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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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  1. Russian Energy and Security up to 2030

    (published in: Dec, 2013)

    ”Russian Energy and Security up to 2030” is abook written by Susanne Oxenstierna, Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen. The challenges in Russia’senergy sector are changing. On the demand side, Europe is seeking to limit itsdependence on Russian oil and gas, with the result that China and other Asiancountries are likely to eventually become growing export markets for Russianenergy.

     

  2. The Informal Post-Socialist Economy

    (published in: Dec, 2013)

    From smugglers to entrepreneurs, blue-collar workers and taxi drivers, this book deals with the multitude of characters engaged in informal economic practices in the former socialist regions..

     

  3. The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire

    (published in: Dec, 2013)

    This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities...

     

  4. Symbolism and Regime Change in Russia

    (published in: Dec, 2013)

    During the Soviet period, political symbolism developed into a coherent narrative that underpinned Soviet political development...

     

  5. Windows on Russia and Eastern Europe

    (published in: Nov, 2013)

    Written by graduates of the University of Nottingham’s Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, the forthcoming book Windows on Russia and Eastern Europe sheds light on how the Communist-controlled lands of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe evolved from Stalinism to Gorbachev’s perestroika...

     

  6. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

    (published in: Oct, 2013)

    Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising...

     

  7. Everyday Life in Stalinist Estonia

    (published in: Oct, 2013)

    In Estonia, as in other Eastern European countries, the Stalinist era remains in the center of attention of historians. Politics, repression and resistance dominate the historiography, while everyday life is definitely under-represented. This book attempts to close the gap and focuses on different aspects of everyday life in Stalinist Estonia.

     

  8. Russian Intellectual Antisemitism in the Post-Communist Era

    (published in: Oct, 2013)

    Antisemitism has had a long and complex history in Russian intellectual life and has revived in the post-Communist era. In their concept of the identity of the Jewish people...

     

  9. Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War

    (published in: Oct, 2013)

    Since its publication in 2003, the first editionof Black Garden has become the definitive study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan,two southern Soviet republics, were pulled into a conflict that helped bringthem to independence, spell the end the Soviet Union, and plunge a region ofgreat strategic importance into a decade of turmoil. Thomas de Waal’s volume isboth a careful reconstruction of the history of the Nagorny Karabakh conflictsince 1988 and on-the-spot reporting of the convoluted aftermath.

     

  10. Au Pouvoir par le Peuple

    (published in: Sep, 2013)

    Populisme, ce terme commence à se vulgariser à travers son emploi excessif par la presse. Vulgarisation qui lui a valu l'affaiblissement conceptuel, mais qui a permis, toutefois, une ouverture éclairante envers l'hétérogénéité constitutive de ce phénomène : désormais, ce n'est plus seulement l'extrême droite, mais ce sont aussi la droite et, de surcroît, l'extrême gauche et la gauche radicale qui pratiquent le populisme. Dorénavant, ce n'est plus seulement dans l'usure de l'expérience démocratique, mais aussi dans son absence qu'il faut le dénicher.

     

  11. Discordant Neighbours

    (published in: Sep, 2013)

    Drawing heavily on Georgian sources, the author offers readers a unique opportunity to appreciate why the Abkhazians and South Ossetians have seen no alternative to resisting the threats emanating from Tbilisi by refusing to join an independent Georgia.

     

  12. Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution

    (published in: Sep, 2013)

    In 1980 Polish workers astonished the world by winning an independent union with the right to strike deep inside the Eastern Bloc. Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution uses 150 interviews with this struggle's leaders, their supporters, and their opponents to adroitly shows how an opposition was built and eventually forced the Stalinist government from power.

     

  13. Politics in Color and Concrete

    (published in: Sep, 2013)

    After 1989, we often heard that consumption failures caused communism’s collapse; Fehérváry’s brilliant analysis explains why this is both right and wrong. Instead of the stereotypical socialism of long queues and shoddy goods, she presents a Hungarian Communist Party that actively created demanding consumers, who insisted that it meet its own standards. This is a major reinterpretation of Soviet-style socialism and an innovative model for analyzing consumption.

     

  14. Wheel of Fortune

    (published in: Sep, 2013)

    Wheel of Fortune is built on an impressive grasp of the way the Russian oil industry works. But its arguments also have a wider relevance for understanding the country’s post-Soviet fortunes. What Wheel of Fortune describes is not so much the displacement of private companies by a state-led model as the creation of a new hybrid form. This blurring of the personnel, motivations and strategic orientations of state and private sectors is the hallmark of contemporary Russian capitalism.

     

  15. Worlds of Dissent

    (published in: Sep, 2013)

    Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the dissidents themselves understood, debated, and lived it.

     

  16. Guilt, Responsability and Denial

    (published in: Sep, 2013)

    Guilt, Responsibility, and Denial sets out to trace the political, social, and moral challenges that Serbia faced from 2000, offering an empirically rich and theoretically broad account of what was demanded of the country's citizens as well its political leadership—and how these challenges were alternately confronted and ignored.

     

  17. The Fire Below

    (published in: Sep, 2013)

    Beginning in 2000, Putin's Chechenization strategy had unforeseen and controversial results for the entire Russian Federation. This work examines the complex dynamics of Russia's relations with the Caucasus.

     

  18. Russian Citizenship

    (published in: Aug, 2013)

    Russian Citizenship is the first book to trace the Russian state’s citizenship policy throughout its history. Focusing on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the consolidation of Stalin’s power in the 1930s, Eric Lohr considers whom the state counted among its citizens and whom it took pains to exclude.

     

  19. Building Fortress Europe

    (published in: Jul, 2013)

    What happens when a region accustomed to violent shifts in borders is subjected to a new, peaceful partitioning? Has the European Union spent the last decade creating a new Iron Curtain at its fringes? Building Fortress Europe: The Polish-Ukrainian Frontier examines these questions from the perspective of the EU's new eastern external boundary.

     

  20. The Color Revolutions

    (published in: Jul, 2013)

    Lincoln Mitchell has written a sober, concise, and thought-provoking analysis of the color revolutions in the former Soviet Union. As both a scholar and practitioner, he offers a unique and nuanced perspective on issues central to those revolutions and to regime change more broadly.

     

  21. Political Symbols in Russian History

    (published in: Jul, 2013)

    Political Symbols in Russian History is one of the few works that presents an analytical and comprehensive account of Russian history and politics between the years of 988 to 2005.

     

  22. Fragile Empire

    (published in: Jul, 2013)

    Fragile Empire is the fruit of Judah’s thorough research: a probing assessment of Putin’s rise to power and what it has meant for Russia and her people.

     

  23. An Environmental History of Russia

    (published in: Jul, 2013)

    This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment.

     

  24. Reconstruction and Peace Building in the Balkans

    (published in: Jul, 2013)

    To understand what post-war intervention in an ethnically divided society by foreign powers really involves, this book is essential reading.

     

  25. The Next Generation in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan

    (published in: Jul, 2013)

    Using new polling data, Nadia Diuk traces youth attitudes towards politics in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan, and shows how they have been shaped in ways very different from one another by their past experiences. The Next Generation will be critical to anyone seeking to understand political change in the former Soviet Union.

     

  26. Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–1985

    (published in: Jun, 2013)

    Revisiting the period of late socialism in the USSR, contributors to this volume search out the rhythms and contours of everyday life and find a multi-vectored reality far removed from conventional Western stereotypes. Cold War Warriors will read this book at their peril.

     

  27. Plutopia

    (published in: Jun, 2013)

    While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union.

     

  28. The Readers of Novyi Mir

    (published in: Jun, 2013)

    The Readers of Novyi Mir represents a major breakthrough in our knowledge and understanding of postwar Soviet literature. Drawing on a treasure-trove of letters to the most important Soviet ‘thick journal’ of the time, it offers both new information and insightful commentary on readers, writers, editors, and important controversies. Absolutely indispensable for anyone interested in a beyond-the-clichés view of this fascinating period.

     

  29. Claiming Macedonia

    (published in: Jun, 2013)

    For nearly 130 years, the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Yugoslavs have fought over the question of who has the historical and demographic rights to use the name Macedonia.Cover to cover, this book traces the conflicts change from an initial struggle between Hellenism and Bulgarism to the present dispute between Athens and Skopje.

     

  30. The Three Yugoslavias

    (published in: Jun, 2013)

    Based on extensive archival research and fieldwork and the culmination of more than two decades of study, The Three Yugoslavias is a major contribution to an understanding of Yugoslavia and its successor states.

     

  31. 'Undetermined' Ukrainians

    (published in: Jun, 2013)

    This book explores why over 8,000 members of the Waffen SS were allowed to move permanently to the West, by analysing the complex series of events and decisions that characterized the journey of the ‘Galicians’ from capitulation to acceptance into civilian life.

     

  32. L'ultima favola russa

    (published in: Jun, 2013)

    L'ultima favola russa è la replica in miniatura di un mondo di idee rmaste invisibili ai più e ora sparite per sempre.

     

  33. Alleati del nemico

    (published in: Jun, 2013)

    Dai sogni di dominio sui Balcani nella primavera del 1941 al senso di sconfitta nell’estate del 1943: breve parabola in cui si condensa tutta la pochezza dell’impero di Mussolini.

     

  34. The Socialist Sixties

    (published in: Jun, 2013)

    The 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) are the springboard for exploring global interconnections and cultural cross-pollination between communist and capitalist countries and within the communist world.

     

  35. Democratic Institutions and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Europe

    (published in: Jun, 2013)

    This volume investigates why the postcommunist democratic transition of southeastern Europe fell so short of initial expectations, connecting the failure of democratization to the dominance and interference of authoritarian parties in the processes of regime change.

     

  36. Maschere per un massacro

    (published in: Jun, 2013)

    Un reportage capace di svelare i veri meccanismi della guerra balcanica dietro i fraintendimenti e le mistificazioni. La guerra mette a nudo la verità degli uomini e insieme la deforma. Ci sono tanti aspetti di questa verità; uno di essi è la cecità generale - cecità delle vittime, degli spettatori (i servizi d'informazione occidentale, oscillanti tra esasperazione, ignoranza o rimozione dell'orrore e fra cinismo e sentimentalismo) e della "grande politica, che nel libro di Rumiz fa una figura grottesca.

     

  37. E' Oriente

    (published in: Jun, 2013)

    Dalle Alpi svizzere al Salento, da Vienna al Mar Nero, dalla crosta delle montagne alle pianure incise dal serpente del Danubio, un lungo viaggio, anzi una serie di viaggi, per imparare a guardare e a sentire la spalla orientale dell'Europa. Il volume raccoglie scritti editi e inediti del reporter italiano, in cui convivono gusto per il viaggio e per l'andare (attraversando paesaggi, incontrando uomini, sondando umori), la fascinazione del racconto e della parola.

     

  38. Trans Europa Express

    (published in: Jun, 2013)

    2008. Seimila chilometri a zigzag da Rovaniemi (Finlandia) a Odessa (Ucraina).

     

  39. Pianeta Caucaso

    (published in: May, 2013)

    Le pagine di questo reporatge sono utili per capire una realtà complessa e complicata, fatta di mille sfaccettature e nella quale è difficile districarsi.

     

  40. La mia testimonianza davanti al mondo

    (published in: May, 2013)

    Libro scritto nel 1944 da Jan Karski, uno dei massimi esponenti della resistenza polacca, conosciuto anche come "l'uomo che da solo tentò di fermare la Shoa".

     

  41. L'Europa del disincanto: dal '68 praghese alla crisi del neoliberismo

    (published in: May, 2013)

    Il volume vuole fornire uno strumento di riflessione storica su alcuni Paesi che hanno vissuto in modo diretto e drammatico i contraccolpi della Guerra fredda e i sommovimenti del successivo periodo post comunista.

     

  42. Alexander Dubček e Jan Palach protagonisti della storia europea

    (published in: May, 2013)

    Quest’opera vuole essere un contributo fortemente innovativo sulla Primavera cecoslovacca.

     

  43. Sarajevo la cosmopolita

    (published in: May, 2013)

    Questo libro esce a vent’anni di distanza dall’inizio della guerra interetnica del 1992-95. Una ricorrenza importante per l’Europa del 2012, un’occasione per riflettere e non dimenticare.

     

  44. Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov

    (published in: May, 2013)

    Some of the stories here were collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworkings of oral tales by four of the greatest writers in Russian literature: Nadezhda Teffi, Pavel Bazhov, Andrey Platonov, and Alexander Pushkin. Among the many classic stories included here are the tales of Baba Yaga, Vasilisa the Beautiful, Father Frost, and the Frog Princess.

     

  45. European integration and transformation in the Western Balkans

    (published in: May, 2013)

    The book investigates the scope and limitations of the transformative power of EU enlargement in the Western Balkans.

     

  46. Gli Slavi

    (published in: May, 2013)

    In questo volume si presenta la storia culturale degli Slavi per mettere in evidenza sia le forze centrifughe che hanno portato alla formazione del più cospicuo numero di popoli che un'etnia europea abbia prodotto, sia gli sviluppi dei contrapposti orientamenti culturali del mondo slavo verso l'Occidente latino e l'Oriente bizantino.

     

  47. Bosnia-Herzegovina since Dayton: civic and uncivic values

    (published in: Jan, 2013)

    This volume examines all aspects of Bosnia’s post-wartransition, with special attention to values, as played out in the schools, themedia, and collective memory.

     

  48. Jugoslavia sognata. Lo jugoslavismo delle origini

    (published in: Jan, 2013)

    "In nome dell'idea jugoslava che Gavrilo Princip sparò e uccise Francesco Ferdinando il 28 giugno 1914, dando avvio alla Prima guerra mondiale."

     
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