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How does a ruler become "the Great?" Is greatness a part of authority exercised or a part of an image created? These and other questions are addressed in this volume on the life and memory of Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania. It raises a hypothesis that Vytautas was the main engineer of his image as the great ruler.

A globally recognized media lawyer and communications scholar, Monroe Price was born to a Jewish family in Vienna in 1938. In 1939, his family immigrated to the US where Monroe grew up. This autobiography of Monroe focuses on the question of identity, that of a child of refugees or a 21st-century scholar and global citizen.

Addresses five major interrelated themes - concepts and history of comparative media research; the role of foreign media groups in post-communist regions; political parallelism in mature and new democracies; professionalization of journalism in different political cultures; and, the role of the state intervention in media systems.

Discusses how socialist ideology emerged as an option of political modernity in the Balkans in the late nineteenth. This book compares three nations sharing similar geopolitical, historical and cultural background but divided by language and cultural traditions. It also presents case studies, dealing with adaptation of three socialist paradigms.

Presents the life story of a Serbian woman, preserved in memoirs, letters and mostly diaries, recounts the triumphs and tragedies of a life that takes place against the backdrop of turbulence in the Balkans. This title covers more than half a century, five wars (including the two world wars), and four ideologies.

States that Serbia's national movement of the 1980s and 1990s was not the product of an ancient, immutable, and aggressive Serbian national identity. The author argues that cultural processes are too often ignored in favor of political ones; that Serbian intellectuals did work within a historical context, but that they were not slaves to the past.

Includes excerpts from over 100 travel writings of Europe, from 16th c pilgrimage diaries through early specimens of modern tourism accounts to 20th c impressions from the other side of the Iron Curtain. This work enlarges both the documentary base and the terms of the debate over a source for discussions of identities and mentalities.

Besides Berlin, Budapest was the fastest-growing capital city in Europe at the end of the 19th century. This book describes the development of private spaces in this newly emerged metropolis. The book offers an overview of the everyday life of the entire society and social segregation.

This volume provides a thorough introduction to the Cyrillic collection, and contains the detailed descriptions of the fifty-six Slavonic Cyrillic codices or fragments thereof held by the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, the vast majority of which are here described for the first time. The analysis of the codices has been done using the resources of modern technology. Written from the thirteenth to early nineteenth century, the codices were mostly produced within the confines of the historical Kingdom of Hungary. The catalogue is extensively illustrated with pictures of the most characteristic and decorative pages and a few covers of the codices.This publication is a further step towards the complete documentation of the Cyrillic manuscript heritage of Central Europe.

How wide is the gap between the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe and the most developed nations? How can it be narrowed? This text addresses these questions in a comprehensive way. It delves into the inter-relations between the major factors of developmental performance and looks at their effects on sustained societal development.

A central element in the formation of Eastern European state socialism, the collectivization of agriculture touched the lives of many more citizens than the transformations in industry. This book analyzes the campaign of collectivization in Romania, between 1949 and 1962.

The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. This title addresses the matter of time and temporalities. It includes topics such as the deep antiquity, and the timeless time of eternity.

Russian historiography - at least as it is reflected in history textbooks - has been invariably focused on the central state, to the power. This title addresses the interaction between the imperial authority and local communities in the Romanov empire. It answers questions like: How did the authorities structure the space of the empire?

Kalmykia is a constituent of the Russian Federation that has been developing within Russia for several centuries. This book examines issues of interrelations between the Kalmyk people and Russia before and after the Kalmyks' accession to the Russian state. It analyzes the Soviet national policy and destiny of Kalmykia under the communist regime.

Examines the rehabilitation over the years of Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic (1881-1956), the controversial Serbian Orthodox Christian philosopher. Having been vilified by the former Yugoslav Communist authorities as a traitor, antisemite and a fascist, Velimirovic has come to be regarded in Serbian society as a saintly figure.

Describes Dan Bar-On's method of using storytelling as both a qualitative biographical research method and as an intervention, to bring people from opposite sides of an abyss to a dialogue. Such work needs slow pace and long-term commitment, with a special combination of a scientific rigorous analysis with a sensitive approach toward the people one approaches.

This work attempts to introduce the characteristics of the Mohammedan Mission, with the aspiration to be faithful to its essential purposes and to historical truth at the same time. The author thus illustrates the different ways in which people have understood the Mission and the reasons that led them to those various interpretations.

Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive philosophers of the twentieth century. Kolnai's moral philosophy is best described in his own words as intrinsicalist, non-naturalist, non-reductionist", which took its original impetus from Scheler's value ethics, and was developed by using a natural phenomenologist method. The unique combination of linguistic analysis and phenomenology yields highly original ideas on classical fields of moral theory, such as responsibility and free will, the meaning of right and wrong, the universalisability of ethical norms, the role of moral emotions, internalism vs externalism, to mention a few.The volume presents a selection of essays by Kolnai, including his main political theoretical work, "What is Politics About", available in English here for the first time. The second half of the book Kolnai's work is analyzed in a series of essays by eminent scholars

'The Moulding of Ukraine' offers a systematic examination of competing ideological visions of statehood and discusses them against the backdrop of historical traditions in Ukraine. This well-documented book is an account of the process of constitutional reform, offering an insight into post-Soviet Ukrainian politics.

Deals with the period of takeover and of 'high Stalinism' in Eastern Europe (1945-1955), the years that are considered to be fundamentally characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based upon the premise of radical transformism and of cultural revolution.

Argues for an original, unorthodox conception of the relationship between globalization and contemporary nationalism. This work discusses why, on a broader scale, different forms of nationalism develop differing attitudes towards globalization and engage in different relationships.

Includes scholarly legal texts dedicated to Tibor Varady, in honor of his seventieth birthday. Focusing on international private law and international arbitration, this title addresses the questions of constitutional law and legal philosophy. It explores the legal dimension of the European integration process.

Art in architecture, memorials, places and the meaning-historical, philosophical, personal-which they carry as a whole, either publicly divulged or hidden to be explored.

Examines the impact of the Czechoslovak and East German uranium industries on local politics and on societies. This book contains an introduction that discusses the silver-mining industries in the Erzgebirge region and outlines the fate of this region, including the various political pressures and medical problems its inhabitants came under.

95 documents on the events that represent a pivotal moment in modern Polish and world history: 16 months between August 1980 when the Solidarity trade union was founded and December 1981 when Polish authorities declared martial law and crushed the nationwide opposition movement that had grown up around the union. Transcripts of Soviet and Polish Politburo meetings give a detailed picture of the goals, motivations and deliberations of the leaders of these countries. Records of Warsaw Pact gatherings, notes of bilateral sessions of the communist camp provide additional pieces to the puzzle of what Moscow and its allies had in mind. Materials are included from Solidarity, too.

Investigating the registers of fifteenth-century supplications to the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See, this title presents an analysis of a multiplicity of issues in which a context of the local needs of Western Christians and the central power of the Pope occurred.

Offers a neo-socialist alternative to socialism and neo-capitalism. Szalai draws upon the rich tradition of left-wing Hungarian Social Science while offering her own theory of transitional society. This work offers readers the opportunity to engage in a critique of capitalism that is organized along an understanding of socialism itself.