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Studies in Contemporary History

Herausgeber: machteld venken Dariusz Stola

Reconsidering the Cold War historiography’s focus on high politics, conflict and confrontation, this series encourages the development of new research that explores ties and similarities transcending the political divide in Europe. It also welcomes new approaches to the history of Central and East European societies under dictatorships: approaches which shed light on individual and collective agency and show high politics as only one of several factors of change.
Research in contemporary history still often mentally maps Europe as divided into a West and an East. This overemphasizes barriers between people who often shared similar values and tastes, practices and technologies, between interrelated social phenomena or just neighboring regions. In a similar way, narratives of Central and Eastern Europe often tend to reflect a simplistic vision centered on the conflict between the “regime” and “society”. This overemphasizes the role of crude domination and hinders understanding of the reproduction, evolution and normalization of European communist regimes up to 1989.
We seek contributions that employ approaches from history, especially those which integrate insights gained from neighboring disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology, political science, or cultural and gender studies. Discussions of comparative and transnational perspectives are particularly welcome.
The series was formerly known as
Warsaw Studies in Contemporary History .

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  • Titel: Political Myths in History Textbooks

    Political Myths in History Textbooks

    War Images of the Falange in Spain (1939–1951) and the Polish Workers’ Party in Poland (1945–1956)
    Band 11
    von Maciej Chrostowski (Autor:in) 2024
    ©2025 Monographie 352 Seiten
  • Titel: Remnants of Wehrmacht Soldiers

    Remnants of Wehrmacht Soldiers

    Burial and Commemoration Practices of German Soldiers of the Second World War in Russia and Europe, 1941 – 2023
    Band 10
    von Nina Janz (Autor:in) 2024
    ©2024 Monographie 268 Seiten
  • Titel: Welfare Policies in Switzerland and Italy

    Welfare Policies in Switzerland and Italy

    Institutions, Motherhood, Family and Work in the 19th and 20th Centuries
    Band 9
    von Michela Minesso (Band-Herausgeber:in) 2021
    ©2021 Sammelband 170 Seiten
  • Titel: Reading Monuments

    Reading Monuments

    A Comparative Study of Monuments in Poznań and Strasbourg from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
    Band 8
    von Małgorzata Praczyk (Autor:in) 2020
    ©2020 Monographie 216 Seiten
  • Titel: Oral History and the War

    Oral History and the War

    The Nazi Concentration Camp Experience in a Biographical-Narrative Perspective
    Band 7
    von Piotr Filipkowski (Autor:in) 2019
    ©2019 Monographie 442 Seiten
  • Titel: Borderland Studies Meets Child Studies

    Borderland Studies Meets Child Studies

    A European Encounter
    Band 6
    von Machteld Venken (Band-Herausgeber:in) Karol Pereplys (Illustrationen von) 2018
    ©2017 Sammelband 196 Seiten
  • Titel: Through the Back Door

    Through the Back Door

    The Black Market in Poland 1944–1989
    Band 5
    von Jerzy Kochanowski (Autor:in) 2017
    ©2017 Monographie 436 Seiten
  • Titel: Veterans, Victims, and Memory

    Veterans, Victims, and Memory

    The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland
    Band 4
    von Joanna Wawrzyniak (Autor:in) 2015
    ©2016 Monographie 259 Seiten