europe, eastern

A history, using numerous secondary sources, of the Jews in eastern Europe, especially during the nineteenth century.

Describes the historical and contemporary lives of eastern European women, their religious, family, and public lives, and issues and controversies they face, and discusses the work of individual eastern European women who have made a difference in their societies or the world.

Presents an narrative account of the historical events leading up to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989.

Explores the events that led up to the destruction of communisim in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Excerpts from five diaries written by Jewish teenagers about their families' experiences during World War II.

Discusses how Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty helped bring democracy to Eastern Europe, explains the CIA's involvement in the stations, and describes the Soviet and Eastern Bloc governments' attempts to silence the airwaves.

Examines how it is part of the human condition to try and reconcile acts committed under former systems of thought with contemporary ideology, focusing on the attempts of the people and governments of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia to face their Communist pasts.

Evangeline Harker, a reporter with the popular television news magazine "The Hour" undergoes a dark transformation after an assignment that took her to Transylvania to interview reputed crime boss Ion Torgu, and it is not long before the entire New York staff is infected with a strange malaise.

Presents descriptions from men and women in Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, and the Czech Republic of their lives after the opening of the Soviet bloc.

A history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed the individuals who came under its sway.