Books in the East European Monograph series

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.

Important in light of the second democratic revolution in Russia, in which United States policies of friendship, encouragement, and support are playing a central role.

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.

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.

Milovan Djilas, the Yugoslav writer, poet, and statesman, predicted that the Hungarian Revolution would be the beginning of the end of the Soviet Empire. Raymond Aron prophesied that 1956 was even in its defeat a victory. This book tests their vision.

This book explores the governance, population, trade, craftsmen, and churches of Kamianets-Podilsky and discusses city's enduring significance.

Presents a comprehensive study of the contemporary Romanian economy and its problems. The author critically evaluates Romanian transition and the main issues facing the stability of the Romanian economy, and then proposes solutions to be undertaken by the Romanian government.

Contains the letters of Konstancija Bra eniene written in Lithuania, East Germany, and Siberia between 1944 and 1946. This work reveals a remarkable portrait of survival during the Cold War and post-Cold War period and adaptation to changing political conditions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Lithuania.

Laszlo Bardossy, the Hungarian prime minister who proclaimed war against the Soviet Union and was later executed as a war criminal, remains a controversial figure. Pal Pritz offers readers a rare, balanced interpretation of his life, along with documents from his postwar trial.

A biography of the outstanding Russian general and diplomat Count N.P.Ignat'ev (1832-1908), who negotiated the treaties of Beijing and San Stefano. The book focuses on his career in Central Asia and assesses whether his reputation for masking the truth is deserved.

MacKenzie deals in general terms with the historical relationship of the two groups and describes the roles of four important Serbian leaders who contributed to Yugoslav unification and national development before the second World War.

This book examines an Austrian identity based on a civic, rather than an ethnic conception of a national community. It analyzes the ideas of Joseph Samuel Bloch, an Austrian Jewish writer and politician, and compares them to those of other Austrian political thinkers of various ethnic and political backgrounds in order to discover how these individuals imagined a supraethnic Austrian nation.

This is a remarkable reconstruction of the idealogical evolution of a once idealistic young Romanian historian and journalist during the years of Romanian communist rule. It is based primarily on his personal acquaintance with notable Romanian and foreign intellectuals of that time, and their works.

Looks at how the meanings of "civil society" and "environment" have changed as environmentalists encounter the political and ecological realities of post-state socialism.

Features five essays on why public debate about Hungary's Jewish population has been confined to the dichotomy of assimilation and dissimilation instead of integration.