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  • Slovenian Memory of Italian Fascist Concentration Camps

    by Oto Luthar, Marta Verginella, Urška Strle ...
    Translated by Erica Johnson Debeljak, Simon Debeljak, Manca Gašperšič ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    Apart from presenting the advantages of oral history and memory studies for understanding the policy concerning the Italian confinement and internment regime during the Second World War, this book provides a unique forensic reconstruction of the survivors’ experience of the camps, introducing us to both the victims and perpetrators, with the former taking center stage. They are the voices of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Land Between

    A History of Slovenia

    by Oto Luthar, Marjeta Šašel Kos, Petra Svoljšak, Peter Štih, Dušan Kos, Peter Kos, Igor Grdina, Alja Brglez, Martin Pogacar ...
    The Land Between is the first concise history of Slovenia and Slovenes written in English by leading scholars from the country. The authors base their arguments on Slovenian, former Yugoslav, and Western sources to provide a comprehensive account of Slovenes’ political, social, economic and cultural history, from early Slav settlements to the present day. The authors focus on Slovenian history but ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

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  • Russia

    The Once and Future Empire from Pre-History to Putin

    by Philip Longworth ...
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  • 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning

    by Slavko Goldstein ...
    Translated by Michael Gable ...
    A New York Review Books OriginalThe distinguished Croatian journalist and publisher Slavko Goldstein says, “Writing this book about my family, I have tried not to separate what happened to us from the fates of many other people and of an entire country.” 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning is Goldstein’s astonishing historical memoir of that fateful year—when the Ustasha, the pro-fascist ... Read more

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  • Ivan the Terrible

    by Isabel de Madariaga ...
    "This significant biography of the 16th-century Russian czar…is likely to become the definitive work on Ivan for some time" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).One of the most important figures in Russian history, Ivan IV Vasilyevich has remained among the most neglected. The country's first Tsar, he is notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror—and for killing his own son. In Ivan ... Read more

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  • Ilya Repin

    The Russian Soul on Canvas

    by Grigori Sternin, Jelena Kirillina ...
    Ilya Repin was the most gifted of the group known in Russia as “The Itinerants”. When only twelve years old, he joined Ivan Bounakov’s studio to learn the icon-painter’s craft. Religious representations always remained of great importance for him. From 1864 to 1873 Repin studied at the Academy of the Arts in Saint Petersburg under Kramskoï. Repin also studied in Paris for two years, where he was ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Russia and the Golden Horde

    The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History

    by Charles J. Halperin ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    This revelatory study of Russian medieval history and the age of Mongolian conquest "infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations" ( History).In the 13th century, a Mongolian confederation known as The Golden Horde dominated a vast region including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the Caucuses. Though it would hold power into the 15th century, the influence of the Mongolian Empire ... Read more

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  • Ilya Repin

    Paintings

    by Daniel Coenn ...
    Series series My Pocket Gallery
    Ilya Repin (1844 - 1930) was a Russian painter, master of portrait, historical, and scenes from everyday life. He was also Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, memoirist, author of several essays, compiled a book of memoirs "Far close", professor and rector (1898-1899) of the Academy of Fine Arts. Among his disciples was B. Kustodiev , M. Grabar , M. Kulikov , F. A. Maljavin and V. A. ... Read more

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  • Croatia: A Nation Forged in War

    by Marcus Tanner ...
    From the ashes of former Yugoslavia an independent Croatian state has arisen, the fulfillment, in the words of President Franjo Tudjman, of the Croats' "thousand-year-old dream of independence." Yet few countries in Europe have been born amid such bitter controversy and bloodshed: the savage war between pro-independence forces and the Yugoslav army left about one-third of the country in ruins and ... Read more

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  • A Concise History of Romania

    by Keith Hitchins ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    Spanning a period of 2000 years from the Roman conquest of Dacia to the present day, A Concise History of Romania traces the development of a unique nation situated on the border between East and West. In this illuminating new history, Keith Hitchins explores Romania's struggle to find its place amidst two diverse societies: one governed by Eastern orthodox tradition, spirituality and agriculture ... Read more

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  • The Fall of Mussolini

    Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War

    by Philip Morgan ...
    The dramatic story of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943, illuminating both the causes and the consequences of this momentous event. Morgan shows how Italians of all classes coped with the extraordinary pressures of wartime living, both on the military and home fronts, and how their experience of the country at war eventually distanced them from the dictator and his fascist regime. Looking ... Read more

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