http://www.pecob.eu/flex/ PECOB's feed: latest information on books published on PECOB en http://www.pecob.eu/sarajevo-la-cosmopolita Questo libro esce a vent’anni di distanza dall’inizio della guerra interetnica del 1992-95. Una ricorrenza importante per l’Europa del 2012, un’occasione per riflettere e non dimenticare. Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/dubcek-palach-protagonisti-della-storia-europea Quest’opera vuole essere un contributo fortemente innovativo sulla Primavera cecoslovacca. Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/europa-del-disincanto Il volume vuole fornire uno strumento di riflessione storica su alcuni Paesi che hanno vissuto in modo diretto e drammatico i contraccolpi della Guerra fredda e i sommovimenti del successivo periodo post comunista. Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/russian-magic-tales-pushkin-platonov Some of the stories here were collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworkings of oral tales by four of the greatest writers in Russian literature: Nadezhda Teffi, Pavel Bazhov, Andrey Platonov, and Alexander Pushkin. Among the many classic stories included here are the tales of Baba Yaga, Vasilisa the Beautiful, Father Frost, and the Frog Princess. Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/transformation-in-the-western-balkans The book investigates the scope and limitations of the transformative power of EU enlargement in the Western Balkans. Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/gli-slavi In questo volume si presenta la storia culturale degli Slavi per mettere in evidenza sia le forze centrifughe che hanno portato alla formazione del più cospicuo numero di popoli che un'etnia europea abbia prodotto, sia gli sviluppi dei contrapposti orientamenti culturali del mondo slavo verso l'Occidente latino e l'Oriente bizantino. Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/bosnia-herzegovina-since-dayton-civic-uncivic-values This volume examines all aspects of Bosnia’s post-wartransition, with special attention to values, as played out in the schools, themedia, and collective memory. Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/Jugoslavia-sognata-Lo-jugoslavismo-delle-origini "In nome dell'idea jugoslava che Gavrilo Princip sparò e uccise Francesco Ferdinando il 28 giugno 1914, dando avvio alla Prima guerra mondiale." Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/The-New-Age-of-Russia-Occult-and-Esoteric-Dimensions The historical approach plays a highly important role in the study of mystical and esoteric movements as all other approaches are to an extent reliant on it. The extraordinary importance of historical analyses requires, however, special attention. It is well-known that over the course of the history of western culture mystical and esoteric phenomena have been to a great extent excluded from the cultural mainstream and have often been oppressed by dominant ‘exoteric’ discourses. Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/The-Foundations-of-Deliberative-Democracy A model of Deliberative democracy is now an influential approach to thestudy of democracy and political behaviour. Its key propositionis that, in politics, it is not only power that counts, butgood discussions and arguments too... Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/me-ne-vado-a-est Migliaia di aziende italiane che si sono spostate a Est. Migliaia di imprenditori, dirigenti, tecnici. A oltre vent’anni dalla caduta dei sistemi comunisti i paesi dell’Europa centro-orientale e balcanica sono divenuti il braccio produttivo di una grossa fetta della manifattura italiana. Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/europe-and-the-collapse-of-yugoslavia In 1992 Yugoslavia finally succumbed to civil war, collapsing under the pressure of its inherent ethnictensions Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/oltre-confini-UE-integrazione-relazioni-esterne Il volume approfondisce le relazioni internazionali della CEE/UE, muovendo da una riflessione su che cosa si possa definire Europa comunitaria e su come essa si sia costruita dall’interno... Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/the-unsung-hero-of-the-russian-avant-garde-the-life-and-times-of-nikolay-putin This book by Natalia Murray explores the life and work of Russian avant-garde artist Nikolay Punin. It was published by Brill as part of the series of Russian History and Culture, edited by Jeffrey P. Brooks & Christina Lodder. Nikolay Punin, as the Commissar of the Hermitage and Russian Museums, was the most important art-critics of the avant-garde. Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/the-moscow-bombings-of-september-1999 This volume, divided into five chapter deals with the intricate and chaotic events that agitated Russia from May until September 1999, culminated with the invasion of Chechnya on October 1. Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/budapest-1956-the-smear-campaign In this volume, Alessandro Frigerio describes the reaction of the Italian Communist Party to the Hungarian insurrection of 1956 through an analysis of the communist press of that period, which backed Moscow's repression of the revolt. Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/love-the-revolution This is the Italian edition of Solženicyn’s novel Люби революцию, edited by Sergio Rapetto. Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/adams-address-to-lazarus-in-hell This is the Italian edition of Adam's Address to Lazarus in Hell, containing the transcription of the original Russian text. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/The-Soviet-DisUnion-from-Superpower-to-the-periphery-of-globalization The volume describes the main dynamics in the post-Soviet area after 1991, including the transition from the status of superpower to one of regional power. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/The-fortune-of-the-flower-of-vitues-between-slavia-and-romania In this work, the author focuses on a bilingual Romanian and Slavonic manuscript comparing the Slavic with the Romanian version. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100