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• Introduction / František Šístek
• The 'Turkish threat' and early modern Central Europe : Czech reflections / Ladislav Hladký and Petr Stehlík
• The Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina between millet and nation / Božidar Jezernik
• Ambivalent perceptions : Austria-Hungary, Bosnian Muslims and the occupation campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878) / Martin Gabriel
• Sleeping Beauty's awakening : Habsburg colonialism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878-1918 / Clemens Ruthner
• The portrayal of Muslims in Austrian-Hungarian state primary school textbooks for Bosnia and Herzegovina / Oliver Pejić
• Towards secularity : autonomy and modernization of Bosnian Islamic institutions under Austro-Hungarian administration / Zora Hesová
• Under the Slavic crescent : representations of Bosnian Muslims in Czech literature, travelogues and memoirs, 1878-1918 / František Šístek
• Divided identities in the Bosnian narratives of Vjenceslav Novak and Rebecca West / Charles Sabatos
• Austronostalgia, Habsburg legacy, Bosnian Muslims and Yugoslav family life in the work of Croatian anthropologist Vera Stein Erlich / Bojan Baskar
• The Serbian proverb Poturica gori od Turčina (a Turk-convert is worse than a Turk) : stigmatizer and figure of speech / Marija Mandić
• From brothers to others? : changing images of Bosnian Muslims in (post-)Yugoslav Slovenia / Alenka Bartulović
• Exploring religious views among young people of Bosnian Muslim origin in Berlin / Aldina Čemernica
• The West, the Balkans and the in-between : Bosnian Muslims representing a European Islam / Merima Šehagić
• Conclusion / František Šístek.

"As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic "Other" living just a stone's throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. To a significant degree, the wider representations and perceptions of this population can be traced to the reports of Central European-and especially Habsburg-diplomats, scholars, journalists, tourists, and other observers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and literary scholars to examine the political, social, and discursive dimensions of Bosnian Muslims' encounters with the West since the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.

• Back and forth within imperial Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary
• Crossing inter-European borders
• Transatlantic migration patterns
• On multiple routes from, to, and within Central Europe

On Many Routes is about the history of human migration. With a focus on the Habsburg Empire, this innovative work presents an integrated and creative study of spatial mobilities: from short to long term, and intranational and inter-European to transatlantic. Migration was not just relegated to city folk, but likewise was the reality for rural dwellers, and we gain a better understanding of how sending and receiving states and shipping companies worked together to regulate migration and shape populations.Bringing historical census data, governmental statistics, and ship manifests into conversation with centuries-old migration patterns of servants, agricultural workers, seasonal laborers, peddlers, and artisans-both male and female-this research argues that Central Europeans have long been mobile, that this mobility has been driven by diverse motivations, and that post-1850 transatlantic migration was an obvious extension of earlier spatial mobility patterns. Demonstrating the complexity of human mobility via an exploration of the links between overseas, continental, and internal migrations, On Many Routes shows that migrations to the United States, to the nearest coalfield, and to the urban capitals are embedded within complicated patterns of movement. There is no good reason to study internal apart from transnational moves, and combining these fields brings ample possibility to make migration research more relevant for the much broader field of social and economic history. This work poses an invaluable resource to the understudied area of Habsburg Empire migration studies, which it relocates within its wider European context and provides a major methodological contribution to the history of human migration more broadly. The ubiquity and functionality of human movement sheds light on the relationship between human nature and society, and challenges simplistic notions of human mobility then and now.
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• The transformations of some classical principles in socialist Hungarian civil law : the metamorphosis of 'bona fides' and 'boni mores' in the Hungarian Civil Code of 1959 / András Földi
• We few, we happy few? Legal history in the GDR / Martin Otto
• Roman law studies in the USSR : an abiding debate on slaves, economy and the process of history / Anton Rudokvas and Ville Erkkilä
• Strategies of covert resistance : teaching and studying legal history at the University of Tartu in the Soviet era / Marju Luts-Sootak
• The Western legal tradition and Soviet Russia : the genesis of H. J. Berman's Law and Revolution / Adolfo Giuliani
• Juliusz Bardach and the agenda of socialist history of law in Poland / Marta Bucholc
• Valdemārs Kalniņš (1907-1981) : the founder of Soviet legal history in Latvia / Sanita Osipova
• Getaway into the Middle Ages? : on topics, methods and results of 'socialist' legal historiography at the University of Jena / Adrian Schmidt-Recla and Zara Luisa Gries
• Roman law and socialism : life and work of a Hungarian scholar, Elemér Pólay / Éva Jakab.

"This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments. The volume studies legal historians and legal histories written in Eastern European countries during the socialist era after the Second World War. The book investigates whether there was a unified form of socialist legal historiography, and if so, what can be said of its common features. The individual chapters of this volume concentrate on the regimes that situate between the Russian, and later Soviet, legal culture and the area covered by the German Civil Code. Hence, the geographical focus of the book is on East Germany, Russia, the Baltic states, Poland and Hungary. The approach is transnational, focusing on the interaction and intertwinement of the then hegemonic communist ideology and the ideas of law and justice, as they appeared in the writings of legal historians of the socialist legal orders. Such an angle enables concentration on the dynamics between politics and law as well as identities and legal history"-- Provided by publisher.

Jewish life in Europe has undergone dramatic changes and transformations within the 20th century and also the last two decades. The phenomenon of the dual position of the Jewish minority in relation to the majority, not entirely unusual for Jewish Diaspora communities, manifested itself most distinctly on the European continent. This unique Jewish experience of the ambiguous position of insider and outsider may provide valuable views on contemporary European reality and identity crisis. The book focuses inter alia on the main common denominators of contemporary Jewish life in Central Europe, such as an intense confrontation with the heritage of the Holocaust and unrelenting antisemitism on the one hand and on the other hand, huge appreciation of traditional Jewish learning and culture by a considerable part of non-Jewish Europeans. The volume includes contributions on Jewish life in central European countries like Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, and Germany.
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• List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors
• 1: Wolfgang C. Muller, Torbjoern Bergman, and Gabriella Ilonszki: Extending the Coalition Life-cycle Approach to Central Eastern Europe - An Introduction
• 2: Anders Backlund, Alejandro Ecker, and Thomas M. Meyer: The Economic and Political Context of Coalition Politics in Central Eastern Europe
• 3: Rumyana Kolarova and Maria Spirova: Bulgaria: Stable Coalitions of Unstable Parties
• 4: Zdenka Mansfeldova and Tomas Lacina: Czech Republic: Declining Bipolarity and New Patterns of Conflict
• 5: Vello Pettai: Estonia: From Instability to the Consolidation of Centre-Right Coalition Politics
• 6: Gabriella Ilonszki: Hungary: From Coalitions to One-Party Dominance
• 7: Janis Ikstens and Ilze Balcere: Latvia: Office-seeking in an Ethnically Divided Polity
• 8: Irmina Matonyte: Lithuania: Ministerial Government in an Unstable Party System
• 9: Andrzej Antoszewski and Joanna Kozierska: Poland: Weak Coalitions and Small Party Suicide in Government
• 10: Laurentiu Stefan: Romania: Presidential Politics and Coalition Bargaining
• 11: Sona Szomolanyi and Alexander Karvai: Slovakia: From National-Populist to Alternating Right and Left Coalitions
• 12: Alenka Krasovec and Tomaz Krpic: Slovenia: Majority Coalitions and the Strategy of Dropping out of Cabinet
• 13: Torbjoern Bergman, Gabriella Ilonszki, and Wolfgang C. Muller: The Coalition Life-cycle in Central Eastern Europe Appendix: The Variables Index.
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Coalition government among different political parties is the way most European democracies are governed. Traditionally, the study of coalition politics has been focused on Western Europe. Coalition governance in Central Eastern Europe brings the study of the full coalition life-cycle to a region that has undergone tremendous political transformation, but which has not been studied from this perspective. The volume covers Bulgaria, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. It provides information and analyses of the coalition life-cycle, from pre-electoral alliances to coalition formation and portfolio distribution, governing in coalitions, the stages that eventually lead to government termination, and the electoral performance of coalition parties. In Central Eastern Europe, few single-party cabinets form and there have been only a few early elections. The evidence provided shows that coalition partners in the region write formal agreements (coalition agreements) to an extent that is similar to the patterns that we find in Western Europe, but also that they adhere less closely to these contracts. While the research on Western Europe tends to stress that coalition partners emphasize coalition compromise and mutual supervision, there is more evidence of 'ministerial government' by individual ministers and their parties. There are also some systems where coalition governance is heavily dominated by the prime minister. No previous study has covered the full coalition life-cycle in all of the ten countries with as much detail. Systematic information is presented in 10 figures and in more than one hundred tables. Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Universite libre de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science, University of Houston.
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In 1987 Fabio Ponzio decided to embark on a photographic odyssey in search of Eastern Europe. When he arrived in Poland the country was on the verge of collapse. There was little food in the shops and the queues to buy bread were immense. In Ceausescu's Romania, people's lives were reduced to a succession of dark days; the Securitate wielded absolute control and used informants, bribery and violence to beat any instinct for freedom out of individuals. In the same period, in Yugoslavia, the beginnings of what was to become the catastrophe of successive years were being laid out, while the West looked on in supreme indifference. In the autumn of 1989, everything changed. The various regimes of the communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe began to collapse in Budapest, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Sofia and Bucharest in a domino effect that continued in Albania and ended two years later in the Soviet Union. Ponzio continued his travels across an immense territory with a Leica, three Nikons and 100 rolls of film, in search of the people of the East, documenting the old energy that had been fortified through pain and sacrifice, now joined by a new energy, full of hope. Year after year, Ponzio returned to capture the many faces and stark differences of the other Europe, in search of the elements that make up the shared destiny of the peoples of Eastern Europe. Collected here are his stunning portraits of their traditions and faith, humility and courage, vulnerability and survival.

• Foreword : Gone Down in History / By Andrea Petö
• Preface
• Introduction
• Overview of the book
• The context of the CEE region
• Central Eastern Europe as matter of research
• Structure
• Theoretical background
• Political parties
• The role of political parties
• Europeanization
• Perspective of democratization
• Party systems
• European political space
• Analytical framework
• Operationalizing of research and research questions
• Limits of research
• Nationalism, national identity, and policy of national identity
• National identity : overview of existing research
• Applied concept of national identity in Central East Europe after 1990
• Policy of national identity
• The European Union
• Values
• Minorities
• World
• Methodology and Research Procedure
• Grounded theory
• How to identify parties' nationalist emphasis?
• The Manifesto Project methodology
• The Grounded Theory methodology
• Comparison of the implemented methods
• Operationalization of the behavior of political parties in the European arena
• Data and the technical attributes of the analysis
• Favouring nation, less for the EU?
• Results
• National identity in political competition
• Parties covered for analysis and issues selected in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia
• The Czech Republic : Introduction into party system and national identity
• Czech Social Democratic Party (Česká strana sociálně demokratická, ČSSD)
• Civic Democratic Party, (Občanská demokratická strana, ODS)
• Christian and Democratic Union-Czechoslovak Peopleʹs Party (Křestʹanská a demokratická unie-Československá strana lidová, KDU-ČSL)
• Communist party of Bohemia and Moravia (Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy, KSČM)
• Tradition Responsibility Prosperity 09 (Tradice, Odpovědnost, Prosperità 09, TOP 09)
• Action of Dissatisfied Citizens 2011, (Akce nespokojených občanů, ANO 2011)
• Tomio Okamura's Dawn of Direct Democracy (Hnutí úsvit přímé demokracie Tomia Okamury)
• Greens (Strana zelených, SZ)
• Public Affairs (Věci veřejné, VV)
• Poland : Introduction into the party system and national identity
• Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska, PO)
• Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS)
• Alliance of the Democratic Left (Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej, SLD)
• Polish People's Party (Polske Stronictwo Ludowe, PSL)
• The League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin, LPR)
• Self-defense of Polish Republic (Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej, SRP)
• Your Movement (Twoj Ruch, TR)
• Slovakia : Introduction into party system and national identity
• Direction-Social democracy (Smer- Sociálna demokracia, Smer-SD)
• Christian-Democratic Movement (Krestansko-demokraticke hnuti, KDH)
• Slovak Democratic and Christian Union-Democratic Party (Slovenská demokratická a krestʹanská únia-Demokratická strana, SDKÚ-DS)
• Freedom and Solidarity (Sloboda a Spravodlist, SaS)
• Most-Híd (Bridge, Most-Híd)
• Ordinary People (Obyčajní lʹudia, OLʹaNO)
• Slovak National Party (Slovenská národná strana-SNS)
• People's Party — Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (Lʹudová strana : Hnutie za demokratické Slovensko LʹS-HZDS)
• Conclusions
• Czech Republic
• Slovakia
• Poland 178
• Comparison
• Effects of participation of political parties in the European political space
• Appendix A
• Appendix B : The Grounded Theory Codebook
• Appendix C
• List of Tables
• List of Abbreviations
• References

Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people of Fiume tried to recreate empire in the guise of the nation. The Fiume Crisis recasts what we know about the birth of fascism, the rise of nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I by telling the story of the three-year period when the Adriatic city of Fiume (today Rijeka, in Croatia) generated an international crisis. In 1919 the multicultural former Habsburg city was occupied by the paramilitary forces of the flamboyant poet-soldier Gabriele D'Annunzio, who aimed to annex the territory to Italy and became an inspiration to Mussolini. Many local Italians supported the effort, nurturing a standard tale of nationalist fanaticism. However, Dominique Kirchner Reill shows that practical realities, not nationalist ideals, were in the driver's seat. Support for annexation was largely a result of the daily frustrations of life in a "ghost state" set adrift by the fall of the empire. D'Annunzio's ideology and proto-fascist charisma notwithstanding, what the people of Fiume wanted was prosperity, which they associated with the autonomy they had enjoyed under Habsburg sovereignty. In these twilight years between the world that was and the world that would be, many across the former empire sought to restore the familiar forms of governance that once supported them. To the extent that they turned to nation-states, it was not out of zeal for nationalist self-determination but in the hope that these states would restore the benefits of cosmopolitan empire. Against the too-smooth narrative of postwar nationalism, The Fiume Crisis demonstrates the endurance of the imperial imagination and carves out an essential place for history from below.
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• Introduction: The Christmas of blood
• Concealing histories: the different Fiume stories
• Follow the money: the currency crisis
• Legal ins and outs: crafting local sovereignty
• Between city and state: the contradictions of citizenship
• A sense of self: propaganda and nationalism
• Conclusion: When empire disappears

Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people of Fiume tried to recreate empire in the guise of the nation. The Fiume Crisis recasts what we know about the birth of fascism, the rise of nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I by telling the story of the three-year period when the Adriatic city of Fiume (today Rijeka, in Croatia) generated an international crisis. In 1919 the multicultural former Habsburg city was occupied by the paramilitary forces of the flamboyant poet-soldier Gabriele D'Annunzio, who aimed to annex the territory to Italy and became an inspiration to Mussolini. Many local Italians supported the effort, nurturing a standard tale of nationalist fanaticism. However, Dominique Kirchner Reill shows that practical realities, not nationalist ideals, were in the driver's seat. Support for annexation was largely a result of the daily frustrations of life in a "ghost state" set adrift by the fall of the empire. D'Annunzio's ideology and proto-fascist charisma notwithstanding, what the people of Fiume wanted was prosperity, which they associated with the autonomy they had enjoyed under Habsburg sovereignty. In these twilight years between the world that was and the world that would be, many across the former empire sought to restore the familiar forms of governance that once supported them. To the extent that they turned to nation-states, it was not out of zeal for nationalist self-determination but in the hope that these states would restore the benefits of cosmopolitan empire. Against the too-smooth narrative of postwar nationalism, The Fiume Crisis demonstrates the endurance of the imperial imagination and carves out an essential place for history from below.
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The German language holds an ambivalent and controversial place in the modern history of European Jews, representing different-often conflicting-historical currents. It was the language of the German classics, of German Jewish writers and scientists, of Central European Jewish culture, and of Herzl and the Zionist movement. But it was also the language of Hitler, Goebbels, and the German guards in Nazi concentration camps. The crucial role of German in the formation of Jewish national culture and politics in the late nineteenth century has been largely overshadowed by the catastrophic events that befell Jews under Nazi rule. German as a Jewish Problem tells the Jewish history of the German language, focusing on Jewish national movements in Central and Eastern Europe and Palestine/Israel. Marc Volovici considers key writers and activists whose work reflected the multilingual nature of the Jewish national sphere and the centrality of the German language within it, and argues that it is impossible to understand the histories of modern Hebrew and Yiddish without situating them in relation to German. This book offers a new understanding of the language problem in modern Jewish history, turning to German to illuminate the questions and dilemmas that largely defined the experience of European Jews in the age of nationalism.
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• Constructing Atlantic Peripheries: A Critical View of the Historiography - Jutta Wimmler and Klaus Weber Did Prussia have an Atlantic History? The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania, the French Colonization of Guiana, and Climates in the Caribbean, c. 1760s-1780s - Bernhard Struck A Fierce Competition! Silesian Linens and Indian Cottons on the West African Coast in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries - Anka Steffen Prussia's New Gate to the World: Stettin's Overseas Imports 1720-1770 and Prussia's Rise to Power - Jutta Wimmler Luxuries from the Periphery: The Global Dimensions of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Rhubarb Trade - Friederike Gehrmann Atlantic Sugar and Central Europe: Sugar Importers in Hamburg and their Trade with Bordeaux and Lisbon, 1733-1798 - Torsten dos Santos Arnold A Gateway to the Spanish Atlantic? The Habsburg Port City of Trieste as Intermediary in Commodity Flows between the Habsburg Monarchy and Spain in the Eighteenth Century - Klemens Kaps A Cartel on the Periphery. Wupper Valley Merchants and their Strategies in Atlantic Trade (1790s-1820s) - Anne Sophie Overkamp Linen and Merchants from the Duchy of Berg, Lower Saxony and Westphalia and their Global Trade in Eighteenth-Century London - Margrit Schulte Beerbuhl Ambiguous Passages: Non-Europeans Brought to Europe by the Moravian Brethren during the Eighteenth Century - Josef Koestlbauer German Emigrants as a Commodity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World - Alexandra Gittermann Reorienting Atlantic World Financial Capitalism: America and the German States - David K. Thomson Afterword - Goeran Ryden.
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The early modern Atlantic world, with its flows of bullion, of free and unfree labourers, of colonial produce and of manufactures from Europe and Asia, with mercantile networks and rent-seeking capital, has to date been described almost entirely as the preserve of the Western sea powers. More recent scholarship has rediscovered the dense entanglements with Central and Eastern Europe. Globalized Peripheries goes further by looking beyond slavery and American plantations. Contributions look at the trading practices and networks of merchants established in Central and Eastern Europe, investigate commodity flows between these regions and the Atlantic world, and explore the production of export commodities, two-way migration as well as financial ties. The volume uncovers new economic and financial connections between Prussia, the Habsburg Empire, Russia, as well as northern and western Germany with the Atlantic world. Its period coverage connects the end of the early modern world with the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. JUTTA WIMMLER is a research group leader at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies. KLAUS WEBER holds the chair of European Economic and Social History at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). CONTRIBUTORS: Bernhard Struck, Anka Steffen, Jutta Wimmler, Friederike Gehrmann, Torsten dos Santos Arnold, Klemens Kaps, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Margrit Schulte Beerbuhl, Josef Koestlbauer, Alexandra Gittermann, David K. Thomson, Goeran Ryden.
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• Print technology and its impact on religious consciousness
• Cultural agency and printing in early modern Ashkenaz
• Kabbalistic abridgments and their cultural impact
• Zoharic customs in a Halakhic framework
• Constructing a Zoharic lexicon
• The plain meaning of the Zohar : an anthological approach
• The influence of Kabbalistic study guides and concluding remarks

• Vorwort
• Konfessionelle Selbstbehauptung, Herrschaftsintensivierung und gesellschaftliche Ordnung : strukturgeschichtliche Grundlagen und Machtverschiebungen
• Reformatorische Aufbrüche in Ostmitteleuropa : Historiographische Positionen und territorienübergreifende Strukturen
• Ein "kirchenhistorischer Sonderfall"? : Zur Ausformung und Wahrnehmung religiöser Vielfalt in Siebenbürgen im ostmitteleuropäischen Kontext
• Politische Funktionen kirchlicher Beziehungen : Ungarn und die Reichskirche
• Bischöfliche Traditionen des schlesischen Adels in der Frühen Neuzeit
• Religiöse Kommunikation, Reisediplomatie und politische Lagerbildung : Zur Bedeutung des reformierten Theologen Abraham Scultetus für die Beziehungen zwischen Schlesien und der Kurpfalz um 1600
• Konfessionalisierung der Aussenpolitik? : Die Rolle der Konfession für die Aussenbeziehungen der böhmischen und mährischen Stände im späten 16. und frühen 17. Jahrhundert
• Die "Bischöfe der Ungarischen Krone" : Ein Beitrag zur kirchlichen Sozial- und Verfassungsgeschichte des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
• Diskriminierung, Ausgrenzung und Vertreibung : Erfahrungen und Wahrnehmungen religiös motivierter Gewalt
• Religiöse Gewalt gegenüber Kindern : Pupillengesetzgebung, Mündelstreitigkeiten und Vormundschaftskonflikte in Ostmitteleuropa (1500-1800)
• Calvinismus, kulturelle Prägungen und ständische Freiheitsbewegungen in Böhmen und Ungarn (1570-1620)
• Kollektive Freiheitsvorstellungen aus den Erfahrungen konfessioneller Migration : das Beispiel Böhmen
• Veritas toti mundo declarata : Der publizistische Diskurs um Religionsfreiheit, Verfassungsordnung und Kirchenrecht in Ungarn im letzten Drittel des 17. Jahrhunderts
• Verantwortung in Zeiten der Krise : Zu Leben und Werk des polnischen Brüderseniors Christian Sitkovius (1682-1762)
• "Turbulatores tranquillitatis publicae"? : Zur Frage der Religionsfreiheit für die Reformierten in Schlesien im Umfeld der Altranstädter Konvention von 1707
• Der slowakische Prediger Matej Bahil und der preussisch-österreichische Antagonismus : Beobachtungen zur Europäisierung der ungarischen Religionsfrage im 18. Jahrhundert
• Konfessionelle Solidarität, Öffentlichkeit und Erfahrungsaustausch : Herausforderungen und Antworten
• Bücherschmuggel : Die Versorgung ostmitteleuropäischer Protestanten mit Bibeln, Gesangbüchern und lutherischen Erbauungsschriften in der Zeit der Gegenreformation
• Bergesche Stipendien : Zielsetzung und Indienstnahme einer frühneuzeitlichen Studienstiftung im Konfessionellen Zeitalter
• Religiöse Kommunikation im Dreieck Berlin : Lissa : Herrnhut : Zinzendorf, die Erneuerte Brüderunität und das Verhältnis zur polnischen Unitas Fratrum in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts
• Glaubenssolidarität und Öffentlichkeit : Antworten auf religiöse Diskriminierung und Verfolgung im frühneuzeitlichen Ostmitteleuropa am Beispiel des Hofpredigers und Brüderbischofs Daniel Emst Jablonski
• Status catholicus und Kirchenpolitik in Siebenbürgen : Zum Verhältnis von weltlicher und geistlicher Macht zwischen Reformation und Josephinismus
• Geistliche Karrieren der Schaffgotsch : Aufstiegsstrategien und Karrierewege in der hierarchia catholica vom 17. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert
• "Die jüngste Glaubenscolonie in Preussen" : Kirchliche Praxis und religiöse Alltagserfahrungen der Zillertaler Protestanten in Schlesien
• Anhang
• Summary
• Nachweis der Erstdrucke
• Verzeichnis der Abbildungen
• Personenregister
• Ortsregister

• List of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations Marsha Siefert Introduction Finding Work, Making Workers Natalia Jarska Unemployment in State Socialism: An Insight into the Understanding of Work in 1950s Poland Alina-Sandra Cucu The Impossibility of Being Planned: Slackers and Stakhanovites in Early Socialist Romania Ulf Brunnbauer and Visar Nonaj Finding Workers to Build Socialism: Recruiting for the Steel Factories in Bulgaria and Albania Alena K. Alamgir "Inappropriate Behavior": Labor Control and the Polish, Cuban and Vietnamese Workers in Czechoslovakia Workers, Rights, and Discipline Malgorzata Mazurek Dishonest Salesladies: On Gendered Politics of Shame and Blame in Polish State-Socialist Trade Ulrike Schult Labor Discipline in Self-Managed Socialism: The Yugoslav Automotive Industry, 1965-1985 Eszter Bartha "This Workers' Hostel Lost Almost Every Bit of Added Value It Had": Workers' Hostels, Social Rights and Legitimization in Hungary and the German Democratic Republic Chiara Bonfiglioli Discussing Women's Double and Triple Burden in Socialist Yugoslavia: Women Working in the Garment Industry Workers, Safety, and Risk Thomas Lindenberger Governing the State of Emergency: Large Industrial Accidents in Communist East Germany Adrian Grama Labor's Risks: Work Accidents, the Industrial Wage Relation and Social Insurance in Socialist Romania Marko Miljkovic Nuclear Yutopia: The Outcome of the First Nuclear Accident in Yugoslavia, 1958 Workers, Protest, and Reform Peter Heumos Strikes in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1968: Systems Analysis and the Debate over the Causes of the Collapse of State Socialism Susan Zimmermann "It Shall Not Be a Written Gift, But a Lived Reality": Equal Pay, Women's Work, and the Politics of Labor in State-Socialist Hungary, Late 1960s to Late 1970s Sabine Rutar Labor Protest in the Italian-Yugoslav Border Region During the Cold War: Action, Control, Legitimacy, Self-Management Rory Archer and Goran Music When Workers' Self-Management Met Neoliberalism: Positive Perceptions of Market Reforms among Blue-Collar Workers in Late Yugoslav Socialism Toward an Inclusive History of Work Anca Glont Not Just Socialist Miners, but Miners of the World: Internationalism, Global Trends and Romanian Coal Workers.
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Labor regimes under communism in East-Central Europe were complex, shifting and ambiguous. This collection of sixteen essays offers new conceptual and empirical ways to understand their history from the end of the Second World War to 1989, and to think about how their experiences relate to debates about labor history, both European and global. The authors reconsider the history of state socialism by reexamining the policies and problems of communist regimes and recuperating the voices of the workers who built them. The contributors look at work and workers in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. They explore the often contentious relationship between politics and labor policy, dealing with diverse topics including workers' safety and risks; labor rights, and protests; working women's politics and professions; migrant workers and social welfare; attempts to control workers' behavior and stem unemployment; and cases of incomplete, compromised or even abandoned processes of proletarianization. Workers are presented as active agents in resisting and supporting changes in labor policies, in choosing allegiances, and in defining the very nature of work.
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