Envisioning Eastern Europe
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Envisioning Eastern Europe
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Author : Michael D. Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1994
Envisioning Eastern Europe written by Michael D. Kennedy and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Explorations of cultural change in the former Soviet bloc
Imagining The West In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union
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Author : Gyorgy Peteri
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2010-11-28
Imagining The West In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union written by Gyorgy Peteri and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-28 with History categories.
This volume presents work from an international group of writers who explore conceptualizations of what defined "East" and "West" in Eastern Europe, imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union. The contributors analyze the effects of transnational interactions on ideology, politics, and cultural production. They reveal that the roots of an East/West cultural divide were present many years prior to the rise of socialism and the Cold War. The chapters offer insights into the complex stages of adoption and rejection of Western ideals in areas such as architecture, travel writings, film, music, health care, consumer products, political propaganda, and human rights. They describe a process of mental mapping whereby individuals "captured and possessed" Western identity through cultural encounters and developed their own interpretations from these experiences. Despite these imaginaries, political and intellectual elites devised responses of resistance, defiance, and counterattack to defy Western impositions. Socialists believed that their cultural forms and collectivist strategies offered morally and materially better lives for the masses and the true path to a modern society. Their sentiments toward the West, however, fluctuated between superiority and inferiority. But in material terms, Western products, industry, and technology, became the ever-present yardstick by which progress was measured. The contributors conclude that the commodification of the necessities of modern life and the rise of consumerism in the twentieth century made it impossible for communist states to meet the demands of their citizens. The West eventually won the battle of supply and demand, and thus the battle for cultural influence.
Eastern Europe
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Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1998
Eastern Europe written by Sabrina P. Ramet and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Eastern Europe addresses the emergence of uncertain pluralism in the region following the disintegration of the communist regimes in 1989. Taking a broad historical approach, the volume considers issues and challenges that have marked Eastern Europe from 1939 through World War II and the era of socialism, up to the present. Eight comprehensive country studies are augmented by detailed assessments of economic developments, security issues, religious currents, cultural policies, and gender relations in the region.
Russia And Eastern Europe After Communism
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Author : Michael Kraus
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-06-04
Russia And Eastern Europe After Communism written by Michael Kraus and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with History categories.
The conference on "Russia and East Europe in Transition," held at Middlebury College in May 1994 under the auspices of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, provided the impetus for this volume. The two-day gathering was made possible by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Jessica Swift Endowed Lecture Fund of Middlebury College, for which we are most grateful. Apart from the contributors to this volume, the conference participants included: George Bellerose, Raymond E. Benson, Valery Chalidze, Michael Claudon, David Colander, Guntram H. Herb, Lars Lib, Tamar Mayer, Noah M.J. Pickus, Sunder Ramaswamy, David A. Rosenberg, and Mitchell Smith. Acting as discussants, panel chairs, or interested participants, their efforts, individually and collectively, have made this a better book and their contribution to this project is gratefully acknowledged.
A History Of Eastern Europe
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Author : Robert Bideleux
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1998
A History Of Eastern Europe written by Robert Bideleux and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Changeis a wide-ranging single volume history of the "lands between", the lands which have lain between Germany, Italy, and the Tsarist and Soviet empires. Bideleux and Jeffries examine the problems that have bedevilled this troubled region during its imperial past, the interwar period, under fascism, under communism, and since 1989. While mainly focusing on the modern era and on the effects of ethnic nationalism, fascism and communism, the book also offers original, striking and revisionist coverage of: * ancient and medieval times * the Hussite Revolution, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation * the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Hapsburg Empire * the rise and decline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth * the impact of the region's powerful Russian and Germanic neighbours * rival concepts of "Central" and "Eastern" Europe * the 1920s land reforms and the 1930s Depression. Providing a thematic historical survey and analysis of the formative processes of change which have played the paramount roles in shaping the development of the region, A History of Eastern Europeitself will play a paramount role in the studies of European historians.
From A One Party State To Democracy
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Author : Janina Frentzel-Zagórska
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 1993
From A One Party State To Democracy written by Janina Frentzel-Zagórska and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Cultural pluralism categories.
Eastern Europe In The Twentieth Century And After
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Author : R. J. Crampton
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1997
Eastern Europe In The Twentieth Century And After written by R. J. Crampton and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Europe, Eastern categories.
Covering all key Eastern European states and their history right up to the collapse of communism, this new edition of is a comprehensive political history of Eastern Europe taking in the whole of the century and the geographical area
The Sovietization Of Eastern Europe
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Author : Balzs Apor
language : en
Publisher: New Acdemia+ORM
Release Date : 2008-04-21
The Sovietization Of Eastern Europe written by Balzs Apor and has been published by New Acdemia+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-21 with History categories.
This essay anthology offers enlightening perspectives on how East-Central Europe was transformed into the “other” Europe during the Cold War era. When the Second World War ended, a new conflict arose between world powers jockeying for supremacy. The Soviet Union pursued a policy of exporting its system of government in a process known as sovietization. But there were also governments that sought to adopt a Soviet way of life on their own accord. Dictated by ideological imperatives, both styles of sovietization employed socialist strategies of state and nation building. This volume not only examines the imposition of new forms of government, but also the socialist response to modernity as reflected in approaches to new technology and management, consumption and leisure patterns, religious and educational policy, political rituals and attitudes to the past. The essays explore the diversity and the tensions within the sovietization process in the countries of the region. “This collection is a bold and timely attempt at shedding light on a rather insufficiently researched topic . . . the diverse approaches-ranging from socio-cultural and economic history to psycho-history.” —Dr. Dragos Petrescu, University of Bucharest.
Imagining The Balkans
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Author : Maria Todorova
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-15
Imagining The Balkans written by Maria Todorova and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-15 with History categories.
"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse. Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova's coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history.
The Road From Paradise
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Author : Stjepan Gabriel Me_trovi_
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 1993-01-01
The Road From Paradise written by Stjepan Gabriel Me_trovi_ and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The 1989 fall of communism in Eastern Europe occurred in a period when Western intellectuals were involved in a confusing discourse on a number of other dramatic endings: the end of modernity, the end of the century, even the possible end of sociology. Against this backdrop, the authors focus on continuities based on the "habits of the heart" of those who threw off communism in Eastern Europe, contrasting them with Western modes of thought. Their cultural explanation draws on theories of Tocqueville, Durkheim, and others to examine positive as well as negative aspects of the nations that survived communism. While focusing on the Balkans, they also make cautious prognoses for the rest of Eastern Europe.