CFP : Laboratory of Yugoslav Political Innovation : The Origins, Synthesis and International Influences of Self-Management Socialism
Deadline : 31 January 2018 Koper, Slovenia 10-11 May 2018 After the split with the Cominform in 1948, the Yugoslav system confronted different agents and traditions of European leftist thought: on the one side, it was seen by Western left-wing circles as a laboratory of socialist innovation, while on the other, for East European politicians and intellectuals, it posed as a model of resistance toward Soviet hegemony. For that reason,...
Long Awaited West
Stefano Bottoni What is Eastern Europe and why is it so culturally and politically separate from the rest of Europe? In Long Awaited West, Stefano Bottoni considers what binds these countries together in an increasingly globalized world. Focusing on economic and social policies, Bottoni explores how Eastern Europe developed and, more importantly, why it remains so distant from the rest of the continent. He argues that this distance...
The End of the Cold War?
Alexander von Plato The End of the Cold War? Bush, Kohl, Gorbachev, and the Reunification of Germany his carefully researched history draws on archival sources as well as a wealth of new interviews with on-the-ground activists, political actors, international figures, and others to move beyond the narratives both the German and American varieties that have dominated the historical memory of German reunification. Palgrave Macmillan...
The Cold War. A World History
Odd Arne Westad The Cold War. A World History As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War. For over forty years the demands of the Cold War...
Histoire du Goulag
Juliette CADIOT, Marc ELIE Histoire du Goulag Pendant la dictature stalinienne, la police politique enferma au Goulag et soumit au travail forcé plus de 28 millions de personnes. Les répressions contre les opposants politiques et les campagnes pour purger et discipliner la population soviétique alimentèrent camps et villages d’exil pendant trente ans (1930-1960). Composant une main-d’œuvre corvéable à merci, détenus et exilés furent...
