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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Rome- Belgrade. The Cold War Years (in Italian)
(published in: Dec, 2009)
Da una ricerca e da un convegno voluti e promossi dalla Fondazione Istituto Gramsci di Roma e dall'lstituto Gramsci del Friuli-Venezia Giulia scaturisce questo libro, curato da Marco Galeazzi, che affronta uno dei temi piú delicati e controversi della storia d'ltalia nel secondo dopoguerra... -
The Balkans National Identities in a Historical Perspective
(published in: Dec, 2009)
The European perception of Balkans peoples and their accomplishments, for good or bad, has a long history which is itself a part of European political and cultural evolution. Western public knowledge of the uneven course of state-building and nation-building processes in the Balkans has been more often than not filtered through the Great Powers' interests and strategies... -
Role of State in the Development of Capital Markets in CEE
(published in: Dec, 2009)
This book analyzes the role of the state in the development of the capital markets in the post-communist countries of the CEE, mainly focusing on these countries: Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovenia, as they have the most relatively developed capital markets in the region. Besides, Polish capital market was highlighted as a case study, because of its leading role in this area... -
The Impact Of The Global Crisis On Montenegro And The Western Balkans
(published in: Jun, 2009)
This book contains very detailed proposals for the time of global crisis... -
Communities and Identities in Bulgaria
(published in: Jan, 2009)
The book presents the panorama of Bulgaria's ethnic and religious minority communities. No social science is in a privileged position when it comes to understanding those diverse and complicated issues. That's why the authors chose the interdisciplinary approach.
The analysis abides by the following logic: theory-politics-everyday life-"reality"... -
Quo Vadis Eastern Europe?
(published in: Jan, 2009)
The book presents the newest research and thought on religion in Eastern Europe. The invited authors analyze the radically changed religious situation in the former communist countries and give some perspectives on the future of religious co-existence in the area... -
Censorship, institutions and literary policy in Soviet Union (1964-1985) (in Italian)
(published in: Jan, 2009)
La società sovietica è sempre stata caratterizzata da un forte istituto censorio che di fronte al potere della parola scritta ha messo in opera una serie di istituzioni altamente repressive... -
Ukraine - From red to orange revolution
(published in: Jan, 2009)
In 1991 Ukraine left the Soviet Union and declared its own independence. Although it is located on the EU’s borders, it only drew the West’s attention after the revolutions of 2004-2005, which showed its critical situation between the influence of its neighbour Russia and that of the European Union and the United States... -
Poland - The Country that was Reborn
(published in: Jan, 2009)
One of the youngest, most surprising and dynamic countries of the new European Union, with a passionate and dramatic history marked by periods of great expansion (the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of 1569-1791), with a territory extending from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea) followed by partitions at the end of the 1700s which erased Poland from the maps and created a wound that remained open in the heart of Europe for the entire 19th century... -
Stalinism Revisited
(published in: Jan, 2009)
Deals with the period of takeover and of ‘high Stalinism’ in Eastern Europe (1945–1955). These years are considered to be fundamentally characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based upon the premise of radical transformism and of cultural revolution. Both a balance-sheet and a politico-historical synthesis that reflects the archival and thematic novelties which came about in the field of communism studies after 1989... -
Bones of Contention - The living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero
(published in: Jan, 2009)
This book is about documenting and analyzing the living archive around the figure of Vasil Levski (1837–1873), arguably the major and only uncontested hero of the Bulgarian national pantheon. The processes described, although with a chronological depth of almost two centuries, are still very much in the making, and the living archive expands not only in size but constantly adding surprising new forms... -
A Laboratory of Transnational History - Ukraine and recent Ukrainian historiography
(published in: Jan, 2009)
A first attempt to present an approach to Ukrainian history which goes beyond the standard ‘national narrative’ schemes, predominant in the majority of post-Soviet countries after 1991, in the years of implementing ‘nation-building projects’... -
The film profession in the Balkans. The cinema industry and its protagonists from the seventies to date.
(published in: Jan, 2009)
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso conducted a comparative study on the cinema industry in Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia, based on fifty semi-structured interviews aimed at collecting individual narratives of directors, screenwriters, actors, technicians, and producers...
PECOB: Portal on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe - University of Bologna - 117, c.so della Repubblica - Italy
