Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union / edited by György Péteri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Péteri, György.

Series:

Series in Russian and East European studies

Kritika historical studies

Pitt series in Russian and East European studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographical perception.

History.

Relations.

Europe, Eastern--Relations--Western countries.

Europe, Eastern.

Russia--Relations--Western countries.

Russia.

Soviet Union--Relations--Western countries.

Soviet Union.

Western countries--Relations--Europe, Eastern.

Western countries.

Western countries--Relations--Russia.

Western countries--Relations--Soviet Union.

Geographical perception--Europe, Eastern--History.

Geographical perception--Soviet Union--History.

East and West.

Transnationalism.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

vi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2010]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780822961253

0822961253

OCLC:

617508603