The turbulent world of Franz Göll : an ordinary Berliner writes the twentieth century / / Peter Fritzsche

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953842603321
• Autore: Fritzsche Peter <1959->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 9780674060951; 0674060954
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 943/.155087092; B
• Soggetti: Men - Germany - Berlin; German diaries - Germany - Berlin - History and criticism; Berlin (Germany) Biography; Germany History 20th century Biography; Germany Social conditions 20th century; Germany Politics and government 20th century; Germany Intellectual life 20th century; Berlin (Germany) History 20th century
• 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: The case of Franz Göll, graphomaniac -- Franz's multiple selves -- Physical intimacies -- The amateur scientist -- Franz Göll writes German history -- Resolution without redemption.
• Sommario/riassunto: Franz Göll was a thoroughly typical Berliner. He worked as a clerk, sometimes as a postal employee, night watchman, or publisher's assistant. He enjoyed the movies, ate spice cake, wore a fedora, tamed sparrows, and drank beer or schnapps. He lived his entire life in a two-room apartment in Rote Insel, Berlin's famous working-class district. What makes Franz Göll different is that he left behind one of the most comprehensive diaries available from the maelstrom of twentieth-century German life. Deftly weaving in Göll's voice from his diary entries, Fritzsche narrates the quest of an ordinary citizen to make sense of a violent and bewildering century.Peter Fritzsche paints a ; deeply affecting portrait of a self-educated man seized by an untamable impulse to record, who stayed put for nearly seventy years as history thundered around him. Determined to compose a "symphony" from the music of everyday life, Göll wrote of hungry winters during World War I, the bombing of Berlin, the rape of his neighbors by Russian soldiers in World War II, and the flexing of U.S. superpower during the Reagan years. In his early entries, Göll grappled with the intellectual shockwaves cast by Darwin, Freud, and Einstein, and later he struggled to engage with the strange lifestyles that marked Germany's transition to a fluid, dynamic, unmistakably modern society.With expert analysis, Fritzsche shows how one man's thoughts and desires can give poignant shape to the collective experience of twentieth-century life, registering its manifold shocks and rendering them legible.

The Croatian Spring : nationalism, repression and foreign policy under Tito / / Ante Batović ; translated, edited and expanded by Ante Batović and Benjamin Bilski ; with a foreword by Robin Harris

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971343003321
• Autore: Batović Ante
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019
• ISBN: 9781350988576; 135098857X; 9781786721846; 1786721848; 9781786731845; 1786731843
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Politics & international relations
• Disciplina: 949.7023
• Soggetti: Nationalism - Croatia - History - 20th century; Politics & International Relations; Yugoslavia History 1945-1980; Yugoslavia Politics and government 1945-1980
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: The Croatian spring is an expanded, adapted and translated version of Dr Bartovic's doctoral thesis, defended at University of Zadar, 2010.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Nationalism is a key topic within Balkan Studies, and one of the driving forces behind the bloody and difficult history of the region. Using primary sources not previously utilized by western scholars, this book documents the 'Croatian Spring' - a national and liberal movement that began in the mid-sixties after the fall of the vice president and head of the Yugoslav secret police Aleksandar Rankovic. The author chronicles these developments of democratisation and de-centralisation of communist Yugoslavia, placing them in the wider context of the Cold War and Yugoslav relations with the Soviet Union and the UnitedStates. Tito managed to balance national stability and his relations with East and West, until he felt that the national-liberal movements challenged his authority, and thus threaten the very foundations of the Yugoslav state. From late 1971 onwards, the liberal political and cultural classes of Croatia and other republics were abruptly purged, impoverishing Yugoslav leadership for subsequent decades.Batovic also considers the role of the West, who felt a centralised and stable Yugoslavia was in their interests and quickly accommodated themselves to the repression of the reformist movement."--Bloomsbury Publishing.