'If political economy, i.e. the interdisciplinary study of interrelationships between political institutions and economic systems, has ever made sense, it is exactly now. Hardly any better example of mutual influence and co-determination between political

Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this book analyzes intertextuality or 'inter-theatricality' as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time

Alternative strategies of economic development have received little attention in the literature. Academics rarely compare certain strategic features or assess the performance of different strategies in terms of outcomes. This book seeks to address that ga

Wolfgang Leonhard war ein Junge von 13 Jahren, als er mit seiner Mutter das nationalsozialistische Deutschland verlassen musste und in die Sowjetunion emigrierte. Dort wuchs er nach der Verhaftung seiner Mutter in einem Heim für deutsche und österreichische Emigranten auf, studierte an der Moskauer Pädagogischen Hochschule für Fremdsprachen und trat dem Komsomol bei. Er erlebte den Ausbruch des...

«Neue Frau», der «Neue Mann», «Neues Wohnen», «Neues Denken». Als es Mitte der Zwanziger auch wirtschaftlich aufwärtsgeht, wird Deutschland ein anderes Land. Frauen erobern die Rennpisten und Tennisplätze, gehen abends alleine aus, schneiden sich die Haare kurz. Unisex kommt in Mode, Androgynes und Experimentelles. Jähner erzählt von der Erfindung der Freizeit, von Boxhallen und Tanzpalästen,...

ina Gordeeva is one of the most famous independent journalists in Russia. This is a book about grief. The grief of people with different political views and positions, from different cities of Ukraine and Russia, with different destinies, who were united by a common misfortune - war. Gordeeva loves her heroes, and out of trust and love, documentary evidence of this terrible time is born....

The book talks about how Odessa residents ruined Putin’s long-term plans. It contains testimonies of people who, to varying degrees, determined the vector of resistance of Odessa residents to hybrid aggression. Their memories of the key events of the spring of 2014 allow us to feel the mood and atmosphere of what was happening.

In the eleventh month of the war, Donetsk region remains the hottest spot, battles for Bakhmut continue. But the occupiers are ready to launch an offensive in any direction in order to achieve at least some success at the front. In response to terrorist attacks by Russian drones and missiles on peaceful towns and villages, Ukrainians struck military airfields on the territory of the aggressor...

They are a systematic presentation of the facts of the age-old confrontation between two borderline positions: the will on the part of our ancestors and modern Ukrainians, and slavery, which Russia has been the bearer of for more than one century in a row. The authors of the articles are significant people for modern Ukraine: doctor of legal sciences, professor Natalya Krestovska; writer,...

This book includes memories of Odessa during the occupation, extracted from the Bakhmetev archive of Columbia University (New York) and emigre publications.