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  • Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery

    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly capitalist future. Capitalism, they found, was not a single set of political-economic relations. Rather, they each had to decide what sort of capitalist nation to become. In Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery, Dorothee Bohle and ... Leer más

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    Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia

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    Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Now it lives only in history and in myth. Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the border between Russia and Lithuania in the east and south, and through Poland in the west. In ... Leer más

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  • Facing the Nazi Past

    United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich

    de Bill Niven ...
    Facing the Nazi Past examines how the communist East viewed the events of these years very differently from West Germany during the Cold War. Following the unification of Germany, these contrasting memories of the Third Reich have contributed to a new perspective on this period of German history.Facing the Nazi Past explores the developments and debates that were symptomatic of this shift towards ... Leer más

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  • A History of Slovakia

    The Struggle for Survival

    "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 ... Leer más

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  • Wandering Jew

    The Search for Joseph Roth

    de Dennis Marks ...
    Joseph Roth, best known as the author of the novel The Radetzky March and the nonfiction work The Wandering Jews, was one of the most seductive, disturbing, and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1894 in the Habsburg Empire in what is now Ukraine and dying in Paris in 1939, he was a perpetually displaced person, a traveler, a prophet, a compulsive liar, and a man who covered his ... Leer más

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  • Unlocked Memories

    Young Russians under German Rule

    Unlocked Memories is a collection of memories that were shared by Russians who witnessed the German invasion of the Leningrad region in 1941. All were children or young people during World War Two and nearly all were natives of Luga, Oredezh, or villages that were clustered around these two towns. Each lived under German rule after the Leningrad region was overrun and occupied by the enemy.The ... Leer más

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  • The National Question in Yugoslavia

    Origins, History, Politics

    de Ivo Banac ...
    Even before it collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing, and dissolution, Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled multinational mosaic, a state without a single national base or even a majority. Its stability and very existence were challenged repeatedly by the tension between the pressures for overarching political cohesion and the defense of separate national identities and ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of Greed

    How Privatization Structured Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

    Series series World Social Change
    With the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, it seemed that market capitalism had triumphed and that democracy might replace authoritarian regimes. Economic reformers in the former Eastern Bloc rushed to liberalize prices and transfer state assets to private hands. They assumed that private owners in a market setting would have no choice but to behave rationally_that is, to invest in restructuring ... Leer más

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  • From Communists to Foreign Capitalists

    The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe

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    From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering sociological treatment of the process of foreign direct investment (FDI). She demonstrates how ... Leer más

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  • Kidnapped Souls

    National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948

    de Tara Zahra ...
    Throughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for rural and working-class parents in the Czech-German borderlands to ensure that their children were bilingual by sending them to live with families who spoke the "other" language. As nationalism became a more potent force in Central Europe, however, such practices troubled pro-German and pro-Czech ... Leer más

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  • Politics without a Past

    The Absence of History in Postcommunist Nationalism

    In Politics without a Past Shari J. Cohen offers a powerful challenge tocommon characterizations of postcommunist politics as either a resurgence ofaggressive nationalism or an evolution toward Western-style democracy. Cohendraws upon extensive field research to paint a picture of postcommunistpolitical life in which ideological labels are meaningless and exchangeableat will, political parties ... Leer más

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