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.
Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires
1st Edition
Edited
By Motoki Nomachi, Tomasz Kamusella
May 06, 2025
This volume probes into the mechanisms of how languages are created, legitimized, maintained, or destroyed in the service of the extant nation-states across Central Europe. Through chapters from contributors in North America, Europe, and Asia, the book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to ...
The Open Window into the Soviet Bloc: US Policy toward Poland, 1956–1968
1st Edition
By Jakub Tyszkiewicz
May 06, 2025
This volume analyzes US policy toward communist-ruled Poland in the fields of diplomacy, economy, culture, and public diplomacy. It highlights the limitations in developing cooperation between democratic and nondemocratic countries resulting from the Cold War conflict. No comprehensive account of ...
Observers from Abroad: Twentieth Century Western Documentary Photography in the USSR
1st Edition
By Martin A. Miller
March 31, 2025
Observers from Abroad offers an examination of published and archival images of Soviet Russia, providing a deeper understanding of the complexities and vicissitudes of its political culture. The book argues that photography, when accurately interpreted, can be utilized as primary historical ...
The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920: Lloyd George, Lenin and Poland
1st Edition
By Andrzej Nowak
December 18, 2024
The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a military attack on the continent. The outcome of this attack might have been the occupation of all of Poland ...
The Sovietization of Rural Hungary, 1945-1980: Subjugation in the Name of Equality
1st Edition
Edited
By József Ö. Kovács, Gergely Krisztián Horváth, Gábor Csikós
December 18, 2024
In this book the experiential history of the Soviet-style social transformation projects between 1945 and 1980 is discussed through the example of rural Hungary. The book interprets state socialism as a (modernization) project. Existing socialism was a form of dictatorship in which authorities ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...