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.
Religion and Nation in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the Post-Soviet West, Revisited: From Early Times to Today
1st Edition
Edited
By Sabrina P. Ramet
October 06, 2026
The relationship between religious identity and national identity has shaped societies for centuries, yet its deep historical roots are often overlooked. Religion and Nation: Intersections Across Time explores how the linkage between religion and nation dates back to the Middle Ages and, in some ...
Soft Power Competition Between Russia and the West: Contesting Georgian National Identity, 1991–2024
1st Edition
By Vladimir Liparteliani
September 03, 2026
Delving into the case of Georgia, this volume illustrates how the soft power struggle between Russia and the West has not only redefined international power dynamics but also deeply impacted Georgian nation-building. The book systematically analyses the evolution of soft power strategies of the USA...
Everyday Revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Balkans
1st Edition
Edited
By Piotr Goldstein, Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki
July 27, 2026
This book draws on ethnographic case studies from Eastern Europe and the Balkans to examine “everyday revolutions,” shifting focus from spectacular uprisings to the subtle, dispersed, and often overlooked practices through which people challenge power and reshape social life. Exploring a region ...
Children of German-Polish Relationships: Identity and Nationality
1st Edition
By Piotr Madajczyk, Magdalena Lemańczyk, Kamila Schöll-Mazurek
July 20, 2026
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 ...
Gender and World War II in the Yugoslav Media
1st Edition
By Iva Jelušić
July 20, 2026
This book presents an analysis of the cultural memory of women’s participation in the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Struggle (1941–1945), with a particular focus on the figure of the female soldier. It examines how this subject was treated in socialist Yugoslavia’s popular printed press ...
Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie Deschepper, Antony Kalashnikov, Federica Rossi
July 20, 2026
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...
Transgressive Humanism in Mid-Socialist Poland
1st Edition
By Nina Seiler
July 20, 2026
This book focuses on the often-overlooked middle period of socialism in 20th-century Poland, tracing the transgressive variations of humanist thought that emerged as forms of resistance amid the intellectual crisis of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It analyses how an upsurge in anti-Semitism and ...
Yugoslavia, Nonalignment and Cold War Globalism: Tito's International Rise, Celebrity and Fall
1st Edition
By Zvonimir Stopić, Robert Niebuhr, David Pickus
July 20, 2026
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. ...
Contemporary Hungarian Society: Social Changes in Hungary from Late State Socialism
1st Edition
By Tibor Valuch
June 22, 2026
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 ...
Gombrowicz: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Aleksandra Konarzewska
May 22, 2026
This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century literature and theater, providing intertextual perspectives that allow readers to analyze his short stories, plays, and novels in broad contexts. Gombrowicz (1904–1969) ...
The Eastern Bloc and Sub-Saharan Africa: Czechoslovakia, UNESCO and Development Aid from the 1960s and Beyond
1st Edition
By Barbora Buzássyová
May 22, 2026
This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds during the three “development decades.” Starting in ...
The Rise and Fall of Communist Yugoslavism: Soft Nation-Building in Yugoslavia
1st Edition
By Tomaž Ivešić
May 22, 2026
The Rise and Fall of Communist Yugoslavism: Soft Nation‑Building in Yugoslavia examines how the Communist Party of Yugoslavia incorporated the idea of a Yugoslav nation into its ideology and created the Yugoslav Soft Nation‑Building project after the Second World War. With an innovative approach of...