Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the latest fashions. But it has also been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution, never more so than before and after the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov dynasty.

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,...

Джинсы, зараженные вшами, личинки под кожей африканского гостя, портрет Мао Цзедуна, проступающий ночью на китайском ковре, свастики, скрытые в конструкции домов, жвачки с толченым стеклом - вот неполный список советских городских легенд об опасных вещах. Книга известных фольклористов и антропологов А. Архиповой (РАНХиГС, РГГУ, РЭШ) и А. Кирзюк (РАНГХиГС) - первое антропологическое и...

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

This monograph offers the analysis of a critical decade in the Bohemian history, embedded in the history of Europe from the Netherlands, through Germany and Italy, to Poland and the Ottoman Empire. This detached view deviates from the ônationalö history o

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

David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union in June, 1976 as the correspondent of the Financial Times of London and entered a country that was a giant theater of the absurd. After 1982, he was banned from the Soviet Union but allowed back in 1990, and finally expelled in 2013 on the grounds that the secret police regarded his presence as 'undesirable.'