Books in the East European Monograph series

Presents an account of Hungary's history between the collapse of Communism and the re-emergence of a Hungarian parlimentary republic. This book focuses on the reformist efforts of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party. It provides a historical account of economic, social, political, and cultural changes from 1990 to 2006.

Dealing with the history and collapse of the Soviet empire, this work is an account of the atrocities committed behind the Iron Curtain. The book looks at the Ukraine, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia to give a picture of the suffering.

Historians have long speculated on the role played by the Enlightenment in the rise of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. This book offers a fresh perspective on this subject through an examination of the Greek Enlightenment, its aspirations, and its relationship to the larger European Republic of Letters.

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.

Low is the first historian to focus on the links between earlier post-war German judgments and those of the 1980s, showing that recent revisionist arguments are strikingly similar to older views by extremist German nationalists, neoconservatives, and unrepentant Nazis.

This book surveys and illustrates the historical forms of Romanian house decoration, elements of innovation in the tradition (in design, materials, methods, etc.) and examines the aesthetics of the designs as well as their metaphorical and symbolic functions.

Presenting a discussion of the Byzantine and early Ottoman eras, the author examines church-state relationships in the latter Ottoman, Communist, and post-communist periods.

Offers an account of the last two weeks of September 1938, chronicling Czechoslovakia's approach to the Munich pact. This book recounts the painful experience of the Sudeten Crisis, the Munich Diktatof September 1938, Hitler's invasion of Prague six months later, and the formation of Edvard Benes' government-in-exile.