Books in the East European Monograph (COUP) series

Criteria and methods of a structural analysis of pictorial language as a way of understanding the semiotic system of the visual arts. This is presented with a discussion of an information-processing model for optical illusions and computer simulations.

This work examines Mikhail M. Speranskii's attempt to codify Russian law in the 1820s and 1830s - a major bureaucratic project. Based on material from the Manuscript Division of the Russian National Library and the Russian State Historical Archives, a picture of the codification efforts emerges.

This collection of seminal studies sheds light on many controversial issues relating to the Holocaust in Hungary. The author, regarded as the world's leading authority on the catastrophe that befell Hungarian Jewry during the Nazi era, explores the factors that made the Hungarian chapter of the Holocaust unique.

This is the first systematic study of the Sovietization of northern Transylvania, ceded to Hungary by the Vienna Diktat of 1940. This historiography of that transitional period fills an imortant gap in the existing research.

A survey of 500 years of change in Eastern Europe, this title looks at the structural elements in the early period, such as the lack of organized states and the existence of nomadic states, before examining the disappearance, assimilation, and recurrence of ethnic cultures over time and the formation of modern states.

Focusing on the developments which led to the imposition of a Communist-dominated government in Romania (Fall 1944-March 1945), and based on comprehensive archival information, Romania's Communist Takeover is the first analysis made from the Romanian perspective.

This collection of essays traces the roots of right-wing politics in pre-communistic Eastern Europe and examines right-wing tendencies following the break-up of the communist regimes. The common elements of nationalism, xenophobia and ethnic and religious intolerance are scrutinized.

The integrity of the historical record of the Holocaust is under attack by historical revisionists who glorify the record of the Antonescu regime, distorting, if not actually denying, the tragedy that befell Romanian Jewry during the Second World War. This study exposes the falsehoods.

Why was it that Hungarian society ignored the dangers threatening Jews in Europe, including Hungary? Janos Pelle looks for answers in contemporary and modern literature in the psychology and contrasts theories in operation at those tragic times with current information.

This volume is a major contribution to Hungarian economic history since the middle of the nineteenth century. In this first volume of three on the evolution of that economy, the authors focus on the beginnings of the modern capitalist economy (1848-1914), on economic nationalism (1918-1944) and on the socialist attempt at modernization (1945-1989).