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 and fragmented spaces. Messiness is framed by a blurring of the world orderings inherited from modernity. Against the backdrop of rapid...

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 of the 1990s, the last decade has seen a particular set of narratives equating Nazism and Communism. This provides opportunities to exonerate...

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 sociolinguists but to historians, political or social scientists, educators and dialectologists as well. The problems presented, albeit referring...

The genesis of the federalist thought that the book discusses is the project beginning in the fall of 1939 about the idea of combining Poland’s and Czechoslovakia’s war efforts. It soon developed into federalist concepts, leading, in turn, to particular political gestures: the Polish-Czechoslovak Declaration of November 11, 1940; a joint project of a constitution of a future Polish-Czechoslovak...

In The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner from 2015 to 2017 in a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB) in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk. This memoir recounts an endless ordeal of psychological and physical abuse, including torture and rape,...

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...

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...

Die Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer in der Bernauer Straße ist der zentrale Erinnerungsort an die deutsche Teilung, gelegen im Zentrum der Hauptstadt. Neben der Ausstellung im ehemaligen Grenzstreifen informiert seit dem 9. November 2014 auch die Dauerausstellung »1961 – 1989. Die Berliner Mauer« über die politisch-historischen Zusammenhänge.

Jürgen Ritter hat in den 1980er Jahren die Sperranlagen an der deutsch-deutschen Grenze sowie in und um Berlin in Zehntausenden von Bildern dokumentiert. An gleicher Stelle hat er nach der Deutschen Einheit die landschaftlichen und baulichen Veränderungen bis in unsere Tage fotografisch festgehalten. Die besten alten und neuen Aufnahmen, Bilder von damals und heute, sind im Buch...

Die Hauptstadt der DDR existiert nur noch in der Erinnerung und ist doch überall im heutigen Berlin präsent. An jeder Ecke lauern Bilder und geheimnisvolle Zeichen, die wie übertünchte Inschriften an Häuserwänden immer wieder durchschlagen. Stefan Wolle, der die meiste Zeit seines Lebens in Berlin gelebt und gearbeitet hat, flaniert durch Zeit und Raum und besucht zentrale Orte: den...