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| 其他作者 | Péteri, György |
| 說明 | vi, 330 p. : ill. ; 23 cm |
| 系列 | Pitt series in Russian and East European studies |
| Kritika historical studies |
| Series in Russian and East European studies |
| Kritika historical studies |
| 附註 | Includes bibliographical references |
| The oblique coordinate systems of modern identity / György Péteri -- Were the Czechs more Western than Slavic? Nineteenth-century travel literature from Russia by disillusioned Czechs / Karen Gammelgaard -- Privileged origins : "national models" and reforms of public health in interwar Hungary / Erik Ingebrigtsen -- Defending children's rights, "in defense of peace" : children and Soviet cultural diplomacy / Catriona Kelly -- East as true West : redeeming bourgeois culture, from socialist realism to Ostalgie / Greg Castillo -- Paris or Moscow? Warsaw architects and the image of the modern city in the 1950s / David Crowley -- Imagining Richard Wagner : the Janus head of a divided nation / Elaine Kelly -- From Iron Curtain to silver screen : imagining the West in the Khrushchev era / Anne E. Gorsuch -- Mirror, mirror, on the wall -- is the West the fairest of them all? Czechoslovak normalization and its (dis)contents / Paulina Bren -- Who will beat whom? Soviet popular reception of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 / Susan E. Reid -- Moscow human rights defenders look West : attitudes toward U.S. journalists in the 1960s and 1970s / Barbara Walker -- Conclusion: Transnational history and the East-West divide / Michael David-Fox |
| In this volume, international writers explore conceptualizations of what defined "East" and "West" in Eastern Europe, imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors analyze the effects of transnational interactions on ideology, politics, and cultural production, and reveal that the roots of an East-West cultural divide existed long before socialism and the Cold War. The chapters explore the complex stages of adoption and rejection of Western ideals in Eastern Europe in areas such as architecture, travel writing, film, music, health care, consumer products, political propaganda, and human rights. They describe a process of mental mapping whereby individuals "captured and possessed" Western identity through cultural encounters and developed their own interpretations. in response, political and intellectual elites devised strategies of resistance to defy these Western impositions. Socialists believed that their cultural forms offered morally and materially better lives for the masses, yet their attitude toward the West fluctuated between a sense of superiority and inferiority. But, in material terms, Western industry and technology were the ever-present yardstick by which progress was measured. The contributors conclude that the necessities of modern life and the rise of consumerism made it impossible for communist states to meet the demands of their citizens. The West eventually won the battle of supply and demand, and this the battle for cultural influence |
| 主題 | 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 |
| Geographical perception -- Europe, Eastern -- History |
| Geographical perception -- Soviet Union -- History |
| East and West |
| Transnationalism |
| Beeldvorming |
| Culturele betrekkingen |
| Oost-Europa |
| Sovjet-Unie |
| Westerse wereld |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9780822961253 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| 0822961253 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
