After The Socialist Spring
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After The Socialist Spring
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Author : George Last
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2009
After The Socialist Spring written by George Last and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Business & Economics categories.
Part III-Stable Instability: Economic Stagnation and the End of TransformationChapter 7-From Ulbright to Honecker; Chapter 8-Stabilisation and Stagnation; Chapter 9-Economic Crisis and Popular Dissatisfaction-The Road to 1989; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Conversations With Gorbachev
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Author : Mikhail Gorbachev
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-14
Conversations With Gorbachev written by Mikhail Gorbachev and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-14 with Political Science categories.
Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics. In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others and so they began to tape-record them. This book is the product of that “thinking out loud” process. It is an absorbing record of two friends trying to explain to one another their views on the problems and events that determined their destinies. From reminiscences of their starry-eyed university days to reflections on the use of force to “save socialism” to contemplation of the end of the cold war, here is a far more candid picture of Gorbachev than we have ever seen before.
Samizdat Tamizdat And Beyond
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Author : Friederike Kind-Kovács
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013-03-01
Samizdat Tamizdat And Beyond written by Friederike Kind-Kovács and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with History categories.
In many ways what is identified today as “cultural globalization” in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat (“do-it-yourself” underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West during the Cold War, as well as the much broader circulation of cultural products instigated and sustained by these practices. By expanding the definitions of samizdat and tamizdat from explicitly political print publications to include other forms and genres, this volume investigates the wider cultural sphere of alternative and semi-official texts, broadcast media, reproductions of visual art and music, and, in the post-1989 period, new media. The underground circulation of uncensored texts in the Cold War era serves as a useful foundation for comparison when looking at current examples of censorship, independent media, and the use of new media in countries like China, Iran, and the former Yugoslavia.
The Greengrocer And His Tv
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Author : Paulina Bren
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-15
The Greengrocer And His Tv written by Paulina Bren and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-15 with History categories.
The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the medium to achieve "normalization," pitching television stars against political dissidents in a televised spectacle that defined the times. The Greengrocer and His TV offers a new cultural history of communism from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution that reveals how state-endorsed ideologies were played out on television, particularly through soap opera-like serials. In focusing on the small screen, Paulina Bren looks to the "normal" of normalization, to the everyday experience of late communism. The figure central to this book is the greengrocer who, in a seminal essay by Václav Havel, symbolized the ordinary citizen who acquiesced to the communist regime out of fear. Bren challenges simplistic dichotomies of fearful acquiescence and courageous dissent to dramatically reconfigure what we know, or think we know, about everyday life under communism in the 1970s and 1980s. Deftly moving between the small screen, the street, and the Central Committee (and imaginatively drawing on a wide range of sources that include television shows, TV viewers' letters, newspapers, radio programs, the underground press, and the Communist Party archives), Bren shows how Havel's greengrocer actually experienced "normalization" and the ways in which popular television serials framed this experience. Now back by popular demand, socialist-era serials, such as The Woman Behind the Counter and The Thirty Adventures of Major Zeman, provide, Bren contends, a way of seeing—literally and figuratively—Czechoslovakia's normalization and Eastern Europe's real socialism.
The Romance Of American Communism
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Author : Vivian Gornick
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2020-04-07
The Romance Of American Communism written by Vivian Gornick and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Writer and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life “Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to a larger human project. Now back in print after its initial publication in 1977 and with a new introduction by the author, The Romance of American Communism is a landmark work of new journalism, profiling American Communist Party members and fellow travelers as they joined the Party, lived within its orbit, and left in disillusionment and disappointment as Stalin’s crimes became public.
Which Socialism Whose D Tente
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Author : Maud Bracke
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Which Socialism Whose D Tente written by Maud Bracke and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Political Science categories.
"The 1968-1969 Czechoslovak crisis was first and foremost a major crisis of European detente. While the Prague Spring was made possible by the immediate and unchecked consequences of early detente in Europe, its crushing sharply brought out the contradictions of detente as understood by the global Cold War protagonists. In a similar way as the Czecho-slovak crisis reflected the ambivalence at the heart of detente, the West European Communist Parties' responses to it revealed the ambivalence of detente as a context for radical social change, either in the East of the West. The scholarly literature on the PCI and PCF has, often in an unproblematic way, understood the shift from Cold War to detente on the European continent in the mid-1960s as a development essentially positive to these parties. The present study argues against this and demonstrates how the shift from the Cold War of the 1950s to detente in Europe reformulated the impasse of revolution or radical change in the West, rather than putting an end to it." Book jacket.
Divided Village The Cold War In The German Borderlands
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Author : Jason B. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-05-18
Divided Village The Cold War In The German Borderlands written by Jason B. Johnson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with History categories.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Eerie -- 1 Calamity, 1945-1952 -- 2 Elimination, 1952 -- 3 Fighting mood, 1952-1960 -- 4 Admonition, 1960-1961 -- 5 Bleak, 1961-1989 -- 6 Ass of the world, 1961-1989 -- Epilogue: Dream -- Bibliography -- Index
Making Their Place
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Author : Katja Guenther
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-29
Making Their Place written by Katja Guenther and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-29 with Social Science categories.
Offering a comparative analysis of feminist social movements in the aftermath of the collapse of state socialism, this book offers a unique opportunity to examine how shifting gender relations interact with local identities to create new understandings of gender, the state, and strategies for resistance.
Policing Stalin S Socialism
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Author : David R. Shearer
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Policing Stalin S Socialism written by David R. Shearer and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Policing Stalin's Socialism is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials, David Shearer finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals, deviant youth, sectarians, and the unemployed and unproductive. It was because Soviet leaders regarded social disorder as more of a danger to the state than political opposition that they instituted a new form of class war to defend themselves against this perceived threat. Despite the combined work of the political and civil police the efforts to cleanse society failed; this failure set the stage for the massive purges that decimated the country in the late 1930s.
Restitution And Memory
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Author : Dan Diner
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2007
Restitution And Memory written by Dan Diner and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
The myriad debates on restitution and memory, which have been going on in Europe for decades, indicate that World War II never ended. It is still very much with us, paradoxically re-invoked by the events of 1989/90 and the expansion of Europe to the east in the aftermath of the collapse of communism and economic globalization. The growing privatization and reprivatization in Eastern Europe revive pre-war memories that lay buried under the blanket of collectivization and nationalization of property after 1945. World War II did not only result in the death and destruction on a large scale but also in an a far-reaching revolution of existing property relations. This volume offers an assessment of the problematic of restitution and its close interconnection with the discourses of memory that have recently emerged.