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The Crown and the Cosmos

…modern Europe. Maximilian I employed astrology as a political tool to gain support for his reforms and to reinforce his own legitimacy as well as that of the Habsburg dynasty….

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Elusive Equality

…of twentieth-century democracy is deepened, and a cautionary tale for all those who want to make democratic governments work. | Melissa Feinberg| Russian and East European Studies| History / Europe

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Overtaken by the Night

…the fictional Doctor Zhivago, but perhaps even more extraordinary for being true. | Richard Robbins|| Biography & Autobiography / Historical History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union…

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The Thaw Generation

…Paul Goldberg| Russian and East European Studies| History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union History / General Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism…

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Multicultural Commonwealth

|9780822948032|Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives|The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) was once the largest country in Europe—a multicultural republic that was home to Belarusians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Ruthenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, and other…

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