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.
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 ...
Observers from Abroad: Twentieth Century Western Documentary Photography in the USSR
1st Edition
By Martin A. Miller
March 31, 2025
Observers from Abroad offers an examination of published and archival images of Soviet Russia, providing a deeper understanding of the complexities and vicissitudes of its political culture. The book argues that photography, when accurately interpreted, can be utilized as primary historical ...
The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920: Lloyd George, Lenin and Poland
1st Edition
By Andrzej Nowak
December 18, 2024
The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a military attack on the continent. The outcome of this attack might have been the occupation of all of Poland ...
The Sovietization of Rural Hungary, 1945-1980: Subjugation in the Name of Equality
1st Edition
Edited
By József Ö. Kovács, Gergely Krisztián Horváth, Gábor Csikós
December 18, 2024
In this book the experiential history of the Soviet-style social transformation projects between 1945 and 1980 is discussed through the example of rural Hungary. The book interprets state socialism as a (modernization) project. Existing socialism was a form of dictatorship in which authorities ...
The Anthems of East-Central Europe: Reflections on the History of a National Symbol
1st Edition
By Csaba G. Kiss
November 28, 2024
This book juxtaposes national anthems of thirteen countries from central Europe, with the aim of initiating a dialogue among the peoples of East-Central Europe. We tend to perceive a national anthem as a particular mirror, involuntarily reflecting an image of nation and homeland; but how does it ...
Children of German-Polish Relationships: Identity and Nationality
1st Edition
By Piotr Madajczyk, Magdalena Lemańczyk, Kamila Schöll-Mazurek
November 07, 2024
This book analyzes the process of national identity formation and identification of children born into formal and informal Polish-German relationships in Poland and Germany, and how that process is impacted by their upbringing at the intersection of two cultures. The sociological-historical ...
Yugoslavia, Nonalignment and Cold War Globalism: Tito's International Rise, Celebrity and Fall
1st Edition
By Zvonimir Stopić, Robert Niebuhr, David Pickus
October 28, 2024
This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia established itself as a nonaligned leader, and what the decline of Yugoslav globalism reveals about the waning Cold War and the history of internationalist diplomacy. ...
Black Humor and the White Terror
1st Edition
By Béla Bodó
August 26, 2024
This book examines political humor as a reaction to the lost war, the post-war chaos, and antisemitic violence in Hungary between 1918 and 1922. While there is an increased body of literature on Jewish humor as a form of resistance and a means of resilience during the Holocaust, only a handful of ...
Contemporary Hungarian Society: Social Changes in Hungary from Late State Socialism
1st Edition
By Tibor Valuch
August 26, 2024
This book examines social change in Hungary, commencing with the period of late-stage socialism, the country’s immediate post-communist transition, its subsequent consolidation, and the emergence of authoritarian leadership since 2010. The volume seeks to employ a longitudinal and comparative ...