Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust
Nadege Ragaru and Victoria Baena A profoundly original historical inquiry, this work offers a critical reflection on the silences of the past and the remembrance of the Holocaust. During World War II, even though Bulgaria was an ally of the Third Reich, it never deported its Jewish community. Until recently, this image of Bulgaria as a European exception has prevailed—but at a cost. For it ignored the roundup of almost all the Jews...
Napoli tra sette e ottocento: polo storico di riferimento culturale per il mondo albanese e l’Arbëria
Blerina Suta I contributi in questo volume illustrano in modo approfondito la centralità del ruolo di Napoli per una doppia presa di coscienza: da un lato la necessità degli albanesi d’Italia di emanciparsi dallo stato di marginalizzazione sociale e civile in cui versavano e dall’altra l’esigenza di una rinascita (Rilindja) culturale degli albanesi di là dell’Adriatico a discapito del giogo ottomano. Tra la fine del Settecento e la...
Russia’s Great War and Revolution in the Far East
David Wolff, Shinji Yokote, and Willard Sunderland This volume features new research on the critical effects of World War I and the Russian Revolution and Civil War in Northeast Asia, a broad region that has historically included the Russian Far East, Mongolia, China, Korea, and Japan. Drawing together noted international specialists, the chapters break new ground, bringing unused or understudied sources into the historical record and...
The History of the Stasi
Jens Gieseke The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The shield and sword of the party, it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had become the largest secret-police apparatus in the world, per capita. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence...
Behind the Iron Curtain
Antonie Doležalová, Catherine Albrecht Offers a systemic exploration of the relationship between Western and Eastern social scientists during the Cold War Challenges the narrative of the non-cooperative nature of scientific work during the Cold War Includes case studies from an array of Eastern European countries LINK...
Voices and profiles of Romanian Diplomacy in Italy
Emanuele Costantini, Rudolf Mihai Dinu, Adrian Vițalaru The volume is a collection of studies in which the authors follow a unified line, thus making it possible, on the one hand, to place historical figures that have already been sufficiently researched and, on the other hand, to fill research gaps on other, lesser-known people. Most importantly, it allows us to look at the relations between Romania and Italy from the perspective of...
