The Shaken Lands
Balkelis Tomas The Shaken Lands Violence and the Crisis of Governance in East Central Europe, 1914–1923 The volume focuses on violence during the breakdown of East Central European states brought by one of the most violent periods in modern European history: from the start of the Great War in 1914 until 1923 when Europe, finally, achieved peace after a series of civil conflicts and interstate wars....
The Soviet Myth of World War II
Jonathan Brunstedt How did a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconcile itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian ethnocentrism, and the glorification of war? In this provocative new history, Jonathan Brunstedt pursues this question through the lens of the myth and remembrance of victory in World War II – arguably the central defining event of the...
CfP: STALINISM AND WAR
International Scholarly Conference STALINISM AND WAR 24-26 May 2016, Moscow Deadline: 1 November 2015. International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences National Research University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and Friedrich Ebert Foundation with additional support from Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum...
