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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787497103321

Titolo

Mastery and lost illusions : space and time in the modernization of Eastern and Central Europe / / edited by Włodzimierz Borodziej, Stanislav Holubec, and Joachim von Puttkamer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

München, Germany : , : Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-11-039918-0

3-11-036431-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert= Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century ; ; Band/Volume 5

Classificazione

NK 1600

Disciplina

320.540947

Soggetti

Urbanization - Europe, Eastern

Urbanization - Europe, Central

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Second annual conference in June 2012, focus on problems of modernity in twentieth-century Eastern and Central Europe."

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction / Holubec, Stanislav / Borodziej, Włodzimierz / von Puttkamer, Joachim -- Part I: Key Perspectives -- Mastery of Space and the Crises of Modernity in Central and Eastern Europe / von Puttkamer, Joachim -- A Moving Target or a Lost Illusion? East Central Europe in Pursuit of the West in Two Globalization Phases / Kochanowicz, Jacek -- Part II: The Ruralization of Urbanization -- Image and Reality of a Splitting Country: The Case of Hungary / Gyáni, Gábor -- The Ostrava Industrial Agglomeration in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Where the Urban Countryside met the Rural Town / Jemelka, Martin -- The Ruralization of Bucharest and Warsaw in the First Post-War Decade / Brzostek, Błażej -- Nowa Huta, Eisenhüttenstadt and Ostrava-Poruba in Early State Socialism: The Proletarianization and Ruralization of New Cities / Jajeśniak-Quast, Dagmara -- Changing the Cityscapes: The Ruralization of Yugoslav Towns in Early Socialism / Dobrivojević, Ivana -- Ruralization, Urban Villagers and Perceptions of Migration in Hungary during 'De-Stalinization' (Budapest, Sztálinváros) / Horváth, Sándor -- Part III:



Space and the Crises of Modernity -- Integration or Decentralization? The Construction of Railways and Waterways in Cisleithania / Jakubec, Ivan -- The Sea(side) Borderland of Modernity: Rostock, Klaipe˙ da and Tallinn from the 1870's to the 1920's / Kochanowski, Jerzy -- "We bring order, discipline, Western European democracy, and culture to this land of former oriental chaos and disorder." / Holubec, Stanislav -- List of Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume highlights the specific experiences and challenges of modernity in twentieth-century Eastern and Central Europe. Contributors ask how spatial and temporal conditions shaped the region's transformation from a rural to an urban, industrialized society in this period and investigate the state's role in the mastery of space, particularly in the context of state socialism. The volume also sheds light on the ruralization of cities and mutual perceptions of the rural and urban populations in this region.