Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe

Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe

Author: H.Gordon Skilling

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1989-06-18

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1349092843

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This study of the "independent life of society" (dissent) in Central and Eastern Europe examines the forms of independent activity at work today. Included are autonomous family life, religion and nationalism, the second economy, "samizdat" communications, the second culture and social deviance.


Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

Author: Tõnis Mets

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781138228511

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This text provides an overview of entrepreneurship in a range of important emerging markets. A team of expert contributors provide analysis of entrepreneurship practice. Empirical insight into how entrepreneurial firms in Central and Eastern Europe internationalize is supplemented with context provided by world-renowned editors.


Inventing Eastern Europe

Inventing Eastern Europe

Author: Larry Wolff

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780804727020

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Wolff explores how Western thinkers contributed to defining and characterizing Eastern Europe as half-civilized and barbaric.


Developments in Central and East European Politics 5

Developments in Central and East European Politics 5

Author: Stephen White

Publisher: Red Globe Press

Published: 2013-08-30

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781137262998

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The new edition of this market-leading text brings together specially commissioned chapters by a team of top international scholars on the changing politics of this diverse region negotiating the competing pulls of the European Union and post-communist Russia.


Eastern Europe Unmapped

Eastern Europe Unmapped

Author: Irene Kacandes

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2017-10-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 178533686X

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Arguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural-economic elites to the poorest emigrants, have consistently forged or fathomed links to distant lands, populations, and intellectual traditions. Through a series of inventive cultural and historical explorations, Eastern Europe Unmapped dispenses with scholars’ long-time preoccupation with national and regional borders, instead raising provocative questions about the area’s non-contiguous—and frequently global or extraterritorial—entanglements.


From Peoples Into Nations

From Peoples Into Nations

Author: John Connelly

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 966

ISBN-13: 0691167125

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Peoples of Eastern Europe -- Ethnicity on the edge of extinction -- Linguistic nationalism -- Nationality struggles : from idea to movement -- Insurgent nationalism : Serbia and Poland -- Cursed are the peacemakers : 1848 in East Central Europe -- The reform that made the monarchy unreformable : the 1867 compromise -- 1878 Berlin Congress : Europe's new ethno-nation states -- The origins of National Socialism : fin de siecle Hungary and Bohemia -- Liberalism's heirs and enemies : socialism vs. nationalism -- Peasant utopias : villages of yesterday and societies of tomorrow -- 1919 : a new Europe and its old problems -- The failure of national self-determination -- Fascism takes root : Iron Guard and Arrow Cross -- East Europe's anti-fascism -- Hitler's war and its East European enemies -- What Dante did not see : the Holocaust in Eastern Europe -- People's democracy : early postwar Eastern Europe -- Cold War and Stalinism -- Destalinization : Hungary's revolution -- National paths to communism : the 1960s -- 1968 and the Soviet bloc : reform communism -- Real existing socialism : life in the Soviet bloc -- The unraveling of communism -- 1989 -- East Europe explodes : the wars of Yugoslav succession -- East Europe joins Europe.


The World beyond the West

The World beyond the West

Author: Mariusz Kałczewiak

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-03-11

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1800733534

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No matter how one defines its extent and borders, Eastern Europe has long been understood as a liminal space, one whose undeniable cultural and historical continuities with Western Europe have been belied by its status as an “Other” in the Western imagination. Across illuminating and provocative case studies, The World beyond the West focuses on the region’s ambiguous relationship to historical processes of colonialism and Orientalism. In exploring encounters with distant lands through politics, travel, migration, and exchange, it places Eastern Europe at the heart of its analysis while decentering the most familiar narratives and recasting the history of the region.


Social Currents in Eastern Europe

Social Currents in Eastern Europe

Author: Sabrina P. Ramet

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 9780822315483

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Examines the meanings and sources of various social currents - intellectual dissent, feminism, religious activism, the formation of independent youth cultures and movements, and trade unionism - in seven communist countries.


The Art of Peacemaking

The Art of Peacemaking

Author: István Bibó

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 0300203780

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"Istvâan Bibâo (1911-1979) was a Hungarian lawyer, political thinker, prolific essayist, and minister of state for the Hungarian national government during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This magisterial compendium of Bibâo's essays introduces English-speaking audiences to the writings of one of the foremost theorists and psychologists of twentieth-century European politics and culture. Elegantly translated by Pâeter Pâasztor and with a scholarly introduction by Ivâan Zoltâan Dâenes, the essays in this volume address the causes and fallout of European political crises, postwar changes in the balance of power among countries, and nation-building processes"--