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“marcin kosienkowski”

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  • Moldova

    Arena of International Influences

    by Marcin Kosienkowski, William Schreiber, Juraj Marusiak, Florent Parmentier, Özgehan Senyuva, Dareg A. Zabarah, Andrey Devyatkov, Georgiy Byanov, Laura Kirvelyte0, Nicolai Tveatcov1, Vladislav Froltsov2, Andrea Ambrus3, Andrey Safonov4, Natalia Shapovalova5, Davide Zaffi6, András Rácz7, Octavian Milevschi8, Lingqi Meng9, Jos Boonstra0, Vladimir Korobov1, Ronald J. Hill2 ...
    Moldova: Arena of International Influences brings international perspective to Moldova’s foreign relations since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Eighteen chapters analyze the policy toward Moldova of selected international actors: Belarus, Bulgaria, China, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the European Union, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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  • Khatyn

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  • Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944-1950

    by Michael Fleming ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944–1950. It shows that nationalism and nationality policy were fundamentally important in the consolidation of communist rule, acting as a crucial nexus through which different groups were both coerced and were able to consent to the new unfolding social and political order ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Russia

    by Mary Platt Parmele ...
    In A Short History of Russia Mary Platt Parmele takes the reader on a survey of Russia’s rich past, from the state’s early dramatic beginnings to its struggle to control society, the transformation of the empire into a multi-ethnic empire, and beyond. ... Read more

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  • To the Horizon and Beyond

    by Valentina Filina-Pattison ...
    Six chapters in the book, like six stars in one constellation, contain the names Maria, Emma, Valentina, Gennady, Larissa and John. Maria, a Russian beauty, is a symbol of love, determination and devotion to the family- a stronghold and a real survivor through the Russian turmoil. Emma, Maria's eldest daughter, wounded during the second World War at age 7, carried her grief through her whole life. ... Read more

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    by Vladimir Medinskiy ...
    Russia's rich history is full of secrets: there's not another country in the world with so many skeletons in its closet. Vladimir Medinskiy's new book offers the reader the opportunity to get better acquainted with some myths about Russia in an quick, easy and entertaining way. The book covers some of the most interesting, colourful and controversial debates in Russian history and the most popular ... Read more

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  • Escape into Danger

    The True Story of a Kievan Girl in World War II

    by Sophia Orlovsky Williams ...
    Escape into Danger tells the remarkable story of a young girl’s perilous adventures and coming of age during World War II. Born in Kiev to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, Sophia Williams chose to be identified as Jewish when she was eligible for a Soviet passport, mandatory at the age of sixteen, little realizing the life-changing consequences of her decision. Only seventeen when Germany ... Read more

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  • War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power

    The Center, Periphery, and Kirov's Pedagogical Institute 1941–1952

    by Larry E. Holmes ...
    War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power examines the history of the Pedagogical Institute, located in the USSR's Kirov region from 1941 to 1952. Holmes reveals a tangled and complex relationship of local, regional, and national agencies. While it recognizes the immense strength of the center, it emphasizes a contentious diffusion, although not a confusion, of authority. In so doing, it departs ... Read more

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    The Ukrainian National Movement and Russia from the 1840s to the 1870s

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    Contrary to the prevailing opinion, the idea of Ukrainian independence did not emerge at the end of the nineteenth-century. In Brothers and Enemies, Johannes Remy reveals that the roots of Ukrainian independence were planted fifty years earlier.Remy contextualizes the Ukrainian national movement against the backdrop of the Russian Empire and its policy of oppression in the mid-nineteenth-century. ... Read more

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  • The Slovak National Awakening

    An Essay in the Intellectual History of East Central Europe

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    The Slovaks lived under Hungarian rule for centuries, with no clear sense of political separateness, preserving Slovak as their spoken language, but using Czech as their written language. In the last decades of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, the efforts made by clerical intellectuals to develop a language more closely attuned to Slovak needs led to the rise of Slovak ... Read more

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  • Solidarity

    The Great Workers Strike of 1980

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    In the summer of 1980, the eyes of the world turned to the Gdansk shipyard in Poland which suddenly became the nexus of a strike wave that paralyzed the entire country. The Gdansk strike was orchestrated by the members of an underground free trade union that came to be known as Solidarnosc [Solidarity]. Despite fears of a violent response from the communist authorities, the strikes spread to more ... Read more

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