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International Fascism, 1919-45
The essays that comprise this study of 20th-century fascism shift the focus away from the German and Italian models and towards the influence of fascist ideology within other countries.
Return to Normalcy Or a New Beginning
At the end of the Second World War in 1945, the countries of Western Europe found themselves at crossroads. How should they react to the challenges posed by the peace, Germany's defeat and the newly won freedom? This book presents accounts and interpretations of the immediate postwar situation in leading Western European countries and regions.
European Self-Reflection Between Politics and Religion
This collection of essays suggests new ways of looking at the intertwining of political and religious agonies in the period 1914-1991. The long 'European civil war' revealed that Europe, far from being formed by a one-track progression, has followed several tracks or fault lines, leading to a number of contrasts in European self-perception.
The Everyday and Private Life of a Communist Ruling Class
The Everyday and Private Life of a Communist Ruling Class: Greed and Creed discusses the history of everyday life under state socialism and the ways in which post-1945 modernity reached the shores of Soviet Bloc societies. This book explains state socialism’s failure to deliver on its promise to create a new type of modern civilization, an alternative to capitalism. Placing the practices of the class of salaried functionaries of the party-state in the focus, György Péteri demonstrates the decisive role of this class in bringing Western values and patterns of everyday to the cultures and societies of Eastern Europe. The empirical work presented covers areas like consumption and consumeris...
Sjælekampen
I Sjælekampen tager Rasmus Mariager læserne med på en levende rejse igennem de årtier, hvor den kolde krig gennemsyrede danskernes liv. Den kolde krig var en konfrontation mellem to imperier - det totalitære sovjetiske og det liberale amerikanske - og den formede det liv, danskerne levede. Så igennem hele bogen løber spørgsmålet, hvad den kolde krig betød for Danmark og danskerne. Sjælekampens rigt illustrerede fortælling handler om det liv, danskerne levede. Det er fortællingen om kulturkampe og tidsånd, hverdagsliv og velfærdssamfund, fremtidsfrygt, overvågning og retssikkerhed, aktivisme og stedfortræderkonflikter, sikkerhedspolitik og idépolitik.
Changing Philologies
Foreign language studies are going through a transition at a time when language competencies are key to dealing with the global economy. Hansen (U. of Copenhagen) examines the trend toward interdisciplinary studies of language and culture, history, and other disciplines. The other 11 papers drawn from the February 2002 conference in Copenhagen discuss translation and other issues. Lacks an index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945–1961
This book examines the construction, dissemination, and reception of the Stalin cult in East Germany from the end of World War II to the building of the Berlin Wall. By exporting Stalin’s cult to the Eastern bloc, Moscow aspired to symbolically unite the communist states in an imagined cult community pivoting around the Soviet leader. Based on Russian and German archives, this work analyzes the emergence of the Stalin cult’s transnational dimension. On one hand, it looks at how Soviet representations of power were transferred and adapted in the former “enemy’s” country. On the other hand, it reconstructs “spaces of agency” where different agents and generations interpreted, man...
The Hungarian Agricultural Miracle?
This book examines Soviet agriculture in post-1945 Hungary. It demonstrates how the agrarian lobby, a development following the 1956 revolution, led to contact with the West which allowed for the creation of an effective agricultural system. The author argues that this ‘Hungarian agricultural miracle,’ a hybrid of American technology and Soviet structures, was fundamental to the success of Hungarian collectivization.
The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War
This study challenges the common view that extrajudicial executions in Republican Spain in July 1936 were the work of criminal or anarchist 'uncontrollables'.
