Stauber and Vago (both Tel Aviv U.) present a collection of ten papers from the first international conference in Israel on the Roma, held at the Tel Aviv U. in December 2002 . The essays explore some
"This book compares the various aspects--political, military, economic--of Soviet occupation in Austria, Hungary and Romania. Using documents found in Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian and Russian archive
The book demonstrates that in the late 19th to early 20th centuries Darwinism strongly influenced celebrated Greek literary writers and other influential intellectuals, which fueled debate in various
Three papers from a 2011 workshop held near Bucharest address the potential roles and consequences of Roma activism and policymaking; integration and politicization of Roma identity; and issues of val
Filcak (researcher, Institute for Forecasting of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia) explores the environmental conditions in Roma settlements in Eastern Slovakia. Marginalized by government pol
The artistic tradition that emerged as a form of cultural resistance in the 1970s changed during the transition from socialism to capitalism. This volume presents the evolution of the Moscow-based con
With an emphasis on Russian and Eastern European popular culture, Goscilo and Hashamova examine the various cultural, political and ideological representations of Slavic and Balkan women in war-torn l
The research of the folklore genre of charms became extremely dynamic around the turn of the millennium. A number of academic disciplines allied themselves to explore manuscripts healing texts and oth
Examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by
Sakmyster (emeritus, history, U. of Cincinnati) offers a politically-based biography of Jozsef Pogany (1886-1938), a journalist and leader in radical left-wing politics before and after World War I. T
Initiating the first extensive exploration into the history of eugenics in Portugal, Cleminson argues that although eugenics in Portugal never became a mass movement or used the state to introduce eug
Vermes presents students, academics, researchers, and general-interest readers with an investigation of the Hungarian culture and politics from a variety of points of view in the period from 1711 to 1
Kind-Kovacs describes the uninterrupted flow of large amounts of underground literature from communist to capitalist countries during the Cold War. He identifies a transnational undertaking that reinf
Citing the interrelationship between nation-formation and empire-building in the nineteenth century in Europe as an eminently complex and novel theme, Berger and Miller present three arguments: 1) nat
Starting in 1945, the Soviet Army deported Czechoslovak civilians to labor camps in the USSR. This study examines political and diplomatic aspects of the deportations and the Czechoslovak government’s
