Kategoria BISAC: History >> Eastern Europe - General

This book examines the role of photography as a powerful language of expressing collective identities in Eastern Europe during the period of dramatic socio-political transformation associated with the slow rise of national and ethnic consciousness, the dawn of empire and the outbreak of the two World Wars.

From the 1867 All-Russian Ethnographic Exhibition to the war-time Nazi scientific surveys, this innovative account looks closely at how photographic practices and records were applied, borrowed, appropriated, transmitted to exert or subvert power, and used as a tool in negotiating...

100th Anniversary Edition Includes New Introduction

In this acclaimed account, Figes follows workers, soldiers and peasants as their world is consumed by revolution. For what had started as a people's revolution contained the seeds of its degeneration into violence and dictatorship.

A People's Tragedy is a masterful and definitive record of the Russian Revolution - vast...

Am 23. Januar 1930, drei Jahre vor der sogenannten Machtergreifung, trat in Thuringen die erste Landesregierung mit nationalsozialistischer Beteiligung zusammen. Die Autorin wirft erstmals einen Blick hinter die Kulissen der Baum-Frick-Regierung und offenbart ihre eigentlichen Entscheidungstrager: die funf volkischen Vorkampfer Adolf Bartels, Max Robert Gerstenhauer, Hans F. K. Gunther, Paul Schultze-Naumburg und Hans Severus Ziegler. Es waren ihre im Deutschbund, dem Saalecker Kreis und dem Kampfbund fur deutsche Kultur ausgearbeiteten Konzepte, die in Thuringen zum Einsatz kamen. Die...

Until 1940, Brichany, Bessarabia (now Briceni, Moldova) had been a thriving market town serving some 20 surrounding villages in northern Bessarabia. It was principally a Jewish town with a Christian quarter. Most earned their living as craftsmen or traders, but some were involved in tobacco farming or fruit orchards. Due to Brichany's close proximity to the Romanian and Austrian borders, there was also an important transport business.

Moishe Bershtayn was the owner of three estates, two mills, and a whiskey factory. However, his wealth and prominence did not save his family when the...