From Stalin to Mao
Elidor Mëhilli From Stalin to Mao Albania and the Socialist World Elidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe’s longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli’s unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful globalism of post-1945 socialism, as well as the unintended consequences of...
The Communist Century: New Studies in Revolution, Resistance and Radicalism
February 9, 2018 -9:00am to 5:30pm Stanford Alumni Center, Fisher Conference Room (Keynote on Thursday, February 8) Free and open to the public Speaker: Anna Grzymala-Busse David Holloway Norman Naimark Benjamin Nathans Amir Weiner Steven Zipperstein Location: Stanford Alumni Center, Fisher Conference Room, 326 Galvez St. February 8 at 6:00 PM: Keynote Address From Lenin to Putin: Biography as Window on Soviet/Russian Politics Keynote...
Quest for a Suitable Past
Edited by Claudia-Florentina Dobre and Cristian Emilian Ghiţă The past may be approached from a variety of directions. A myth reunites people around certain values and projects and pushes them in one direction or another. The present volume brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking in east Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day. In particular, it focuses on the complex process through...
CfP: Hungarian aristocracy between 1947 and 2017
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest 1 December 2017 Deadline : 31 October 2017 Two years after the highly successful d’Aremberg conference in 2015, followed by the symposium about the „Historical Roles of the Hungarian Aristocracy”, Pázmány Péter Catholic University has decided to organize another scientific event in 2017, in order to remember the still prevailing Act IV. of 1947. After World War II, Hungarian nobility was...
Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits
Oto Luthar Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits Post-Communist Historiography between Democratization and New Politics of History The collection of well-researched essays assesses the uses and misuses of history 25 years after the collapse of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. As opposed to the revival of national histories that seemed to be the prevailing historiographical approach of the 1990s, the last decade has seen a particular set...
