I pionieri
Sergio Tavčar 1971: nasce una televisione di confine che da lì in avanti farà la storia del giornalismo. Siamo a Capodistria, a pochi chilometri da Trieste, ma dentro la Federazione Jugoslava. Sono gli anni di Tito e della cortina di ferro. Telecapodistria inizia a trasmettere con mezzi di fortuna i più grandi eventi sportivi a livello mondiale. Lo fa in lingua italiana e il segnale raggiunge tutto il Nord Italia e gran parte delle...
Serbia A Modern History
Marko Attila Hoare This is the first in-depth, English-language history of modern Serbia in nearly half a century. It covers the period from the Serbian state’s revolutionary rebirth in the early nineteenth century, under the rebel leaders Karađorđe Petrović and Miloš Obrenović; its turbulent history of wars, uprisings and dynastic rivalries; the triumph of Yugoslav unification in 1918; and the catastrophe of occupation by Nazi...
Our Comrades in Havana Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959–1991
RADOSLAV YORDANOV In the immediate aftermath of its successful revolution, Cuba was heralded by socialist nations as the vanguard of communism in Latin America in the early 1960s. But by the late 1980s, Cuba’s inability to adopt the modes of socialist planning and Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms had deeply soured the relationship between Havana and the Soviet-led socialist bloc. While secondary literature often highlights...
Hungary As a Sport Superpower: Football from Horthy to Kádár, 1924-1960
Lorenzo Venuti What role has football (and sport in general) played in Hungarian foreign policy? Was there a continuity between the inter-war period and communism? Are foreign politics and sporting diplomacy synonyms? This book tries to provide answers to these questions through a careful examination of documents of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry and Hungarian newspapers, supplemented by documentation from several European countries....
Russia’s Turkish Wars: The Tsarist Army and the Balkan Peoples in the Nineteenth Century
Victor Taki Russia’s Turkish Wars examines the changing place of the Balkan population in Russian military thought, strategic planning, and occupation policies. It reveals choices made by the tsarist strategists and commanders during the Russian-Ottoman wars, reflecting a general reconceptualization of the role of “the people” in modern warfare that took place during the nineteenth century. The book explores the tsarist military’s...
