PECOB
Portal on Central Eastern
and Balkan Europe
by IECOB & AIS Università di Bologna
and Balkan Europe
by IECOB & AIS Università di Bologna
Sunday December 22, 2024
Books
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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A Welfare State without Welfare. Teachers, Employees, Workers and Peasants in the Social Security System of the Soviet Union, 1917-1939
(published in: Dec, 2010)
Based on extensive research in the archives of the former Soviet Union, the book reconstructs the legislative, institutional and social history of the Soviet welfare state in the interwar period. -
Survivors’ Homelands. Jewish Literature in Postwar Italy and Poland
(published in: Nov, 2010)
Jewish literature has expressed itself in all the languages of the Diaspora. In this volume a comphensive outlines a fragment of one of its possible histories, based on works written in Italian and Polish. -
Europeanisation of Justice and Home Affairs in Hungary: between formal and substantial transformation
(published in: Nov, 2010)
The broad area of studies, in which the research is focused, is the European Union. The most obvious motivation in developing a research in EU related issues is to contribute to the ‘discovery’ of the functioning of the (non)institutional mechanisms of this fascinating ‘unidentified political object’. -
The cambridge history of Russia Vol. 1
(published in: Nov, 2010)
This is a definitive new history of Russia from early Rus’ to the successor states that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Volume I encompasses developments before the reign of Peter I; volume II covers the ‘imperial era’, from Peter’s time to the fall of the monarchy in March 1917; and volume III continues the story through to the end of the twentieth century. At the core of all three volumes are the Russians, the lands which they have inhabited and the polities that ruled them while other peoples and territories have also been given generous coverage for the periods when they came under Riurikid,Romanov and Soviet rule.The distinct voices of individual contributors provide a multitude of perspectives on Russia’s diverse and controversial millennial history. -
The Song of Igor
(published in: Nov, 2010)
This new edition of The Song of Igor is the result of a total revision and a partial adaptation of the third edition from April, 1991 (1st edition, December, 1988; 2nd edition, February, 1989), printed for Pratiche Editrice of Parma, which already contained an index of historical and geographical names. When the «Biblioteca medievale» series, of which The Song is the seventh volume, was taken over by Luni publishing house in Milan, the latter reprinted the 2nd edition rather than the latest, most up-to-date one -
Cold War in Psychiatry. Human Factors, Secret Actors.
(published in: Nov, 2010)
Over 20 years Soviet psychiatric abuse had dominated the agenda of the World Psychiatric Association. It ended only after the Soviet Foreign Ministry intervened. Cold War in Psychiatry tells the full story for the first time and from inside, among others on basis of extensive reports by Stasi and KGB... -
Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the fourth Century BC
(published in: Nov, 2010)
The book focuses on a region that we believe decisively shaped Greek affairs of the Classical period. Conceiving of central Greece and its core Boeotia as an area with its own regional dynamics, this collection of essays attempts to examine Greek history in a test tube: while paying particular attention to regional patterns of interstate relations, we also hope to disclose the interaction between regional politics and Panhellenic affairs. This approach should add to the rising interest in a period in Greek history that still widely lacks understanding. -
The Routledge Companion to Central and Eastern Europe since 1919
(published in: Nov, 2010)
The Routledge Companion to Central and Eastern Europe since 1919 is a compact and comprehensive reference guide to the area, from the Treaty of Versailles to the present day. With particular focus on the early nationalist and subsequent fascist and communist periods, Adrian Webb provides an essential guide to the events, people and ideas which have shaped Central and Eastern Europe since 1919. In order to give this book some coherence against such shifting sands, it has been decided to focus on an ‘Eastern Europe’ defined as the 1945–90 Soviet bloc, including Albania and also Yugoslavia with whose history it was intimately involved, together with the Baltic States, Moldova and Ukraine during their periods of independence, in view of their increased western orientation -
Relationships among Country Risk, Investor Expectations and Financial Variables in Central Europe
(published in: Nov, 2010)
This work is a history of developing market finance and an examination of yield components in the focus countries of Central Europe. And the financial variables that explain the dynamics of those economies are also in constant flux. So this book is the attempt to illustrate current relationships among the factors that matter to policy-makers in these countries so they can create a more profitable environment, attract more investment, and create a more stable economy in the Central Europe and Balkans. -
Guida ai Paesi dell'Europa centrale, orientale e balcanica
(published in: Oct, 2010)
Unico volume di produzione interamente italiana dedicato all'Europa centro-orientale e balcanica, questo annuario è un'opera di consultazione essenziale, agile e precisa, preparata dai maggiori esperti del settore... -
Kurbskij's History of the Grand Prince of Moscow, Ivan IV «the Terrible»
(published in: Sep, 2010)
Ivan Vasil’evič IV, the first Russia tsar’ (1530-84), is also known in the West as “the Terrible”, although his Russian denomination as Groznyj was traditionally referred to all Grand Princes, i.e. princes who, for longer or shorter periods, had occupied the throne at Kiev, later at Suzdal’-Vladimir or Moscow... -
Women entrepreneurs: new opportunities and challenges
(published in: Sep, 2010)
In recent years, a record number of women have been breaking out of corporate life and embracing entrepreneurial careers as an alternative to inflexible work practices and outdated systems. Although women still face “glass ceiling” and somehow fail to achieve maximum potential,there are evidences to suggest that most countries have now realized the potential contributions women make to the nations’ economic growth... -
In Quest of Tolstoy
(published in: Sep, 2010)
Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. A supremely talented artist, whose novels and short stories continue to entrance readers all over the world, he was at the same time a fearless moral philosopher who explored and challenged the fundamental bases of human society—political, economic, legal, and cultural... -
Postcard from the grave
(published in: Jul, 2010)
This is the first account of the siege of Srebrenica, prelude to the most ruthless genocide perpetrated in Europe since the end of World War II, with the collusion of the United Nations and Europe... -
Guida ai paesi dell'Europa centrale orientale e balcanica - Annuario politico economico 2009
(published in: Jul, 2010)
Unico volume di produzione interamente italiana dedicato all'Europa centro-orientale e balcanica, questo annuario è un'opera di consultazione essenziale, agile e precisa, preparata dai maggiori esperti del settore... -
Ideologies and National Identities
(published in: Apr, 2010)
Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This book is the result of a year-long project by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise this tumultuous century... -
We, the people - Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe
(published in: Apr, 2010)
Analyzes the processes of nation-building in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century south-eastern Europe. A product of transnational comparative teamwork, this collection represents a coordinated interpretation based on ten varied academic cultures and traditions... -
Globalization and Nationalism
(published in: Apr, 2010)
Argues for an original, unorthodox conception about the relationship between globalization and contemporary nationalism. While the prevailing view holds that nationalism and globalization are forces of clashing opposition, Sabanadze establishes that these tend to become allied forces... -
In Marx's Shadow
(published in: Apr, 2010)
Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist intellectuals on their way to power. By drawing attention to unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking under socialism, the volume examines Eastern European and Russian histories of intellectual movements inspired - negatively as well as positively - by Communist arguments and dogmas... -
The Balkans
(published in: Apr, 2010)
Although often evoked by international public opinion or policy-makers, the role of religion in the Balkans, particularly related to the recent Yugoslav secession war, has rarely been considered the focus of a systematic analysis. People interested in the topic generally received superficial information, often conditioned by stereotypes, distorted images and biased perceptions... -
European Memory. A Blessing or a Curse?
(published in: Apr, 2010)
To be or to forget?
How do the politics of remembering and the politics of forgetting relate to modernity?
Is European memory the way out of painful dilemmas of modernity or it is just a burden?
The volume offers a strong Central European perspective on the politics of remembering and the politics of forgetting in the twentieth century, and on interpretation of ourselves and the world around us in the twenty-first century... -
Selected bibliography of classic works (1979-2009)
(published in: Feb, 2010)
A meditated choice, which demonstrates and documents her testimony of a life in service of precision and the exact verification of each and every theory... -
Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle
(published in: Feb, 2010)
Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle is the first systematic study of nationalism in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey from a comparative perspective. Bringing scholars from Greece, Turkey and both sides of Cyprus (and beyond) together, the book provides a critical account of nation-building
processes and nationalist politics in all three countries. -
Regional Initiatives and Multilateral Cooperation in the Balkans
(published in: Jan, 2010)
The book represents an updated version of Duško Lopandić’s book “Regional Initiatives in South-East Europe”, which was originally published in 2001 by the European Movement in Serbia and the Institute for International Politics and Economics in Belgrade... -
A Cat’s Lick. Democratisation and minority communities in the post-Soviet Baltic.
(published in: Jan, 2010)
The research on Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania has pointed out some controversial social and political developments since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Crucially, there is a discrepancy between the governments’ commitment to creating democratic political regimes, to ensuring harmonious social relations and to accommodating the ethno-cultural diversity of the resident communities... -
Francesco Carrara. Dnevnici S Putovanja 1843 - 1848
(published in: Jan, 2010)
A respectable, Split historian, archeologist, conservator, writer and the first director of Archeological Museum, Francesco Carrara (16th November 1812, Split - 29th January 1854, Venice), left in his manuscript intimate diares of his six journies to Vienna, the capital of Austro-Hungarian Empire... -
Balkans 1908 - The origins of a century of conflict
(published in: Jan, 2010)
This collection of historical essays is dedicated to the situation in the Balkans at the beginning of the 20th century. At the center of the analysis are the events of 1908 which provoked radical changes in the political and ethnic order which had come about during the 1800s... -
Serbia's Transition - Towards a better future
(published in: Jan, 2010)
The book analyzes the twenty years of economic transition from socialism to capitalism in Serbia. It offers a comprehensive evaluation of the achievements and failures of the transition, and explains why its course has been more complex and unique than elsewhere in the former socialist world... -
Migrations From And To Southeastern Europe
(published in: Jan, 2010)
If we decide to assume the impossible task of summarizing the complex, contradictory, and diverse Balkan migrations at the beginning of the 21st century, it would be normalization... -
Bulgaria - A Crossroads of Cultures
(published in: Jan, 2010)
In 2007 Bulgaria became part of the European Union, but the course of this country in the heart of the Balkans, forever caught between two empires, the Russian and Turkish one, is one of the most troubled and least known in European history... -
Guida ai paesi dell'Europa centrale orientale e balcanica
(published in: Jan, 2010)
Unico volume di produzione interamente italiana dedicato all'Europa centro-orientale e balcanica, questo annuario è un'opera di consultazione essenziale, agile e precisa, preparata dai maggiori esperti del settore...
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