Class Struggles in Eastern Europe, 1945-83
Author | : Chris Harman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Europe, Central |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Chris Harman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Europe, Central |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bulent Gokay |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317881338 |
From the hardening grip of Soviet domination under Brezhnev to the collapse of communism and its aftermath, Bulent Gokay provides the essential introduction to Eastern Europe in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 spelt the end of reformist communism and the tightening of Soviet control throughout Eastern Europe. In spite of this, several countries within the Soviet Bloc managed to retain varying degrees of independence over the next two decades. Focusing on the struggle towards economic and social modernisation in the region and the competing influences of East and West in a dangerous Cold War. Bulent Gokay shows how individual circumstances and diverse national characteristics made a uniform application of the Soviet model impossible, and charts the growing resistance to domination and the momentous events which finally toppled Soviet power in the region.
Author | : Anne Applebaum |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 803 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385536437 |
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.
Author | : Vladimir Unkovski-Korica |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786720310 |
Here, Vladimir Unkovski-Korica re-assesses the key episodes of Tito's rule - from the joint Stalin-Tito offensive of 1944, through to the Tito-Stalin split of 1948, the market reforms of the 1950s and the 'turn to the West' which led to Yugoslavia's non-alignment policy. For the first time, Unkovski-Korica also outlines Tito's internal battle with the Workers' Councils - empowered union bodies which emerged with the 'withering away of the party' in the early 1950s.The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito's Yugoslavia draws out the impact of the period economically and politically, and its long-term effects. A comprehensive history based on new archival research, this book will appeal to scholars and students of European Studies, International Relations and Politics, as well as to historians of the Balkans.
Author | : Tony Judt |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 2006-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780143037750 |
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year “Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal “Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Author | : Raymond Pearson |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Europe, Eastern |
ISBN | : 9780719017346 |
Author | : Richard Saull |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : 9780714682266 |
"Rethinking Theory and History in the Cold War focuses on what we mean by 'politics' and 'international relations' and how such assumptions have come to determine our understanding of the Cold War. Using an historical-materialist method, the author criticizes conventional conceptions of international politics that tend to focus on the agency of and relations among states, and offers an alternative historical sociology of the Cold War through an analysis of the relationship between formal political authority and socio-economic production. Seen from this perspective, the state the modern conceptions of politics can be seen as products of a capitalist modernity, in which politics is based on the separation of the spheres of politics in the state and economics in civil society."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Y. Michal Bodemann |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : 9780472105847 |
Assesses the past, present, and future of German-Jewish relations in light of recent political charges and the opening up of historical resources
Author | : Alex Callinicos |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780816619054 |
Paper reprint. First published in hardcover in 1987, this volume comprises the best of Gibson's work throughout his 30 year career. 10.5x15 Callinicos (politics, U. of York, UK) traces the intellectual history of the movement, first examining its origins in Trotsky's own thought, and then exploring the crisis into which the Trotskyist Fourth International was thrown at the end of WWII, when its founder's predictions were apparently refuted by the strength and stability of both Western capitalism and Stalinism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Peter J. Katzenstein |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781571811240 |
German unification and the political and economic transformations in central Europe signal profound political changes that pose many questions. This book offers a cautiously optimistic set of answers to these questions.