Internationalism And The Ideology Of Soviet Influence In Eastern Europe

Author : Jonathan C. Valdez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521414385

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Internationalism and the Ideology of Soviet Influence in Eastern Europe by Jonathan C. Valdez Pdf

Valdez argues that the use of the fundamental principles of Marxism-Leninism to perform various functions ultimately brought about a change in the basic assumptions of the theory itself. This resulted in the abandonment of the previous insistence on a universal model of socialism and of the idea that the international interests of the socialist bloc must take precedence over individual national interest. Soviet influence in Eastern Europe rested on little else than these ideological principles and consequently stood little chance of surviving their re-interpretation. Finally Valdez assesses the re-interpretation of the fundamental principles of Soviet-East European relations by reformist scholars in the Soviet Union, and the response by conservative members of the party apparatus.

Author : James Mark,Paul Betts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192848857

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Socialism Goes Global by James Mark,Paul Betts Pdf

This collectively written monograph is the first work to provide a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world. It ranges from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, but at its core is the dynamic of the post-1945 period, when socialism's importance as a globalising force accelerated and drew together what contemporaries called the 'Second' and 'Third Worlds'. At the centre of this history is the encounter between the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on one hand, and a wider world casting off European empires or struggling against western imperialism on the other. The origins of these connections are traced back to new forms of internationalism enabled by the Russian Revolution; the interplay between the first 'decolonisation' of the twentieth century in Eastern Europe and rising anti-colonial movements; and the global rise of fascism, which created new connections between East and South. The heart of the study, however, lies in the Cold War, when these contacts and relationships dramatically intensified. A common embrace of socialist modernisation and anti-imperial culture opened up possibilities for a new and meaningful exchange between the peripheries of Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Such linkages are examined across many different fields - from health to archaeology, economic development to the arts - and through many people - from students to experts to labour migrants - who all helped to shape a different form and meaning of globalisation.

Author : Patryk Babiracki,Austin Jersild
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319325705

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Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War by Patryk Babiracki,Austin Jersild Pdf

This volume examines how numerous international transfers, circulations, and exchanges shaped the world of socialism during the Cold War. Over the course of half a century, the Soviets shaped politics, values and material culture throughout the vast space of Eurasia, and foreign forces in turn often influenced Soviet policies and society. The result was the distinct and interconnected world of socialism, or the Socialist Second World. Drawing on previously unavailable archival sources and cutting-edge insights from “New Cold War” and transnational histories, the twelve contributors to this volume focus on diverse cultural and social forms of this global socialist exchange: the cults of communist leaders, literature, cinema, television, music, architecture, youth festivals, and cultural diplomacy. The book’s contributors seek to understand the forces that enabled and impeded the cultural consolidation of the Socialist Second World. The efforts of those who created this world, and the limitations on what they could do, remain key to understanding both the outcomes of the Cold War and a recent legacy that continues to shape lives, cultures and policies in post-communist states today.

Author : C. Holbraad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403982315

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Internationalism and Nationalism in European Political Thought by C. Holbraad Pdf

The political history of modern Europe may be seen in terms of continuous interaction between rivalling forms of internationalism and diverse kinds of nationalism. This book distinguishes, analyses and presents the different kinds and varieties of internationalist and nationalist ideology that have played significant parts in the international politics of the region, particularly since the Second World War. It indicates the origins of each pattern of thought, traces its development, brings out its relationship with other strands of thought and outlines its major political influences. The emphasis is on internationalist support for and nationalist opposition to the principal regional international organizations.

Author : Maud Bracke
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9637326944

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Which Socialism, Whose D‚tente? by Maud Bracke Pdf

"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.

Author : Tobias Rupprecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107102880

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Soviet Internationalism after Stalin by Tobias Rupprecht Pdf

The first multi-archive-based study of Soviet relations with Latin America from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Author : W. Kemp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230375253

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Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union by W. Kemp Pdf

Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union looks at communism's attempts to come to terms with nationalism between Marx and Yeltsin, how the inability of communist theorists and practitioners to achieve an effective synthesis between nationalism and communism contributed to communism's collapse, and what lessons that holds for contemporary Europe.

Author : Gurminder K. Bhambra,John Narayan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317335726

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European Cosmopolitanism by Gurminder K. Bhambra,John Narayan Pdf

This book provides a fresh examination of the cosmopolitan project of post-war Europe from a variety of perspectives. It explores the ways in which European cosmopolitanism can be theorized differently if we take into account histories which have rarely been at the forefront of such understandings. It also uses neglected historical resources to draw out new and unexpected entanglements and connections between understandings of European cosmopolitanism both in Europe and elsewhere. The final part of the book places European cosmopolitanism in tension with contemporary postcolonial configurations around diaspora, migration, and austerity. Overall, it seeks to draw attention to the ways in which Europe’s posited others have always been very much a part of Europe’s colonial histories and its postcolonial present.

Author : Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1645 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315480831

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The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies by Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh Pdf

This bibliography, first published in 1957, provides citations to North American academic literature on Europe, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet Union. Organised by discipline, it covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and technology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070212621

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Europe, Eastern by Anonim Pdf

Author : Annette Vowinckel,Marcus M. Payk,Thomas Lindenberger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857452436

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Cold War Cultures by Annette Vowinckel,Marcus M. Payk,Thomas Lindenberger Pdf

The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term "Cold War Culture" is often used in a broad sense to describe media influences, social practices, and symbolic representations as they shape, and are shaped by, international relations. Yet, it remains in question whether -- or to what extent -- the Cold War Culture model can be applied to European societies, both in the East and the West. While every European country had to adapt to the constraints imposed by the Cold War, individual development was affected by specific conditions as detailed in these chapters. This volume offers an important contribution to the international debate on this issue of the Cold War impact on everyday life by providing a better understanding of its history and legacy in Eastern and Western Europe.

Author : S. Frederick Starr,Karen Dawisha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317456162

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The International Politics of Eurasia by S. Frederick Starr,Karen Dawisha Pdf

First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Author : James Mark,Artemy M. Kalinovsky,Steffi Marung
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253046536

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Alternative Globalizations by James Mark,Artemy M. Kalinovsky,Steffi Marung Pdf

Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War. Gathering the work of established and upcoming scholars of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China, Alternative Globalizations addresses the new relationships and interconnections which emerged between a decolonizing world in the postwar period and an increasingly internationalist eastern bloc after the death of Stalin. In many cases, the legacies of these former globalizing impulses from the socialist world still exist today. Divided into four sections, the works gathered examine the economic, political, developmental, and cultural aspects of this exchange. In doing so, the authors break new ground in exploring this understudied history of globalization and provide a multifaceted study of an increasing postwar interconnectedness across a socialist world.

Author : Rudolf Bahro
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789606812

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The Alternative in Eastern Europe by Rudolf Bahro Pdf

The contemporary Marxist writer provides analyses of socialist theory, modern political struggle, and socialist societies in Eastern Europe.

Author : Matthias Middell,Steffi Marung
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110639414

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Spatial Formats under the Global Condition by Matthias Middell,Steffi Marung Pdf

Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re-)spatialization on the one hand and the establishment and characteristics of spatial formats on the other hand. Under the global condition spatial formats are products of collective negotiations on the most effective and widely acceptable balance between the claim for sovereignty and the need for interconnectedness.