Books

Eva Eckert

Letters in Chronicling Migration and Integration

The Přibyl brothers were joined by thousands of other migrantsfrom the Frenštát region in Moravia hoping to rebuild their homesin Texas in the 1870s and 1880s. Prior to integrating to America,they set up a safety net in an enclave of the...

Shahzoda Samarqandi- translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega

Mothersland

  "I don't remember exactly whether my youth ended, and then the USSR, or if it was the other way around.  But I do know that those two things are connected.  Now I'm left here between two truths: the truth of the land, and the truth of...

Eckert, Eva

Stones on the Prairie: Acculturation in America

The language of tombstones tells the story of Czech immigrants in Texas, from its beginnings in the social and economic upheavals of 19th- and early 20th-century Bohemia and Moravia to its end in the era of opportunity and mobility that followed World...

Edited by Hilary Bird

An Introduction to Estonian Literature

Hilary Bird’s Introduction to Estonian Literature is truly a pioneering work, and a welcome contribution for anyone with an interest in the lively and flourishing literature of this small but culturally vibrant country. Ms. Bird’s coverage...

Bushkovitch, Paul (ed.)

The State in Early Modern Russia: New Directions

In the last generation a large body of new empirical information has challenged the inherited views of early modern Russia. Much of this new information has been about the state, its administration, practices, and relations with society. Old ideas and...

Frary, Lucien J. (ed.)

Thresholds into the Orthodox Commonwealth: Essays in honor of Theofanis G. Stavrou

This volume is a tribute to Theofanis G. Stavrou, Professor of Russian and Near Eastern History and Director of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Minnesota. A generous and penetrating scholar, as well as an award-winning teacher and mentor,...

Magdalena Mullek and Julia Sherwood (eds.)

Into the Spotlight: New Writing from Slovakia

"There are stories that could have taken place anywhere - of love and hate, beauty and ugliness, illness and music - stories distinctly and intriguingly Slovak..."     Into the Spotlight features the best of what Slovak literature has to offer...

Gerald Janecek (ed.)

Staging the Image: Dmitry Prigov as Artist and Writer

Dmitry Prigov (1940–2007), the most prominent figure in Moscow Conceptualism, is not well known in the West because of a lack of English translations of his work and scholarship in English. This collection of articles by some of the most devoted...

Jan Novák; edited by Craig Cravens

So Far, So Good: The Mašín Family and the Greatest Story of the Cold War

This is the true story of three young Czech men whose daring exploits of anti-Communist resistance and 1953 flight to West Berlin set off the largest manhunt in the history of the Eastern Bloc. To this day, whether the Mašín brothers were...

Gwido Zlatkes et al. (eds.)

Duplicator Underground: The Independent Publishing Industry in Communist Poland, 1976-89

  “We envied the Russians their samizdat...and then we went a few steps further.” – Adam Michnik       Duplicator Underground is the first comprehensive in-depth English-language discussion of Polish...

Rothstein, Robert

More Words to the Wise

  This book is not about “things you always wanted to know about Polish but were afraid to ask,” but rather about “things about Polish you never imagined could be so interesting until Professor Rothstein began to talk about them...

Crone, Anna Lisa

Anna Lisa Crone: Collected Writings Volume 3: Collaborations, Prose Studies, and Other Works

The third volume of Anna Lisa Crone’s Collected Writings includes works which did not fit neatly into the thematics of the first two volumes. It features four outstanding jointly-authored works (among them a chapter from the book My Petersburg,...