Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
About the Book Series
The nations of Central and Eastern Europe experienced a time of momentous change in the period following the Second World War. The vast majority were subject to Communism and central planning while events such as the Hungarian uprising and Prague Spring stood out as key watershed moments against a distinct social, cultural and political backcloth. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, German reunification and the break-up of the Soviet Union, changes from the 1990s onwards have also been momentous with countries adjusting to various capitalist realities. The volumes in this series will help shine a light on the experiences of this key geopolitical zone with many lessons to be learned for the future.
A Cultural History of Serbia: Tradition and Change
1st Edition
By David A. Norris
September 29, 2025
This volume focuses on Serbia’s need to manage change while preserving community identities, a narrative that avoids the common depiction of Serbian culture as a hostile struggle between modernizers supporting foreign models and traditionalists advocating forms of national cultural patrimony. ...
Narrating the Soviet Era in Russian School History Textbooks
1st Edition
By Olga Konkka
September 03, 2025
This study focuses on how Russian history textbooks published between 1992 and 2021 dealt with the topic of the Soviet period (1917–1991). Representations of this part of Russia’s past in school manuals have provoked vivid debates and bolstered government intervention in the field, while a gradual ...
Collective Memory in Post-Soviet Kaliningrad Oblast
1st Edition
By Miłosz J. Cordes
June 16, 2025
This volume presents the way the discourse of memory and identity in the post-Soviet territory of Kaliningrad Oblast has altered over time, examining the ways in which politically motivated German myths about East Prussia, which emerged after the unification of Germany in 1871, were reused and ...
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 1: 1954–1956
1st Edition
Edited
By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025
This book, spanning the years 1954–1956, is the first in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. Most of the documents are ...
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 2: 1957–1961
1st Edition
Edited
By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025
This book, spanning the years 1957–1961, is the second in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. Most of the documents are ...
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 3: 1962–1964
1st Edition
Edited
By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025
This book, spanning the years 1961–1964, is the third in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. Most of the documents are ...
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 4: 1965–1967
1st Edition
Edited
By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025
This book, spanning the years 1965–1967 – the years leading up to and culminating in the June 1967 Six-Day War – is the fourth in a four-volume collection of documents from the Russian Federation and the Israeli State Archive portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. ...
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Parts 1–4
1st Edition
Edited
By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025
These volumes bring together key documents detailing Israeli-Soviet relations between 1954 and 1967. A very significant and turbulent period is covered, during which there was a steady deterioration in Soviet-Israeli relations, culminating in their severance following the Six Day War in 1967. They ...
Greek-Albanian Entanglements since the Nineteenth Century: A History
1st Edition
By Alexis Heraclides, Ylli Kromidha
May 06, 2025
This book is a comprehensive study of more than 200 years of the shared and interconnected histories of Greek-Albanian relations, a field of inquiry that has not attracted the international scholarly attention it deserves. The book presents and analyses in detail topics including the contested ...
Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires
1st Edition
Edited
By Motoki Nomachi, Tomasz Kamusella
May 06, 2025
This volume probes into the mechanisms of how languages are created, legitimized, maintained, or destroyed in the service of the extant nation-states across Central Europe. Through chapters from contributors in North America, Europe, and Asia, the book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to ...
The Open Window into the Soviet Bloc: US Policy toward Poland, 1956–1968
1st Edition
By Jakub Tyszkiewicz
May 06, 2025
This volume analyzes US policy toward communist-ruled Poland in the fields of diplomacy, economy, culture, and public diplomacy. It highlights the limitations in developing cooperation between democratic and nondemocratic countries resulting from the Cold War conflict. No comprehensive account of ...
Transgressive Humanism in Mid-Socialist Poland
1st Edition
By Nina Seiler
April 08, 2025
This book focuses on the often-overlooked middle period of socialism in 20th-century Poland, tracing the transgressive variations of humanist thought that emerged as forms of resistance amid the intellectual crisis of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It analyses how an upsurge in anti-Semitism and ...