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• Introduction : a contextual overview
• Measuring authoritarian tendencies in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine
• Learning from external failure
• Learning from internal failure
• Learning from external and internal success
• The role of regional organisations in authoritarian learning
• External and internal learning in state institutions
• How external and internal informal networks shape learning in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine.

Focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe, Hall argues that democracies can preserve their norms and values by better understanding how authoritarian regimes learn.

• Pagans and Christians
• Jews
• Muslims
• Heretics
• Empires
• Peoples
• Wanderers
• Nations
• Moderns
• Prophets
• War
• Stalinism
• Socialism
• Thaw.

"In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed--from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism--illuminating the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history. Eastern Europe, the moniker, has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone now, and they might tell you that Estonia is in the Baltics, or Scandinavia, that Slovakia is in Central Europe and Croatia is in the Eastern Adriatic or the Balkans. In fact, Eastern Europe is a place that barely exists at all, except in cultural memory. Yet it remains a powerful marker of identity for many, with a fragmented and wide history, defined by texts, myths, and memories of centuries of hardship and suffering. Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a masterful narrative about a place that has survived the brink of being forgotten. Beginning with long-lost accounts of early pagan life, Mikanowski offers a kaleidoscopic tour recounting the rise and fall of the great empires--Ottoman, Hapsburg, and Russian--the dawn of the modern era, the ravages of Fascism and Communism, as well as Capitalism, the birth of the modern nation-state, and more. A student of literature, history, and the ghosts of his own family's past, Mikanowski paints a magisterial portrait of a place united by diversity, and eclecticism, and a people with the shared story of being the dominated rather than the dominating. The result is a loving and ebullient celebration of the distinctive and vibrant cultures that stubbornly persisted at the margins of Western Europe, and a powerful corrective that re-centers our understanding of how the modern Western world took shape"-- Provided by publisher.

• Pagans and Christians
• Jews
• Muslims
• Heretics
• Empires
• Peoples
• Wanderers
• Nations
• Moderns
• Prophets
• War
• Stalinism
• Socialism
• Fall.

• Introduction : transience and the sea / Martin Demant Frederiksen and Tamta Khalvashi
• Taking the cure at the Black Sea / Katherine Verdery
• The Black Sea 'moments' and 'coexistence on the move' in transit / Vera Skvirskaja
• Transient love in Batumi : being a sailor's wife / Elene Gavashelishvili
• Complex intimacies : sex work, human trafficking and romance between Italy and the Black Sea coast of Romania / Trine Mygind Korsby
• Batumi (prayer to the sea) / Giorgi Maisuradze
• The Black Sea from Crimea : transience and dyschronicity / Greta Lynn Uehling
• Making revolutionary consciousness transient : altering political identities in Turkey's Black Sea towns / Christopher Houston
• Transient in-betweenness : conflicting present and futures in the de facto Republic of Abkhazia / Mikel J.H. Venhovens
• Boat with a single square sail / Anna Dziapshipa
• Makeshift boats : transience, turbulence and the sea of mourning / Tamta Khalvashi
• Fishers, sea snails and dolphins : the changing context of transient inter-species relations in the Black Sea / Caroline Humphrey
• Svetlana by the shore : stones, dys/appearances and un/common grounds in a city of transience / Martin Demant Frederiksen
• The refugees / Stephanos Papadopoulos
• Conclusion : Black Sea matters : transience and phanta-sea / Tamta Khalvashi and Martin Demant Frederiksen

"Transience is found in every meeting and form of coexistence between people and things that live and exist by, or move across or along, the Black Sea. It may come in various forms and guises, from de facto states, tourism, migration, trafficking or military troops, and it needs to be written and captured in sensuous, affective and imaginative ways. With particular attention to poetics, politics and aesthetics, this volume focuses on the scales of transient moments and histories, and enables readers to see and sense the many forms of transience that occur in a given landscape, sea or space"-- Provided by publisher

• The Evolution of Wartime Criminality in Lithuania, 1914-1920 / Vytautas Petronis
• War Violence and Its Representation : A Comparison of Civilian Experiences of the Great War on Both Sides of the Former Russian-German Border / Vasilijus Safronovas, Vygantas Vareikis, and Hektoras Vitkus
• The Military Pogroms in Lithuania, 1919-1920 / Darius Staliūnas
• Scandinavian Volunteers as Perpetrators of Violence and Crime in the Estonian War of Independence / Mart Kuldkepp
• The Rich and the (In)famous : Social Conflicts and Paramilitary Violence in Hungary during the Counterrevolution, 1921-1923 / Béla Bodó
• The Polish Central Government, Regional Authorities, and Local Paramilitaries during the Battle for the Western Borderlands, 1918-1921 / Jochen Böhler
• Eisenbahnfeldzug : Railway War in East Central Europe / Maciej Górny
• Beyond Comparison? The Challenges of Applying Comparative Historical Research to Violence / Julia Eichenberg.

"The volume focuses on violence during the breakdown of East Central European states brought by one of the most violent periods in modern European history: from the start of the Great War in 1914 until 1923 when Europe, finally, achieved peace after a series of civil conflicts and interstate wars. The contributors offer several case studies that cover the vast region stretching from the Baltic states to Hungary. They explore different types of violence against its civilian populations with a particular focus on communal violence committed by civilians onto their neighbors. They suggest that disintegration of state power brought by the Great War was a key condition that produced violence. Yet the process of post-WWI state building was equally or more violent as nascent East Central European states institutionalized the use of violence to achieve their political agendas"-- Provided by publisher.

• volume. 1. Political, legal, and social issues and challenges
• volume 2. Basic project ideas and international reality
• volume 3. The war in Ukraine and the policy of the V4 countries

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Heritage Under Socialism: Trajectories of Preserving the Tangible Past in Postwar Eastern and Central Europe
• Corinne Geering and Paul Vickers
• Part I: Transfers and Exchanges in Heritage Policies and Practices
• Chapter 1. The Past Belongs to the Future: Heritage in Soviet Policymaking on Cultural Development Corinne Geering
• Chapter 2. International Experts - National Martyrdom - Socialist Heritage: The Contribution of the Polish People's Republic to the Early UNESCO World Heritage Program Julia Roettjer
• Chapter 3. International Tourism and the Making of the National Heritage Canon in Late Soviet Ukraine, 1964-1991 Iryna Sklokina
• Chapter 4. International Contacts and Cooperation in Heritage Preservation in Soviet Estonia, 1960-1990 Karin Hallas-Murula and Kaarel Truu
• Part II: Canonizing and Contesting the Past: Heritage, Place and Belonging under Socialism
• Chapter 5. Socialist Royalty? The Ambiguities of the Reconstruction of the Royal Residence in Budapest in the 1950s Eszter Gantner
• Chapter 6. Justifying Demolition, Questioning Value: Urban Typologies and the Concept of the "Historic Town" in 1960s Romania Liliana Iuga
• Chapter 7. Making Sense of Socialism through Heritage Preservation: Stories from Northwest Bohemia Cenek Pycha
• Chapter 8. Socialism and the Rise of Industrial Heritage: The Preservation of Industrial Monuments in the German Democratic Republic Nele-Hendrikje Lehmann
• Conclusion: Transnational Heritage Networks in Socialist Eastern and Central Europe Corinne Geering.
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How was heritage understood and implemented in European socialist states after World War II? By exploring national and regional specificities within the broader context of internationalization, this volume enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies through a series of fascinating case studies. Its transnational approach highlights the socialist world's diverse interpretations of heritage and the ways in which they have shaped the trajectories of present-day preservation practices.
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• List of Figures
• List of Acronyms
• Foreword (Pavel Kolar and Michal Kopecek)
• Editors' Note (Ana Kladnik and Celia Donert)
• PART ONE: SINNWELT AND EIGEN-SINN
• Socialism as Sinnwelt: Communist Dictatorship and its World of Meaning in a Cultural-Historical Perspective (Martin Sabrow)
• Neither Consent nor Opposition: Eigen-Sinn, or How to Make Sense of Compliance and Self-Assertion under Communist Domination (Thomas Lindenberger)
• PART TWO: AUTHORITIES AND DOMINATION
• Policeman Nicolae: The Story of One Man's Life and Work in the Socialist Republic of Romania (1960-89) (Ciprian Cirniala)
• The East German Reporting System: Normality and Legitimacy Through Bureaucracy (Hedwig Richter)
• Late Communist Elites and the Demise of State Socialism in Czechoslovakia (1986-89) (Michal Pullmann)
• PART THREE: EVERYDAY SOCIAL PRACTICES AND SINNWELT
• Local Self-Governance, Voluntary Practices, and the Sinnwelt of Socialist Velenje (Ana Kladnik)
• Modern Housekeeping Worlds-- or, How Much is Thirty Percent Really? Eigensinnige Consumer Practices and the Hungarian Trade Union's "Washing Machine Campaign" of 1957-58 (Annina Gagyiova)
• Single Mothers, Lonely Children: Polish Families, Socialist Modernity, and the Experience of Crisis of the Late 1970s and 1980s (Barbara Klich-Kluczewska)
• "Since Makarenko the Time for Experiments has Passed": Peace, Gender, and Human Rights in East Berlin during the 1980s (Celia Donert)
• PART FOUR: INTELLECTUAL AND EXPERT WORLDS AND (DE-)LEGITIMIZATION
• Problems with Progress in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia: The Example of Most, North Bohemia (Matej Spurny)
• Authentic Community and Autonomous Individual: Making Sense of Socialism in Late Socialist Hungary (Peter Apor)
• The "Will to Publicity" and its Publicists: Curating the Memory of Czechoslovak Samizdat (Jonathan Larson)
• Dissident Legalism: Human Rights, Socialist Legality, and the Birth of Legal Resistance in the 1970s Democratic Opposition in Czechoslovakia and Poland (Michal Kopecek)
• Contributors
• Translators
• Index.
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How did political power function in the communist regimes of East Central Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the acquiescent behavior of the majority of the population until, at the end of the 1980s, their rejection of state socialism and its authoritarian world. The authors refer to the concept of Sinnwelt, the way in which groups and individuals made sense of the world around them. The essays focus on the dynamics of everyday life and the extent to which the relationship between citizens and the state was collaborative or antagonistic. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of life in this period, including modernization, consumption and leisure, and the everyday experiences of "ordinary people, " single mothers, or those adopting alternative lifestyles. Empirically rich and conceptually original, the essays in this volume suggest new ways to understand how people make sense of everyday life under dictatorial regimes.
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• Introduction, par Matthieu Boisdron et Krisztiân Bene
• Stratégie de guerre froide ou partenariat euro-arabe ? Les "démocraties populaires" et le Maghreb de 1973 à 1982, par Nicolas Badalassi
• Les soldats hongrois de la Légion étrangère en Indochine (1946-1954), par Krisztiân Bene
• Un point de vue du centre sur des contacts entre marges : les mobilités des coopérants est-européens en Algérie lues à travers les sources françaises, par Pascal Bonnard
• L'action diplomatico-militaire de l'Est dans le "pré carré". Une pénétration de l'influence communiste sous surveillance des réseaux Foccart (1958-1969), par Walter Bruyère-Ostells
• Entre manifestations de soutien et diffusion des représentations du pays : la diplomatie publique de la Roumanie socialiste vers l'Afrique francophone, des années 1950 aux années 1960, par Stéphane Cuvelier
• L'insurrection malgache de 1947 vue par la presse hongroise, par Péter Altos Ferwagner
• La Pologne communiste face à l'émergence d'une francophonie africaine, par Matthiet Gillabert
• La coopération bulgare en Algérie : l'espoir déçu d'une relation privilégiée (1962-1989), par Éric Lechevallier
• Un voyageur engagé : une représentation "communiste"du Maghreb par Gyôrgy Mâté, par Dorottya Mihalyi
• La relation entre l'Algérie indépendante et la Hongrie, de 1962 à 1971, par Georgina Nagy
• Les relations arabo-hongroises dans les années 1980 à travers l'exemple de l'Algérie, par Làszló J. Nagy
• L'internationalisme tchécoslovaque en Afrique à travers l'exemple de l'aide à la construction d'infrastructures militaires et de sécurité en Guinée, 1958-1965, par Miltules
• La politique étrangère de la Roumanie envers l'Afrique subsaharienne, des années 1960 aux années 1970, par Cristina Preutu et Silviu B. Moldovan
• Les relations politiques et économiques de la Roumanie avec les pays arabes dans le contexte du conflit israélo-arabe dans les années 1970 et 1980, par Liviu laranu
• Conclusions, par Walter Bruyère-Ostells.

• Liste des travaux scientifiques d'Alexandra Avram
• En guise d'introduction : le monde pontique des cités
• Les cités grecques de la côte ouest du Pont-Euxin
• Le rôle des époikoi dans la colonisation grecque en mer Noire. Quelques études de cas
• Du milieu du Vile siècle au deuxième quart du VIe siècle
• Une "migration de la peur" vers le milieu du Vie siècle ?
• La chute de Milet (494) a-t-elle entraîné de nouvelles vagues de colons en mer Noire ?
• Colons additionnels dans le royaume du Bosphore à l'époque classique
• Un exemple de recolonisation à la haute époque hellénistique : Nikonion
• Héraclée du Pont et ses colonies pontiques. Antécédents milésiens (?) et empreinte mégarienne
• Affrontements entre les grands pouvoirs autour de la mer noire
• Les Perses en mer Noire à l'époque de Darius I. Nouveaux documents et nouvelles interprétations
• L'inscription achéménide de Phanagoria et ses enseignements
• Date et circonstances de la conquête perse de la région du Pont septentrional
• Données supplémentaires concernant les résultats de la campagne de 519
• Quand fut érigée la stèle achéménide à Phanagoria ?
• Istros, la Thrace et les Perses à l'époque de Darius
• Thèse : les données archéologiques
• Antithèse : 1 'arrière-plan historique
• Synthèse : essai d'interprétation événementielle
• Antiochos II Théos, Ptolémée II Philadelphe et la mer Noire
• Sur la date de la divinisation de Ptolémée II Philadelphe à Byzance
• Les premiers peuples germaniques sur le bas Danube. Autour du décret SEG 52, 724
• De la découverte à la publication : une longue histoire pleine de surprises
• Méniskos, évergète de la cité d'Istros
• Les Scires sur le bas Danube à la fin du IIIe siècle et la date du décret en l'honneur de Méniskos
• Istros et les Scires
• Sur la date du traité entre Pharnace et Chersonèse Taurique
• Pourquoi le traité ne peut-il pas dater de 155 ?
• Quelle ère "compte le roi Pharnace" ?
• Quelle place pour Rome en 179 ?
• Les cités grecques du Pont Gauche et les royaumes hellénistiques. Autonomie et dépendance
• Sur un possible koinon des cités du Pont Gauche à l'époque hellénistique
• Sociétés et religions
• La défense des cités en mer Noire à la basse époque hellénistique
• Timbres amphoriques et épigraphie lapidaire. Astynomes et proxènes
• Astynome de Sinope - proxène à Thermos d'Étolie
• Astynome de Chersonèse Taurique - proxène à Canes
• Astynome de Chersonèse Taurique - proxène à Callatis ?
• Astynome de Chersonèse Taurique - proxène à Olbia du Pont
• Astynome de Chersonèse Taurique — proxène à Delphes
• Astynome de Chersonèse Taurique - proxène à Delphes ?
• Quelques pensées sur la mer Noire et le commerce des esclaves avant la domination romaine (VIe-Ier siècles av. J.-C.)
• Quelle place pour l'esclavage dans les cités pontiques ?
• Le témoignage des lettres sur plomb ou fragments céramiques (époques archaïque et classique)
• Esclaves attestés dans les cités pontiques à la fin de l'époque classique et à l'époque hellénistique
• Deux cas discutables : esclaves-marchandises ou dépendants ruraux ?
• Quelques repères pour l'esclavage domestique : threptoi et trophimoi
• Main-d'œuvre non servile dans le royaume du Bosphore, dans la chôra asiatique de Byzance et dans le territoire d'Héraclée du Pont
• Essai de conclusion
• Une question d'identité dans le monde colonial. "Ethniques" et "faux ethniques" des esclaves en provenance de ou arrivés dans la région de la mer Noire
• Épigraphie et histoire religieuse. Le culte de Léto dans les cités de la mer Noire
• Le thiase dionysiaque de Callatis. Organisation, représentation, fonction
• Tomos, le héros fondateur de Tomis
• La mer noire romaine
• Le statut juridique des cités grecques de la côte occidentale de la mer Noire à l'époque d'Auguste
• L'intégration romaine des villes du Pont Gauche
• Les débuts du culte impérial
• Aspects de la colonisation des Daces au sud du Danube par les Romains
• Titres honorifiques dans les cités grecques des côtes occidentales et septentrionales de la mer Noire à l'époque impériale
• La mer noire et l'Asie mineure
• Cyzique et la mer Noire
• Les Bithyniens en Thrace, en Mésie inférieure et dans le Pont à l'époque impériale
• Res sacrae
• Noms de personnes et de dynasties
• Noms géographiques et ethniques
• Unités militaires romaines
• Anthroponymes, mots et syntagmes grecs et latins commentés.

"Professeur d'histoire grecque à l'université du Maine et directeur des fouilles d'Istros, au bord de la mer Noire, Alexandru Avram (1956-2021) avait réuni vingt-quatre articles consacrés aux antiquités du Pont-Euxin, publiés durant le dernier quart de siècle. Cet échantillon d'une œuvre foisonnante illustre les différents domaines fréquentés et l'évolution de sa pensée, en particulier les progrès et les nuances stimulés par de nouveaux documents épigraphiques. Tour à tour, ce recueil traite du monde pontique des cités à l'époque de la colonisation et de ses phases successives, des confrontations des grands pouvoirs autour de l'espace pontique (les Perses, les rois hellénistiques, les Romains), des sociétés pontiques et de leur histoire religieuse (défense des cités, apports des timbres amphoriques, commerce et emploi d'esclaves, cultes et traditions mythologiques), du statut juridique des cités grecques de la mer Noire sous la domination romaine et de leurs liens économiques et culturels avec l'Asie Mineure. Associant l'archéologie, l'épigraphie et l'interprétation historique, les études rassemblées ici et enrichies de nombreux compléments constituent la meilleure introduction aux antiquités de la mer Noire."--Page 4 of cover.

• Acknowledgments
• List of Figures and Maps
• Notes on Contributors
• PART 1: Introduction
• 1 Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe
• Dusan Zupka
• 2 Rulership and Power in Western Medieval Europe (A Theoretical and Conceptual Introduction)
• Grischa Vercamer
• PART 2: Legitimacy and Rulership - Beginning and Development of the First Dynasties in the Early and High Middle Ages
• 3 After Avars: The Beginning of the Ruling Power on the Eastern Fringe of Carolingian Empire
• Martin Wihoda
• 4 The Rulership of the Arpadian Dynasty in the 10th-13th Centuries
• Marta Font
• 5 The Piast Rulership
• Zbigniew Dalewski
• PART 3: Ritual and Politics: Established Rulership in the High and Late Middle Ages
• 6 Political, Religious and Social Framework of Religious Warfare and Its Influences on Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe
• Dusan Zupka
• 7 The Ritual Practice of Power in Bohemia during the 14th Century
• Robert Antonin
• 8 Language of Power and Communication in the Piast Dynasty: Toward a Reappraisal of Polish Political Culture of the 12th-13th Century
• Marcin R. Pauk
• 9 Assemblies in the Holy Roman Empire and the East Central European Kingdoms: A Comparative Essay on Political Participation and Representation
• Julia Burkhardt
• PART 4: Structures of Power in the Late Middle Ages
• 10 The Irruption of the Sacred into the History of Hungarian Kings in the Mirror of the Angevin "Illuminated Chronicle" (around 1358)
• Vinni Lucherini
• 11 The Last Piasts: Legitimating Royal Rule in Fourteenth Century Poland
• Paul W. Knoll
• 12 Royal Power and Military Administration in Angevin Hungary
• Attila Barany
• 13 Governance System in Poland during the 15th Century
• Bozena Czwojdrak
• PART 5: Influences on Rulership in East Central Europe from Outside
• 14 Byzantium and East Central Europe: A Brief Outline of Political and Cultural Relations
• Panos Sophoulis
• 15 The Kingdom of Rus': Towards a New Theoretical Model of Rulership in Medieval Europe
• Christian Raffensperger
• 16 The "Mongol Experience" of East Central Europe in Image and Political Reality during the Later Middle Ages
• Felicitas Schmieder
• 17 Holy Roman Empire and East Central Europe (High Middle Ages): Politics and Influences
• Grischa Vercamer
• 18 The Holy Roman Empire and East Central Europe (Late Middle Ages): Politics and Influences
• Stephan Flemmig
• 19 Authority without Power? Papal Rulership over East Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages
• Monika Saczynska-Vercamer
• General Bibliography
• Index.
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This book provides the first detailed overview of research on rulership in theory and practice, with a particular emphasis on the monarchies of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland in the High and Late Middle Ages. The contributions examine the legitimation of rule of the first local dynasties, the ritual practice of power, the ruling strategies and practices of power in the established monarchies, and the manifold influences on the rulership in East Central Europe from outside the region (such as from Byzantium, and the Holy Roman Empire). The collection shows that these ideas and practices enabled the new polities to become legitimate members of Latin Christendom.
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