Kategoria BISAC: History >> Eastern Europe - General

Das bisherige Fehlen systematischer Studien zu den religios motivierte Unruhen in der spatantiken Gesellschaft mu angesichts der Aufmerksamkeit, die vor allem christliche Autoren diesen Vorfallen schenkten, erstaunen.

J. Hahn untersucht nun in seinem Buch religiose Unruhen als ein Phanomen des gesellschaftlichen Lebens. Seine These: Die Eskalation religioser Differenzen zu gewalttatigen Auseinandersetzungen, die das offentliche Leben nachhaltig zu bestimmen vermochten, wurzelt in der Spatantike nicht in einfachen, kurzfristigen religiosen Konflikten. Vielmehr kommt in diesen...

The time between the Hitler-Stalin pact of 23 August 1939 and Germany s invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 remains a controversial period in European historiography. This volume presents the still multivalent interpretations of this first phase of World War II in German and Russian, as is the practice of the Historical Commission.

How did the fall of communism and the subsequent transition to capitalism in Eastern Europe affect the people who experienced it? And how did their anger affect the quality of the democratic systems that have emerged? Poland offers a particularly provocative case, for it was here where workers most famously seemed to have won, thanks to the role of the Solidarity trade union. And yet, within a few short years, they had clearly lost. An oppressive communist regime gave way to a capitalist society that embraced economic and political inequality, leaving many workers frustrated and angry....

Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Poles were killed. Of these, more than half were Jews killed in the Holocaust. Ninety percent of the world's second largest Jewish community was annihilated. But despite the calamity shared by Poland's Jews and non-Jews, anti-Semitic violence did not stop in Poland with the end of the war. Jewish Holocaust survivors returning to their Polish hometowns after the war experienced widespread hostility, including murder, at the hands of their neighbors. The bloodiest peacetime pogrom in...