Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
Birth of the Intelligentsia 17501831
A History of the Polish Intelligentsia Part 1, edited by Jerzy Jedlicki
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part one (1750–1831) traces the formation of the intelligentsia as a social class in the epoch of Enlightenment. It stresses the importance of the birth...
Composing the Party Line
Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World...
by Andrey Taranov
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
English-Bulgarian phrasebook and 3000-word topical vocabulary
The collection of "Everything Will Be Okay" travel phrasebooks published by T&P Books is designed for people traveling abroad for tourism and business. The phrasebooks contain what matters most - the essentials for...
Nokumentary™
Adventures of a Pound Shop Martin Parr
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Richard Schofield is a British photographer with extraordinary sensitivity and a startling sense of composition.
Frustrated by the growing obsession with expensive technology, Schofield began experimenting with an early camera phone, the “technically lamentable” Nokia E61i. The result...
by Gary Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Poland's capital city, Warsaw is called the 'Phoenix City' as it was rebuilt after the Second World War after 85% of its buildings were destroyed. Today Warsaw has much to offer the tourist and boasts many historic sights. The city’s Old Town with its colourful market squares and rows of tall townhouses,...
by Encyclopaedia Universalis, Les Grands Articles
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Nouvel État souverain issu de la partition, le 1er janvier 1993, de la République fédérative tchèque et slovaque (Fédération tchéco-slovaque), la République tchèque a mis en œuvre un processus de réforme de son système politique et économique dont les effets contribuent à modifier profondément ses structures sociales et territoriales...
Serbie : Mythologies balkaniques
L'Âme des Peuples
Language: French
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d’abord les comprendre
Que reste-t-il de l’ex-Yougoslavie ? De tous les peuples de l’ancienne république disloquée par la guerre, les Serbes sont sans doute ceux qui s’interrogent le plus. Sans parvenir à répondre, tant l’histoire...
by Claudio Mutti
Language: French
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: June 18, 2013
“Fondée en 1927, la Légion de l’Archange Michel, plus connue en Europe occidentale sous le nom de Garde de Fer, reste un phénomène insuffisamment étudié ou systématiquement calomnié. Elle a pourtant marqué en profondeur l’histoire contemporaine de la Roumanie. Extrêmement original,...
Masterpieces of History
The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Twenty years in the making, this collection presents 122 top-level Soviet, European and American records on the superpowers' role in the annus mirabilis of 1989. Consisting of Politburo minutes; diary entries from Gorbachev's senior aide, Anatoly Chernyaev; meeting notes and private communications...
by Andrey Taranov
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2016
English-Serbian phrasebook and 3000-word topical vocabularyThe collection of "Everything Will Be Okay" travel phrasebooks published by T&P Books is designed for people traveling abroad for tourism and business. The phrasebooks contain what matters most - the essentials for basic communication....
Kaufman Green Guide: Budapest
A Green Travel Guide to Budapest
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Budapest is becoming a more popular tourist spot every day! With Budapest's interesting history, fabulous thermal baths and beautiful building it is no wonder why. In the Kaufman Green Guide: Budapest, I teach you how to visit Budapest as a Green Tourist. Chapter 1 introduces you to...
The Politics of Peace
A Global Cold War History
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days our governments had better get out of the way and let them...
The Nation in the Village
The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848–1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
How do peasants come to think of themselves as members of a nation? The widely accepted argument is that national sentiment originates among intellectuals or urban middle classes, then "trickles down" to the working class and peasants. Keely Stauter-Halsted argues that such models overlook the independent...
by Clive Phillipps-Wolley
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
An English writer who became famous for his descriptions of the peoples of the Caucasus. He visited various regions of the Caucasus, such Svaneti , who described in two books published during the 1880s (In The Sport And Savage Svaneti Caucasus and Crimea)
ContentsSport in the Crimea...