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.
Tracing the Atom: Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Bauer, Tanja Penter
January 29, 2024
This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded a vast infrastructure of production and supply chains that have ...
Putin’s Dark Ages: Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia
1st Edition
By Dina Khapaeva
October 26, 2023
Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a “special operation” was launched against Russian historical memory, aggressively reshaping the nation’s understanding of its history and identity. The Kremlin’s militarization of Russia through World War II propaganda is well documented, but the ...
The Nation’s Gratitude: World War I and Citizenship Rights in Interwar Romania
1st Edition
By Maria Bucur
September 25, 2023
A pioneering work for the history of veterans’ rights in Romania, this study brings into focus the laws and policies the state developed in response to the unprecedented human losses in World War I. It features in lively and accessible language the varied responses of veterans, widows and orphans ...
Stalin and War, 1918-1953: Patterns of Repression, Mobilization, and External Threat
1st Edition
By David R. Shearer
September 11, 2023
Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator’s rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence to the dictator’s perceptions of war and ...
Central Europe Revisited: Why Europe’s Future Will Be Decided in the Region
1st Edition
By Emil Brix, Erhard Busek
May 31, 2023
More than 30 years after their momentous book "Projekt Mitteleuropa", which had been written before the fall of the Iron Curtain, Emil Brix and Erhard Busek revisit the political space between Germany, Russia and the Mediterranean. The volume explores the role of Central Europe in the 21st century...
Czechoslovakism
1st Edition
Edited
By Adam Hudek, Michal Kopeček, Jan Mervart
May 31, 2023
This collection systematically approaches the concept of Czechoslovakism and its historical progression, covering the time span from the mid-nineteenth century to Czechoslovakia’s dissolution in 1992/1993, while also providing the most recent research on the subject. "Czechoslovakism" was a ...
Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918–1939
1st Edition
By Piotr Puchalski
May 31, 2023
Poland in a Colonial World Order is a study of the interwar Polish state and empire building project in a changing world of empires, nation-states, dominions, protectorates, mandates, and colonies. Drawing from a wide range of sources spanning two continents and five countries, Piotr ...
The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
1st Edition
Edited
By David L. Hoffmann
May 31, 2023
This volume showcases important new research on World War II memory, both in the Soviet Union and in Russia today. Through an examination of war remembrance in its various forms—official histories, school textbooks, museums, monuments, literature, films, and Victory Day parades—chapters illustrate ...
Communist Propaganda at School: The World of the Reading Primers from the Soviet Bloc, 1949-1989
1st Edition
By Joanna Wojdon
January 09, 2023
Communist Propaganda at School is based on an analysis of reading primers from the Soviet bloc and recreates the world as presented to the youngest schoolchildren who started their education between 1949 and 1989 across the nine Eastern European countries. The author argues that those first ...
Dissident Legacies of Samizdat Social Media Activism: Unlicensed Print Culture in Poland 1976-1990
1st Edition
By Piotr Wciślik
January 09, 2023
This book tells the story of the dissident imaginary of samizdat activists, the political culture they created, and the pivotal role that culture had in sustaining the resilience of the oppositional movement in Poland between 1976 and 1990. This unlicensed print culture has been seen as one of the ...
Milan Rastislav Štefánik: The Slovak National Hero and Co-Founder of Czechoslovakia
1st Edition
By Michal Kšiňan
January 09, 2023
This is the first scientific biography of Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880–1919) that is focused on analysing the process of how he became the Slovak national hero. Although he is relatively unknown internationally, his contemporaries compared him “to Choderlos de Laclos for the use of military ...
Politics and the Slavic Languages
1st Edition
By Tomasz Kamusella
January 09, 2023
During the last two centuries, ethnolinguistic nationalism has been the norm of nation building and state building in Central Europe. The number of recognized Slavic languages (in line with the normative political formula of language = nation = state) gradually tallied with the number of the Slavic...