Eastern Europe Fiction

"Eastern Europe" has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone today, and they might tell you that Estonia is in the Baltics or Scandinavia, that Slovakia is in Central Europe, and that Croatia is in the eastern Adriatic or the Balkans. In fact, Eastern Europe is a place that barely exists at all, except in cultural memory. Yet it remains a powerful marker of identity for many, with a fragmented and wide-ranging history defined by texts, myths, and memories of centuries of hardship and suffering.

The massive offensives on the Eastern Front during 1915 are too often overshadowed by the events in Western Europe, but the scale and ferocity of the clashes between Imperial Germany, Hapsburg Austria-Hungary, and Tsarist Russia were greater than anything seen on the Western Front and ultimately as important to the final outcome of the war. Now, with the work of internationally renowned Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this fascinating story of the unknown side of the First World War is finally being told.

La historia de Europa Oriental es una historia de éxitos y fracasos, de intereses contrapuestos, y de ascenso y caída de estados e imperios. Los antiguos imperios griego y romano conocían la importancia de Europa del Este para el comercio y los asentamientos. Más tarde, durante el período Migratorio, también conocido como las «invasiones bárbaras», Europa del Este se convirtió en el terreno de juego de muchos grupos humanos. Los visigodos, los hunos, los eslavos y las tribus turcas de Asia central, como los ávaros y los jázaros, se abrieron paso en Europa Oriental.

The three tales in this audiobook are adapted from stories told by the peasants in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. They are drawn from some books I found in shops when I visited the former USSR in 1988 as part of a citizen diplomacy group. I was intrigued by these folktales, since my paternal grandmother lived for some time in Odessa in the Ukraine. Also, I found these stories share a common theme - the poor peasant is able to succeed despite obstacles against an unfair ruler.

Sulla linea ferroviaria più lunga del mondo, che da Mosca arriva al Mar del Giappone, un gruppo di scrittori e giornalisti italiani attraversa la Russia asiatica. In occasione della Fiera del libro di Mosca, la delegazione viene accompagnata attraverso i profondi cambiamenti della Russia, dal centro alle periferie dell'impero, cinque fusi orari e seimila chilometri da Mosca.

Mit diesem Hörbuch laden wir zu einem literarischen Streifzug durch das alte Prag. Viele berühmte Schriftsteller, Musiker, Maler und Architekten bereisten die Stadt an der Moldau und hielten ihre Eindrücke und Erlebnisse in Romanen, Gedichten, Tagebüchern, Briefen und Reiseberichten fest. In Verbindung mit einfühlsamen Kompositionen, gespielt von drei erstklassigen Musikern, entsteht ein musikalisch-literarisches Hör-Erlebnis ersten Ranges.