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.
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 ...
Gender and World War II in the Yugoslav Media
1st Edition
By Iva Jelušić
December 27, 2024
This book presents an analysis of the cultural memory of women’s participation in the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Struggle (1941–1945), with a particular focus on the figure of the female soldier. It examines how this subject was treated in socialist Yugoslavia’s popular printed press ...
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 ...
Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie Deschepper, Antony Kalashnikov, Federica Rossi
July 05, 2024
This edited volume offers an original exploration into the ways in which Soviet culture and experience of time were unique, examining the temporalities expressed in the world of socialist things: from the objects of everyday life to urban architecture. Grounding the analysis of Soviet temporalities...
Gombrowicz: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Aleksandra Konarzewska
June 12, 2024
This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century literature and theater, providing intertextual perspectives that allow readers to analyze his short stories, plays, and novels in broad contexts. Gombrowicz (1904–1969) ...
The Eastern Bloc and Sub-Saharan Africa: Czechoslovakia, UNESCO and Development Aid from the 1960s and Beyond
1st Edition
By Barbora Buzássyová
June 03, 2024
This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds during the three “development decades.” Starting in ...