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Polish Encounters, Russian Identity
At a time when Poland is emphasizing its distance from Russia, Polish Encounters, Russian Identity points to the historical ties and mutual influences of these two great Slavic peoples. Whether Poland adopted a hostile or a friendly stance toward Russia, the intense responses of Russian thinkers, writers, and political leaders to Poland and to Polish culture shaped Russians' idea of themselves and their place in the world. Countering the recent trend to deny the rich interactions between Russia and Poland, this collection reminds readers that these longstanding, if often difficult, contacts constitute an important and enduring element in the consciousness of the peoples of both countries. The contributors are Manon de Courten, Megan Dixon, Halina Goldberg, Leonid Efremovich Gorizontov, Irina Grudzinska, Beth Holmgren, Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Matthew Pauly, Nina Perlina, Robert Przygrodski, David L. Ransel, Bozena Shallcross, Barbara Skinner, and Andrzej Walicki.
Polish Literature and National Identity
A postcolonial study of Polish literature from Romanticism to the twenty-first century
Eurasian Slavery, Ransom and Abolition in World History, 1200-1860
Recent research has demonstrated that early modern slavery was much more widespread than the traditional concentration on plantation slavery in the context of European colonial expansion would suggest. Slavery and slave trading, though little researched, were common across wide stretches of Eurasia, and a slave economy played a vital part in the political and cultural contacts between Russia and its Eurasian neighbours. This volume concentrates on captivity, slavery, ransom and abolition in the vicinity of the Eurasian steppe from the early modern period to recent developments and explores their legacy and relevance down to the modern times. The contributions centre on the Russian Empire, wh...
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Stories of Khmelnytsky
In the middle of the seventeenth century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the legendary Cossack general who organized a rebellion that liberated the Eastern Ukraine from Polish rule. Consequently, he has been memorialized in the Ukraine as a God-given nation builder, cut in the model of George Washington. But in this campaign, the massacre of thousands of Jews perceived as Polish intermediaries was the collateral damage, and in order to secure the tentative independence, Khmelnytsky signed a treaty with Moscow, ultimately ceding the territory to the Russian tsar. So, was he a liberator or a villain? This volume examines drastically different narratives, from Ukrainian, Jewish, Russian, and Polish literature, that have sought to animate, deify, and vilify the seventeenth-century Cossack. Khmelnytsky's legacy, either as nation builder or as antagonist, has inhibited inter-ethnic and political rapprochement at key moments throughout history and, as we see in recent conflicts, continues to affect Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, and Russian national identity.
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Umbruch von unten
Das Buch ist eine Analyse der Ereignisse, die zum Systemwandel in Mittel- und Osteuropa, zur Deutschen Einheit, zum Ende der Sowjetunion und letztlich zum Ende des Ost-West-Konfliktes geführt haben. In Mitteleuropa wurde der Wandel durch regimeoppositionelle Akteure bewirkt. Der Zerfall der UdSSR war primär der Erfolg von Nationalbewegungen. Die „friedliche Revolution“ in der DDR ist im Zusammenhang mit dieser „Selbstbefreiung“ der mittel- und osteuropäischen Gesellschaften zu sehen. Auch in der DDR waren es informelle Akteure, Flucht- und Demonstrationsbewegung, die das SED-Regime zum Einsturz brachten. Der Systemwandel in Mittel- und Osteuropa war folglich primär ein „Umbruch...
