Austerities and Aspirations
Béla Tomka Austerities and Aspirations. A Comparative History of Growth, Consumption, and Quality of Life in East Central Europe since 1945(CEU Press, 2019) This monograph updates existing scholarship on the economic performance of Czechoslovakia (and its successor states), Hungary, and Poland since 1945, in contrast with Western Europe. For this longitudinal comparative exercise, the author goes beyond the traditional growth paradigm...
CfP: European Rust Belts. West-East Comparisons – and Beyond
Dedaline 15 agosto 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS “European Rust Belts. West-East Comparisons – and Beyond” International Conference, Regensburg, 7-8 May 2020 Organized by Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (Munich-Berlin) and Leibniz Institute for East and South East European Studies (Regensburg), in cooperation with the Institute for Social Movements (Bochum) Conveners: Ulf Brunnbauer, Max Trecker, Sebastian Voigt The 1970s marked the...
Social Sciences in the Other Europe
Victor Karady, Adela Hincu, Social Sciences in the “Other Europe” since 1945 (Budapest: Pasts Inc., Center for Historical studies, CEU, 2018) In recent years, a remarkable flourishing of works on the postwar history of social science and humanities disciplines led to the growing configuration of a field of “Cold War social science” research. Yet in spite of its thematic diversity, and with few exceptions, the geography of the field...
CfP: Digging Politics: The Ancient Past and Political Present in East-Central Europe
Deadline 15 marzo 2019 Workshop Date: 12th – 13th June 2019 at Durham University, University College This workshop will explore political uses of ancient pasts and archaeology in east-central Europe in the states during the Cold War and post-communist period. While studies have often focused on individual episodes such as Dacomania in Romania or the Thracian past in Bulgaria, this workshop will bring together different approaches and...
Ideological Storms
Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob Ideological StormsIntellectuals, Dictators, and the Totalitarian Temptation (Budapest and New York: CEU Press, 2019). ISBN: 978-963-386-303-9 cloth $80.00 / €70.00/ £62.00 Publication date: forthcoming This volume gathers authors who wrote important works in the fields of the history of ideology, the comparative study of dictatorship, and intellectual history. The book is a state of the art...
