Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union /

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Imprint:	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2010.
Description:	vi, 330 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Pitt series in Russian and East European studies Kritika historical studies Series in Russian and East European studies. Kritika historical studies.
Subject:	Geographical perception -- Europe, Eastern -- History. Geographical perception -- Soviet Union -- History. East and West. Transnationalism. East and West. Geographical perception. International relations. Transnationalism. Europe, Eastern -- Relations -- Western countries. Russia -- Relations -- Western countries. Soviet Union -- Relations -- Western countries. Western countries -- Relations -- Europe, Eastern. Western countries -- Relations -- Russia. Western countries -- Relations -- Soviet Union. Europe, Eastern. Russia. Soviet Union. Western countries. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8263958

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Other authors / contributors:	Péteri, György.
ISBN:	9780822961253 (paper : alk. paper) 0822961253 (paper : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Oblique Coordinate Systems of Modern Identity
Chapter 2. Were the Czechs More Western Than Slavic? Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature from Russia by Disillusioned Czechs
Chapter 3. Privileged Origins: "National Models" and Reforms of Public Health in Interwar Hungary
Chapter 4. Defending Children's Rights, "In Defense of Peace": Children and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
Chapter 5. East as True West: Redeeming Bourgeois Culture, from Socialist Realism to Ostalgie
Chapter 6. Paris or Moscow? Warsaw Architects and the Image of the Modern City in the 1950s
Chapter 7. Imagining Richard Wagner: The Janus Head of a Divided Nation
Chapter 8. From Iron Curtain to Silver Screen: Imagining the West in the Khrushchev Era
Chapter 9. Mirror, Mirror, on the WallàIs the West the Fairest of Them All? Czechoslovak Normalization and Its (Dis)contents
Chapter 10. Who Will Beat Whom? Soviet Popular Reception of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959
Chapter 11. Moscow Human Rights Defenders Look West: Attitudes toward U.S. Journalists in the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 12. Conclusion: Transnational History and the East-West Divide
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