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.

This book was created on the basis of video meetings with doctors from different regions of Ukraine, in which Vasyl Knyazevich, with the participation of Danylo Yanevskyi, talked with specialists in various fields of medicine about strategies and tactics for survival and recovery of the physical and mental state of Ukrainians after the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian...

The war divided families, took away lives, crippled destinies...It is important to know and remember at any time. Even after many decades, new details, memories and testimonies appear. The war is (not) ours — not only for the Motherland,but also for the interests of several totalitarian states. The war is ours - even after eighty years. The war is alive - we remember. The war is different - it...

Orysya Demska tells about the origin and development of the Ukrainian language from the Indo-European proto-language to the present day, its interaction with other languages, the history of mutual enrichment, the irreconcilable confrontation with Russian and the course of lingucides, from which it nevertheless emerged as the winner.

Iryna Slavinska writes about everyday things that are definitely familiar to you: a change of wardrobe with the beginning of a full-scale invasion, childhood memories of turning off the lights and the reality of a blackout. Each story is a reflection on the life of the residents of the ‘rear’ cities, who now stock up on fast food and pay attention to the schedules of electricity blackouts in...

Many cultural phenomena, human destinies and literary works are hidden under the concept of ‘sixties’. This book offers the reader a journey into the microcosm of the Ukrainian sixties - young people who created a new culture during the Khrushchev ‘thaw’. Delving into the world, which, contrary to the rules of the Soviet totalitarian regime, was based on the principles of solidarity, mutual...

Chernobyl, nuclear power, the exclusion zone... All this is not the scenery of a computer game, but the usual reality in which we live every day. With the consequences of the accident that happened more than 30 years ago, and the nuclear power plants that power our homes. In this book you will not find a detailed analysis of the events that happened on April 26, 1986, or the stories of the...