Eastern Europe In 1968

Author : Kevin McDermott,Matthew Stibbe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319770697

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Eastern Europe in 1968 by Kevin McDermott,Matthew Stibbe Pdf

This collection of thirteen essays examines reactions in Eastern Europe to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Countries covered include the Soviet Union and specific Soviet republics (Ukraine, Moldavia, the Baltic States), together with two chapters on Czechoslovakia and one each on East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia and Albania. The individual contributions explain why most of these communist regimes opposed Alexander Dubček’s reforms and supported the Soviet-led military intervention in August 1968, and why some stood apart. They also explore public reactions in Eastern Europe to the events of 1968, including instances of popular opposition to the crushing of the Prague Spring, expressions of loyalty to Soviet-style socialism, and cases of indifference or uncertainty. Among the many complex legacies of the East European ‘1968’ was the development of new ways of thinking about regional identity, state borders, de-Stalinisation and the burdens of the past.

Author : Olga A. Narkiewicz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003807667

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Eastern Europe by Olga A. Narkiewicz Pdf

First Published in 1986 Eastern Europe 1968-1984 has been written in response to renewed interest in Eastern European events in the 60s and 70s. In writing this work the author concentrated on changes in the system in the post-Stalinist period, which were intended to reduce the political, economic, and social contradictions but have often accentuated them instead. The book brings themes like balance of power; Eastern Europe’s new economics; patterns of normalization; the CMEA’s economy and world recession; perception of Eastern Europe in the West; and East-West German rapprochement. This is an important read for students and researchers of East European Politics, East European history and International Relations.

Author : Aleksandra Konarzewska,Anna Nakai,Michał Przeperski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000707076

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Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present by Aleksandra Konarzewska,Anna Nakai,Michał Przeperski Pdf

Why does 1968 matter today? The authors of this volume believe that it is a crucial point of reference for current developments, especially the ‘illiberal turn’ both in Europe and America. If we want to understand it, we need to look back into 1968 – the year that founded the cultural and political order of today’s world. The book consists of the following four sections: '1968 and transnationality', '1968 and the transformation of meanings', 'Artistic representations of 1968', and '1968 and the European contemporaity'. This is followed by an afterword from the significant keynote speaker at the conference Unsettled 1968: Origins – Myth – Impact in June 2018 in Tübingen, Germany: Irena Grudzinska-Gross, herself a Polish ‘68er’, reflects upon the conference and leaves remarks on her 50 years of engagement with what happened in 1968.

Author : Günter Bischof,Stefan Karner,Peter Ruggenthaler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0739143042

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The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 by Günter Bischof,Stefan Karner,Peter Ruggenthaler Pdf

On August 20, 1968, tens of thousands of Soviet and East European ground and air forces moved into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country in an attempt to end the "Prague Spring" reforms and restore an orthodox Communist regime. The leader of the Soviet Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, was initially reluctant to use military force and tired to pressure his counterpart in Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubccaron;ek, to crack down. But during the summer of 1968, after several months of careful deliberations, the Soviet Politburo finally decided that military force was the only option left. A large invading force of Soviet, Polish, Hungarian and Bulgarian troops received final orders to move into Czechoslovakia; within twenty-four hours they had established complete military control of Czechoslovakia, bringing and end to hopes for "socialism with a human face."

Author : Robert Gildea,James Mark,Anette Warring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192521248

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Europe's 1968 by Robert Gildea,James Mark,Anette Warring Pdf

By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves. This new and exciting study of "Europe's 1968" is based on the rich oral histories of nearly 500 former activists collected by an international team of historians across fourteen countries. Activists' own voices reflect on how they were drawn into activism, how they worked and struggled together, how they combined the political and the personal in their lives, and the pride or regret with which they look back on those momentous years. Themes explored include generational revolt and activists' relationship with their families, the meanings of revolution, transnational encounters and spaces of revolt, faith and radicalism, dropping out, gender and sexuality, and revolutionary violence. Focussing on the way in which the activists themselves made sense of their revolt, this work makes a major contribution to both oral history and memory studies. This ambitious study ranges widely across Europe from Franco's Spain to the Soviet Union, and from the two Germanys to Greece, and throws new light on moments and movements which both united and divided the activists of Europe's 1968.

Author : Carole Fink,Philipp Gassert,Detlef Junker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521646375

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1968: The World Transformed by Carole Fink,Philipp Gassert,Detlef Junker Pdf

1968: The World Transformed presents a global perspective on the tumultuous events of the most crucial year in the era of the Cold War. By interpreting 1968 as a transnational phenomenon, authors from Europe and the United States explain why the crises of 1968 erupted almost simultaneously throughout the world. Together, the eighteen chapters provide an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the rise and fall of protest movements worldwide. The book represents an effort to integrate international relations, the role of media, and the cross-cultural exchange of people and ideas into the history of that year. 1968 emerges as a global phenomenon because of the linkages between domestic and international affairs, the powerful influence of the media, the networks of communication among activists, and the shared opposition to the domestic and international status quo in the name of freedom and self-determination.

Author : Ben Fowkes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349242184

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Rise and Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe by Ben Fowkes Pdf

Communist parties came to power in a variety of ways, usually by force, often with the acquiescence of people who hoped for a better future. Then came the imposition of Stalinism. The book examines this, and subsequent crises in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

Author : Ben Fowkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073460045

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Eastern Europe 1945-1969 by Ben Fowkes Pdf

The underlying theme of this new study is the communists' attempt to mould the region's varied economic, social, intellectual and cultural characteristics according to the model of the Soviet Union.

Author : Karl E. Birnbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015028766346

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Peace in Europe: East-West Relations 1966-1968 by Karl E. Birnbaum Pdf

Author : Ruth Tosek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : 1565840682

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Prague Spring 1968 by Ruth Tosek Pdf

This text takes a documented look at a Cold War crisis from the other side of the Iron Curtain. The brutal suppression of the Prague Spring shattered hopes for reform throughout Eastern Europe for nearly 20 years.

Author : Paul Neuburg
Publisher : New York : Morrow, 1973 [c1972]
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Communism and society
ISBN : UCSC:32106001050191

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The Hero's Children by Paul Neuburg Pdf

Author : Robert L. Hutchings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005759660

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Soviet-East European Relations by Robert L. Hutchings Pdf

Author : Agnieszka Mrozik,Stanislav Holubec
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1351009281

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Historical Memory of Central and East European Communism by Agnieszka Mrozik,Stanislav Holubec Pdf

"Every political movement creates its own historical memory. The communist movement, though originally oriented towards the future, was no exception: The theory of human history constitutes a substantial part of Marx's and Engels's writings, and the movement inspired by them very soon developed its own strong historical identity, combining the Marxist theory of history with the movement's victorious milestones such as the October Revolution and later the Great Patriotic War, which served as communist legitimization myths throughout almost the entire twentieth century. During the Stalinist period, however, the movement's history becomes strongly reinterpreted to suit Stalin's political goals. After 1956, this reinterpretation lost most of its legitimating power and instead began to be a burden. The (unwanted) memory of Stalinism and subsequent examples of violence (the Gulag, Katyän, the 1956 Budapest uprising and the 1968 Prague Spring) contributed to the crisis of Eastern European state socialism in the late 1980s and led to attempts at reformulating or even rejecting communist self-identity. This book's first section analyzes the post-1989 memory of communism and state socialism and the self-identity of the Eastern and Western European left. The second section examines the state-socialist and post-socialist memorial landscapes in the former German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia. The final section concentrates on the narratives the movement established, when in power, about its own past, with the examples of the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia"--

Author : John Matthew Barlow
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781535866637

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Challenges to Eastern European Communist Regimes by John Matthew Barlow Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: Challenges to Eastern European Communist Regimes is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Kristian Gerner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Europe, Central
ISBN : UCAL:B3521351

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The Soviet Union and Central Europe in the Post-war Era by Kristian Gerner Pdf