Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with
separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective …

By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution
in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into …

This dissertation examines the participation of the USSR in the United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) during the Cold War as a case study of the …

IN 1963, ZOIA BARASH MOVED to Cuba from her home in the Soviet Union.“We were
young and Cuba was beautiful when we got here,” she remembered in a recent interview …

In the early 1990s social scientists began to refer to migrants who retained familial and
economic ties with their country of origin as transnational. The term eventually gained …

Following the collapse of state socialism in Europe in 1989–91, and the great enthusiasm
that it provoked regarding the potential for 'global civil society'to play a key role in social …

Silence has many causes: shame, embarrassment, ignorance, a desire to protect. The
silence that has surrounded the atrocities committed against the Jewish population of …

The Eastern European area constitutes a valuable vantage point for looking at the
relationship and interactions between literary translation and politics. Surprisingly, scholarly …

“We managed to rearrange the city down to the last grain of sand,” declares György Konrád's
frantic, impassionate, obsessive, idealistic city builder. 2 He has gone through all the trials of …

The Cold War is already history. Still, it has maintained a surprisingly strong role in defining
European historiography to this day. For example, widely used concepts such as “post …