The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe

Author : Gyorgy Peteri
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 082297391X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union written by Gyorgy Peteri and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : György Péteri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781306944397
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union written by György Péteri and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : György Péteri
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822961253
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union written by György Péteri and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international group of writers 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.

Author : Sven G. Holtsmark
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349232343
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, 1945–89 written by Sven G. Holtsmark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a series of recent analyses spanning the whole period of Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. The essays - by Western, Russian, and East European experts - present a wide and varied picture of the period. The authors use newly available materials to investigate different aspects of Soviet-East European relations - party affairs, military and political coordination, cultural and mass media policies, as well as the crises and conflicts emerging from the relationship itself.

Author : A. Ross Johnson
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155211906
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Broadcasting written by A. Ross Johnson and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have conducted research on the subject in once-secret Soviet bloc archives and in Western records. It also contains a selection of translated documents from formerly secret Soviet and East European archives, most of them published here for the first time.

Author : Jan Adam
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349197092
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Reforms in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the 1960s written by Jan Adam and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-01-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses the traditional system of management of the economy as it existed in the early 1950s in the USSR and goes on to deal with the reforms of the 1960s and of the 1980s, country by country. He shows that the focus of the reforms is on finding a proper combination of planning and the market mechanism, and their success will be judged by their ability to solve acute economic problems.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949: Eastern Europe; the Soviet Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Kramer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179363193X
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe written by Mark Kramer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe examines how the neutral European countries and the Soviet Union interacted after World War II. Amid the Cold War division of Europe into Western and Eastern blocs, several long-time neutral countries abandoned neutrality and joined NATO. Other countries remained neutral but were still perceived as a threat to the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence. Based on extensive archival research, this volume offers state-of-the-art essays about relations between Europe’s neutral states and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and how these relations were perceived by other powers.

Author : William Woodruff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349122327
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of the Modern World written by William Woodruff and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-12-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the major changes in world history and world economy during the past five hundred years and explains to what extent world forces have been responsible for shaping both past and present. Its underlying theme is the struggle for power in which, since the sixteenth century, the West has prevailed. Many of the problems of the contemporary world - including terrorism - are the legacy of the period of Western domination. Until the rise of the West, and its incomparable impact on every branch of human activity, the centre of the world has been in Asia. By the nineteenth century world power was firmly in the hands of the West. America's later rise to world status was prompted by the two world wars. The most prominent of the Western nations, the US is now blamed for all the excesses of an earlier colonial age.

Author : Minton F. Goldman
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
ISBN 13 : 9780879678609
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe written by Minton F. Goldman and published by McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the geographical, cultural, sociopolitical, and economic aspects of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.