Lukowski considers how the republican ideals and the political culture of the ruling classes of the 18th-century Lithuanian Commonwealth remain a part of the historical legacy of what is today Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine and Belarus.
The origins and life of East European Jewry took on new historical and political importance after the Holocaust. In Poland alone 99 per cent of Polish Jews three million in all were killed; Yiddish as a spoken language more or less disappeared. This volume presents a history of …
Ethnographies of grey zones in Eastern Europe: relations, borders and invisibilities
by Frederiksen, Martin Demant, Exploring the Grey Zones: Governance, Conflict and (Ind.)security in Eastern Europe (Conference), Denmark), Knudsen, Ida Harboe
fromAnthem series on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies
The story of "Jewish prisoner-scientists in Buchenwald who made a vaccine against ... typhus. Their untold secret: they provided the real vaccine to camp inmates but a fake one to German troops at the eastern front"--Dust jacket back. Describes the true story of how the eccentr…
A common perception of Jews during World War II is that they were passive and submissive in the face of German oppression. This book questions the validity of this widely held assumption, arguing that rather than making empty claims about Jewish passivity or heroics during the H…
