Племени осейджей повезло уцелеть, когда белые колонизовали Америку. И еще им повезло очутиться на богатых нефтью землях Оклахомы. На старте нефтяной лихорадки двадцатых пресса наперебой сообщала о сказочном обогащении ‘краснокожих миллионеров’. На этом везение индейцев закончилось, потому что их стали методично убивать: по одному и целыми семьями. Справиться с криминальным террором Эдгар Гувер,...

This meticulously researched and very personal volume recounts in detail the history of the internment, most often referred to as the internal deportation, in Hungary of Hungary's aristocracy, military and professional classes as well as the more wealthy

In the darkness of the early morning of 3 March 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded into lorries. That same day the Romanian WorkersÆ Party was pleased to announce the successful deportation and di

A career diplomat in the Hungarian Diplomatic Service from the age of 25, Antal Ullein-Reviczky served in Vienna, Paris, Istanbul, and Zagreb from 1919-1938, when he became head of the Press Department at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs until Au

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

Miksa Fenyo (1877-1972) a Hungarian writer and intellectual served as member of parliament and briefly was a member of the Hungarian cabinet. He was targeted by the Hungarian fascists and Hitler and had to go into hiding in 1944 after Hungary was occupied

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

On September 30, 1919, local law enforcement in rural Phillips County, Arkansas, attacked black sharecroppers at a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. The next day, hundreds of white men from the Delta, along with US Army tr

В книге, инициированной Фондом Егора Гайдара, представлены 14 масштабных интервью с политическими деятелями, которые после распада Советского Союза стали первыми руководителями новых независимых государств. Версиями событий, радикально изменивших карту мира и жизнь миллионов людей, делятся Аскар Акаев, Леонид Кравчук, Витаутас Ландсбергис, Станислав Шушкевич, Мирча Снегур, Геннадий Бурбулис,...

In this remarkable book, Karl Schlogel unravels the interconnected histories of two of the world's most celebrated perfumes. In tsarist Russia, two French perfumers û Ernest Beaux and Auguste Michel û developed related fragrances honouring Catherine the G

Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to the U

Память о преступлениях, в которых виноваты не внешние силы, а твое собственное государство, вовсе не случайно принято именовать «трудным прошлым». Признавать собственную ответственность, не перекладывая ее на внешних или внутренних врагов, время и обстоятельства, — невероятно трудно и психологически, и политически, и юридически. Только на первый взгляд кажется, что примеров такого...