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Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union / edited by Gy�orgy P�eteri.

Contributor(s): P�eteri, Gy�orgy [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Series in Russian and East European studies: ; Kritika historical studies: Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2010]Copyright date: �2010Description: 1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780822973911 (e-book).Subject(s): Geographical perception -- Europe, Eastern -- History | Geographical perception -- Soviet Union -- History | East and West | Transnationalism | 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 UnionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.48/24701821 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction: The oblique coordinate systems of modern identity / Gy�orgy P�eteri -- 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.
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Introduction: The oblique coordinate systems of modern identity / Gy�orgy P�eteri -- 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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