Books published by Central European University Press

Examines the rehabilitation over the years of Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic (1881-1956), the controversial Serbian Orthodox Christian philosopher. Having been vilified by the former Yugoslav Communist authorities as a traitor, antisemite and a fascist, Velimirovic has come to be regarded in Serbian society as a saintly figure.

Describes Dan Bar-On's method of using storytelling as both a qualitative biographical research method and as an intervention, to bring people from opposite sides of an abyss to a dialogue. Such work needs slow pace and long-term commitment, with a special combination of a scientific rigorous analysis with a sensitive approach toward the people one approaches.

This work attempts to introduce the characteristics of the Mohammedan Mission, with the aspiration to be faithful to its essential purposes and to historical truth at the same time. The author thus illustrates the different ways in which people have understood the Mission and the reasons that led them to those various interpretations.

Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive philosophers of the twentieth century. Kolnai's moral philosophy is best described in his own words as intrinsicalist, non-naturalist, non-reductionist", which took its original impetus from Scheler's value ethics, and was developed by using a natural phenomenologist method. The unique combination of linguistic analysis and phenomenology yields highly original ideas on classical fields of moral theory, such as responsibility and free will, the meaning of right and wrong, the universalisability of ethical norms, the role of moral emotions, internalism vs externalism, to mention a few.The volume presents a selection of essays by Kolnai, including his main political theoretical work, "What is Politics About", available in English here for the first time. The second half of the book Kolnai's work is analyzed in a series of essays by eminent scholars

Deals with the period of takeover and of 'high Stalinism' in Eastern Europe (1945-1955), the years that are considered to be fundamentally characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based upon the premise of radical transformism and of cultural revolution.

Argues for an original, unorthodox conception of the relationship between globalization and contemporary nationalism. This work discusses why, on a broader scale, different forms of nationalism develop differing attitudes towards globalization and engage in different relationships.

Includes scholarly legal texts dedicated to Tibor Varady, in honor of his seventieth birthday. Focusing on international private law and international arbitration, this title addresses the questions of constitutional law and legal philosophy. It explores the legal dimension of the European integration process.

Raises basic historical questions and debates, compares East European and American higher education systems, and presents an eyewitness' insights on life in the United States.

Art in architecture, memorials, places and the meaning-historical, philosophical, personal-which they carry as a whole, either publicly divulged or hidden to be explored.

Examines the impact of the Czechoslovak and East German uranium industries on local politics and on societies. This book contains an introduction that discusses the silver-mining industries in the Erzgebirge region and outlines the fate of this region, including the various political pressures and medical problems its inhabitants came under.

95 documents on the events that represent a pivotal moment in modern Polish and world history: 16 months between August 1980 when the Solidarity trade union was founded and December 1981 when Polish authorities declared martial law and crushed the nationwide opposition movement that had grown up around the union. Transcripts of Soviet and Polish Politburo meetings give a detailed picture of the goals, motivations and deliberations of the leaders of these countries. Records of Warsaw Pact gatherings, notes of bilateral sessions of the communist camp provide additional pieces to the puzzle of what Moscow and its allies had in mind. Materials are included from Solidarity, too.

Investigating the registers of fifteenth-century supplications to the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See, this title presents an analysis of a multiplicity of issues in which a context of the local needs of Western Christians and the central power of the Pope occurred.

Offers a neo-socialist alternative to socialism and neo-capitalism. Szalai draws upon the rich tradition of left-wing Hungarian Social Science while offering her own theory of transitional society. This work offers readers the opportunity to engage in a critique of capitalism that is organized along an understanding of socialism itself.

Between 1900 and 1990, there were several periods of grain and other food shortages in Russia and the former Soviet Union, some of which reached disaster proportions resulting in mass famine and death on an unprecedented scale. This title explores the extent to which policy and vagaries in climate conspired to affect agricultural yields.

This book approaches the deportation process from the local level; its aim is to understand what these processes meant from the perspective of the Estonian rural population.

This volume is the first of two containing hagiographical narratives from medieval Central Europe. The lives of the saints in this volume, from the tenth to eleventh centuries, written not much later, are telling witnesses for the process of Christianization of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Dalmatia.

An autobiographical account of the armed resistance against the Soviet Union, which took place between 1944-1956. Published in English for the first time in unabridged form, Luksa's memoir remains one of the few reliable eye-witness accounts of the "e;Invisible Front"e;, as dubbed by Soviet security forces. At its zenith 28,000 guerilla fighters participated in battles and skirmishes throughout Lithuania, LukA a (partisan codename Daumantas) being one of the leaders.Forest Brothersalso documents the role of women in the resistance, giving equal credit to these often silent partners. In 1948 LukA a and two comrades broke through the Iron Curtain on the Polish border. He sought training from the French intelligence and from the CIA. LukA a was flown back into the Soviet Union under the radar on the night of October 4, 1950. He managed to survive and operate eleven months until his near capture and death on the night of September 5, 1951. His account, written during 1948-1950, while he was living in hiding in Paris, describes in vivid scenes and dialogue the daily struggles of the resistance.

An anthology of life stories collected from 20th-century Estonians describing the travails of ordinary people under numerous regimes from a perspective where time is placed in the context of life-spans, and subjects grounded in personal experience.

Interrogates the nature of anti-Americanism. This work tackles the potential political consequences of anti-Americanism in Eastern and Central Europe, the region that has been perceived as strongly pro-American.

This collection of essays responds to the need to approach questions of race and racism from a feminist perspective, focusing on the intersections of race, class and gender.

Contains essays dealing with spiritual preconditions of the global survival of humankind and the quintessence of the author's views on the world which we have inherited - as well as his views on our hopes for the future. This book closes with the author's personal reflection on the deeper meaning and aim of the Forum 2000 meetings.

Despite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social inequalities, the Central and Eastern European transitions from communism to market democracy in the 1990s have been remarkably peaceful. This book proposes a new explanation for this unexpected political quiescence. It shows how reforming governments in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have been able to prevent massive waves of strikes and protests by the strategic use of welfare state programs such as pensions and unemployment benefits.Divide and Pacify explains how social policies were used to prevent massive job losses with softening labor market policies, or to split up highly aggrieved groups of workers in precarious jobs by sending some of them onto unemployment benefits and many others onto early retirement and disability pensions. From a narrow economic viewpoint, these policies often appeared to be immensely costly or irresponsibly populist. Yet a more inclusive social-scientific perspective can shed new light on these seemingly irrational policies by pointing to deeper political motives and wider sociological consequences.

Using a wide selection of newspapers, journals, monographs, and school textbooks from different regions of the country, this book examines the sensitive issue of the changing perspectives on several events discussed in the narratives of the Stalin years published in the Ukraine since the late Gorbachev period until 2005.

Analyzes the processes of nation-building in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Southeastern Europe. This work represents a coordinated interpretation based on ten varied academic cultures and traditions.

Having presented the physical conditions among which Hungarian Jews lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries--the kind of neighborhoods and apartments they lived in, and the places where they worked--this second volume addresses the spiritual aspects and the lighter sides of their life.

This book takes a new approach to interwar Prague by identifying religion as an integral part of the city's cultural history.