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2015.
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"From one of the foremost experts on Ukraine and the former USSR, a concise, authoritative history of Ukraine. Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's existence as a sovereign nation. As award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine's past in order...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2008
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1 online resource
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-- Jan led a cell of saboteurs, and the Zabinskis’ young son risked his life carrying food to the Guests, while also tending an eccentric array of creatures in the house. With hidden people having animal names, and pet animals having human names, it’s small wonder the zoo’s codename became “The House Under a Crazy Star.”Yet there is more to this story than a colorful cast. With her exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman...
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2017.
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"The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact,...
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"An exhilarating journey through the subcultures, occupied squats, and late-night scenes in the anarchic first few years of Berlin after the fall of the Wall. Berlin Calling is a gripping account of the 1989 'peaceful revolution' in East Germany that upended communism and the tumultuous years of artistic ferment, political improvisation, and pirate utopias that followed. It's the story of a newly undivided Berlin when protest and punk rock, bohemia...
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2024
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1 online resource(1 sound file (16hr.,1min.,13sec.))
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-- Ukraine is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand Ukraine’s dramatic past and its global significance--from the 17th-century Cossack uprising to the collapse of the USSR in 1991 and Ukrainian independence, and from the evolution of the Ukrainian language to the warning signs that anticipated Russia’s 2022 invasion. This book is the definitive story of Ukraine and its people, as told by one of its most celebrated voices....
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
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xxx, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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"In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization--in effect a second Russian revolution--which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine,...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
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xxxvi, 566 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning "Gulag," acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.
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Verso
Pub. Date
2022
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xvii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Explores the history of socialist feminism by examining the careers of five prominent socialist women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing lives filled with inner conflicts, contradictions, and sometimes outrageous privilege as theymoved forward with their own political projects through perseverance and dedication to their cause.
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Against a backdrop of authoritarian regimes and grey, uniform conformity, a pulse of defiance emerged in Eastern Europe. It was raw, loud, and uncompromising. It was punk."Punk in Eastern Europe: Rebellion, Resistance, and Revolution" takes you on an electrifying journey through the history of one of the most unique cultural movements in modern history. From the underground clubs of Warsaw to the squats of Berlin, from the secret concerts in Moscow...
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John Connelly is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History and director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education and From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews. He lives in Kensington, California.
A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe...
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A compelling chronicle of a hiking and wildlife research expedition along the Carpathian and Sudeten Mountains, from Romania to Germany, some 800 miles as the crow flies. (This volume, Part 1, covers the first half of the journey, through Romania and Ukraine.) On the trail of wolves, we are led deep into the dark forests, misty hills, and intriguing history of this fabled landscape, where encounters with wolves, bears, and lynx; werewolves, vampires,...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xxii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed--from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism--illuminating theremarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history. Eastern Europe, the moniker, has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone...
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Step into the captivating world of Eastern Europe with our book, "History of Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine, Poland & Hungary". This comprehensive volume delves deep into the rich history and culture of these four fascinating countries. From the ancient civilizations of the Scythians and the Slavs to the modern-day challenges of populism and migration, this book covers it all.
Learn about the turbulent history of Russia, from the rise of the Kievan...
15) Drive Thru History: Ends of the Earth - Season 6: How Christianity Changed Eastern Europe and Russia
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Drive Thru History Ends of the Earth volume 4
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Dave Stotts treks to the grand city of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, to continue his exploration of Christian history throughout Eastern Europe and Russia.
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When the legendary Romulus killed his brother Remus and founded the city of Rome in 753 BCE, Plovdiv-today the second-largest city in Bulgaria-was thousands of years old. Indeed, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Brussels, Amsterdam are all are mere infants compared to Plovdiv. This is just one of the paradoxes that haunts and defines the New Europe, that part of Europe that was freed from Soviet bondage in 1989, and which is at once both much...
17) Slavs and the Slave Trade: The History of Enslaved Slavs across Eastern Europe and the Islamic World
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some historians have aligned the term Slav as deriving from descriptions of slaves: "The word "slave" and its cognates in most modern European languages is itself derived from "sclavus," meaning "slav," the ethnic name for the inhabitants of this region." Some historians have outlined how they believe that Slavic slaves were used intensively in the ninth and tenth centuries and acted as a driver of Western European economic growth and allowed them...
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"Let us begin this narration, brethren,
from the old times of Vladimir to this present time of Igor,
who strengthened his mind with courage,
who quickened his heart with valor
and, thus imbued with martial spirit,
led his valiant regiments
against the Kuman land
in defense of the Russian land." - The Tale of Igor's Campaign
Before the Mongols rode across the steppes of Asia and Eastern Europe, the Cumans were a major military and cultural force that...
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Although many have heard of the Crusades and some of the more famous orders like the Templars, few know about the Livonian Crusade or the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. This organization was one of many Catholic military orders that sprung up during the Middle Ages in response to the papacy's call for holy war, and the Livonian Crusade is the term used to group together dozens of military actions undertaken by German knights in Eastern Europe. In...
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Zak Books
Pub. Date
c2009
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48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
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"A detailed overview of the history of Europe during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when the cultural movement known as the Renaissance made great advances in intellectual and artistic traditions"--Provided by publisher.
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