Understanding Central Europe

Author : Marcin Moskalewicz,Wojciech Przybylski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351654524

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Understanding Central Europe by Marcin Moskalewicz,Wojciech Przybylski Pdf

“Central Europe” is a vague and ambiguous term, more to do with outlook and a state of mind than with a firmly defined geographical region. In the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Central Europeans considered themselves to be culturally part of the West, which had been politically handicapped by the Eastern Soviet bloc. More recently, and with European Union membership, Central Europeans are increasingly thinking of themselves as politically part of the West, but culturally part of the East. This book, with contributions from a large number of scholars from the region, explores the concept of “Central Europe” and a number of other political concepts from an openly Central European perspective. It considers a wide range of issues including politics, nationalism, democracy, and the impact of culture, art and history. Overall, the book casts a great deal of light on the complex nature of “Central Europe”.

Author : Csaba G. Kiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Europe, Central
ISBN : 9633320410

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Understanding Central Europe: Nations and Stereotypes by Csaba G. Kiss Pdf

Author : Lonnie Johnson,Lonnie R. Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195100716

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Central Europe by Lonnie Johnson,Lonnie R. Johnson Pdf

Throughout the ages, small nations struggled valiantly against a series of imperial powers - Ottoman Turkey, Habsburg Austria, imperial Germany, czarist Russia, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union - and they lost regularly. Johnson's account is present-minded in the best sense: in describing actual historical events, he illustrates the ways they have been remembered, and how they contribute to the national assumptions that still drive European politics today.

Author : Johannes Feichtinger,Gary B. Cohen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782382652

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Understanding Multiculturalism by Johannes Feichtinger,Gary B. Cohen Pdf

Multiculturalism has long been linked to calls for tolerance of cultural diversity, but today many observers are subjecting the concept to close scrutiny. After the political upheavals of 1968, the commitment to multiculturalism was perceived as a liberal manifesto, but in the post-9/11 era, it is under attack for its relativizing, particularist, and essentializing implications. The essays in this collection offer a nuanced analysis of the multifaceted cultural experience of Central Europe under the late Habsburg monarchy and beyond. The authors examine how culturally coded social spaces can be described and understood historically without adopting categories formerly employed to justify the definition and separation of groups into nations, ethnicities, or homogeneous cultures. As we consider the issues of multiculturalism today, this volume offers new approaches to understanding multiculturalism in Central Europe freed of the effects of politically exploited concepts of social spaces.

Author : Howard Louthan,Gary B. Cohen,Franz A. J. Szabo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857451095

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Diversity and Dissent by Howard Louthan,Gary B. Cohen,Franz A. J. Szabo Pdf

Early modern Central Europe was the continent’s most decentralized region politically and its most diverse ethnically and culturally. With the onset of the Reformation, it also became Europe’s most religiously divided territory and potentially its most explosive in terms of confessional conflict and war. Focusing on the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this volume examines the tremendous challenge of managing confessional diversity in Central Europe between 1500 and 1800. Addressing issues of tolerance, intolerance, and ecumenism, each chapter explores a facet of the complex dynamic between the state and the region’s Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Utraquist, and Jewish communities. The development of religious toleration—one of the most debated questions of the early modern period—is examined here afresh, with careful consideration of the factors and conditions that led to both confessional concord and religious violence.

Author : Paul Robert Magocsi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Europe centrale
ISBN : 9781487523312

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Historical Atlas of Central Europe by Paul Robert Magocsi Pdf

Central Europe remains a region of ongoing change and continuing significance in the contemporary world. This third, fully revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Central Europe takes into consideration recent changes in the region. The 120 full-colour maps, each accompanied by an explanatory text, provide a concise visual survey of political, economic, demographic, cultural, and religious developments from the fall of the Roman Empire in the early fifth century to the present. No less than 19 countries are the subject of this atlas. In terms of today's borders, those countries include Lithuania, Poland, and Belarus in the north; the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, and Slovakia in the Danubian Basin; and Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, and Greece in the Balkans. Much attention is also given to areas immediately adjacent to the central European core: historic Prussia, Venetia, western Anatolia, and Ukraine west of the Dnieper River. Embedded in the text are 48 updated administrative and statistical tables. The value of the Historical Atlas of Central Europe as an authoritative reference tool is further enhanced by an extensive bibliography and a gazetteer of place names - in up to 29 language variants - that appear on the maps and in the text. The Historical Atlas of Central Europe is an invaluable resource for scholars, students, journalists, and general readers who wish to have a fuller understanding of this critical area, with its many peoples, languages, and continued political upheaval.

Author : Marija Wakounig,Ferdinand Kühnel
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Austria
ISBN : 3643907389

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Central Europe (re-)visited by Marija Wakounig,Ferdinand Kühnel Pdf

During the 1970s the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the world wide 'spreading' of similar institutions; currently eight Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven states on three continents. The financial funding of the Ministry enabled these, to connect senior with young scholars, to help the latter, to participate and benefit from the scientific connection of the former, as the Austrian say 'to sniff the scientific air'. A major reason for the founding of these Centers was the need of the Ministry, to conduct research abroad and to get in touch with the respective national scientific community, to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better understanding and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe. This volume contains the annual reports (2014/2015) of the Center Director's and the presented papers of the PhDs, which deal with/discuss various topics on Central European History in Modern Times. The Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies, founded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Sciences, Research and Economy since the 1970s play an important role for the Austrian and international scientific community. Their tasks are to promote studies on Austrian and Central Europe in their host nations as well as to offer Austrian and Central European students the opportunity to conduct research abroad and to get in touch with the local scientific community. This anthology contains reports on the activities of the Centers in the Academic Year 2014/2015 and papers of their most promising PhD-students. Mag. Dr. Marija Wakounig, MAS, Professor at the Institute of East European History, University of Vienna. Ferdinand KÃ?1⁄4hnel, Phd fellow at the Institute of East European History, University of Vienna

Author : Bojan Aleksov,Aliaksandr Piahanau
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633863367

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Wars and Betweenness by Bojan Aleksov,Aliaksandr Piahanau Pdf

The region between the Baltic and the Black Sea was marked by a set of crises and conflicts in the 1920s and 1930s, demonstrating the diplomatic, military, economic or cultural engagement of France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Italy and Japan in this highly volatile region, and critically damaging the fragile post-Versailles political arrangement. The editors, in naming this region as "Middle Europe" seek to revive the symbolic geography of the time and accentuate its position, situated between Big Powers and two World Wars. The ten case studies in this book combine traditional diplomatic history with a broader emphasis on the geopolitical aspects of Big-Power rivalry to understand the interwar period. The essays claim that the European Big Powers played a key role in regional affairs by keeping the local conflicts and national movements under control and by exploiting the region's natural resources and military dependencies, while at the same time strengthening their prestige through cultural penetration and the cultivation of client networks. The authors, however, want to avoid the simplistic view that the Big Powers fully dominated the lesser players on the European stage. The relationship was indeed hierarchical, but the essays also reveal how the "small states" manipulated Big-Power disagreements, highlighting the limits of the latters' leverage throughout the 1920s and the 1930s.

Author : Kacper Szulecki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030226138

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Dissidents in Communist Central Europe by Kacper Szulecki Pdf

This monograph traces the history of the dissident as a transnational phenomenon, exploring Soviet dissidents in Communist Central Europe from the mid-1960s until 1989. It argues that our understanding of the transnational activist would not be what it is today without the input of Central European oppositionists and ties the term to the global emergence and evolution of human rights. The book examines how we define dissidents and explores the association of political resistance to authoritarian regimes, as well as the impact of domestic and international recognition of the dissident figure. Turning to literature to analyse the meaning and impact of the dissident label, the book also incorporates interviews and primary accounts from former activists. Combining a unique theoretical approach with new empirical material, this book will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary history, politics and culture in Central Europe.

Author : Stefan Auer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134378593

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Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe by Stefan Auer Pdf

After the collapse of communism there was a widespread fear that nationalism would pose a serious threat to the development of liberal democracy in the countries of central Europe. This book examines the role of nationalism in post-communist development in central Europe, focusing in particular on Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It argues that a certain type of nationalism, that is liberal nationalism, has positively influenced the process of postcommunist transition towards the emerging liberal democratic order.

Author : Wojciech Ostrowski,Eamonn Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317311041

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Understanding Energy Security in Central and Eastern Europe by Wojciech Ostrowski,Eamonn Butler Pdf

The purpose of this book is to move beyond the approach which views energy as a purely geopolitical tool of the Russian state and assumes a 'one size fits all' approach to energy security in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It argues that in order to fully understand Russian involvement in the regional energy complex, the CEE-Russian energy relationship should be analysed in the context of the political and economic transitions that Russia and the CEE states underwent. The chapters on individual countries in the book demonstrate that, although Russia has and will continue to play a substantial role in the CEE energy sector, the scope of its possible influence has been overstated.

Author : Jakub Tyszkiewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000479843

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Human Rights and Political Dissent in Central Europe by Jakub Tyszkiewicz Pdf

This volume examines to what extent the positive atmosphere created by the Helsinki Accords contributed to the change in political circumstances seen in the countries of Central Europe, under Soviet domination. It focuses in particular on - firstly - a consequent new impetus to bolster human rights in international politics, as Western democracies - especially the US - integrated human rights concerns into its foreign policy relations with Soviet Bloc countries and - secondly – how this Western embrace of human rights seemed to create new incentives for increased dissident activity in Central and Eastern Europe and from 1976 onward. Finally, the book reminds us of the significant role of the Helsinki Accords in developing democratic practices in Eastern European societies under Soviet domination in 1975-1989 and in creating the conditions for the peaceful transition to democratic government in the years that followed. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of the history of communism, post-Soviet, Russian, and central and East European politics, the history of human rights, and democratization.

Author : Paul G. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317900702

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Central Europe Since 1945 by Paul G. Lewis Pdf

Central Europe - here, Poland, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and Hungary - is at the centre of international attention since the Soviet collapse. An understanding of its postwar history is critical to an appreciation of the challenges facing its present rulers. This is an engrossing account of the installation, development, operation and eventual downfall of its (very different) communist regimes, and the transition to the freedoms and uncertainties of the post-Soviet world. The book covers political, economic, social and cultural change, emphasising the crucial relationships with the USSR throughout.

Author : Jan Dr. Fellerer,Robert Pyrah,Marius Turda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000497274

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Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe by Jan Dr. Fellerer,Robert Pyrah,Marius Turda Pdf

This volume addresses the question of ‘identity’ in East-Central Europe. It engages with a specific definition of ‘sub-cultures’ over the period from c. 1900 to the present and proposes novel ways in which the term can be used with the purpose of understanding identities that do not conform to the fixed, standard categories imposed from the top down, such as ‘ethnic group’, ‘majority’ or ‘minority’. Instead, a ‘sub-culture’ is an identity that sits between these categories. It may blend languages, e.g. dialect forms, cultural practices, ethnic and social identifications, or religious affiliations as well as concepts of race and biology that, similarly, sit outside national projects.

Author : Elizabeth Dillenburg,Howard Paul Louthan,Drew B. Thomas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004462342

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Print Culture at the Crossroads by Elizabeth Dillenburg,Howard Paul Louthan,Drew B. Thomas Pdf

This book investigates the importance of printing in early-modern Central Europe, revealing a complicated web of connections linking printers and scholars, Jews and Christians, from the Baltic to the Adriatic.