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  • The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies

    The Cases of East-Central Europe, Russia, and Ukraine

    by Thomas A. Baylis, Algis Krupavicius, Luke March, Diana Morlang, Andrew Wilson ...
    One of the most unexpected outcomes of the Soviet bloc's transition out of communism has been the divergent but important paths followed by once ruling communist parties. In Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania those parties transformed themselves into pro-Western free market center leftists who have won elections and formed governing coalitions periodically since the early 1990s. The result has been ... Read more

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  • The House of the Dead

    Siberian Exile Under the Tsars

    by Daniel Beer ...
    Winner of the Cundill History PrizeThe House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of “the vast prison without a roof” that was Russia’s Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million prisoners and their families east. Here Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman ... Read more

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  • Endgame

    The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II

    by David Rohde ...
    “Powerful… definitive… Rohde tells the Srebrenica story with all the shades of gray the truth demanded.” —The Washington PostIn 1996, at the height of the Bosnian wars, a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor named David Rohde uncovered a horrifying story that became an enduring symbol of the genocidal nature of that conflict, earning him his first Pulitzer Prize. Endgame is the full ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Polish Orphans of Tengeru

    The Dramatic Story of Their Long Journey to Canada 1941-49

    by Lynne Taylor, Ph.D. ...
    Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass exodus of Poles out of the gulags of Siberia in 1942 and 1943.As they were being moved from Tanganyika in 1949, through Italy and Germany to Canada, the situation ... Read more

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  • Cold War 2: The Start of a New Conflict - Russia’s Hand in Ukraine

    by Joseph Spark ...
    In recent times, United States and Russia have had much to squabble over. However, between the Russian occupation of Crimea, the U.S. sanctions that followed, as well as granting Edward Snowden asylum; Russia’s and the United States leadership is threatening to finally push these old foes to full blown conflict – the Second Cold War. Since the end of the Cold War in the early 90s, following the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Love and Science

    A Memoir

    by Jan Vilcek ...
    Long before he became one of the world's most celebrated immunologists, Jan Vilcek began life in Slovakia as the child of Jewish parents at a time when Jews were being exterminated all across Europe. He owes his and his mother’s survival to the courage of brave people and good luck. As a young man growing up in Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of the Second World War, Vilcek went to medical school ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe

    by B. Granville Baker ...
    TOWARDS the end of a dismal summer, when everybody who is anybody in the United Kingdom was departing for their annual holidays, dark clouds began to gather on the political horizon overshadowing that European storm-centre, the Balkan Peninsula. Angry clouds had gathered over the seething races of those lands so frequently that no one heeded when the cry “Wolf!” went up again. “Balkan troubles ... Read more

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  • Dreams and Shadows

    by Radka Yakimov ...
    Dreams and Shadows is a story about the lives of people trapped in the oppressive reality of a totalitarian regime. This is Bulgaria, a Balkan country, which was overrun by the Red Army on September 9, 1944 and became one of the "satellites" to the former USSR. It remained in the Soviet orbit of influence until November 10, 1989. This is a story of lost futures, struggles, survival, and quest for ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Dracula's Wars

    Vlad the Impaler and his Rivals

    by James Waterson ...
    The real Dracula was far from Bram Stoker's well-mannered aristocrat. Better known as Vlad the Impaler, he was named for his favoured execution method: running a spear through his victim's lower body, then standing them upright so it skewered their vital organs. In a world ruled by petty tyrants and constantly at war, the young Dracula was held hostage by the Turks while his father was ... Read more

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  • A History of Slovakia

    The Struggle for Survival

    by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum ...
    "A masterpiece of historical narrative . . . free from ideological or political bias . . . fill[s] a painful gap in modern English-speaking historiography." —Emilia Hrabovec, University of ViennaThis classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. While paying tribute to Slovakia's resilience and struggle ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Croatian Aces of World War 2

    by Boris Ciglic, Dragan Savic ...
    Series Book 49 - Aircraft of the Aces
    Initially flying Italian-supplied Fiat G.50s, the Croat forces suffered heavy losses during 1942 whilst flying alongside JG 52 in the southern sector of the Russian front.Despite this, a significant number of kills fell to future aces such as Cvitan Galic and Mato Dubovak during this time, and when the units re-equipped with Bf 109G-10s in 1943, battle-seasoned Croat pilots started to rack up ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • De-Centering Cold War History

    Local and Global Change

    Edited by Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, Fabio Lanza ...
    De-Centering Cold War History challenges the Cold War master narratives that focus on super-power politics by shifting our analytical perspective to include local-level experiences and regional initiatives that were crucial to the making of a Cold War world. Cold War histories are often told as stories of national leaders, state policies and the global confrontation that pitted a Communist Eastern ... Read more

    $63.99 USD