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Ukraine was liberated from German wartime occupation by 1944 but remained prisoner to its consequences for much longer. This study examines Soviet Ukraine's transition from war to 'peace' in the long aftermath of World War II. Filip Slaveski explores the challenges faced by local Soviet authorities in reconstructing central Ukraine, including feeding rapidly growing populations in post-war famine. Drawing on recently declassified Soviet sources, Filip Slaveski traces the previously unknown bitter struggle for land, food and power among collective farmers at the bottom of the Soviet social ladder, local and central authorities. He reveals how local authorities challenged central ones for these resources in pursuit of their own vision of rebuilding central Ukraine, undermining the Stalinist policies they were supposed to implement and forsaking the farmers in the process. In so doing, Slaveski demonstrates how the consequences of this battle shaped post-war reconstruction, and continue to resonate in contemporary Ukraine, especially with the ordinary people caught in the middle.

"The Norwegian 'treason trials' were the most extensive post-war 'reckoning' with wartime collaboration in all of Europe. This study examines how the Norwegian authorities envisaged, implemented and interpreted these trials, from the first planning efforts of the early 1940s to the debates over their legacies during the 1960s"--

Casino gambling is central to understanding the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. Tracing the development of casino gambling across this period, this book connects that story to ideas about chance, luck, emotions, and psychology, and reveals how Europeans used gambling to understand their changing world.

When East Germany collapsed in 1989-1990, outside observers were shocked to learn the extent of environmental devastation that existed there. The communist dictatorship, however, had sought to confront environmental issues since at least the 1960s. Through an analysis of official and oppositional sources, Saving Nature Under Socialism complicates attitudes toward the environment in East Germany by tracing both domestic and transnational engagement with nature and pollution. The communist dictatorship limited opportunities for protest, so officials and activists looked abroad to countries such as Poland and West Germany for inspiration and support. Julia Ault outlines the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and shows how East Germans responded to local degradation as well as to an international moment of environmental reckoning in the 1970s and 1980s. The example of East Germany thus challenges and broadens our understanding of the 'greening' of post-war Europe, and illuminates a larger, central European understanding of connection across the Iron Curtain.

"By placing the party grassroots at the centre of its focus, Building Socialism presents an original account of the formative first two decades of the Soviet system. Assembled in a large network of primary party organisations (PPO), the Bolshevik rank-and-file was an army of activists made up of ordinary people. While far removed from the levers of power, they were nevertheless charged with promoting the Party's programme of revolutionary social transformation in their workplaces, neighbourhoods, and households. Their regular meetings, conferences and campaigns have generated a voluminous source base. This rich material provides a unique view of the practical manifestation of the Party's revolutionary mission and forms the basis of this insightful new narrative of how the Soviet republic functioned in the period from the end of the Russian Civil War in 1921 to its invasion by Nazi Germany in 1941"--

Migrating Memories charts the transnational story of German speakers from Romania during a turbulent century in modern European history. From uneasy supporters of their home country, to enthusiastic Nazis, tepid Communists, and conciliatory Europeans, Romanian Germans have been at the centre of major European events since 1918.

This comparative and transnational study of three student revolts in France, Italy and West Germany in the 1960s examines the origins, course and dissolution of these protests, arguing that the student protests of 1968 should be understood as a conflict between different forms of democratisation.

This first full history of jazz over the lifespan of East Germany, from 1945 to 1990, draws on previously unexamined sources and vivid eyewitness accounts to reveal the experiences of jazz musicians and fans, and the surprising ways state policies sought to manage and control jazz during the cultural Cold War.

When East Germany collapsed in 1989-1990, outside observers were shocked to learn the extent of environmental devastation that existed there. Saving Nature Under Socialism introduces readers to environmentalism in Cold War East Germany and traces the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and central Europe from the 1960s.

This history of the struggles to regenerate France's colonial empire in the eighteenth century reveals how political economists, colonial administrators and planters shaped the recalibration of empire in the Americas and Africa, unearthing connections between Ancien Regime colonial innovation and the French Revolution's republican imperial agenda.

This innovative pan-European history of post-war socialism shows the Cold War categories of 'East' and 'West' cannot be projected back onto post-war Europe. By comparing the socialist and social democratic parties in Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, and Poland, it highlights the many similarities across and divergences within the two putative blocs.

In the late Holy Roman Empire, no group better embodied the traditional noble ideal than the Protestant and Catholic knights in Electoral Mainz. This book traces the transnational 'cultural' landscape in which these knights moved and its transformation by social, political and national revolution in Germany and the Habsburg Empire.

The first comprehensive and accessible study of the critical constitutional debates in the Estates General and National Assembly of 1789 through which the National Assembly became a sovereign body. Robert H. Blackman uses diverse primary sources to create a compelling, narrative-driven account of events leading up to the French Revolution.

Focusing on the local wine industry, Mack Holt examines the relationship between the ruling and popular classes and demonstrates how ordinary Burgundians were crucial in turning back the tide of Protestantism in the sixteenth century, until the absolutist policies of Louis XIII curtailed their influence on local politics.

Examines the development of memory laws in Europe, Ukraine, and Russia and the contrasting purposes they serve in the identity politics of the East and West. This is a major contribution to the history of memory and ongoing conflicts over the legacy of the Second World War, Nazism, and communism.

Reframing the German War of 1866 as a civil war, Making Prussians, Raising Germans offers a new understanding of critical aspects of Prussian state-building and German nation-building in the nineteenth century and investigates the long-term ramifications of civil war in emerging nations.

Karen Offen offers a magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the heated debates around relations between women and men, how they are constructed, and how they should be organized or reorganized, that raged in France and its French-speaking neighbors during the French Third Republic.

Debates around the 'woman question' originated in France in the late Middle Ages, and Karen Offen here offers a panoramic account of changing ideas of who women were and should be, and what they should be restrained from doing, from the fifteenth to the late nineteenth century.

The first exploration of how Mussolini's Italy employed population settlement inside the nation and across the empire to consolidate its rule. Roberta Pergher shows how ordinary citizens became uncertain agents of Italianization as the regime responded to new interwar norms of sovereignty and national self-determination.

An examination of dynastic courts, ritual and early modern diplomatic practice that explores Russian-European relations beyond the conventional East-West divide. Bringing to life the curiously complicated encounters between foreign diplomats, this book will appeal to readers interested in the new diplomatic history, early modern international relations and Russia's place in world history.

A major new interpretation of Nazi influence in southeastern Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. This book explores the emergence of German soft power and informal economic empire, and their role in enabling the militarisation of the German economy and the Third Reich's territorial conquests after 1939.

Evaluating the period between the revolutions of 1917 to 1920 and the beginning of Europe's postwar integration in 1957, this book explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century European political practice and as a specific project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access.

Greening Democracy explains how nuclear energy became a seminal political issue and motivated democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s. It charts how anti-nuclear protest became the basis for citizens' increasing engagement in self-governance, expanding conceptions of democracy beyond electoral politics and helping to make quotidian personal concerns political.

This is an innovative study of how race and empire transformed French republican citizenship during the early Third Republic. Integrating the histories of metropolitan and colonial France, Elizabeth Heath reveals how global market integration and economic crisis redefined French republican citizenship, creating the foundations of the modern French racial state.

Was the Soviet Union a superpower? In examining the constraints and opportunities afforded the Soviets in their engagement of the capitalist world, Oscar Sanchez-Sibony offers a significant rereading of the Cold War as an economic struggle shaped by the global economy.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, millions of Germans were uprooted from their homes in Poland's newly created Western territories and sent back to Germany as these areas were repopulated by Poles. This book charts the processes of postwar displacement and nation-building, revealing the stark regional disparities in experiences.

A magisterial account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts written law with its pragmatic application by local judges and sets Russian developments in the broader context of early modern European state-building strategies of governance and legal practice.

Robert Hornsby examines the nature of political protest in the USSR following Stalin's death. He explores the emergence of underground groups, mass riots and public attacks on authority as well as the ways in which the Soviet regime under Khrushchev viewed and responded to these challenges.

Few regions in European history have experienced such a complete religious transformation as Bohemia. This wide-ranging examination of its history and culture, ranging from art, architecture and literature to music, philosophy and hagiography, sheds light on the Counter-Reformation and the nature of early modern Catholicism.