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Eastern Europe addresses the emergence of uncertain pluralism in the region following the disintegration of the communist regimes in 1989. Taking a broad historical approach, the volume considers issues and challenges that have marked Eastern Europe from 1939 through World War II and the era of socialism, up to the present. Eight comprehensive country studies are augmented by detailed assessments of economic developments, security issues, religious currents, cultural policies, and gender relations in the region.

Gender Politics in the Western Balkans traces the development of women's consciousness in the lands of the South Slavs from the early years of the twentieth century, on the eve of the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, to the situation during and after the Serbian Insurrectionary War of 1991-95. The book embraces historical chapters, contemporary political analyses, and cultural studies (focusing on literature and religion).

Socialist Yugoslavia undertook a relatively unusual experiment during the forty-six years of its existence (1945-91)--to eliminate...

In der Buchreihe des Instituts fur Ost- und Sudosteuropaforschung (IOS), den -Sudosteuropaische Arbeiten-, werden herausragende Monographien sowie Sammelbande, Nachschlagewerke und Editionen zur Geschichte und Gegenwart Sudosteuropas veroffentlicht. Die umfassende Rezeption im In- und Ausland weist die Reihe als auf ihrem Feld fuhrend aus. Die Reihe fuhrt damit seit Ende 2006 auch die inhaltlichen Bereiche der fruheren -Untersuchungen zur Gegenwartskunde Sudosteuropas- fort.

Herausgeber

Ulf Brunnbauer

Konrad Clewing

Redaktion

Konrad Clewing

Is the moon the center of the universe? is a collection of mostly humorous verse rooted in an appreciation of the absurd and the ridiculous.  A few of the verses take their cue from real persons, such as “The secret history of Duncan MacDougall”, who hoped to prove the existence of the soul by weighing dying patients just before and just after death, or “Mad Anthony Wayne”, a verse very loosely based on the life of an officer in the American Revolutionary Army, or again “Church-run brothels”, which actually existed in the 1300s and...