Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia - CEU Press
Aleksandr Tvardovskii: Memory and Truth in the Soviet Union
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Hosking
April 14, 2025
Aleksandr Tvardovskii was not only one of the finest, most popular and most important poets of his epoch, but also the editor of Novyi mir, the most prominent Soviet literary journal of the postwar period until the 1970s. This book is a detailed biography of the writer and journal editor who ...
Engineering the Lower Danube: Technology and Territoriality in an Imperial Borderland, Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
1st Edition
By Luminita Gatejel
January 05, 2023
The Lower Danube—the stretch of Europe’s second longest river between the Romanian-Serbian border and the confluence to the Black Sea—was effectively transformed during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In describing this lengthy undertaking, Luminita Gatejel proposes ...
Policemen of the Tsar: Local Police in an Age of Upheaval
1st Edition
By Robert J. Abbott
October 15, 2022
Founded by Peter the Great in 1718, Russia’s police were key instruments of tsarist power. In the reign of Alexander II (1855-1881), local police forces took on new importance. The liberation of 23 million serfs from landlord control, growing fear of crime, and the terrorist violence of the ...
Memory Crash: Politics of History in and around Ukraine, 1980s-2010s
1st Edition
Edited
By Georgiy Kasianov
February 15, 2022
This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020. Georgiy Kasianov details practices relating to history and memory by a variety of ...
Russia on the Danube: Empire, Elites, and Reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812-1834
1st Edition
By Victor Taki
November 15, 2021
One of the goals of Russia's Eastern policy was to turn Moldavia and Wallachia, the two Romanian principalities north of the Danube, from Ottoman vassals into a controllable buffer zone and a springboard for future military operations against Constantinople. Russia on the Danube describes the ...
The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation: Dilemmas of Nationalization In Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1905-1915
1st Edition
Edited
By Darius Staliūnas, Yoko Aoshima
May 31, 2021
This collection of essays addresses the challenge of modern nationalism to the tsarist Russian Empire. First appearing on the empire’s western periphery this challenge, was most prevalent in twelve provinces extending from Ukrainian lands in the south to the Baltic provinces in the north, as ...
A Contested Borderland: Competing Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Century
1st Edition
By Andrei Cusco
October 10, 2017
Bessarabia, mostly occupied by modern-day republic of Moldova, was the only territory representing an object of rivalry and symbolic competition between the Russian Empire and a fully crystallized nation-state: the Kingdom of Romania. This book is an intellectual prehistory of the Bessarabian ...
Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars
1st Edition
Edited
By Darius Staliūnas
April 10, 2015
It begins by illustrating how widespread anti-Jewish feelings were among the Christian population in 19 th century, focusing on blood libel accusations as well as describing the role of modern antisemitism. Secondly, it tries to identify the structural preconditions as well as specific triggers ...
The Village and the Class War: Anti-Kulak Campaign in Estonia 1944-49
1st Edition
By Anu Mai Kõll
March 30, 2013
Before collectivization of agriculture in Estonia, “kulaks” (better-off farmers) were persecuted and many of them were finally deported in March 1949. This book is situated on the local level; the aim is to understand what these processes meant from the perspective of the Estonian rural population,...
Rural Unrest during the First Russian Revolution: Kursk Province, 1905-1906
1st Edition
By Burton Richard Miller
February 10, 2013
The narrative of peasant unrest in Russia during 1905–1906 combines a chronology of incidents drawn from official documents, with close analysis of the villages associated with the disorders based upon detailed census materials compiled by local specialists. The analysis concentrates on a single ...