Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe - CEU Press
Contesting Copyright: A History of Intellectual Property in East Central Europe and the Balkans
1st Edition
By Augusta Dimou
January 16, 2026
The creative sector, including the cultural industry, is key for today’s economy. Copyright has the capacity to x the roles and tasks of the actors involved and determine the direction of cash ows within this sector. The study of the evolution of copyright helps understand and adjust the regulation...
Art beyond Borders: Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe (1945-1989)
1st Edition
Edited
By Jérôme Bazin, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, Piotr Piotrowski
March 31, 2023
This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe’s avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political ...
Philanthropy, Conflict Management and International Law: The 1914 Carnegie Report on the Balkan Wars of 1912/13
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Troebst, Dietmar Müller
April 15, 2022
This book centers on the Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars, published in Washington in the early summer of 1914 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The volume was born from the conviction that the full assessment of the ...
Underground Modernity: Urban Poetics in East-Central Europe, Pre- and Post-1989
1st Edition
By Alfrun Kliems
March 24, 2021
The literary scholar Alfrun Kliems explores the aesthetic strategies of Eastern European underground literature, art, film and music in the decades before and after the fall of communism, ranging from the ‘father’ of Prague Underground, Egon Bondy, to the neo-Dada Club of Polish Losers ...
Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine's Heterogeneity
1st Edition
Edited
By Oksana Myshlovska, Ulrich Schmid
August 14, 2019
This collective volume shows how Ukraine can best be understood through its regions and how the regions must be considered against the background of the nation. The overarching objective of the book is to challenge the dominance of the nation-state paradigm in the analyses of Ukraine by ...
Expanding Intellectual Property: Copyrights and Patents in 20th Century Europe and beyond
1st Edition
By Augusta Dimou, Hannes Siegrist
June 15, 2017
The book deals with the expansion and institutionalization of intellectual property norms in the twentieth century, with a European focus. Its thirteen chapters revolve around the transfer, adaptation and the ambivalence of legal transplants in the interface between national and international ...
Negotiating Marian Apparitions: The Politics of Religion in Transcarpathian Ukraine
1st Edition
By Agnieszka Halemba
October 01, 2015
This book concerns the politics of religion as expressed through apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Dzhublyk in Transcarpathian Ukraine. On the one hand, the analysis provides insights into the present position of Transcarpathia in regional, Ukraine-wide, and European struggles for identity and ...
Remembering Communism: Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe
1st Edition
By Maria Todorova, Stefan Troebst, Augusta Dimou
October 01, 2014
Remembering Communism examines the formation and transformation of the memory of communism in the post-communist period. The majority of the articles focus on memory practices in the post-Stalinist era in Bulgaria and Romania, with occasional references to the cases of Poland and the GDR. Based on ...