October 20, 2015
Margarita Balmaceda's Living the High Life in Minsk: Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and Belarus’ Impending Crisis was named the Best Foreign Monograph on Belarus at the 5th International Congress of Belarusian Studies, held on October 2-4, in Kaunas, Lithuania. In the book, published by CEU Press in 2014, Balmaceda, professor at the John C.
October 20, 2015
Andras Koerner’s latest book documents the physical aspects of the lives of Hungarian Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with circa 250 historical photographs and related text: the way they looked, the kind of neighborhoods and apartments they lived in, and the places where they worked. The volume offers a virtual cross section of Hungarian society, a diverse group of the poor, the middle-class, and the wealthy.
October 6, 2015
A CEU Press publication, “Written here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain” by Friderike Kind-Kovacs, assistant professor at Regensburg University, has won the University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies.
October 6, 2015
The latest title in the CEU Press Classics series contains three tales of the Caucasus by Aleksandre Qazbegi, one of the most prescient and gifted chroniclers of the Georgian encounter with colonial modernity. His stories offer an invaluable counterpoint to the predominantly Russian narratives that have hitherto shaped scholarly accounts of the nineteenth-century Caucasus.
For more information, see http://ceupress.com/books/html/Prose_of_the_Mountains.htm


