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

Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 330 pages) : illustrations Series Pitt series in Russian and East European studies Kritika historical studies Series in Russian and East European studies Kritika historical studies. Contents Introduction: The oblique coordinate systems of modern identity / György Peteri -- 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Transnationalism. East and West. Geographical perception -- Soviet Union -- History Geographical perception -- Europe, Eastern -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. HISTORY -- General. East and West Geographical perception International relations Transnationalism SUBJECT Western countries -- Relations -- Soviet Union Western countries -- Relations -- Russia Western countries -- Relations -- Europe, Eastern Soviet Union -- Relations -- Western countries Russia -- Relations -- Western countries Europe, Eastern -- Relations -- Western countries Subject Eastern Europe Russia Soviet Union Western countries Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Peteri, György ISBN 9780822973911 082297391X

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