Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union / editor, György Péteri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Péteri, György, editor.

Series:

Series in Russian and East European studies.

Kritika historical studies.

Pitt series in Russian and East European studies

Kritika historical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographical perception--Europe, Eastern--History.

Geographical perception.

Geographical perception--Soviet Union--History.

East and West.

Transnationalism.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 330 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Imagining the West in Eastern Europe & the Soviet Union

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822973911

082297391X

OCLC:

867796779