The past may be approached from a variety of directions. A myth provides a sense of direction: it...

Living the High Life in Minsk looks at the sources of stability and instability in post-Soviet au...

As a reporter for the prestigious New York Times the author interviewed many of the leading polit...

The present volume presents a collection of pieces of evidence, which-taken together-lead to an a...

Gracia Mendes was a sixteenth-century entrepreneur and one of the wealthiest women in Europe, who...

The authors argue that the nature of Soviet foreign policy has been misunderstood. Existing liter...

Based on new archival evidence, this book examines Soviet empire building in Hungary and the Amer...

Before he became a professor at UCLA, Ivan Berend had survived five regime changes and two revolu...

Daianu (the former chief economist of the Romanian Central Bank, now a professor of economics at ...

Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid emplo...

The movement we know as the Renaissance used to be regarded as the replacement of one system of i...

This book explores the course of development of German seroanthropology from its origins in World...