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Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe

About the Book Series

The nations of Central and Eastern Europe experienced a time of momentous change in the period following the Second World War. The vast majority were subject to Communism and central planning while events such as the Hungarian uprising and Prague Spring stood out as key watershed moments against a distinct social, cultural and political backcloth. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, German reunification and the break-up of the Soviet Union, changes from the 1990s onwards have also been momentous with countries adjusting to various capitalist realities. The volumes in this series will help shine a light on the experiences of this key geopolitical zone with many lessons to be learned for the future.

54 Series Titles


Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967 Part 1: 1954–1956

Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 1: 1954–1956

1st Edition

Edited By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025

This book, spanning the years 1954–1956, is the first in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. Most of the documents are ...

Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967 Part 2: 1957–1961

Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 2: 1957–1961

1st Edition

Edited By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025

This book, spanning the years 1957–1961, is the second in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. Most of the documents are ...

Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967 Part 3: 1962–1964

Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 3: 1962–1964

1st Edition

Edited By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025

This book, spanning the years 1961–1964, is the third in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. Most of the documents are ...

Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967 Part 4: 1965–1967

Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 4: 1965–1967

1st Edition

Edited By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025

This book, spanning the years 1965–1967 – the years leading up to and culminating in the June 1967 Six-Day War – is the fourth in a four-volume collection of documents from the Russian Federation and the Israeli State Archive portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. ...

Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967 Parts 1–4

Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Parts 1–4

1st Edition

Edited By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025

These volumes bring together key documents detailing Israeli-Soviet relations between 1954 and 1967. A very significant and turbulent period is covered, during which there was a steady deterioration in Soviet-Israeli relations, culminating in their severance following the Six Day War in 1967. They ...

Greek-Albanian Entanglements since the Nineteenth Century A History

Greek-Albanian Entanglements since the Nineteenth Century: A History

1st Edition

By Alexis Heraclides, Ylli Kromidha
May 06, 2025

This book is a comprehensive study of more than 200 years of the shared and interconnected histories of Greek-Albanian relations, a field of inquiry that has not attracted the international scholarly attention it deserves. The book presents and analyses in detail topics including the contested ...

Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires

Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires

1st Edition

Edited By Motoki Nomachi, Tomasz Kamusella
May 06, 2025

This volume probes into the mechanisms of how languages are created, legitimized, maintained, or destroyed in the service of the extant nation-states across Central Europe. Through chapters from contributors in North America, Europe, and Asia, the book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to ...

The Open Window into the Soviet Bloc US Policy toward Poland, 1956–1968

The Open Window into the Soviet Bloc: US Policy toward Poland, 1956–1968

1st Edition

By Jakub Tyszkiewicz
May 06, 2025

This volume analyzes US policy toward communist-ruled Poland in the fields of diplomacy, economy, culture, and public diplomacy. It highlights the limitations in developing cooperation between democratic and nondemocratic countries resulting from the Cold War conflict. No comprehensive account of ...

Transgressive Humanism in Mid-Socialist Poland

Transgressive Humanism in Mid-Socialist Poland

1st Edition

By Nina Seiler
April 08, 2025

This book focuses on the often-overlooked middle period of socialism in 20th-century Poland, tracing the transgressive variations of humanist thought that emerged as forms of resistance amid the intellectual crisis of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It analyses how an upsurge in anti-Semitism and ...

Observers from Abroad Twentieth Century Western Documentary Photography in the USSR

Observers from Abroad: Twentieth Century Western Documentary Photography in the USSR

1st Edition

By Martin A. Miller
March 31, 2025

Observers from Abroad offers an examination of published and archival images of Soviet Russia, providing a deeper understanding of the complexities and vicissitudes of its political culture. The book argues that photography, when accurately interpreted, can be utilized as primary historical ...

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 Lloyd George, Lenin and Poland

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920: Lloyd George, Lenin and Poland

1st Edition

By Andrzej Nowak
December 18, 2024

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a military attack on the continent. The outcome of this attack might have been the occupation of all of Poland ...

The Sovietization of Rural Hungary, 1945-1980 Subjugation in the Name of Equality

The Sovietization of Rural Hungary, 1945-1980: Subjugation in the Name of Equality

1st Edition

Edited By József Ö. Kovács, Gergely Krisztián Horváth, Gábor Csikós
December 18, 2024

In this book the experiential history of the Soviet-style social transformation projects between 1945 and 1980 is discussed through the example of rural Hungary. The book interprets state socialism as a (modernization) project. Existing socialism was a form of dictatorship in which authorities ...

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