Cleveland, Ohio, has been the U.S. hub for all things related to Hungary and Hungarians since the nineteenth century. Between the mid-1800s and the late 1990s, the city welcomed six major waves of Hungarian immigrants. The community they created had its h

The book, initiated by the Yegor Gaidar Foundation, presents 14 large-scale interviews with political figures who, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, became the first leaders of the newly independent states. Askar Akaev, Leonid Kravchuk, Vytautas Landsbergis, Stanislav Shushkevich, Mircea Snegur, Gennady Burbulis, Akezhan Kazhegeldin, Arnold Ruutel, Ivar Godmanis, Isa Gambar, Tengiz...

In this book the most important changes that have happened in the world during the last decades are analyzed. These changes are so significant, that using Ronald Inglehart´s definition we should refer to them as postmodernization rather than modernization. Russia in the present moment gives a hostile reception to postmodernization, denies many important changes and refuses to accept many...

PEASANT QUARREL A Study of Rural Everyday Life (based on materials from the European part of Russia, second half of the XIX — beginning of the XX c.) This book problematizes everyday quarrel as a type of social interaction in Russian peasant society of the late 19th and early 20th c. The author argues that quarrel may be used as a new lens for the understanding of social relations in peasant...