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Your search for swain returned 32 results:
Eastern European Studies
June 19, 2016
Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna?
The Geopolitical and Imaginary Borders Between the Balkans and Europe
Ana Foteva
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
Starting with Metternich's declaration that the Balkans begin at Rennweg (a street in the Third District of Vienna), Ana Foteva draws on novels, plays, librettos and travelogues from the 19th through the 21st century to explore the various forms the Balkan region has taken in Europe's political and cultural imagination. Her analysis of these literary works reveals concepts of belonging, multi-belonging and unbelonging among Serbians, Bosnians, Croatians, Slovenes and even …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
March 9, 2018
Between Truth and Time
A History of Soviet Central Television
Christine E. Evans
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
In Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television (Yale University Press, 2016), Christine E. Evans reveals that Soviet television in the Brezhnev era was anything but boring …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
August 18, 2016
States of Obligation
Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic
Yanni Kotsonis
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
I have to admit that I was quite intimidated by a book on taxation in imperial Russia. But States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early …
Eastern European Studies
March 7, 2016
Written Here, Published There
How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain
Friederike Kind-Kovacs
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain (Central European University Press, 2014) is a richly detailed description of the social practices, debates and discourses that were …
Eastern European Studies
March 25, 2016
The People's Game
Football, State and Society in East Germany
Alan McDougall
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
In The People's Game: Football, State and Society (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Alan McDougall looks at football from the top-down and bottom-up: as a tool of the state, as forming …
Eastern European Studies
May 23, 2016
The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931
Per Anders Rudling
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
I don't often have a chance to read books that focus solely on Belarus, which is exactly why I was intrigued by The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-193 …
Eastern European Studies
September 12, 2016
After the Revolution
Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia
Jessica Greenberg
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
Jessica Greenberg's After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia (Stanford University Press, 2014) explores a dual tension at work in Serbia in the early 2000s …
Eastern European Studies
December 18, 2015
The Power of Song
Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution
Guntis Smidchens
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
In the late 1980s, the Baltic Soviet Social Republics seemed to explode into song as Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian national movements challenged Soviet rule. The leaders of each of these …
Eastern European Studies
October 9, 2015
Kith, Kin and Neighbors
Communities and Confessions in 17th Century Wilno
David Frick
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
In 1636, King Wladyslaw IV's quartermaster surveyed the houses of Wilno in advance of the king's visit to the city. In Kith, Kin and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century …
Eastern European Studies
January 4, 2017
The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania
Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War
Violeta Davoliute
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
In The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War, published by Routledge, Violeta Davoliute calls Lithuania an improbably successful and paradoxically representative case …
Eastern European Studies
July 24, 2015
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century
A Surrealist History
Derek Sayer
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
Prague, according to Derek Sayer, is the place "in which modernist dreams have time and again unraveled." In this sweeping history of surrealism centered on Prague as both a physical …
Eastern European Studies
March 15, 2015
Unfinished Utopia
Nowa Huta, Stalinism and Polish Society, 1949-1956
Katherine Lebow
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
In the late 1940s, tens of thousands of people - mostly young male peasants - streamed to southeastern Poland to help build Nowa Huta, the largest and most ambitious of …
Eastern European Studies
February 20, 2015
The Greengrocer and His TV
The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring
Paulina Bren
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
Major Zeman's life is filled with action packed adventures. A young man finds his calling turning a collective farm into a shining example of agricultural efficiency. Anna embraces her role …
Eastern European Studies
December 25, 2014
Priest, Politician, Collaborator
Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia
James Mace Ward
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
In his biography of Jozef Tiso, Catholic priest and president of independent Slovakia (1939-1944), James Ward provides a deeper understanding of a man who has been both honored and vilified …
Eastern European Studies
November 4, 2014
Balkan Smoke
Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria
Mary Neuberger
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
By the late 1960s, Bulgaria was the world's number one exporter of tobacco, perhaps the pinnacle of the place of tobacco in the economic, social and political development of modern …
Eastern European Studies
November 3, 2015
Holy Legionary Youth
Roland Clark
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
Holy Legionary Youth: Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania (Cornell University Press, 2015) is an in-depth study of the Legion of the Archangel Michael, one of the largest and longest lasting …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
May 23, 2016
Sex, Politics &
Political Legitimacy in Russia
Valerie Sperling
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
The prevalence of media that reinforces a traditional masculine image of Vladimir Putin, Russia's leader, is at the core of Valerie Sperling's analysis of gender norms and sexualization as a …
Eastern European Studies
July 25, 2017
Hip Hop Ukraine
Music, Race, and African Migration
Adriana Helbig
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
In 2004, during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Adriana Helbig saw African musicians rapping in Ukrainian and wearing embroidered Ukrainian ethnic costumes. Her curiosity about how these musicians came to …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
January 4, 2017
The High Title of a Communist
Postwar Party Discipline and the Values of the Soviet Regime
Edward Cohn
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
Edward Cohn analyzes changes in Communist Party discipline in the Soviet Union from the Eighteenth Party Congress in 1939 through the 1960s in The High Title of a Communist: Postwar …
Eastern European Studies
October 31, 2017
Whose Bosnia?
Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840-1914
Edin Hajdarpasic
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Amanda Jeanne Swain
It seemed that everyone wanted Bosnia in the late nineteenth century: Serbian and Croatian nationalists; Ottoman, Habsburg, Muslim and Yugoslav movements. At the same time, they all felt frustration with …
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