Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union / / edited by György Péteri

• Pubblicazione: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• 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.: 9910464116603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Series in Russian and East European studies.; Kritika historical studies.