1946 bis 1989

This book examines the process of re-establishment of Jewish communities in two post-war European cities

Mit dem Putsch der Bolschewisten im Oktober 1917 greift im Russischen Reich erstmals die kommunistische Partei nach der Macht. Das Kalkül Lenins und später Stalins, dass der revolutionäre Funken der machthabenden Partei der Sowjetunion zur Umgestaltung der Gesellschaften sich in kurzer Zeit...

At 11 o´clock in the evening of 20th August 1968, the armies of four Warsaw Pact countries, the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, crossed the borders of Czechoslovakia, starting the “Operation Danube”. Literally overnight the Czechoslovak experiment with Alexander Dubcek´s...

This book’s novel contribution is to explain Czechoslovakia’s domestic situation during the Cold War from the “outside”.

Skylarks and Rebels is a story about Latvia’s fate in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima, a Latvian American who chose to leave behind the comforts of life in America to explore the land of her ancestors, Latvia, which in the 1980s languished behind the Soviet Iron Curtain. In writing about...

A quarter century after the formation of the Popular Front and a decade since joining the EU, processes of state- and nation-building in Latvia are still on-going.

Der Kalte Krieg im Nachkriegsberlin war eine Hochzeit des politischen Journalismus. Unter alliierter Kontrolle entstanden zahlreiche Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, die Aufbruch, Orientierung und Demokratie versprachen. Im "Zeitungsparadies Berlin" kämpften Journalisten mit allen Regeln der Kunst um...

This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Czech women. The seven life stories, ranging from the late 19th century to the present day, expose the often cruel political history of Bohemia (19th century), the Czech lands in...

Nikolay Mitrokhins Pionierarbeit zeichnet die Geschichte der russischen Nationalisten in der Sowjetunion nach Stalins Tod.

In this stunning biography, Josette Baer re-traces the eventful life of the Slovak politician Vavro Srobár, the principal figure in the implementation of Czechoslovak democracy in Slovakia. Spanning from his student days and his fight for Slovak civil rights in Upper Hungary via his ministerial...