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.
The Anthems of East-Central Europe: Reflections on the History of a National Symbol
1st Edition
By Csaba G. Kiss
November 28, 2024
This book juxtaposes national anthems of thirteen countries from central Europe, with the aim of initiating a dialogue among the peoples of East-Central Europe. We tend to perceive a national anthem as a particular mirror, involuntarily reflecting an image of nation and homeland; but how does it ...
Children of German-Polish Relationships: Identity and Nationality
1st Edition
By Piotr Madajczyk, Magdalena Lemańczyk, Kamila Schöll-Mazurek
November 07, 2024
This book analyzes the process of national identity formation and identification of children born into formal and informal Polish-German relationships in Poland and Germany, and how that process is impacted by their upbringing at the intersection of two cultures. The sociological-historical ...
Yugoslavia, Nonalignment and Cold War Globalism: Tito's International Rise, Celebrity and Fall
1st Edition
By Zvonimir Stopić, Robert Niebuhr, David Pickus
October 28, 2024
This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia established itself as a nonaligned leader, and what the decline of Yugoslav globalism reveals about the waning Cold War and the history of internationalist diplomacy. ...
Black Humor and the White Terror
1st Edition
By Béla Bodó
August 26, 2024
This book examines political humor as a reaction to the lost war, the post-war chaos, and antisemitic violence in Hungary between 1918 and 1922. While there is an increased body of literature on Jewish humor as a form of resistance and a means of resilience during the Holocaust, only a handful of ...
Contemporary Hungarian Society: Social Changes in Hungary from Late State Socialism
1st Edition
By Tibor Valuch
August 26, 2024
This book examines social change in Hungary, commencing with the period of late-stage socialism, the country’s immediate post-communist transition, its subsequent consolidation, and the emergence of authoritarian leadership since 2010. The volume seeks to employ a longitudinal and comparative ...
Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie Deschepper, Antony Kalashnikov, Federica Rossi
July 05, 2024
This edited volume offers an original exploration into the ways in which Soviet culture and experience of time were unique, examining the temporalities expressed in the world of socialist things: from the objects of everyday life to urban architecture. Grounding the analysis of Soviet temporalities...
Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century: Fearing for the Nation
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Joachim von Puttkamer, Immo Rebitschek
May 27, 2024
The field of biopolitics encompasses issues from health and hygiene, birth rates, fertility and sexuality, life expectancy and demography to eugenics and racial regimes. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive view on these issues for Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. ...
Jewish Culture and Urban Form: A Case Study of Central Poland before the Holocaust
1st Edition
By Małgorzata Hanzl
May 27, 2024
Across a range of disciplines, urban morphology has offered lenses through which we can read the city. Reading the urban form, when conflated with ethnographic studies, enables us to return to past situations and recreate the long-gone everyday life. Urbanscapes – the artefacts of urban life – have...
Picturing the Workers' Olympics and the Spartakiads: Modernist and Avant-Garde Engagement with Sport in Central Europe and the USSR, 1920-1932
1st Edition
By Przemysław Strożek
May 27, 2024
This volume focuses on the modernist and avant-garde engagement with workers’ sport events that were organised or were planned to be organised in the cities of Central Europe and the USSR in the period of 1920–1932: Frankfurt am Main – Vienna – Moscow – Prague – Budapest – Berlin. During the 1920s ...
Romania, 1916–1941: A Political History
1st Edition
By Dennis Deletant
May 27, 2024
This study challenges the rose-tinted view of the interwar period in Romanian history, which is often judged against the darkness of almost five decades of Communist rule. Romania, like several of the states of Eastern Europe, emerged from the First World War as it had entered it, as a ...
The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Ukraine: The Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Andriy Zayarnyuk, Ostap Sereda
May 27, 2024
This is the first synthetic book-length study in English of the Ukrainian nation-building during the "long" nineteenth century. The narrative follows the evolution of the Ukrainian intellectuals and their ideas from the Age of Enlightenment at the end of the eighteenth century and to the era of ...
The Mentality of Partisans of the Polish Anti-Communist Underground 1944–1956
1st Edition
By Mariusz Mazur
May 27, 2024
This book is the first study of the mentality of anti-Communist underground fighters and presents, especially, their thinking, ideals, stereotypes and customs. The models and psychological processes that the volume analyses are relevant not only to the Polish partisans, but also to members of other...