Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union /
Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union /
edited by György Péteri.
- 1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations.
- Pitt series in Russian and East European studies Kritika historical studies .
- Series in Russian and East European studies. Kritika historical studies. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: The oblique coordinate systems of modern identity / György Péteri -- Were the Czechs more Western than Slavic? Nineteenth-century travel literature from Russia by disillusioned Czechs / Karen Gammelgaard -- Privileged origins : "national models" and reforms of public health in interwar Hungary / Erik Ingebrigtsen -- Defending children's rights, "in defense of peace" : children and Soviet cultural diplomacy / Catriona Kelly -- East as true West : redeeming bourgeois culture, from socialist realism to Ostalgie / Greg Castillo -- Paris or Moscow? Warsaw architects and the image of the modern city in the 1950s / David Crowley -- Imagining Richard Wagner : the Janus head of a divided nation / Elaine Kelly -- From Iron Curtain to silver screen : imagining the West in the Khrushchev era / Anne E. Gorsuch -- Mirror, mirror, on the wall-- is the West the fairest of them all? Czechoslovak normalization and its (dis)contents / Paulina Bren -- Who will beat whom? Soviet popular reception of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 / Susan E. Reid -- Moscow human rights defenders look West : attitudes toward U.S. journalists in the 1960s and 1970s / Barbara Walker -- Conclusion: Transnational history and the East-West divide / Michael David-Fox.
9780822973911 (e-book)
Geographical perception--History.--Europe, Eastern
Geographical perception--History.--Soviet Union
East and West.
Transnationalism.
Europe, Eastern--Relations--Western countries.
Russia--Relations--Western countries.
Soviet Union--Relations--Western countries.
Western countries--Relations--Europe, Eastern.
Western countries--Relations--Russia.
Western countries--Relations--Soviet Union.
Electronic books.
DJK45.W47 / I45 2010eb
303.48/24701821
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: The oblique coordinate systems of modern identity / György Péteri -- Were the Czechs more Western than Slavic? Nineteenth-century travel literature from Russia by disillusioned Czechs / Karen Gammelgaard -- Privileged origins : "national models" and reforms of public health in interwar Hungary / Erik Ingebrigtsen -- Defending children's rights, "in defense of peace" : children and Soviet cultural diplomacy / Catriona Kelly -- East as true West : redeeming bourgeois culture, from socialist realism to Ostalgie / Greg Castillo -- Paris or Moscow? Warsaw architects and the image of the modern city in the 1950s / David Crowley -- Imagining Richard Wagner : the Janus head of a divided nation / Elaine Kelly -- From Iron Curtain to silver screen : imagining the West in the Khrushchev era / Anne E. Gorsuch -- Mirror, mirror, on the wall-- is the West the fairest of them all? Czechoslovak normalization and its (dis)contents / Paulina Bren -- Who will beat whom? Soviet popular reception of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 / Susan E. Reid -- Moscow human rights defenders look West : attitudes toward U.S. journalists in the 1960s and 1970s / Barbara Walker -- Conclusion: Transnational history and the East-West divide / Michael David-Fox.
9780822973911 (e-book)
Geographical perception--History.--Europe, Eastern
Geographical perception--History.--Soviet Union
East and West.
Transnationalism.
Europe, Eastern--Relations--Western countries.
Russia--Relations--Western countries.
Soviet Union--Relations--Western countries.
Western countries--Relations--Europe, Eastern.
Western countries--Relations--Russia.
Western countries--Relations--Soviet Union.
Electronic books.
DJK45.W47 / I45 2010eb
303.48/24701821