Biographical Dictionary Of Central And Eastern Europe In The Twentieth Century.

Biographical Dictionary Of Central And Eastern Europe In The Twentieth Century

Wojciech Roszkowski & Jan Kofman

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While men and women in central and eastern European nations played key roles in the shaping of events and discoveries, politics and culture, institutions and movements that influenced, affected, and shaped the history of the 20th Century, most are relatively unknown elsewhere in the world. Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Wojciech Roszkowski and Jan Kofman (both of whom are Full Professors of History, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as Lecturers at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw) and Jan Kofman, the "Biographical Dictionary Of Central And Eastern Europe In The Twentieth Century" is 1195-page compendium of succinct biographical summaries of significant men and women of Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech, Slovak, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Yugoslavia (and its successor states). Each descriptive entry is buttressed by a listing of 'Sources'. A massive work of consistently impressive scholarship, "Biographical Dictionary Of Central And Eastern Europe In The Twentieth Century" is a significant and emphatically recommended addition to academic library reference collections for colleges and universities, as well as the library reference shelves of major metropolitan public library systems.