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Luxury and the Ruling Elite in Socialist Hungary
After World War II, a new community of elite emerged in Hungary, in spite of the communist principles espoused by the government. In Luxury and the Ruling Elite in Socialist Hungary, György Majtényi allows us a peek inside their affluence. Majtényi exposes the lavish standard of living that the higher echelon enjoyed, complete with pools, Persian rugs, extravagant furniture, servants, and groundskeepers. They shopped in private stores stocked with expensive meats and tropical fruits just for them. They benefited from access to everything from books, telephone lines, and international travel to hunting grounds, soccer games, and even the choicest cemetery plots. But Majtényi also reveals the underbelly of such society, particularly how these privileges were used as a way of maintaining power, initiating or denying entry to party members, and strengthening the very hierarchies that communism promised to abolish. Taking readers on a fascinating and often surprising look inside the manor homes and vacation villas of wealthy post–World War II Hungarians, Majtényi offers fresh insight into the realities of patriarchy, loyalty, gender, and class within the communist regime.
Extraordinary Ordinariness
This collection of essays looks at everyday heroes and heroines--ordinary men, women, and children who are honored for actual or imagined feats. Comparing the United States, Germany, and Britain, it asks both when this particular hero type first emerged and how it was discussed and depicted in political discourse, mass media, literature, film, and other forms of popular culture. Looking across fields of study, countries, and centuries, this book sheds new light on the many social, cultural, and political functions that our everyday heroes have served.
Catholicism and Nationalism
This book addresses the adaptation of nationalism to the sharing of sovereignty with other nations in supranational arrangements beyond the state or with nations and nationalities within the state. It compares two cases, Poland and Spain, where the outcome of this processes of transformation differed: whereas in Spain a unified right wing partially reconciled Spain with the Catalonian, Basque and Galician nationalisms, in Poland the right wing was structured around two opposed conceptions of Polish nationalism and their relation to other nations. The book relates the transformation of nationalism in Poland and Spain, where the national and religious identity was closely interconnected, with the interaction between the Catholic Church and the political regimes in the second part of the 20th century. Catholicism and Nationalism argues that the decision of the Polish hierarchy to mobilize National Catholicism as a political identity in the early years of democracy had a lasting impact on the shape of the right wing and, ultimately, also on the consolidation of an introverted nationalism skeptical of European integration.
Mnemonic Ecologies
An exploration of the Green Belt conservation project between the former East and West Germanies and its relationship to emergent ecosystems, trauma, and memorialization. The first book-length scholarly treatment of Germany’s largest conservation project, the Green Belt, Mnemonic Ecologies by Sonja Pieck presents a new interdisciplinary approach: that effective restoration and conservation of wounded land must merge ecology with memory. Since the Cold War’s end in 1989, German conservationists have transformed the once-militarized border between East and West Germany into an extensive protected area. Yet as forests, meadows, and wetlands replace fences, minefields, and guard towers, ecol...
There are Two German States and Two Must Remain?
In the night of 9 November the images of thousands of Eastern Germans pouring into Berlin security checkpoints at Bernauerstraße and West Berliners knocking the first brick out of the Wall literally travelled around the world. More than any other frontier, the division of Berlin as its physical representation epitomized in peoples mind the ultimate sign of the division of Europe into spheres of influence. More than any other event in Central Eastern Europe, the Berlin Walls demolition contributed to reshape both geographical maps and ideological camps. It is, therefore, not in the least surprising that these events captured the attention of millions of Europeans, ranging from present-day ob...
Religion and Modernity
This is not a book that provides a new integrated theory of religious change in modern societies, but rather one that develops theoretical elements that contribute to the understanding of some contemporary religious developments. Most of the approaches in sociology of religion are prone to emphasize either processes of religious decline or of religious upswing. For example, secularization theory usually includes a couple of relevant factors--such as functional differentiation, economic affluence or social equality--in order to account for religious change. However, the result of such a theory's empirical analyses seems to be certain in advance, namely that the social relevance of religion is...
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***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Górny: Historiker, studierte an der Warschauer Universität, promovierte an der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Warschau und am Berliner Kolleg für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas. Stipendiat des polnischen Kultusministeriums, der Stiftung für die polnische Wissenschaft (Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej) sowie der Hertie-Stiftung. Ab 2006 Adiunkt am Institut Für Geschichte der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2006-2010 arbeitete er als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Zentrum für Historische Forschung Berlin der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Zu seinen wichtigsten Publikationen gehören die Monographien Między Marksem a Pala...
Schleichwege
Mit der Öffnung der Grenzen innerhalb des Ostblocks, mit dem Austausch von Vertragsarbeitern und Studenten und der Gründung von Kulturinstituten suchten die staatssozialistischen Regime einen lebendigen Kontakt zwischen den Brudervölkern zu etablieren. Diese »transnationalen Zwischenräume« schufen zugleich Freiräume alternativer Kulturen und Lebensstile, förderten einen umfassenden, geradezu sprichwörtlichen Schleichhandel und stabilisierten schließlich die wechselseitige Ablehnung in der Zwangsgemeinschaft des Staatssozialismus. Die hier versammelten Beiträge ost- und westeuropäischer Zeithistoriker ermöglichen tiefe Einblicke in zentrale Fragen einer Alltagsgeschichte des Staatssozialismus und zeichnen ein farbiges Bild voller Spannungen zwischen staatlicher Kontrolle und alltäglichem Eigensinn.
Der Große Umbau
Die russische Revolution der Jahre 1985 bis 1991 ist vom Politbüro ausgegangen. Ihr Ziel war die Abschaffung der KPdSU und der Aufbau demokratischer Strukturen. Vorausgegangen war ein langer Kampf gegen den Stalinismus und die Erkenntnis, dass die Herrschaft der Kommunistischen Partei das Land in die ökologische Katastrophe, in die Überrüstung und die internationale Isolation geführt hatte. Da das System sich als reformunfähig erwiesen hatte, konnte nur ein kompletter Umbau des Staates Russland retten. Wolfgang Geierhos beschreibt diesen Weg. Die Entwicklungen in den anderen sozialistischen Staaten blieben dabei nicht ohne Einfluss auf die Sowjetunion selbst. Am Ende aber war nicht nur Russland von der bolschewistischen Herrschaft, sondern auch Europa vom “Eisernen Vorhang“ befreit und Deutschland vereint. Wolfgang Geierhos (*1940) war Professor an der Hochschule der Sächsischen Polizei und hat zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen zur russischen Geschichte und internationalen Sicherheit vorgelegt.
Zwischen Widerstand und Repression
***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Lienert: 1979-1984 Studium Archivwissenschaft/Geschichte an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 1984 TU Dresden / Universitätsarchiv 1990 Promotion 1994 Direktor des Universitätsarchivs Publikationen zur Geschichte der TU Dresden und ihrer Persönlichkeiten / Quellen- editionen / institutionsgeschichtliche Arbeiten / Bearbeitung von Projekten der DFG Und der VW-Stiftung.
