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Historian, journalist, & geopolitical risk analyst. Focused on Central and Eastern Europe.

6 books
Book Cover for: Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War, John Deak

Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War

John Deak
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@llisjak Probably, I followed the footnote into two different books before giving up. This is from John Deak’s Forging a Multinational State.

Hardcover, 2015

$75.00$50.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Book Cover for: Second-Hand Time, Svetlana Alexievich

Second-Hand Time

Svetlana Alexievich
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Topical section from Svetlana Alexievich’s Second Hand Time: “The Russia kitchen… that’s where perestroika really took place.” https://t.co/5yeoRUigmE

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Book Cover for: The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families After World War II, Tara Zahra

The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families After World War II

Tara Zahra
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From Tara Zahra’s “The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II”

Paperback, 2015

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Joke, Milan Kundera

The Joke

Milan Kundera
Luka Ivan JukicLuka Ivan Jukic

Milan Kundera’s great novel The Joke is exactly about this initial enthusiasm for Stalinism giving way to disappointment after the reality of the system became clear, coupled with a cynical view of later “reformed” communists (though Kundera was one). https://t.co/rAFlY688fy

Paperback, 1994

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe, T. Kamusella

The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe

T. Kamusella
Luka Ivan JukicLuka Ivan Jukic

From Tomasz Kamusella’s ‘The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe’

Paperback, 2012

$179.00$154.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Book Cover for: Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals, Dominic Lieven

Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals

Dominic Lieven
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Fascinating paragraph on how Japan adopted the European conception of Empire after the Meiji Restoration, which never shed the its original martial connotations (in Rome ‘emperor’ originally meant a successful general). From Dominic Lieven’s “Empire”. https://t.co/MZXn4U6cyS

Paperback, 2002

$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book