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A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples by Fred Singleton Publisher Comments This book provides a survey of the history of the South Slav peoples who came together at the end of the First World War to form the first Yugoslav kingdom.... (read more) List Price $52.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Eastern Europe for Beginners by Paul Beck Synopsis Traces the history of the region from World War I to the present, and describes influential events, movements, and individuals.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz by Jan T. Gross Publisher Comments Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result. More than half the casualties were Polish Jews. Thus, the second largest Jewish community in the world &... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis by Karoli Lanckoronska Publisher Comments In September of 1939, Countess Karolina Lanckoronska, wealthy landowner and professor of art history, watched the Soviet army march into Poland. After joining the resistance, she was arrested, sentenced to death, and held in Ravensbruck concentration... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century by R J Crampton Publisher Comments Marshalling 129 maps, numerous diagrams and incisive textual commentary, the Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century draws a definitive picture of the changing shape of Eastern and some of central Europe from the beginning of the twentieth... (read more) List Price $146.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hungarians : a Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat (03 Edition) by Paul Lendvai Publisher Comments "This brief narrative of Hungarian history, elegantly translated into English, is written with verve, humor, profound insights, and just the right degree of cynicism. It well explains the dilemma of a respectable old state squeezed between more powerful... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends by Lonnie R Johnson Publisher Comments This historical survey of Central Europe covers a region that encompasses contemporary Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia. Central Europe abandons the Cold War convention of defining Central Europe in... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949 (Annals of Communism) by Georgi Dimitrov Publisher Comments Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949) was a high-ranking Bulgarian and Soviet official, one of the most prominent leaders of the international Communist movement and a trusted member of Stalin's inner circle. Accused by the Nazis of setting the Reichstag fire in... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea by Claudio Magris Publisher Comments In Danube the author sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, of Christendom and Islam. In this journey through the history and culture of the Danube lands, Claudio Magris, whose... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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True Tales from Here and There by Gabe G Kubichek Publisher Comments TRUE TALES From Here and There is a collection of stories, some biographical, some autobiographical; all of them having been safely stored in the memory bank of the author for years. He was inspired by his father's adventure in Russia and specifically in... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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People of the Storm God: Travels in Macedonia (Lost & Found) by Will Myer Publisher Comments Travelling in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and the newly independent Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Myer encounters a bewildering array of political and cultural opinions-Orthodox Christians and Muslims, communists and nationalists, warlords and... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague by Timothy Garton Ash Publisher Comments The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a history moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections--in which Solidarity found itself in the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia & Croatia by Julie Mertus Publisher Comments "For four excruciating years, these overwhelmingly civilian victims of bloodthirsty armies have been degraded, dishonored, dislocated, and displaced. And the world has looked at this appalling mistreatment with both horror and complacency. . . . In this... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Balkans: A Short History by Mark Mazower Publisher Comments Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In this highly acclaimed short history, Mark... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Land Without Justice by Milovan Dilas Publisher Comments The autobiography of the youth of the former Vice Presiden of Yugoslovia, which is also the story of a little-know land, Montenegro. Introduction and notes by William Jovanovich. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Freedom for Publishing, Publishing for Freedom: The Central and East European Publishing Project by Timothy Garton Ash Publisher Comments The Oxford-based Central and East European Publishing Project was a remarkable initiative to support embattled Central and East European publishers and journals. Throughout the nine years of its existence it helped to punch holes through the cultural... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians 1848-1849 by Istvan Deak Synopsis Hungary's War of Independence was the bloodiest conflict of a European revolutionary era. This is the story of its revolution in 1848 when the nobleman Louis Kossuth attempted to restore the sovereignty of the country under the Habsburg Crown.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Politics of Greed: How Privatization Structured Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (World Social Change) by Andrew Harrison Schwartz Publisher Comments An in-depth political history of privatization in Central and Eastern Europe, The Politics of Greed demonstrates that the way that assets are privatized matters, both with respect to national economic performance and the successful development of the... (read more) List Price $51.25 Your price: $28.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea (Theories of Institutional Design) by Jon Elster Publisher Comments This book examines the problems and issues facing formerly communist states as they seek to develop a new democratic political order and a market economy. Studies of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia provide detailed empirical data... (read more) List Price $126.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II by Joseph Rothschild Publisher Comments Since the death of Stalin, the supposedly monolithic character of the Socialist states of East Central Europe has been subjected to serious and major challenges: from Yugoslavia in the late 1940s, from East Germany, Poland, and Hungary in the '50s, from... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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