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Author : Michael D. Kennedy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0472105566
Explorations of cultural change in the former Soviet bloc
Author : Gyorgy Peteri
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822973911
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.
Author : R. J. Crampton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : 0415164222
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
Author : Robert Bideleux,Ian Jeffries
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : 9780415161121
While mainly focusing on the modern era - the effects of ethnic nationalism, fascism and communism - this history also offers revisionist coverage of topics such as the Hussite Revolution, and the rise and decline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Author : Stjepan Gabriel Me_trovi_
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813118271
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.
Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015045991455
In this textbook students will find a presentation of the historical issues and current challenges shaping one of the world's most volatile regions.
Author : Jerome Aumente
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015042980667
This text covers five topics about journalism: its roots in East/Central Europe and former Soviet Union; its role and effect leading up to the events of 1989; the transition period; the contributions, trials and tribulations from 1989-1996; and the state of journalism education in these regions.
Author : Iván Völgyes
Publisher : Thomson Brooks/Cole
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015009958052
Author : Michael Radu
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015009303572
Author : Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : 0367286459
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.
Author : Michael Kraus,Ronald D. Liebowitz
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015037466706
Examining the key challenges confronting Russia and Eastern Europe, this multidisciplinary volume considers the constitutional, political, economic, security, and national identity issues facing these post-communist societies. Drawing upon both theory and case studies informed by newly available primary sources, leading U.S. and Russian specialists provide a comprehensive balance sheet of the achievements and costs of the ongoing economic and political transformation. They also examine the prospects for a thriving civil society and for the region's integration into European and global economic and security institutions.
Author : Hans-Dieter Klingemann,Dieter Fuchs,Jan Zielonka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415386020
What is the relationship between democracy and political culture in countries undergoing major systemic change? Have subjective political orientations of citizens been important in shaping the development of democracy in central and eastern Europe after the fall of communism? These core questions are tackled by an impressive range of twenty political scientists, sixteen of which are based in the central and eastern European countries covered in this essential new book. Their analyses draw on a unique set of data collected and processed by the contributors to this volume within the framework of the World Values Survey project. This data enables these authors to establish similarities and differences in support of democracy between a large number of countries with different cultural and structural conditions as well as historical legacies. The macro-level findings of the book tend to support the proposition that support of democracy declines the further east one goes. In contrast, micro-level relationships have been found to be astonishingly similar. For example, support of democracy is always positively related to higher levels of education – no matter where an individual citizen happens to live. This new book builds a clear understanding of what makes democracies strong and resistant to autocratic temptation.
Author : Peter F. Sugar,Ivo John Lederer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473199093
Author : Eli Valley
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0765760002
The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide and Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest is the most comprehensive guidebook covering all aspects of Jewish history and contemporary life in Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest. This remarkable book includes detailed histories of the Jews in these cities, walking tours of Jewish districts past and present, intensive descriptions of Jewish sites, fascinating accounts of local Jewish legend and lore, and practical information for Jewish travelers to the region.
Author : Søren Rinder Bollerup
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : OCLC:1349254582
