Orphans of the East : postwar Eastern European cinema and the revolutionary subject by Parvulescu, Constantin

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Economics of Peasant Farming. by Warriner, Doreen

Table of Contents: “…THE EFFICIENCY OF THE FARMING SYSTEM; i. CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND WESTERN HUNGARY; VI. THE EFFICIENCY OF THE FARMING SYSTEM; ii. …”
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Master of the air : William Tunner and the success of military airlift by Slayton, Robert A.

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Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900-1945)

Table of Contents: “…German Expressionism and Dada / Andreas Kramer -- Chapter 5 Sports and the Bauhaus: Bringing School to Life / Joann Skrypzak-Davidsmeyer -- Chapter 6 A New Pitch: Art, Sport and the Impact of the Avant-Garde in the Soviet Union in the 1920s / Mike O'Mahony -- Chapter 7 Workers' Sport, Mountaineering and the Avant-Garde Left in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland: On Sporting Content in ReD, Munka and Dźwignia / Przemystaw Strożek -- Chapter 8 After Purism: The Young Man's Home at the 1935 Brussels Exhibition / Bernard Vere.…”
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The secession of Quebec and the future of Canada by Young, Robert Andrew

Table of Contents: “…9 Other Studies of the Transition to Quebec Sovereignty10 The Comparative Politics of Peaceful Secession -- 11 The Breakup of Czechoslovakia -- PART THREE: THE DYNAMICS OF QUEBEC SECESSION -- 12 Getting to the Table -- 13 The Negotiations -- 14 The Rest of the Separation -- 15 Reprise: Secession with Polarization -- PART FOUR: CONCLUSION -- 16 Summary -- 17 The Long-term Outcomes -- Appendix: Selected Characteristics of Canada, Quebec, and ROC -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L…”
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The wild that attracts us : new critical essays on Robinson Jeffers

Table of Contents: “…6: "The mould to break away from": An Ecofeminist Reading of "Roan Stallion" / ShaunAnne Tangney7: Praxis, Gnosis, Poiesis: Inhabitation as Performative Myth in Thoreau and Jeffers / Bryon Williams; 8: Jeffers's 1907 Hike in the San Bernardino Mountains: A Closer Look / Robert Kafka; 9: The Warm Reception of Robinson Jeffers's Poetry in Cold War Czechoslovakia / Petr Kopecký; 10: Robinson Jeffers, Translation, and the Return of Narrative / David J. …”
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The fundamental things apply : a memoir by MacLaren, Roy

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History of Communism in Europe, Volume 2, 2011 : Avatars of Intellectuals under Communism. by Palasan, Corina

Table of Contents: “…Les intellectuels bulgares et les défi s de la mémoire sociale (Milieu des années 1950 -- fi n des années 1990) Shawn Clybor -- Socialist (Sur)Realism: Karel Teige, Ladislav Štoll and the Politics of Communist Culture in Czechoslovakia ; Ştefan Bosomitu -- Notes and Remarks on the (Re) Institutionalization of Sociology in Communist Romania in the 1960s ; Bogdan C. …”
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Language, Literature & Meaning : Volume I: Problems of Literary Theory.

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The fundamental things apply : a memoir by MacLaren, Roy

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Liesbeth Lijnzaad by Lefeber, Rene

Table of Contents: “…Initiating the CSCE supervisory procedure -- The cases of the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia -- Part III International Humanitarian Law -- Sleeping Beauty, the untold story of the (first) Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention -- Internationaal Humanitair Recht -- Sending Dutch troops abroad, some domestic legal aspects -- How not to be an occupying power -- Some reflections on UN Security Council Resolution 1483 and the contemporary law of occupation -- Von Clausewitz was een heer -- Vrouwen en de gewapende conflicten van vandaag…”
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Germans to Poles : Communism, Nationalism and Ethnic Cleansing after the Second World War by Service, Hugo

Table of Contents: “…Conclusion Eastern Europe, 1944-9 Communism, nationalism, expulsionThe western Soviet republics; Postwar eastern Poland; Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania; Czechoslovakia and western Poland; Screening, expulsion, repopulation; Postwar Germany; Communism and nationalism after Nazism; Bibliography; Index…”
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Interpreting : Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. by Bowen, David

Table of Contents: “…Department of State; Working Conditions at the Nuremberg Trials; The Life of a Diplomatic Interpreter: An Interview with Irena Dobosz; History and Role of Interpreting in Africa; Diplomatic Interpreting in Czechoslovakia; The Sense of Situation in Conference Interpreting; The Importance of Sight Translation in an Interpreter Training Program; The Role of Cognitive Complements in Interpreting.…”
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No sacrifice too great : the 1st Infantry Division in World War II by Fontenot, Gregory, 1949-

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Britain's war. Into battle, 1937-1941 by Todman, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Daniel Todman Britain's War; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; List of Tables; A Note on Money, Weights and Measures and Military Formations; Introduction: War Stories; Part One: Prelude; 1 Studies in Celebration; 2 Ancient and Modern; 3 Politics and the Slump; 4 Politics and the Empire; 5 Peace and War; 6 Peace and Progress; 7 State and Society; 8 Division and Unity; Part Two: From Peace to War; 9 'More sufferings to come'; 10 Czechoslovakia to Poland; Part Three: Being at War; 11 Limited War; 12 Boredom; 13 Escalation.…”
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Toward a global history of Latin America's revolutionary left

Table of Contents: “…Globalizing Latin America's Revolutionary Left : Historiography, Approaches, and Context / Tanya Harmer and Alberto Martín Álvarez -- Latin America's Revolutionary Left in the Age of the Tricontinental. Czechoslovakia and Latin America's Guerrilla Insurgencies : Secret Services, Training Networks, Mobility, and Transportation / Michal Zourek ; Revolutionary Diplomacy and the Third World : Historicizing the Tricontinental Conference from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Blanca Mar León ; The Brazilian Far Left, Cuba, and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1963 : New International Evidence on a Discordant "Struggle for Ascendancy" / James G. …”
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Priest, politician, collaborator : Jozef Tiso and the making of fascist Slovakia by Ward, James Mace

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POLITICAL COMPANION TO PHILIP ROTH.

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Re-Humanizing Architecture : New Forms of Community, 1950-1970. by Moravánszky, Ákos

Table of Contents: “…Building a New Warsaw, Building a Social Warsaw: The First Reconstruction Plans and Their International Review Building a New Community -- A Comparison Between the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia ; "Social Efficiency" and "Humanistic Specificity": A Double Discourse in Romanian Architecture in the 1960s.…”
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Men out of focus : the Soviet masculinity crisis in the long sixties by Dumančić, Marko

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Funerary Practices in the Czech Republic by Nesporová, Olga

Table of Contents: “…History -- 2.1 The Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 2.2 The Cremation Movement -- 2.3 The First and Second World Wars -- 2.4 The Communist Period in Czechoslovakia (1948-1989) -- 2.5 Following the Velvet Revolution in 1989 -- 3. …”
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The 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe : from communism to pluralism

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Behind the lines : Bugulma and other stories by Hašek, Jaroslav, 1883-1923

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POLITICAL COMPANION TO PHILIP ROTH.

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Jews and other foreigners : Manchester and the rescue of the victims of European Fascism, 1933?40. by Williams, Bill

Table of Contents: “…'Our remaining comrades inCzechoslovakia': the Manchester branch of the KPD; 10.'…”
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Priest, politician, collaborator : Jozef Tiso and the making of fascist Slovakia by Ward, James Mace

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Materials and Man's Needs : Materials Science and Engineering : Supplementary Report of the Committee on the Survey of Materials Science and Engineering.

Table of Contents: “…Science and the Acceleration of Technical Progress Pravda, March 31, 1970, p. 6The Scope of Research -- Avoid Lost Time -- In Cooperation with Engineers -- From Department to Shop -- Japan -- Some Particular Aspects of National Technological Policy -- The Implications of National Goals for Research Strategies -- NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURES FOR RESEARCH -- General Outlines of Administrative Structures -- United Kingdom -- Germany -- France -- U.S.S.R. -- Czechoslovakia -- Japan -- Other Countries -- Centralized or Decentralized Administration?…”
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The communist movement at a crossroads : plenums of the Communist International's Executive Committee, 1922-1923

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Editorial Introduction -- About This Edition -- List of Abbreviations -- 21 February-4 March 1922 -- Appeal by the Communist International Executive Committee -- Organisation of Meeting; National Reports -- National Reports (Continued) -- National Reports (Continued) -- National Reports (Continued) -- Executive Committee Report -- United Front - Report -- United Front - Counter-Reports -- United Front - Discussion -- United Front - Discussion -- United Front - Discussion -- United Front - Discussion; Béla Kun Affair -- United Front - Summaries; Workers' Opposition -- Trade Unions -- Famine Relief; New Economic Policy -- Communist Press; Youth -- Workers' Movement in France; War Danger -- Resolutions -- Theses on the United Front -- 7-11 June 1922 -- Opening; Social Revolutionaries; United Front -- Czechoslovakia -- Youth; France -- Norway -- France -- France -- Resolutions -- The Berlin Conference of the Three Internationals -- Lenin on the Berlin Conference -- 12-23 June 1923 -- Opening; Executive Committee Report -- Executive Committee Report - Discussion -- Executive Committee Report - Discussion -- Executive Committee Report - Discussion -- Executive Committee Report - Discussion -- Executive Report Summary; World Political Report -- World Political Situation - Discussion -- World Political Situation - Discussion and Summary -- Centralism - Report and Discussion -- Centralism - Discussion and Summary -- Trade Unions - Reports -- Trade Unions; Report on Fascism -- Fascism; Comintern Programme -- Denmark; Norway -- Bulgaria; Commission Reports; Resolutions -- Chronology -- Back Matter -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Straddling borders : literature and identity in Subcarpathian Rus' by Rusinko, Elaine

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Jews and other foreigners : Manchester and the rescue of the victims of European Fascism, 1933?40. by Williams, Bill

Table of Contents: “…'Our remaining comrades inCzechoslovakia': the Manchester branch of the KPD; 10.'…”
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Straddling borders : literature and identity in Subcarpathian Rus' by Rusinko, Elaine

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The self between : from Freud to the new social psychology of France by Webb, Eugene, 1938-

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On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle : Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry. by Azek, Jan

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Hot books in the Cold War : the CIA-funded secret Western book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain by Reisch, Alfred A. (Alfred Alexander), 1931-2013

Table of Contents: “…Minden and his concept of cultural and ideological competition -- The New York Book Center : books, books, and more books -- The book project reaches new heights : the golden age of the 1960s -- Western and émigré books and periodicals published with covert support -- New opportunities through East-West contacts -- The early 1970s : the international advisory council -- A lasting enemy -- The communist regimes on the defensive : criticisms, warnings, and attacks -- The person-to-person distribution program : a direct way to reach East Europeans, the early Polish program 1958-1959 -- Another vehicle for reaching the people of eastern Europe : the person-to-person distribution program and personalized mailings -- The most important book distribution point : Vienna -- Letters from Poland, the crucial country -- Letters from Czechoslovakia before and after 1968 -- Letters from Hungary under goulash communism -- Letters from Romania under the Ceausescu regime -- Letters from Bulgaria despite very strict censorship -- The last seventeen years : International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR -- The impact of the book distribution project and its contribution to the ideological victory of the West.…”
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Global Cold War Literatures : Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives. by Hammond, Andrew, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Soviet Travel Writing aboutCzechoslovakia during the Khrushchev Era; 10. Russian and American Satirists and the Exposure of Cold War Fictionalities; 11. …”
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Hot books in the Cold War : the CIA-funded secret Western book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain by Reisch, Alfred A. (Alfred Alexander), 1931-2013

Table of Contents: “…Minden and his concept of cultural and ideological competition -- The New York Book Center : books, books, and more books -- The book project reaches new heights : the golden age of the 1960s -- Western and émigré books and periodicals published with covert support -- New opportunities through East-West contacts -- The early 1970s : the international advisory council -- A lasting enemy -- The communist regimes on the defensive : criticisms, warnings, and attacks -- The person-to-person distribution program : a direct way to reach East Europeans, the early Polish program 1958-1959 -- Another vehicle for reaching the people of eastern Europe : the person-to-person distribution program and personalized mailings -- The most important book distribution point : Vienna -- Letters from Poland, the crucial country -- Letters from Czechoslovakia before and after 1968 -- Letters from Hungary under goulash communism -- Letters from Romania under the Ceausescu regime -- Letters from Bulgaria despite very strict censorship -- The last seventeen years : International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR -- The impact of the book distribution project and its contribution to the ideological victory of the West.…”
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The dark side of nation states : ethnic cleansing in modern Europe by Ther, Philipp

Table of Contents: “…A clean new order in Europe (1944-50) -- Allies plans -- Poland and Czechoslovakia -- More cases in the Soviet sphere of influence -- At the former lines of the Cold War -- On the British track : India and Palestine -- Part III. …”
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Hemming flames : poems by Murphy, Patricia Colleen, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…; Good Morning, Mediocrity; Meet the Author; Night Falling, Czechoslovakia; Edison's Medicine; Why I Burned Down Namdaemun Gate; High Hopes, Bad Habits; Turkish Get-Ups; Feeding Peeping Tom; Scrotum and Bone; The Year of Our Comorbidity; The Princess of Creeping; Reading Sexton in Phuket; Bulb; Murmur; The Birth of No.…”
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Britain and the threat to stability in Europe, 1918-45

Table of Contents: “…The imposition of visasFrom Kristallnacht to the outbreak of war; Refugees from Czechoslovakia; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Bishop Bell and Germany; English Christianity and Europe; The First World War; Ecumenism between the wars; The German Church Struggle; Refugees; The Second World War; Post-War Germany; The significance of Bishop Bell; Notes; 6 Appeasement and Non-Intervention: British policy during the Spanish Civil War; Notes; 7 Federal Union; Notes; 8 Defending the Empire or defeating the enemy: British war aims 1938-47; Notes…”
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The future of the Soviet past : the politics of history in Putin's Russia

Table of Contents: “…The 2014 Russian memory law in European context / Nikolay Koposov -- Tenacious pasts : geopolitics and the Polish-Russian group on difficult matters / George Soroka -- The 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia : return to the Soviet interpretation / Štěpán Černoušek.…”
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