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Books by Fellows
A major intellectual activity at the IWM is writing books. These include not only books by internationally renowned scholars but also many a first monograph by junior visiting fellows.
Below, please see a selection of books written by our fellows.
If you are a former fellow and would like to include your book in this list, please contact: publications@iwm.at with details.
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| The Light that Failed: A Reckoning | Ivan Krastev |
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Penguin Randomhouse | 2019 | The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high.
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| Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy | Clemena Antonova |
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Routledge | 2019 | Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy
This book considers a movement within Russian religious philosophy known as "full unity" (vseedinstvo), with a focus on one of its main representatives, Pavel Florensky (1882–1937).
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| Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist, Nationalist and Global Challenges | Ruth Wodak |
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Nordic Academic Press | 2019 | Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist, Nationalist and Global Challenges
The extreme right wing is on the rise. And there are signs that part of the political mainstream in Europe, the US, and beyond is considering going along with far-right populist parties and their divisive, ethno-nationalist programmes.
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| Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe: Regime Archives and Popular Opinion | Muriel Blaive |
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Bloomsbury Academic | 2018 | Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe: Regime Archives and Popular Opinion
Drawing on archival sources from Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany, Romania and Bulgaria, Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe considers whether and to what extent communist regimes cared about popular opinion, how they obtained their information, and how it helped them implement and mai
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| Populating No Man's Land. Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism | János Mátyás Kovács |
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Lexington Books | 2018 | Populating No Man's Land. Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism
This edited volume opening the new series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic Thought in Historical Perspective focuses on the concepts of ownership, the cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies.
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| Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration | Ayşe Çağlar | Duke University Press | 2018 | Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration
In Migrants and City-Making Ayse Çaglar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions.
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| The Age of Questions | Holly Case |
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Princeton University Press | 2018 | The Age of Questions
A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth century. In this pioneering book, Holly Case undertakes a stunningly original analysis, presenting, chapter by chapter, seven distinct arguments and frameworks for understanding the age.
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| The Balkans as Europe, 1821 - 1914 | Katherine Younger |
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University of Rochester Press | 2018 | The Balkans as Europe, 1821 - 1914
Focusing on state formation and the identity-geopolitics relationship, makes the case that the Balkans were at the forefront of European history in the century before World War I This collection of essays places the Balkans at the center of European developments, not as a conflict-ridden problem
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| The Ukrainian Night. An Intimate History of Revolution | Marci Shore |
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Yale University Press | 2018 | The Ukrainian Night. An Intimate History of Revolution
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential What is worth dying for?
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| The Road to Unfreedom. Russia, Europe, America | Timothy Snyder |
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Tim Duggan Books | 2018 | The Road to Unfreedom. Russia, Europe, America
With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced.
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