and Balkan Europe
by IECOB & AIS Università di Bologna
This area collects information about a wide range of books, monographies and edited volumes concerning the countries and themes relevant to PECOB
Books about Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans
PECOB offers a significant number of books, mainly published by universities and scientific institutions.
The books here presented focus primarily on the economic, political and social transition in Central Eastern European countries and the Balkans since the 90s, and on those areas' influence on the widening Europe. Issues concerning gender relations, migrations, regional economic cooperation, religions, nationalism and national identities are broadly discussed. Many books also focus on the history of Eastern Europe, economics and regional cooperation in Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Literary works recently trasnlated from Eastern European languages are also included in this section. Some of the books are available for dowload.
Recently added books address issues such as Hungary in 1956, the demise of the Soviet Union, proceedings from a conference on cooperation in the Balkans, Yugoslavia and the 1968 events in Czechoslovakia.
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Academia in Crisis
(published in: Sep, 2019)
Contributors are Samuel Abraham, Stefano Bianchini, Simon Charlesworth, Leonidas Donskis, Frans Kamsteeg, Joost van Loon, Ida Sabelis, Tamara Shefer and Harry Wels. -
October! The Soviet Centenary
(published in: Feb, 2018)
Contributors to this issue approach the October 1917 Russian Revolution and the experiments of the revolutionary period as events that opened new possibilities for politics that remain vital one hundred years later. -
A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies
(published in: Jan, 2018)
Between 1415, when the Portuguese first used convicts for colonization purposes in the North African enclave of Ceuta, to the 1960s and the dissolution of Stalin’s gulags, global powers including the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, British, Russians, Chinese and Japanese transported millions of convicts to forts, penal settlements and penal colonies all over the world. -
The Displacement of Borders among Russian Koreans in Northeast Asia
(published in: Jan, 2018)
Since the nineteenth century, ethnic Koreans have represented a small yet significant portion of the population of the Russian Far East, but until now, the phenomenon has been largely understudied. -
SERBIAN‐ITALIAN RELATIONS: History and Modern Times
(published in: Nov, 2017)
The link between the Italian and the Serbian national movement is explained in this paper through the presence of Italians in Serbia in the first half of the 19th century. -
Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry
(published in: Oct, 2017)
John Bushnell’s analysis of previously unstudied church records and provincial archives reveals surprising marriage patterns in Russian peasant villages in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some villages the rate of unmarried women reached as high as 70 percent. -
Red Hangover. Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism
(published in: Oct, 2017)
In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. -
Liquid Nationalism and State Partitions in Europe
(published in: Oct, 2017)
This timely book offers an in-depth exploration of state partitions and the history of nationalism in Europe from the Enlightenment onwards. -
Secularism
(published in: Sep, 2017)
The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian Europe, pre-Christian Europe, and in the Arabic world. But from the eighteenth century onwards, some European states began to set up their political order on a different basis. -
Living the Revolution
(published in: Sep, 2017)
Living the Revolution offers a pioneering insight into the world of the early Soviet activist. At the heart of this book are a cast of fiery-eyed, bed-headed youths determined to be the change they wanted to see in the world. -
Russia - Art Resistance and the Conservative-Authoritarian Zeitgeist
(published in: Sep, 2017)
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The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War, Third Revised Edition
(published in: Mar, 2017)
The fall of Yugoslavia tells the whole, true story of the Balkan Crisis—and the ensuing war—for those around the world who have watched the battle unfold with a mixture of horror, dread, and confusion. -
The Incomplete Breakthrough in Greek-Turkish Relations: Grasping Greece’s Socialization Strategy
(published in: Mar, 2017)
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Unholy Alliance: Greece and Milosevic's Serbia
(published in: Mar, 2017)
As the only member of NATO and the European Union to support Slobodan Milosevic's regime in the conflict following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Greece broke ranks with its Western allies, frustrating their efforts to impose sanctions against Serbia. -
Managing Difference in Eastern-European Transnational Families
(published in: Feb, 2017)
The volume places a special emphasis on a gendered and practice-oriented approach toTransnational Families, focusing on the Eastern-European space and exploring territories of domination and empowerment that inform the negotiation of difference.
PECOB: Portal on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe - University of Bologna - 117, c.so della Repubblica - Italy
