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26 results in Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe

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Individualism and the Rise of Democracy in Poland
  • Tomek Grabowski
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    14 February 2021
  • A fascinating story of the rise of individualism in the formerly German Western Territories of Poland after World War II and how this new culture powered Poland's democratic-capitalist development.

Rethinking Modern Polish Identities
  • Transnational Encounters
  • Edited by Agnieszka Pasieka, Paweł Rodak
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    21 March 2023
  • A critical examination of the category of 'Polishness' - that is, the formation, redefinition, and performance of various kinds of Polish identities - from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.

The Polish Singers Alliance of America 1888-1998

Borders on the Move
  • Territorial Change and Ethnic Cleansing in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938-1948
  • Leslie Waters
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 January 2023
    Print publication:
    01 December 2020
  • An examination of territorial changes between Czechoslovakia and Hungary and their effects on the local populations of the borderlands in the World War II era.

Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe

Toward Xenopolis

Great Power Competition and the Path to Democracy
  • The Case of Georgia, 1991-2020
  • Zarina Burkadze
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 July 2022
    Print publication:
    13 May 2022
  • Using events in Georgia as a case study, this book shows how competition between great powers can subvert authoritarianism and empower democracy in newly formed transitional regimes.

Witnessing Romania's Century of Turmoil
  • Memoirs of a Political Prisoner
  • Nicolae Margineanu
  • Edited by Dennis Deletant
  • Translated by Calin Cotoiu
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 June 2021
    Print publication:
    20 December 2017
  • Combining the intimacy of memoir and the precision of history, the story of psychologist Nicolae Margineanu's imprisonment and survival conveys in striking detail the corrosive impact of Communist rule in Romania.

Revolution and Counterrevolution in Poland, 1980-1989
  • Solidarity, Martial Law, and the End of Communism in Europe
  • Andrzej Paczkowski
  • Translated by Christina Manetti
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 June 2021
    Print publication:
    15 December 2015
  • The 1980 general strike in Poland and the establishment of the independent Solidarity movement, which sought to create a state based on civic freedom, were symptoms of a crisis of the communist system. On December 13, 1981, General Wojciech Jaruzelski on behalf of the ruling Communist Party imposed martial law effectively quashing Solidarity. Jaruzelski won the battle, but Solidarity continued itsrevolution in secret and Poland remained politically destabilized. Elections held in June 1989 ended with the defeat of the Communists and the establishment in September of a coalition government inwhich half of the parliamentary seats went to Solidarity, whose representative was also appointed prime minister. The revolution inaugurated in 1980 by the dockworkers of Gdansk had come to fruition.

    Revolution and Counterrevolution in Poland, 1980-1989 recounts and analyzes the events of this formative decade in Polish history, with particular emphasis on the martial law period. Drawing on extensive archival research, Andrzej Paczkowski examines the origin and form of the Solidarity revolution, the course of the Communist counterrevolution, and the final victory won by Solidarity along with its international repercussions.

    Andrzej Paczkowski is professor of political studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Christina Manetti, Phd, is a translator and researcher of Polish history.

The Utopia of Terror
  • Life and Death in Wartime Croatia
  • Edited by Rory Yeomans
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 June 2021
    Print publication:
    20 December 2015
  • The essays in The Utopia of Terror provide new perspectives on the relationship between the politics of construction and destruction in the wartime Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) ruled by the fascist Ustasha movement. Bringing together established historians of the Ustasha regime and an emerging generation of younger historians, The Utopia of Terror explores various aspectsof everyday life and death in the Ustasha state that until now have received peripheral attention from historians. The contributors argue for a more complex consideration of the relationship of massterror and utopianism in which the two are seen as part of the same process rather than as discrete phenomena. They aim to bring new perspectives, generate original thinking, and provide enhanced understanding of both the Ustasha regime's attempts to remake Croatian society and its campaign to destroy unwanted populations.

    Rory Yeomans is an independent scholar.

An American in Warsaw

Plebeian Modernity
  • Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 1906–1916
  • Ilya Gerasimov
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 June 2021
    Print publication:
    15 January 2018
  • Deciphers typical social practices as a hidden language of communication in urban plebeian society.

Magnetic North
  • Conversations with Tomas Venclova
  • Tomas Venclova, Ellen Hinsey
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    04 June 2021
    Print publication:
    20 June 2017
  • Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer.

Making Martyrs
  • The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin
  • Yuliya Minkova
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    29 May 2021
    Print publication:
    15 April 2018
  • Examines the ideology of sacrifice in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, analyzing a range of fictional and real-life figures who became part of a pantheon of heroes 'primarily because of their victimhood.'

Coming of Age under Martial Law
  • The Initiation Novels of Poland's Last Communist Generation
  • Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 May 2021
    Print publication:
    15 August 2015
  • Examines a selection of post-1989 coming-of-age novels authored by the generation of Polish writers whose transition from adolescence to adulthood coincided with Poland's transition from communism to liberal democracy.

The Universe Behind Barbed Wire
  • Memoirs of a Ukrainian Soviet Dissident
  • Myroslav Marynovych
  • Translated by Zoya Hayuk, Katherine Younger
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 May 2021
    Print publication:
    15 April 2021
  • Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile.

Beyond the Pale
  • The Holocaust in the North Caucasus
  • Edited by Crispin Brooks, Kiril Feferman
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    06 October 2020
    Print publication:
    01 December 2020
  • The first book devoted exclusively to the Holocaust in the North Caucasus, exploring mass killings, Jewish responses, collaboration, and memory in a region barely known in this context.

Polish Literature and National Identity

The Balkans as Europe, 1821–1914
  • Volume 21
  • Edited by Timothy Snyder, Katherine Younger
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 July 2019
    Print publication:
    15 May 2018
  • Focusing on state formation and the identity-geopolitics relationship, makes the case that the Balkans were at the forefront of European history in the century before World War I

Literary Translation and the Idea of a Minor Romania
  • Sean Cotter
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 March 2018
    Print publication:
    01 April 2014
  • Studies of Romanian national imagination have historically focused on the formation of modern Romania after World War I, Romania's fascist movement and alliance with Germany during World War II, or the remobilization of nationalist discourse in the 1970s and 1980s -- moments in which Romanian intellectuals imagine their nation assuming or working toward major cultural status. Literary Translation and the Idea of a Minor Romania examines translationsby canonical Romanian writers Lucian Blaga, Constantin Noica, and Emil Cioran following the imposition of Communist rule, arguing that their works reveal a new, "minor" mode of national identity based on the model of the translator. The "minor," a term taken from critical theory, centers on tropes of interaction with other cultures, recreation through adaptation, and ironic distance. Drawing on theorists as diverse as Benedict Anderson, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Françoise Lionnet, Sean Cotter proposes that this decentered, multilingual, and multiply oriented imagination of the nation is better suited than older models to understanding a globalized cultural field, one inwhich translation plays an indispensable role. Sean Cotter is associate professor of literature and literary translation at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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