Coca-Cola Socialism
Radina Vucetic Coca-Cola Socialism. Americanization of Yugoslav Culture in the Sixties (CEU Press, 2018). This book is about the Americanization of Yugoslav culture and everyday life during the nineteen-sixties. After falling out with the Eastern bloc, Tito turned to the United States for support and inspiration. In the political sphere the distance between the two countries was carefully maintained, yet in the realms of culture and...
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...
CfP: Regimes and Societies in Conflict: Eastern Europe and Russia since 1956
The deadline for proposals is March 31, 2018. The Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies invite proposals for panels and papers for a two-day conference to be held at Uppsala University in September 2018 with the theme ‘Regimes and Societies in Conflict: Eastern Europe and Russia since 1956’. Over the last 60 years Eastern Europe and Russia have...
CfP: Workers beyond Socialist Glorification and Post-Socialist Disavowal: New Perspectives on Eastern European Labour History
deadline 15 January 2018 Workers beyond Socialist Glorification and Post-Socialist Disavowal: New Perspectives on Eastern European Labour History University of Vienna, 24-27 May 2018 Studies of labour under state socialism increasingly question the historiographical clichés of East European workers. Scholars problematize the notion of workers as inherently combative and homogeneous historical actors, as victims of totalitarian states...
CfP: Beyond 1917: Socialism, Power and Social Change
Beyond 1917: Socialism, Power and Social Change Date: October 15, 2016 Location: United Kingdom We invite proposals for an academic conference to be held May 13-14, 2017 at Oxford University, United Kingdom, addressing the following themes: With the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, socialism attained state power for the first time in history. After more than a century or theorizing socialism as an alternative social order, as a paradigm of...
