Books in the Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe series

A history of the efforts of community leaders and intellectuals in Venice, Trieste, and Dalmatia to create a multi-national region along the shores of the Adriatic Sea, based on a nationalism that valued diversity, not homogeneity.

This volume looks both back and ahead to focus on what has been lost and what has been achieved two decades after the dissolution of Yugoslavia.

A history of the assault of the Hungarian state during World War II against the multi-ethnic and multi-religious society in the Carpathian borderland with the aim of transforming the region into an integral part of a "Greater Hungary" dominated by ethnic Hungarians.

The Habsburg Monarchy ruled over approximately one-third of Europe for almost 150 years. Previous books on the Habsburg Empire emphasize its slow decline in the face of the growth of neighboring nation-states. John Deak, instead, argues that the state was not in eternal decline, but actively sought not only to adapt, but also to modernize and build.Deak has spent years mastering the structure and practices of the Austrian public administration and has immersed himself in the minutiae of its codes, reforms, political maneuverings, and culture. He demonstrates how an early modern empire made up of disparate lands connected solely by the feudal ties of a ruling family was transformed into a relatively unitary, modern, semi-centralized bureaucratic continental empire. This process was only derailed by the state of emergency that accompanied the First World War. Consequently, Deak provides the reader with a new appreciation for the evolving architecture of one of Europe's Great Powers in the long nineteenth century.

A collective biography of eight individuals from the northeastern corner of prewar Hungary.

This is a study of literary representations of the controversial 17th-century Cossack Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew.

Between States uses the story of a territorial dispute between Hungary and Romania to recast the narrative of the Second World War and how it fits into the history of Europe in the twentieth century.