Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union / / editor, György Péteri

• Pubblicazione: Pittsburgh, Pa. : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 330 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 303.48/24701821
• Soggetto topico: Geographical perception - Europe, Eastern - History; Geographical perception - Soviet Union - History; East and West; Transnationalism
• Soggetto geografico: Europe, Eastern Relations Western countries; Russia Relations Western countries; Soviet Union Relations Western countries; Western countries Relations Europe, Eastern; Western countries Relations Russia; Western countries Relations Soviet Union
• Classificazione: 15.70
• Persona (resp. second.): PéteriGyörgy
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: The oblique coordinate systems of modern identity / György Péteri -- Were the Czechs more Western than Slavic? Nineteenth-century travel literature from Russia by disillusioned Czechs / Karen Gammelgaard -- Privileged origins : "national models" and reforms of public health in interwar Hungary / Erik Ingebrigtsen -- Defending children's rights, "in defense of peace" : children and Soviet cultural diplomacy / Catriona Kelly -- East as true West : redeeming bourgeois culture, from socialist realism to Ostalgie / Greg Castillo -- Paris or Moscow? Warsaw architects and the image of the modern city in the 1950s / David Crowley -- Imagining Richard Wagner : the Janus head of a divided nation / Elaine Kelly -- From Iron Curtain to silver screen : imagining the West in the Khrushchev era / Anne E. Gorsuch -- Mirror, mirror, on the wall-- is the West the fairest of them all? Czechoslovak normalization and its (dis)contents / Paulina Bren -- Who will beat whom? Soviet popular reception of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 / Susan E. Reid -- Moscow human rights defenders look West : attitudes toward U.S. journalists in the 1960s and 1970s / Barbara Walker -- Conclusion: Transnational history and the East-West divide / Michael David-Fox.
• Sommario/riassunto: An international group of writers explore conceptualizations of what defined "East" and "West" in Eastern Europe, imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union. The contributors analyze the effects of transnational interactions on ideology, politics, and cultural production.
• Altri titoli varianti: Imagining the West in Eastern Europe & the Soviet Union
• Titolo autorizzato: Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
• ISBN: 0-8229-7391-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788359203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Series in Russian and East European studies.; Kritika historical studies.