This edited collection presents a wide-ranging survey of forced deportations by totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe throughout the 20th century. The chapters focus on deportation policies and practices among regimes in Romania, Ukraine, Albania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, and the former U.S.S.R, collectively highlighting the long-term effects of these policies and their significance to contemporary societies in Eastern Europe.

Deportation was a pervasive phenomenon, with socio-economic, demographic, and political implications that have structurally affected the shape...

The book is concerned with the history of football and its role in Balkan society. The aim is to analyse and discuss various aspects of football as a social and political phenomenon. Special attention has been paid mainly to the following issues: the political background of football over the years; the formation and development of fan culture; the importance of football for different social groups and nationalities; the cultural framework of football; the impact of football on international relations. The following regions are presented in the book: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,...

As turbulent events - including war, civil war, armed intervention, humanitarian crises and civil unrest - unfold around the globe, the actions of various types of paramilitary organization have attracted considerable attention in academic circles, as well as among the public. Bringing together a wide range of respected authors from a variety of academic backgrounds, this volume builds on a rapidly developing literature on paramilitarism, with a focus on the Balkans, East-Central Europe, and the Caucasus. Chapters cover historical examples and various aspects of paramilitarism, including...