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In: Survey: a journal of Soviet and East European studies, Volume 22, Issue 3/4, p. 74-81
ISSN: 0039-6192
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In: Pergamon policy studies on international politics
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In: Survey: a journal of Soviet and East European studies, Volume 25, Issue 4(113), p. 69-78
ISSN: 0039-6192
Entwicklung und Auswirkungen der wachsenden Rolle des Staates im Westen - Etatismus und Wirtschaft im Osten - Rolle des Staates und politische Demokratisierung
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In: Survey: a journal of Soviet and East European studies, Volume 25, p. 81-108
ISSN: 0039-6192
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, in both Western Europe and East Asia, towns and cities helped to shape the individual consciousness, against the background of a more traditional society in which collective values remained strong. Towns were centres of stimulus, challenge, and opportunity for residents and visitors, and the identity of the town itself, its character and history, became a strong theme in the formation of the individual. Writing and the circulation of texts played an important part in this process. Towns created artefacts, rituals, and memories that embodied their history and identity, but individuals positioned themselves and their families in the town histories as they wrote them. The seven essays in this volume range in focus from Renaissance Venice to nineteenth-century Edo (Tokyo), and from capital cities (Seoul, London) to provincial towns in France, England, and Japan. They explore the interaction of self, family, and social group and the construction of collective memory, examining autobiographies, letters and "exchange diaries", family narratives, and urban histories and collections. Together, they challenge the long-prevailing historiography that contrasts the emergence of the individual in European societies with the persistently traditionalist and collective character of East Asian societies in the Early Modern period
In: Survey: a journal of Soviet and East European studies, Volume 22, Issue 3/4, p. 11-162
ISSN: 0039-6192
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In: Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation 5
While the divide between capitalism and communism, embodied in the image of the Iron Curtain, seemed to be as wide and definitive as any cultural rift, Giles Scott-Smith, Joes Segal, and Peter Romijn have compiled a selection of essays on how culture contributed to the blurring of ideological boundaries between the East and the West. This important and diverse volume presents fascinating insights into the tensions, rivalries, and occasional cooperation between the two blocs, with essays that represent the cutting edge of Cold War Studies and analyze aesthetic preferences and cultural phenomena as various as interior design in East and West Germany; the Soviet stance on genetics; US cultural diplomacy during and after the Cold War; and the role of popular music as the universal cultural ambassador. An illuminating and wide-ranging survey of interrelated collective dreams from both sides of the Iron Curtain, Divided Dreamworlds? has a place on the bookshelf of any modern historian.
The impetus for this book was a series of guest lectures for the "Issues in Applied Cognition" Institute sponsored by Fordham University's Graduate School of Education May 26-27, 2005 and convened at Fordham University in New York City and May 30-June 7, 2005 at The Beijing Center for Language and Culture in Beijing. The book that has since emerged is designed to serve as a reference that brings together theoretical perspectives, research findings, and cultural practice in the examination of
In: Studies in East European and Soviet planning, development, and trade 22
In: East-West European economic interaction, 5
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