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Retroactive Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Retroactive Justice

The book offers a vast panorama of Communism from the perspective of its collapse, and inspects the world beyond the fall in the distorting mirror of its imagined prehistory—providing in the process a perceptive analysis of a number of the fundamental issues of history writing.

Directory of Officials of the Hungarian People's Republic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Directory of Officials of the Hungarian People's Republic

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1975
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge

Cover -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader on Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Beau Monde on the Borderlands -- 1 The Russian Imperial Southwest: Theatre in the Age of Modernism and Pogroms -- 2 The Literary Fair: Mikhail Bulgakov and Mykola Kulish -- 3 Comedy Soviet and Ukrainian? Il'f-Petrov and Ostap Vyshnia -- 4 The Official Artist: Solomon Mikhoels and Les' Kurbas -- 5 The Arts Official: Andrii Khvylia, Vsevolod Balyts'kyi, and the Kremlin -- 6 The Soviet Beau Monde: The Gulag and Kremlin Cabaret -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies

  • Categories: Art

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction to Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies -- Part One: History, Theory, and Methodology for Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies -- The Study of Hungarian Culture as Comparative Central European Cultural Studies -- Literacy, Culture, and History in the Work of Thienemann and Hajnal -- Vámbéry, Victorian Culture, and Stoker's Dracula -- Memory and Modernity in Fodor's Geographical Work on Hungary -- The Fragmented (Cultural) Body in Polcz's Asszony a fronton (A Woman on the Front) -- Part Two: Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies of Literature and Culture -- Contemporary Hungarian Literary Criticism and the Memory of the Socialist ...

Intertextual Loops in Modern Drama
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Intertextual Loops in Modern Drama

Kiebuzinska, who teaches modern drama, comparative literature, and film at Virginia Tech, considers intertextuality in modern drama. In nine essays, she examines the connections between the works of modern playwrights such as Kundera, Jelinek, and Hampton and the texts of earlier writers such as Did

Buying a Better World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Buying a Better World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-02-21
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  • Publisher: Dundurn

George Soros is a billionaire and a philanthropist, a social activist who uses his wealth to champion social causes and change the world. With access to Soros and his Open Society Foundations, Anna Porter examines the growth of the man and the organization, the causes he has championed, and his successes and failures.

The New Detente
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

The New Detente

Introduction by Mary Kaldor.

Memory, Humanity, and Meaning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 556

Memory, Humanity, and Meaning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Zeta Books

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Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, II

A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of reductionism.

The Terrorist Album
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

The Terrorist Album

An award-winning historian and journalist tells the very human story of apartheid’s afterlife, tracing the fates of South African insurgents, collaborators, and the security police through the tale of the clandestine photo album used to target apartheid’s enemies. From the 1960s until the early 1990s, the South African security police and counterinsurgency units collected over 7,000 photographs of apartheid’s enemies. The political rogue’s gallery was known as the “terrorist album,” copies of which were distributed covertly to police stations throughout the country. Many who appeared in the album were targeted for surveillance. Sometimes the security police tried to turn them; so...