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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778007803321

Autore

Dimou Augusta

Titolo

Entangled paths towards modernity [[electronic resource] ] : contextualizing socialism and nationalism in the Balkans / / Augusta Dimou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2009

ISBN

978-6-15521-167-6

978-615-5211-67-6

9786155211676

963-386-245-0

615-5211-67-1

1-283-24822-0

9786613248220

1-4416-1813-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Disciplina

335.09496

Soggetti

Socialism - Serbia - History

Socialism - Bulgaria - History

Socialism - Greece - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Intellectuals -- The ambiguities of modernity -- Caught up in the contradictions of modernity -- Modernity without socialism -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

The book is a study in comparative intellectual history and discusses how socialist ideology emerged as an option of political modernity in the Balkans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.Focusing on how technologies of ideological transfer and adaptation work, the book examines the introduction and contextualization of international socialist paradigms in the Southeast European periphery. At its core is the presentation of three case studies (Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece), intertwined at times through similar, but also divergent paths. Each case aspires to tell a different and yet complementary story with



respect to the issue of modernity and socialism. The book analyses the introduction of socialism against the background and in conjunction to other prominent options of political modernity such as nationalism, liberalism and agrarianism.