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Andy Warhol’s Mother

Andy Warhol’s Mother

The Woman Behind the Artist
While biographers of Andy Warhol have long recognized his mother as a significant influence on his life and art, Julia Warhola’s story has not yet been told. As an American immigrant who was born in a small Carpatho-Rusyn village in Austria-Hungary in 1891, Julia never had the opportunity to develop ...
Rehabilitate Marx!

Rehabilitate Marx!

The Czechoslovak Party Intelligentsia and Post-Stalinist Modernity
Rehabilitate Marx! conceptualizes new forms of socialist modernity during the post-Stalinist era, in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s. After the demise of Stalinism, Czechoslovak intellectuals within the Communist Party realized that the primary challenge they were facing wasn’t merely the further development of socialism, which would ...
Resources and Everyday Conflicts in Rural Ukraine

Resources and Everyday Conflicts in Rural Ukraine

Theorizing Social Change
Theorizing Social Change in Ukraine
The Slovak Question

The Slovak Question

A Transatlantic Perspective, 1914–1948
The so-called Slovak question asked what place Slovaks held—or should have held—in the former state of Czechoslovakia. Formed in 1918 at the end of World War I from the remains of the Hungarian Empire, and reformed after ceasing to exist during World War II, the country would eventually split ...
Krakow

Krakow

An Ecobiography
Like most cities, Poland’s Krakow developed around and because of its favorable geography. Before Warsaw, Krakow served as Poland’s capital for half a millennium. It has functioned as a cultural center, an industrial center, a center of learning, and home for millions of people. Behind all of this ...
German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century

German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century

This volume brings together a diverse group of scholars from North America and Europe to explore the history and memory of Germany’s fateful push for power in the Balkans during the era of the two world wars and the long postwar period. Each chapter focuses on one or more ...
The Pope in Poland

The Pope in Poland

The Pilgrimages of John Paul II, 1979-1991
John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope in over 500 years, and the first Slavic pontiff in history. Shortly after his election to the papacy in 1978, he launched a series of visits to his native Poland, then in the midst of dramatic social changes that heralded the end of Communism. ...
Unintended Affinities

Unintended Affinities

Nineteenth-Century German and Polish Historians on the Holy Roman Empire and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Unintended Affinities examines the ways in which German and Polish historians of the nineteenth-century regarded the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The book parallels how historians approached the old Reich and the Commonwealth within the framework of their national history. Kożuchowski analyzes how German and Polish nationalistic ...
No End in Sight

No End in Sight

Polish Cinema in the Late Socialist Period
No End in Sight offers a critical analysis of Polish cinema and literature during the transformative late Socialist period of the 1970s and 1980s. Anna Krakus details how conceptions of time, permanence, and endings shaped major Polish artistic works. She further demonstrates how film and literature played a major role ...
From Citizens to Subjects

From Citizens to Subjects

City, State, and the Enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus
From Citizens to Subjects challenges the common assertion in historiography that Enlightenment-era centralization and rationalization brought progress and prosperity to all European states, arguing instead that centralization failed to improve the socioeconomic position of urban residents in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over a hundred-year period. Murphy examines the government of ...
Metropolitan Belgrade

Metropolitan Belgrade

Culture and Class in Interwar Yugoslavia
Metropolitan Belgrade presents a sociocultural history of the city as an entertainment mecca during the 1920s and 1930s. It unearths the ordinary and extraordinary leisure activities that captured the attention of urban residents and considers the broader role of popular culture in interwar society. As the capital of the newly ...
Remembering Cold Days

Remembering Cold Days

The 1942 Massacre of Novi Sad and Hungarian Politics and Society, 1942-1989
Between three and four thousand civilians, primarily Serbian and Jewish, were murdered in the Novi Sad massacre of 1942. Hungarian soldiers and gendarmes carried out the crime in the city and surrounding areas, in territory Hungary occupied after the German attack on Yugoslavia. The perpetrators believed their acts to be a ...
Books Are Weapons

Books Are Weapons

The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism
Much attention has been given to the role of intellectual dissidents, labor, and religion in the historic overthrow of communism in Poland during the 1980s. Books Are Weapons presents the first English-language study of that which connected them—the press. Siobhan Doucette provides a comprehensive examination of the Polish opposition’...
Greetings from Novorossiya

Greetings from Novorossiya

Eyewitness to the War in Ukraine
Shortlist, 2022 Witold Pilecki International Book Award Introduction by Timothy Snyder Polish journalist Pawel Pieniazek was among the first journalists to enter the war-torn region of eastern Ukraine and Greetings from Novorossiya is his vivid firsthand account of the conflict. He was the first reporter to reach the scene when Russian ...
Kosovo and Serbia

Kosovo and Serbia

Contested Options and Shared Consequences
Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people’s lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the road fundamentally altered the material and social fabric of this former Soviet outpost on the border with Afghanistan and China. The ...

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