Central European University Press: 41 books
Which Socialism, Whose Détente?
West European Communism and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This study analyzes the impact of the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968–1969 on the two major communist parties in the West: the Italian and French ones. Discusses the central strategic and ideological tensions which these parties needed to deal with: domestic belonging versus allegiance to the world...
Modernism: The Creation of Nation-States
Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945: Texts and Commentaries, volume III/1
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
This is the first part of the third volume of the four-volume series, a daring project of CEU Press, presenting the most important texts that triggered and shaped the processes of nation-building in the many countries of Central and Southeast Europe. The aim is to confront ‘mainstream’ and seemingly...
Anti-modernism
Radical revisions of Collective Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
The last volume of the series presents 46 texts under the heading of “anti-modernism”. Formed in a dynamic relationship with modernism, from the 1880s to the 1940s, and especially during the interwar period, the anti-modernist ideological constructions of national identification had a considerable...
Past for the Eyes
East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums after 1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums...
A Tale of Two Villages
Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
This dramatic story of land and power from twentieth-century Eastern Europe is set in two extraordinary villages: a rebel village, where peasants fought the advent of Communism and became its first martyrs, and a model village turned forcibly into a town, Dictator Ceauşescu’s birthplace. The two...
Writing Europe
What is European about the Literatures of Europe?
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Democracy thrives on social dialogue and collective search for solution. As a forum for new ideas and impulses the Körber-Foundation seeks with its projects to involve citizens actively in social discourses. The private, non-profit-making foundation provides a forum for involvement in politics, education,...
The Nonconformists
Culture, Politics, and Nationalism in a Serbian Intellectual Circle, 1944-1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Serbia’s national movement of the 1980s and 1990s, the author suggests, was not the product of an ancient, immutable, and aggressive Serbian national identity; nor was it an artificial creation of powerful political actors looking to capitalize on its mobilizing power. Miller argues that cultural...
by Viorel Achim
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
One of the greatest challenges during the enlargement process of the European Union towards the east is how the issue of the Roma or Gypsies is tackled. This ethnic minority group represents a much higher share by numbers, too, in some regions going above 20% of the population. This enormous social...
by Ivan Krastev, Alan Mcpherson
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This book interrogates the nature of anti-Americanism today and over the last century. It asks several questions: How do we define the phenomenon from different perspectives: political, social, and cultural? What are the historical sources and turning points of anti-Americanism in Europe and elsewhere?...
Masterpieces of History
The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Twenty years in the making, this collection presents 122 top-level Soviet, European and American records on the superpowers' role in the annus mirabilis of 1989. Consisting of Politburo minutes; diary entries from Gorbachev's senior aide, Anatoly Chernyaev; meeting notes and private communications...
The Moulding of Ukraine
The Constitutional Politics of State Formation
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a number of new states were created that had little or no claim to any previous existence. Ukraine is one of the countries that faced not only political, social and economic transformation, but also state formation and the redefinition of national identity....
Heroes and Villains
Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Certain to engender debate in the media, especially in Ukraine itself, as well as the academic community. Using a wide selection of newspapers, journals, monographs, and school textbooks from different regions of the country, the book examines the sensitive issue of the changing perspectives – often...
Globalization and Nationalism
The Cases of Georgia and the Basque Country
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Argues for an original, unorthodox conception about the relationship between globalization and contemporary nationalism. While the prevailing view holds that nationalism and globalization are forces of clashing opposition, Sabanadze establishes that these tend to become allied forces. Acknowledges...
by Éva Forgács
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Art historian Éva Forgács's book is an unusual take on the Bauhaus. She examines the school as shaped by the great forces of history as well as the personal dynamism of its faculty and students. The book focuses on the idea of the Bauhaus - the notion that the artist should be involved in the technological...