

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available October 2006
Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder

Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941

Kay, A.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
eBook available March 2007
Exploring Gypsiness

Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village

Engebrigtsen, A.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2023
Feeding Anxieties

The Politics of Children's Food in Poland

Boni, Z.

Focusing on the underlying politics behind children’s food, this book highlights the variety of social relationships, expectations and emotions ingrained in feeding children In Poland. With rich ethnographic accounts, including research with children, the book demonstrates how families, schools, the food industry and state agencies shape and experience feeding anxieties.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Sociology
November 2009
The 'Final Solution' in Riga

Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944

Angrick, A., Klein, P. & Brandon R.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies
eBook available March 2023
Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies

Technology, Aesthetics and Gender

Jderu, G.

Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moment of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mechanics and untechnical male and females when fixing bikes.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available October 2017
From Eastern Bloc to European Union

Comparative Processes of Transformation since 1990

Heydemann, G. & Vodička, K. (eds)

This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven former Soviet states and current EU members. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformation processes that have taken place in a given nation, identifying structural similarities and assessing outcomes compared to one another as well as the rest of Europe.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology
January 1997
From Peace to War

Germany, Soviet Russia, and the World, 1939-1941

Wegner, B.

Subjects: History: World War II
eBook available December 2018
From Storeroom to Stage

Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore

Urdea, A.

Tracing in reverse the journey of a collection of Romanian folk objects from a museum in London back to the villages where they were made, From Storeroom to Stage explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Heritage Studies
April 1999
From World War to Waldheim

Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States

Good, D. & Wodak, R. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War I Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available June 2018
Frontiers of Civil Society

Government and Hegemony in Serbia

Mikuš, M.

Frontiers of Civil Society is a historical anthropological analysis of the roles of ‘civil society’ in Serbia’s postsocialist and postauthoritarian transformation, focusing mainly on a set of interventions through which various civil society forces supported neoliberalization and transnational integration as part of a hegemonic project of social transformation after the rule of Slobodan Milošević.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available October 2017
Gender in Georgia

Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus

Barkaia, M. & Waterston, A. (eds)

As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering to adjust to the new economic, social and political order. Gender in Georgia brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available October 2003
The Great Tradition and Its Legacy

The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe

Cherlin, M., Filipowicz, H. & Rudolph, R. L. (eds)

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Performance Studies Literary Studies
January 2015
The Greater German Reich and the Jews

Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935-1945

Gruner, W. & Osterloh, J. (eds)

Between 1935 and 1940, the Nazis incorporated large portions of Europe into the German Reich. The contributors to this volume analyze the evolving anti-Jewish policies in the annexed territories and their impact on the Jewish population, as well as the attitudes and actions of non-Jews, Germans, and indigenous populations.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
eBook available September 2018
Gulag Memories

The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past

Bogumił, Z.

Gulag Memories explores the impact of the Gulag on collective memory as it applies to the language of commemoration in Russia, focusing on four regions particularly affected by the Gulag: Solovetsky Islands, the Komi Republic, the Perm region, and Kolyma.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
eBook available October 2021
Heritage under Socialism

Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, 1945–1991

Gantner, E. B., Geering, C., & Vickers, P. (ed)

Heritage under Socialism enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies. Its transnational approach highlights the socialist world’s diverse interpretations of heritage and its trajectories in post-socialist preservation practices, thus providing new perspectives on the way heritage has been shaped in the recent past.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Heritage Studies Memory Studies
June 2007
Historical Concepts Between Eastern and Western Europe

Hildermeier, M. (ed)

Subject: History (General)
December 2003
The History of the Armenian Genocide

Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus

Dadrian, V. N.

Subject: Genocide History
December 2008
Hitler's War in the East, 1941-1945. (3rd Edition)

A Critical Assessment

Müller, R.-D. & Ueberschär, G.R.

Subject: History: World War II
eBook available September 2019
The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia

Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses

Gruner, W.

After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Czech and German authorities adopted radicalized anti-Jewish policies, including depriving Jews of their property, hauling them into forced labor, and deporting them to concentration camps. In this pioneering study, Wolf Gruner demonstrates that these proceedings were not only controlled by Berlin, but also driven forward by the Czech government and local authorities.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
eBook available October 2016
Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness

An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland

Rakowski, T.

Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after the socio-economic transformations of the 1990s in Poland, which left many people impoverished and unemployed.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
July 2023
If Cars Could Walk

Postsocialist Streets in Transformation

Duijzings, G. & Tuvikene, T. (eds)

Addressing the transformation of street life in post-socialist cities against the backdrop of the explosive rise of car-mobility in the last 25 years, If Cars Could Walk consists of ethnographic case studies documenting changes in these cities as former socialist modes of mobility are replaced by a culture of privately owned cars.

Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available January 2021
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe

Representations, Transfers and Exchanges

Šístek, F. (ed)

As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic “Other” living just a stone’s throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslim peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and literary scholars to examine the political, social, and discursive dimensions of Bosnian Muslims’ encounter with the West.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology of Religion
September 2012
In Contrast

Croatian Film Today

Vidan, A. & Crnković, G. P. (eds)

Subject: Film and Television Studies
eBook available September 2016
In the Name of the Great Work

Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe

Olšáková, D. (ed)

Following Stalin’s lead, the newly communist states of Eastern Europe pursued a total “transformation of nature” in the 1940s and 1950s intended to improve agricultural outputs. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, exploring their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available June 2022
In the Shadow of Auschwitz

German Massacres against Polish Civilians, 1939–1945

Brewing, D.

An in-depth analysis of German massacres in Poland over the whole period of German occupation during the Second World War, this innovative study recounts the widely forgotten ethnic Polish civilian victims. Using both German and Polish sources, In the Shadow of Auschwitz uncovers for the first time the depredations that were inflicted on Polish society under Nazi rule.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II
eBook available January 2021
In the Shadow of the Great War

Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923

Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
May 2009
Indispensable Eyesores

An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings

Hoorn, M. v der

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available January 2020
Institutionalised Dreams

The Art of Managing Foreign Aid

Drążkiewicz, E.

How do states become donors? Why do individuals decide to share their wealth with others through foreign aid? Using examples from Poland, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz demonstrates how the concept of foreign aid requires the establishment of a specific moral economy which links national ideologies and local cultures of charitable giving with broader ideas about the global political economy.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
eBook available June 2012
Investigating Srebrenica

Institutions, Facts, Responsibilities

Delpla, I., Bougarel, X., & Fournel, J.-F. (eds)

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
December 1996
The Iron Gates Mesolithic

Radovanovic, I.

The Mesolithic sites in the Iron Gates Gorge of the Danube River, between Yugoslavia and Romania are reviewed in this volume. The author offers fundamental re-analyses and interpretations of stratigraphies, relative and absolute chronologies, architecture and settlement organization, the placement and styles of altars and sculptural elements, the chipped and polished stone industries, the bone and antler artifacts, the mortuary practices, ecology, and social organization of this remarkable archaeological culture.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available August 2021
Iron Landscapes

National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia

Jeschke, F.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced account of how planners and authorities knitted together the young nation-state and articulated a Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Transport Studies
March 1998
Iron-making Societies

Early Industrial Development in Sweden and Russia, 1600-1900

Agren, M. (ed)

Subject: History (General)
eBook available March 2010
Jerzy Skolimowski

The Cinema of a Nonconformist

Mazierska, E

Subject: Film and Television Studies
February 2003
The Journalism of Milena Jesenská

A Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europe

Hayes, K. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Literary Studies Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available June 2012
Journeys Into Madness

Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Blackshaw, G. & Wieber, S. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
December 2011
Judgment At Istanbul

The Armenian Genocide Trials

Dadrian, V. N. & Akçam, T.

Subject: Genocide History
eBook available April 2023
Kharkov/Kharkiv

A Borderland Capital

Kravchenko, V.

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city located on the Ukrainian-Russian historical borderland, has often been overlooked given its historic role. Kharkov/Kharkov for the first time uncovers the city’s long history, from the 17th century to today, and its process of becoming a borderland and undergoing regional reconfiguration, modernization and development of national mythologies.

Subjects: History (General) Urban Studies
March 2011
The Kings and the Pawns

Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II

Rein, L.

Subject: History: World War II
eBook available November 2007
The Limits of Loyalty

Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Cole, L. & Unowsky, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
December 2010
Lost to the State

Family Discontinuity, Social Orphanhood and Residential Care in the Russian Far East

Khlinovskaya Rockhill, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available April 2011
Mapping Difference

The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine

Rubchak, M. J. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
eBook available July 2009
Markets and Civil Society

The European Experience in Comparative Perspective

Perez-Diaz, V. (ed)

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
November 2008
Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema

Black Peters and Men of Marble

Mazierska, E.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available December 2015
Matters of Testimony

Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz

Chare, N. & Williams, D.

In 1944, a number of Sonderkommando—“special squads” of Jewish prisoners who kept the gas chambers running smoothly—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts. This study reconstructs their history and textual content, revealing literary works that raise troubling questions about the nature of testimony.

Subject: Genocide History Jewish Studies
November 2015
Memory and Change in Europe

Eastern Perspectives

Pakier, M. & Wawrzyniak, J. (eds)

In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. This volume offers a reflection on memory in an Eastern European historical context, one that can be measured against and applied to historical experience in other parts of Europe.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Memory Studies
eBook available December 2019
Men Under Fire

Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918

Hutečka, J.

In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are primarily studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings to explore experiences of exhaustion, sex, loyalty, authority, and combat itself.

Subjects: History: World War I Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available December 2013
The Men with the Movie Camera

The Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s

Cavendish, P.

Subject: Film and Television Studies
January 1998
Mitteleuropa

Between Europe and Germany

Katzenstein, P. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available August 2020
Modernity and the Unmaking of Men

Schubert, V.

Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available December 2016
The Monumental Nation

Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary

Varga, B.

In a quixotic episode in nineteenth-century Hungary’s attempts to spread nationalist sentiments, monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin—the supposed origin of the Hungarian nation. This study recounts the troubled history of this plan, which provoked resistance and even hostility among provincial Hungarians.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
eBook available February 2021
More than Mere Spectacle

Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Van Gelder, K.

More than Mere Spectacle brings together new research on the numerous coronations and inaugurations in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg Monarchy, examining why so many of them still took place, what political, legal, social, and cultural significance they bore, and how they adapted to actual circumstances. It takes the flexibility of their format as the key to understanding their lasting relevance.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
eBook available September 2011
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia

Zigon, J. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available December 2019
Nationalism Revisited

Austrian Social Closure from Romanticism to the Digital Age

Karner, C.

Focused on the German-speaking parts of the former Habsburg Empire, this book offers a series of analyses of the interplay of nationalism’s discursive and institutional facets. Christian Karner develops a distinctive, longue durée perspective on Austrian nationalism, which traces nationalist politics from the late eighteenth century to today’s digital age.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology
eBook available April 2011
New Austrian Film

Dassanowsky, R. von & Speck, O. C. (eds)

Subject: Film and Television Studies
eBook available June 2015
New Imaginaries

Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine's Cultural Paradigm

Rubchak, M.J. (ed)

Contributors to this volume infuse their work with Western elements, although vestiges of Soviet-style ideas, research methodology and writing linger. This, as a result, is a paradigm articulating “New Imaginaries” — neither Soviet nor Western — offering a fresh portrait of Ukrainian society seen through a new generation of feminist scholars.

Subjects: Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available November 2016
Occupation in the East

The Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944

Lehnstaedt, S.

Following their occupation by the Third Reich, Warsaw and Minsk became home to tens of thousands of Germans. This study provides a nuanced portrait of their lives, as they acclimated to the daily routines of life in the East while helping to lay the groundwork for systematic mass murder.

Subject: History: World War II
June 2015
Oikos and Market

Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism

Gudeman, S. & Hann, C. (eds)

This volume’s six comparative investigations of postsocialist communities illuminate the universal significance of Aristotle’s vision of the oikos, an economy based on the order of the house. These postsocialist configurations show that economies depend on macro institutions of markets and states, and also on the micro institutions of families, communities, and house economies.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2021
On the Death of Jews

Photographs and History

Fresco, N.

In this trenchant meditation on photographs from an atrocity in Latvia during the Holocaust, Nadine Fresco argues for the vital importance of photographs—and nontraditional sources more broadly—for understanding the Holocaust. She confronts charged questions around guilt and testimony while teasing out the subtle implications of camera angles, photo sequencing, and body language, helping us to see anew the perspectives of victims, perpetrators, and others who witnessed the brutality of the Holocaust.

Subjects: Genocide History Media Studies Jewish Studies
eBook available April 2014
On the Path to Genocide

Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined

Mayersen, D.

“This is an excellent book. The combination of theory and context works well…The prose is sharp and the author has set up the problem in a logical way that is easy to follow. It also benefits from an interdisciplinary approach. Her grasp of detail is superior to many theorists…It reads very fluently, the author is clearly a gifted prose writer. The thread of argument runs through the book in a compelling way…The conclusion is full of intriguing ties to other case studies and the author summarizes her argument well.” · Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available October 2021
One More for the Road

A Director’s Notes on Exile, Family, and Film

Grlić, R.

One More for the Road recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlić in the form of a film dictionary, tying cinematic terms to anecdotes spanning Grlić’s life. With a scholarly introduction by Aida Vidan, these personal stories combine to provide insight into the socialist film industries and south Slavic film.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available June 2017
Organic Cinema

Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tarr

Botz-Bornstein, T.

What might the “organic” mean in the context of film studies? This innovative volume locates one instance of organicity in the work of Béla Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker “slow cinema” pioneer. It analyzes Tarr’s long take and other signature techniques, establishes links between the seemingly remote spheres of film and architecture.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
June 1997
Osthandel and Ostpolitik

German Foreign Trade Policies in Eastern Europe from Bismarck to Adenauer

Spaulding, R. M.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available October 2008
Out of Albania

From Crisis Migration to Social Inclusion in Italy

King, R. & Mai, N.

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available November 2021
The Paradoxical Republic

Austria 1945–2020

Rathkolb, O.

Written by one of the nation’s leading historians, this account of postwar Austria explores the tensions that have defined it for over seven decades. This newly revised edition also addresses the major developments since 2005, including a resurgent far right, economic instability, and the potential fracturing of the European Union.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available July 2019
Peace at All Costs

Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation

Frieberg, A. E.

Peace at All Costs reconsiders postwar Polish-German relations as an interdisciplinary case study of reconciliation and follows an influential network of non-state peace activists, major players in print and audiovisual media, as they attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Media Studies
March 2021
Peripheries at the Centre

Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

Venken, M.

Peripheries at the Centre reveals how Prussia, and later the German Empire, used educational policy to promote national identity along its geographical margins. It shows how policymakers sought to cultivate ideal German students who, it was hoped, would help to usher in a new, peaceful era in European history while reinforcing their status as German citizens.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
eBook available February 2013
Places of Pain

Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities

Halilovich, H.

This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and (be)longing that were lost during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of survivors’ places of resettlement in Australia, Europe and North America, serves as a powerful illustration of the complex interplay between place, memory and identity.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Memory Studies
eBook available April 2019
Planning Labour

Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania

Cucu, A.-S.

Planning Labour explores the early socialist industrialization and the implementation of central economic planning in Romania between 1945 and 1955. Centered on the city of Cluj, an ethnically mixed city in the northwestern part of Romania, this volume examines the deeply contradictory process required for achieving socialist accumulation.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available June 2017
Poland Daily

Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema

Mazierska, E.

Polish cinema has inescapably been shaped by the nation’s succession of different economic and ideological regimes over the last century. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation’s film history—from independence in 1918 to today—through the lenses of political economy and social class.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available October 2018
Polish Cinema

A History

Haltof, M.

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Marek Haltof’s seminal survey takes stock of dramatic shifts in Polish society and to provide an essential account of the nation’s cinema from the nineteenth century to today. It covers such renowned figures as Kieślowski and Wajda along with vastly expanded coverage of documentaries, animation, and television.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available January 2012
Polish Film and the Holocaust

Politics and Memory

Haltof, M.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History
April 1996
The Political Films of Andrzej Wajda

Dialogism in Man of Marble, Man of Iron, and Danton

Falkowska, J.

Subject: Film and Television Studies
August 2008
Politics of Time

Dynamics of Identity in Post-Communist Poland

Koczanowicz, L.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available June 2010
Post-communist Nostalgia

Todorova, M. & Gille, Z. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
eBook available March 2006
Postsocialism

Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe

Svasek M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available September 2009
Postsocialist Europe

Anthropological Perspectives from Home

Kurti, L. & Skalník, P. (Eds.)

Subject: Anthropology (General)
March 1999
Poverty in Transition and Transition in Poverty

Recent Developments in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, Russia, and Mongolia

Atal, Y. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology
November 2014
Property in East Central Europe

Notions, Institutions, and Practices of Landownership in the Twentieth Century

Siegrist, H. & Müller, D. (eds)

The national appropriation of property in the interwar period and the communist era represent an onerous legacy for the postcommunist (re)construction of a liberal-individualist property regime. However, as the scholars in the this collection show, after the demise of communism in Eastern Europe property is again a major factor in shaping individual identity and in providing the political order and culture with a foundational institution.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available March 2019
Rampart Nations

Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism

Berezhnaya, L. & Hein-Kircher, H. (eds)

Rampart Nations delves deeper into the bulwark (antemurale) myth and uncovers the stories that have helped to spread it within Eastern Europe. Through perspectives that range from Eastern European art history to theology, with a concentration on the nexus of political, social, and religious history, this volume explores historical narratives that have shaped contemporary Eastern European national identities.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available April 2016
Rationed Life

Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918

Kučera, R.

Hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. This study reconstructs their collective experience through explorations of food, labor, gender, and protest to assemble a fascinating case study in twentieth century social history.

Subjects: History: World War I Sociology
November 2011
Reconstructing the House of Culture

Community, Self, and the Makings of Culture in Russia and Beyond

Donahoe, B. & Habeck, J. O. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
October 2015
Recovered Territory

A German-Polish Conflict over Land and Culture, 1919-1989

Polak-Springer, P.

From 1919 to 1989, the German-Polish borderland, one of Central Europe’s important industrial regions, was at the center of a conflict between Germany and Poland. In their interaction with — and mutual influence on — one another, both nations developed a transnational culture, giving the borderland a “Polish” / “German” face.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
February 2022
Refugees on the Move

Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe

Balkan, E. & Kutlu Tonak, Z. (eds)

Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. The book examines the causes of the movement of refugee populations, and host governments’ attempts to manage and overcome the so-called “refugee crisis”.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
April 2009
The Reluctant Revolutionary

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Collision with Prusso-German History

Moses, J. A.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
October 2001
Remembering a Vanished World

A Jewish Childhood in Interwar Poland

Hamerow, T.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
November 2003
Remembering and Forgetting Nazism

Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria

Utgaard, P.

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available December 2021
Repressed, Remitted, Rejected

German Reparations Debts to Poland and Greece

Roth, K. H. & Rübner, H.

Greece and Poland have recently reignited debates on minimally settled reparations demands resulting from suffering under the terror of Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Using an international law perspective, this expansive volume reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Greece and confronts German aversions to reparations debt.

Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available April 2020
Resettlers and Survivors

Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945–1989

Fisher, G.

Resettlers and Survivors focuses on two groups of Bukovinians—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—who navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in 1945. This study gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring Bukovina’s significance for them as both a geographical location and a “place of memory.”

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies
April 2007
Restitution and Memory

Material Restoration in Europe

Diner, D. & Wunberg, G. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
October 2001
Rethinking Vienna 1900

Beller, S. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available April 2020
Revisiting Austria

Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present

Graml, G.

Revisiting Austria draws on a rich selection of films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nation’s often violent and troubled history.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
eBook available June 2018
The Revolt of the Provinces

Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary

Szombati, K.

The first in-depth ethnographic monograph on the New Right in Central and Eastern Europe, The Revolt of the Provinces explores the making of right-wing hegemony in Hungary over the last decade, focusing on interaction between social antagonisms emerging on the local level and struggles waged within the political public sphere.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
April 2005
Revolution and Counterrevolution

Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory

Murphy, K.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
November 2014
Rivers, Memory, And Nation-building

A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers

Zeisler-Vralsted, D.

Rivers figure prominently in a nation’s historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Despite being forced into submission for modern-day hydrological regimes, the Volga and Mississippi Rivers persist in the collective memory and continue to offer solace, recreation, and sustenance. Through their histories we derive a more nuanced view of human interaction with the environment.

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Memory Studies
eBook available August 2006
The Romani Movement

Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe

Vermeersch, P.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
March 2000
Rural Property and Economy in Post-communist Albania

Lemel. H. W. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
May 2011
Russia Before The 'Radiant Future'

Essays in Modern History, Culture, and Society

Confino, M.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available August 2021
The Russian Cold

Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow

Herzberg, J., Renner, A., & Schierle, I. (eds)

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
July 2001
Russian Culture

Mead, M. & Gorer, G.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
November 2000
Russian Literature and Its Demons

Davidson, P. (ed)

Subject: Literary Studies
eBook available December 2015
Russian Postmodernism

New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture

Epstein, M., Genis, A. A., & Vladiv-Glover-, S. M.

The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this crucial trend in Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, demonstrating how Russian postmodernism is its own unique entity.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
eBook available February 2018
Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces

Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus

Darieva, T., Mühlfried, F., & Tuite, K. (eds)

Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with spirituality. Based on fresh ethnographies and studies of sacred sites in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology
eBook available January 2016
Sacrifice and Rebirth

The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War

Cornwall, M. & Newman, J. P. (eds)

When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, six “successor states” tried to make sense of the last Habsburg war while preparing for life in a new Europe. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
March 2013
Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond

Transnational Media During and After Socialism

Kind-Kovács, F. & Labov, J. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
June 2004
Sartre Against Stalinism

Birchall, I. H.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available February 2023
A Sea of Transience

Poetics, Politics and Aesthetics along the Black Sea Coast

Khalvashi, T. & Demant Frederiksen, M. (eds)

Transience is found in every meeting, encounter and form of coexistence between people and things that exist and live by, or move across or along, the Black Sea. With particular attention to poetics, politics and aesthetics, this volume focuses on the scales of transient moments and histories, and enables readers to see and sense the many forms of transience that occur in a given landscape, sea or space.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Environmental Studies (General)
May 2023
Servants of Culture

Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914

Natarajan, A.

Using a wide range of material including legal, criminal, literary, and political sources, Servants of Culture brings forward the previously neglected history of a mass migration of women from the Habsburg Empire’s countryside to work as servants for bourgeois households, inns and hotels during the second half of the 19th century. At the time, socio-political players claimed to want to improve the living and working conditions of these migrants but as Natarajan demonstrates these efforts resulted in an increase in surveillance and a restriction of freedoms for women and servants in Viennese history.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
December 2007
Sex, Thugs & Rock 'n' Roll

Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany

Fenemore, M.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available February 2012
Sexual Knowledge

Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934

McEwen, B.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
eBook available January 2016
Shadowlands

Memory and History in Post-Soviet Estonia

Wulf, M.

The Baltic state of Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last century. This innovative study traces the interaction of historical memory and national identity in a sweeping analysis that foregrounds the country’s intellectuals, who until recently could not openly grapple with their nation’s complex, difficult past.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
March 2000
Sight and Sound Entwined

Studies of the New Russian Poetry

Janecek, G.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
August 2023
Silences and Divided Memories

The Exodus and its Legacy in Post-War Istrian Society

Virloget, K. H.

Dealing with the difficult, silenced past of the so called "Istrian exodus" after the Second World War, this book shifts the usual focus from migrants to those who stayed behind and to the new immigrants who came to the “emptied” towns.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies
September 1998
Sinti and Roma

Gypsies in German-speaking Society and Literature

Tebbutt, S. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Literary Studies
eBook available March 2013
Socialist Escapes

Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989

Giustino, C. M., Plum, C. J., & Vari, A. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available December 2017
Staging Citizenship

Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania

Szeman, I.

Staging Citizenship explores a wide range of Roma performances and representations—from live music and cultural performances to Gypsy soaps and reality TV shows, demonstrating how disenfranchised urban Roma claim cultural citizenship and belonging in music, dance, activism and everyday encounters.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
eBook available May 2009
State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery

Political Economy, Ethnicity and Development in Yugoslavia, Serbia and Kosovo

Sörensen, J. S.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
August 2007
Strangers Either Way

The Lives of Croatian Refugees in their New Home

Capo Žmegač, J.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
June 2008
The Strassmanns

Science, Politics and Migration in Turbulent Times (1793-1993)

Strassmann, W. P.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General)
October 2000
The Struggle for a Democratic Austria

Bruno Kreisky on Peace and Social Justice

Berg, M. P. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available November 2017
Subjects, Citizens, and Others

Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918

Gammerl, B.

Exploring racism, migration, and citizenship, Subjects, Citizens and Others offers a pioneering analysis of how the British and the Austro-Hungarian Empire governed their ethnically diverse populations. Author Benno Gammerl rejects common assumptions about ethnic exclusivity in Eastern and Western Europe, analyzing the legal and political conditions that help to foster ethnic heterogeneity.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present
November 2016
Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities

Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change

Orttung, R. (ed)

Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain.

Subjects: Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
December 2001
Symbiosis and Ambivalence

Poles and Jews in a Small Galician Town

Lehmann, R.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
eBook available March 2021
A Taste for Oppression

A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus

Hervouet, R.

Belarus has emerged from communism in a unique manner. The author, who has lived in Belarus for several years, highlights several mechanisms of tyranny, beyond the regime’s ability to control and repress, which should not be underestimated. The book sheds light on the reasons why part of the population supports Alexander Lukashenko and takes a fresh look at the functioning of what has been called 'the last dictatorship in Europe'.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available December 2012
Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War

Goals, Expectations, Practices

Cattaruzza, M., Dyroff, S. & Langewiesche, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available September 2019
Testimonies of Resistance

Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

Chare, N. & Williams, D. (eds)

As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, the Sonderkommando comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented—both by themselves and by others—during and since the Holocaust.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies
eBook available July 2021
Textures of Belonging

Senses, Objects and Spaces of Romanian Roma

Racleş, A.

The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of Roma as "non-belonging others." Challenging this conception, Textures of Belonging explores how Roma negotiate and feel belonging on the everyday level.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
July 2023
Thinking Russia's History Environmentally

Evtuhov, C., Lajus, J., & Moon, D. (eds)

Thinking Russia’s History Environmentallybrings together an international set of scholars to showcase the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. It challenges the stereotypes of Russian history, highlighting lesser-known features of the nation’s environments…

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General)
July 2005
Thinking Utopia

Steps into Other Worlds

Rüsen, J., Fehr, M. & Rieger, T. W. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available May 2021
To See a Moose

The History of Polish Sex Education

Kościańska, A.

Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book also identifies the women and men who changed the way sex was written about in the country, and how they established the field of Polish sexology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)
July 2009
The Train Journey

Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust

Gigliotti, S.

Subjects: Genocide History Memory Studies Transport Studies
eBook available May 2016
Tropics of Vienna

Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire

Bach, U. E.

Though not a conventional colonial power, the Austrian Empire had a metropole-periphery structure that shaped its cultural and intellectual life. This book illuminates colonial utopian writing in the work of Roth, Herzl, and others, revealing a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available August 2020
Under the Sign of the Cross

The People’s Salvation Cathedral and the Church-Building Industry in Postsocialist Romania

Tateo, G.

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book investigates the construction of the world’s highest Orthodox cathedral in Bucharest, Romania. Through the notion of re-consecration, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on eastern Christianity, secularization, postsocialist urban change and nationalism in a vivid account of societal transformation.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
March 2014
Understanding Multiculturalism

The Habsburg Central European Experience

Feichtinger, J. & Cohen, G. B. (eds)

The essays in this collection offer a nuanced analysis of the multifaceted cultural experience of Central Europe under the late Habsburg monarchy and beyond. The authors examine how culturally coded social spaces can be described and understood historically without adopting categories formerly employed to justify the definition and separation of groups into nations, ethnicities, or homogeneous cultures. As we consider the issues of multiculturalism today, this volume offers new approaches to understanding multiculturalism in Central Europe freed of the effects of politically exploited concepts of social spaces.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available September 2019
The Vampire

Origins of a European Myth

Bohn, T. M.

Drawing on a wealth of heretofore neglected sources from multiple languages, this book gives a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally developed within the folk traditions of societies throughout the world—came to be inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination.

Subjects: Sociology Literary Studies History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
May 2014
Vanished History

The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture

Sniegon, T.

“This book opens up important issues not dealt with extensively in the historiography so far. Unlike with some other post-Communist countries, and Poland in particular, there hasn't been that much interest in the topic of commemoration and historicisation of the Holocaust in post-Communist Czechoslovakia…The author should be praised for the critical distance with which he approaches the historical cultures in both parts of former Czechoslovakia and its actors.” · Michal Frankl, Jewish Museum in Prague

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II Jewish Studies
eBook available February 2020
Velvet Retro

Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture

Pehe, V.

This innovative study develops the concept of “retro” to describe the nuanced and ironic depiction of the past as seen in Czech popular culture. It locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Memory Studies
eBook available January 2022
The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945

Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims

Boeckl-Klamper, E., Mang, T., & Neugebauer, W.

The Vienna Gestapo was the most important instrument of Nazi terror on Austrian soil. Through expert historical analysis of the Vienna Gestapo in the years 1938-1945, this volume provides a comprehensive presentation of not only the victims of persecution but also of the structures, organization and individuals actively involved on the Gestapo side.

Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies
eBook available October 2011
Vienna Is Different

Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present

Herzog, H. H.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies
eBook available January 2013
The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

Ashby, C., Gronberg, T. & Shaw-Miller, S. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies
eBook available October 2015
Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning

An Emblematic 20th-Century Life

Pytell, T.

Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist and philosopher who survived the Holocaust and went on to found the third school of Viennese psychotherapy. By critically examining the details of his intellectual life, including some previously unknown biographical details, we can begin to see the fascinating ambiguities and contradictions in Frankl’s thought.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
January 1998
Vladimir Odoevsky and Romantic Poetics

Collected Essays

Cornwell, N.

Subject: Literary Studies
April 2001
Voices From the Void

The Genres of Liudmila Petrushevskaia

Dalton-Brown, S.

Subject: Literary Studies
eBook available June 2020
Voices on War and Genocide

Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town

Bartov, O. (ed)

Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov’s acclaimed recent monograph Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together three extensive and previously unknown accounts of residents from the Ukrainian town of Buczacz, covering events during and between both world wars.

Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies Genocide History
eBook available April 2018
Waiting for Elijah

Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape

HadžiMuhamedović, S.

Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized places, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Based on long-term, multi-sited fieldwork, it examines the complexity of time situated between folk cosmology, political constructions of history and bodily experiences of a landscape in transition.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available February 2022
Walls and Gateways

Contested Heritage in Dubrovnik

Loades, C. M.

Walls and Gateways provides an ethnographic case study, which explores how the production of Dubrovnik’s World Heritage intersects with the reconstruction and consolidation of identities and locality in the city’s post-war context. The book analyses how representations, perceptions and uses of Dubrovnik’s heritage are embedded in particular social and political structural conditions, cultural practices, materiality and place.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
June 2023
White Eagle, Black Eagle

Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands

Parkin, R.

Studying the German-Polish ethnic relations, this book analyses the people and region through their respective borderlands, migration, official cooperation and unofficial suspicions across the border.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present
January 2004
Who Owns the Past?

The Politics of Time in a 'Model' Bulgarian Village

Kaneff, D.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available April 2016
Whose Memory? Which Future?

Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe

Törnquist-Plewa, B. (ed)

Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding ethnic cleansing in Europe, yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume brings together case studies exploring how modern inhabitants “remember” instances of ethnic cleansing, and how they understand the heritage of groups that vanished in their wake.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Memory Studies
eBook available May 2022
Wine Is Our Bread

Labour and Value in Moldovan Winemaking

Ana, D.

Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the country’s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Political and Economic Anthropology
November 1998
Women and Russian Culture

Projections and Self-Perceptions

Marsh, R. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
August 1995
Women in Contemporary Russia

Koval, V. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
March 2006
Women in Polish Cinema

Mazierska, E. & Ostrowska, E.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available November 2007
Women Migrants From East to West

Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe

Passerini, L., Lyon, D., Capussotti, E. & Laliotou, I. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Mobility Studies History: 20th Century to Present
October 1995
Women of Prague

Ethnic Diversity and Social Change from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Iggers, W.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
eBook available March 2022
The World beyond the West

Perspectives from Eastern Europe

Kałczewiak, M. & Kozłowska, M. (eds)

Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in nineteenth and twentieth century, this volume locates the mechanisms and strategies that diverse Eastern European social actors adopted when discussing the non-European world. The Eastern European perspective is not only an important addition to the study of orientalism and post coloniality, but the transnational links in-between Eastern Europe show the region’s importance to a global history.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
June 2015
Yearnings in the Meantime

'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex

Jansen, S.

An ethnographic account, this book looks into a Sarajevo apartment building as its inhabitants yearn for “normal lives,” over a decade after the war and the disintegration of Socialist Yugoslavia. Starting from everyday concerns, it freshly explores how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
June 2023
Yiddish Transformed

Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914

Cohen, N.

Yiddish Transformed explores Jewish reading practices alongside the rise of Yiddish in Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1914 by delving into publishing policies of Yiddish books and newspapers, popular literary genres of the time, the development of Jewish public libraries, as well as reflections of reading experiences in life stories.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Literary Studies
July 2023
Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs

Jezernik, B.

Following the idea of Yugoslavism since its first public usage in 1849, Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs explains why the concept of Yugoslavia competed with Slavic, Serbian, and Croatian nationalistic ideas and failed just five years after its first nation state was established

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: World War I

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Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag

Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity

Feldman, J.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Jewish Studies Memory Studies Travel and Tourism

Achieving Procreation

Childlessness and IVF in Turkey

Demircioğlu Göknar, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

After Socialism

Land Reform and Social Change in Eastern Europe

Abrahams, R. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies

After the 'Socialist Spring'

Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR

Last, G.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Against the Grain

Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times

Mendelsohn, E., Hoffman, S., & Cohen, R. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Alienating Labour

Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary

Bartha, E.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Ambiguous Transitions

Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania

Massino, J.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality

Andrzej Wajda

History, Politics & Nostalgia In Polish Cinema

Falkowska, J.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Antisemitism in Galicia

Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Buchen, T.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies

The Armenian Genocide

Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916

Gust, W. (ed)

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

The Art of Resistance

Cultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century

Fiddler, A.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Cross-disciplinary Perspectives

Good, D. F., Grandner, M., & Maynes, M. J. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

Balkan Departures

Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe

Bracewell, W. & Drace-Francis, A. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies

Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia

Mühlfried, F.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies

Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory

Visible Man and The Spirit of Film

Balázs, B.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Between Utopia and Disillusionment

A Narrative of the Political Transformation in Eastern Europe

Vogt, H.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Beyond 1989

Re-reading German literature since 1945

Bullivant, K. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion

Jewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe

Crouthamel, J., Geheran, M., Grady, T., & Köhne, J. B. (eds)

Subject: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Biography Between Structure and Agency

Central European Lives in International Historiography

Berghahn, V. R. & Lässig, S. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Black Lambs and Grey Falcons

Women Travelling in the Balkans