Local Dimensions of the Second World War in Southeastern Europe
Xavier Bougarel, Hannes Grandits, Marija Vulesica (eds.) Local Dimensions of the Second World War in Southeastern Europe (Routledge, 2019). This book deals with the Second World War in Southeastern Europe from the perspective of conditions on the ground during the conflict. The focus is on the reshaping of ethnic and religious groups in wartime, on the “top-down” and “bottom-up” dynamics of mass violence, and...
The Citizenship Policies of the Baltic States within the EU Framework on Minority Rights
Il sito della rivista è https://czasopisma.marszalek.com.pl/10-15804/ppsy mentre il saggio è accessibile a questo link: https://czasopisma.marszalek.com.pl/images/pliki/ppsy/48-2/ppsy2019201.pdf The ethnic landscape in the Baltic States is dominated by one large ethnic minority: Russians. Lithuania is an exception as here the first biggest ethnic minority are Poles, followed by Russians. The Baltic States have also significant...
De Facto States in Eurasia
Tomáš Hoch, Vincenc Kopeček (eds.). De Facto States in Eurasia (Routledge, 2019). This book explores the phenomenon of de facto states in Eurasia, states such as, for example, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh and the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic. It examines how they are formed, what sustains them and how their differing development trajectories have unfolded. It argues that most of these de facto states have been formed with either...
Storia dell’Adriatico
Egidio Ivetic Un mare chiuso, un mare di passaggio, una frontiera tra Oriente e Occidente; un mare che ad un tempo unisce e divide; nell’Adriatico si sono intrecciate e sovrapposte molteplici vicende di natura politica, culturale, religiosa, nazionale. Anche i mari hanno una storia, come ci ha insegnato Braudel con il suo grande Mediterraneo. Questo libro ci racconta la storia dell’Adriatico dall’antichità a oggi: storia dei popoli...
Jan Palach. La vita, il gesto e la morte dello studente ceco
Jia Lederer. Jan Palach. La vita, il gesto e la morte dello studente ceco (Schema,...
The Holocaust in the Romanian Borderlands
Mihai I Poliec The Holocaust in the Romanian Borderlands. The Arc of Civilian Complicity (Routledge, 2019). Description This volume examines the changing role which ordinary members of society played in the state-sponsored persecution of the Jews in Bukovina and Bessarabia, both during the summer of 1941, when Romania joined the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, and beyond. It establishes different patterns of civilian complicity and...
