A detailed collection of documents on the course and evolution of Perestroika related to its main architect, Alexander Iakovlev. One of the first Russians to come to the US on a Fulbright in the 1950s (together with Oleg Kalugin), Iakovlev became the leading thinker and architect of perestroika and glasnost under M S Gorbachev. Vital collection for anyone interested in contemporary Russian...

Biography of Konstantin Chernenko, written by his assistant in the last years.

What is modern post-communist Hungary, one of the Central European states that were part of the so-called socialist bloc and burdened with the sad legacy of totalitarianism? What socio-political metamorphoses did its system have to undergo, how can the regime formed in the country be characterized and how does it differ from the regimes in neighboring countries focused on the model of Western...

An Orderly Mess is a timely diagnosis of the current dissolution of the modern order, while highlighting the opportunities of messiness. The essay focuses on the temporal and spatial dimensions in which messiness becomes apparent today: broken time lines

The collection of well-researched essays assesses the uses and misuses of history 25 years after the collapse of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. As opposed to the revival of national histories that seemed to be the prevailing historiographical approach

This volume examines the present-day situation of Hungarian as a minority language in Romania. It is an important addition to the study of the Hungarian language in the diaspora that should be of interest not only to linguists and sociologists also sociol

The genesis of the federalist thought that the book discusses is the project beginning in the fall of 1939 about the idea of combining PolandÆs and CzechoslovakiaÆs war efforts. It soon developed into federalist concepts, leading, in turn, to particular p

In this exceptional collection of dispatches from occupied Donbas, writer and journalist Stanislav Aseyev details the internal and external changes observed in the cities of Makiïvka and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

В’язниця, що насправді є концтабором, де застосовують моторошні тортури, діє в сучасній Україні. За тюремним парканом немає жодних законів, тут зовсім інше життя: у приниженні, страху й непевності, з ранами та слідами опіків на тілі, з болем від переламаних кісток і часто — від зламаної волі й свідомості. Тут головне завдання — вижити, коли жити вже не хочеться й від тебе майже нічого не...

The Berlin Wall Memorial Center on Bernauer Strasse is the main memorial site of divided Germany, located in the center of the German capital. Alongside the exhibit at the former border strip, a permanent exhibition entitled ‘1961 - 1989. The Berlin Wall’ was opened in November 2014, providing information about the political and historical context.