Books in the East European Monograph (COUP) series

Examines the crucial first five years of Istvan Bethlen's premiership when, following the catastrophe of 1918-1920, he began the reconstruction of the country. This book argues that from 1920 to 1925, Bethlen engaged in a protracted and closely fought struggle to restore political, social, and economic stability.

The legacy of state socialism and Romanian history has affected change in Romania, causing such problems as social stratification, slow economic development, and the failure to create a solid national identity. This book addresses Romania's transition since the fall of the Ceausescu regime in 1989.

Features the biography of Jovan Ristic, one of Serbia's leading political figures during the second half of the nineteenth century. At the height of his career between 1868 and 1880, Ristic became one of the most successful negotiators during Serbia's dialogue with other European powers and the Ottoman Empire.

Examines the Soviet state's attempt to rebuild following World War II by offering support to families and encouraging women to enter the work force. This book also scrutinizes a society that proclaimed sexual equality, but was unable to achieve these goals because of the failure of the state to provide the structures necessary for equality.

Balawyder explores how cultural, academic, commercial, and scientific exchanges with Canada played an important role in the "confidence building" that led to independence throughout Eastern Europe. This volume also contains interviews with eleven Canadian diplomats who served in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Lavishly illustrated, the book tells the story of the men and women, laity and clergy, who built and sustained the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America from 1873 to today.

The third volume of a three-volume history of Transylvania, designed to present Transylvanian history in a European context and with due attention to Transylvania's links to Hungary, the Habsburg Empire, the Romanian Principalities, Turkey and other states of Europe.

This story of an anthropological expedition to Albania in 1929 is an account of the rugged Highlands as seen by an Albanian that presents a faithful portrayal of Northern Albania as it was more than seventy years ago.

This is detailed account of the character and problems of Polish emigres in the United States from the end of the Polish uprising of 1830 to the end of the second Polish uprising of 1863. Stasik presents the activities of the Polish political exiles in the United States over a period of more than thirty years, explaining many of the basic causes of the emigration.

Provides a detailed historical account of the evolution of Hungarian politics and governmental structures and activities from the Revolution of 1848-1849 to the end of the twentieth century. It comprises 15 studies on various aspsects of the subject by distinguished Hungarian scholars.

This book contains 19 studies by leading experts in the field of Hungarian political, cultural, economic, and literary history to honor Steven Bela Vardy, America's leading historiographer of Hungary and an internationally renowned scholar of Hungarian immigration studies.

While most studies of the Holocaust stop in 1945, the year of the liberation and the official end of the Holocaust, Tamas Stark follows the fate of the Hungarian Jews until the Communist takeover in the late 1940s. The author goes on to cover the enlarged, war-years territory of Hungary, and then to a detailed comparison of the destruction of Jewish communities and the emigration of the survivors.

This volume is a study of the most important organization of Polish political exiles in Western Europe during the revolutions of 1848-1849. It recounts the group's political and military activities in France, Germany, Hungary, and their own partitioned Polish homeland.

This book examines the convoluted relations between a victor state (Yugoslavia) and a defeated one (Hungary) during the first decade after the end of World War I. The work is based mainly on archival sources and demonstrates that great power interests in the region influenced considerably the bilateral relations between Hungary and Yugoslavia

This collection of essays from military historians focus on various aspects of the eastern front during World War I.