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Europolis

by Jean Bart

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 Set in Sulina, a decaying port town at the Danube Delta, Europolis explores a multicultural community on the brink of vanishing. Nikola Marulisâ€™s return from America sparks gossip and dreams, but his homecoming reveals deeper disillusionment. Bartâ€™s 1933 masterpiece is an elegy for a lost era, now available in English.
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On Shaky Ground

by V. Domontovych

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 On Shaky Ground is a modernist novel written in the late 1930s and early 1940s and was originally published in Nazi occupied Kharkiv in 1942.
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Fugue - A Tale Of One Of Us

by Milutin Nehajev

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 Bijeg is a novel by the Croatian writer Milutin Cihlar Nehajev, here translated into English by Damir Janigro with the title Fugue. Regarded as a paramount example of Croatian literature from the Modernist era, it offers a captivating portrayal of the culture in pre-World War I Austro-Hungary.
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The Visoko Chronicle

by Ivan Tavcar

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 This historical novel follows 2 generations of owners of the Visoko estate in the Habsburg Empire's Duchy of Carniola during the 17th century, culminating in the nation's transition from Habsburg rule to the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes by the novel's 1919 release.
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Avala Is Falling

by Biljana Jovanovic

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 In Avala Is Falling, Jovanovi?'s 1978 breakout success, a young woman challenges societal expectations from teachers, parents, bus drivers, and doctors, with the title Avala referring to a mountain south of Belgrade that houses both Serbia's important nationalist monuments and the region's main mental hospital.
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Between The Living And The Dead - A Perspective On Witches And Seers In The Early Modern Age

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 This history of folk beliefs connected with communication with the supernatural sphere, explores the communication systems known to early modern Hungarians and how they were connected to contemporary European systems and identifies systems which function right up to the twentieth century.
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A Laboratory Of Transnational History - Ukraine And Recent Ukrainian Historiography

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 The history of Ukraine is not written here as a linear, teleological narrative of ethnic Ukrainians but as a multicultural, multidimensional history of a diversity of cultures, religious denominations, languages, ethical norms, and historical experience.
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The Dilemmas Of Dissidence In East-Central Europe - Citizen Intellectuals And Philosopher Kings

by Barbara J. Falk

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 Discusses one of the major currents leading to the fall of communism. Falk examines the intellectual dissident movements in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary from the late 1960s through to 1989.
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The Sorrowful Eyes Of Hannah Karajich

by Ivan Olbracht

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 This book is a deeply moving story of love and the pain of emancipation, set in the now vanished world of rural East European Jewish village life.
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Prague Tales

by Jan Neruda

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 This is a collection of Jan Neruda's intimate, wry, bittersweet stories of life among the inhabitants of the Little Quarter of nineteenth-century Prague.
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In A Maelstrom - The History Of Russian-Jewish Prose, 1860-1940

by Zsuzsa Hetenyi

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 The first concise history of Russian-Jewish literary prose, this book discusses Russian-Jewish literarature in four periods, analyzing the turning points (1881â€"82, 1897, 1917) and proposing that the selected epoch (1860â€"1940) represents a special strand that was unfairly left out of both Russian and Jewish national literatures.
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The Coming Spring

by Stefan Zeromski

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 Zeromski's final novel, follows Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who escapes the chaos of the Russian Revolution in Baku and undertakes a harrowing journey west with his father, ultimately reaching newly independent Poland alone after his father's death en route.
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The Poet And The Idiot - And Other Stories

by Friedebert Tuglas

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 The nine stories, and the essay, featured here were written during the World War One, or in the first years of Estonian independence in the early 1920s. They reflect the troubled spirit of the times, but exhibit the influence of a wide selection of writers.
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The Green Bloc - Neo-Avant-Garde Art And Ecology Under Socialism

by Maja Fowkes

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 Expanding the horizon of accounts of art under communism, The Green Bloc uncovers the history of artistic engagement with the natural environment in the Eastern Bloc.
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Shortcut Or Piecemeal - Economic Development Strategies And Structural Change

by Jan Winiecki

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 Alternative strategies of economic development have received little attention in the literature. Academics rarely compare certain strategic features or assess the performance of different strategies in terms of outcomes.
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Through The Window - Kinship And Elopement In Bosnia-Herzegovina

by Keith Doubt

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 Examines the resilient cultural heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on the transethnic character of folklore and customs shared by Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats, rather than the divisions that dominated their tragic recent past.
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Deficit And Debt In Transition - The Political Economy Of Public Finances In Central And Eastern Europe

by Istvan Benczes

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 The adjustment problems of public finance in East-Central European countries are often misunderstood and misinterpreted by western scholars. This book contributes to the bridging of the gap between what is being thought by external observers and what the actual public finance reality is, as described by competent local scholars.
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A Tale Of Two Worlds

by Vjenceslav Novak

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 In this novel, written by the esteemed novelist in 1901, a provincial composer and organist from Croatia struggles to find his way along the perilous frontier between the worlds of artistic vocation and humdrum family life.
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The Prose Of The Mountains - Three Tales Of The Caucasus

by Aleksandre Qazbegi

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 Contains three tales by Aleksandre Qazbegi, a prescient Georgian chronicler who provides an invaluable counterpoint to predominantly Russian narratives of the nineteenth-century Caucasus and the Georgian encounter with colonial modernity.
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Stalinism Revisited - The Establishment Of Communist Regimes In East-Central Europe

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 Examines the period of communist takeover and high Stalinism in Eastern Europe (1945-1955), characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based on radical transformism and cultural revolution.
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Rural Unrest During The First Russian Revolution - Kursk Province, 1905-1906

by Burton Richard Miller

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 Study of peasant unrest in Russia's Kursk Oblast during 1905-1906 combines chronological documentation from official sources with detailed village-level analysis using local census materials.
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The Village And The Class War - Anti-Kulak Campaign In Estonia 1944-49

by Anu Mai Koll

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 Examines the persecution and deportation of kulaks (better-off farmers) in Estonia before agricultural collectivization, focusing on local-level perspectives to understand what these processes meant for the Estonian rural population.
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The Power Of Words - Studies On Charms And Charming In Europe

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 In medieval and early modern Europe, the use of charms was a living practice in all strata of society. The essays explore the rich textual tradition of archives, monasteries, and literary sources.
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The Tower - And Other Stories

by Janis Ezerins

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 Traces how the liberal humanist philosophy once associated with Central Europe (exemplified by figures like Havel, KonrÃ¡d, Kundera, and Michnik) was replaced by economic liberalism and neoliberal policies during the transition era.
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