The challenges of the Modernity. New historiographical perspectives on the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3989/hispania.2023.012Keywords:
historiography, East-Central Europe, modernity, nationalismAbstract
This paper analyses six recent publications addressing the history of the 20th Century in East-Central Europe. The aim is to critically comment the main research topics of the region. The paper connects these books with other publications and debates that have shaped the main trends in East-Central European historiography in the last two decades.
Downloads
References
Alcalde, Ángel, «La tesis de la brutalización (George L. Mosse) y sus críticos: un debate historiográfico», Pasado y Memoria. Revista de Historia Contemporánea, 15 (Alicante, 2016): 17-42. https://doi.org/10.14198/PASADO2016.15.01
Alcalde, Ángel, War veterans and fascism in interwar Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182423
Applebaum, Anne, El Telón de acero: la destrucción de Europa del Este 1944-1956, Barcelona, Debate, 2014.
Baranowski, Shelley, Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler, Nueva York, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Bibó, István, Die Misere der osteuropäischen Kleinstaaaterei, Frankfurt, Neue Kritik, 1992.
Bideleux, Robert y Jeffries, Ian, A History of Eastern Europe. Crisis and Change, Londres, Routledge, 2007. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203018897
Bockmann, Johanna, Markets in the name of Socialism. The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism, Stanford, Standfor University Press, 2011. https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804775663.001.0001
Böhler, Jochen, Auftakt zum Vernichtstungskrieg. Die Wehrmacht in Polen 1939, Frankfurt, Fischer, 2006.
Böhler, Jochen, Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921. The Reconstruction of Poland, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794486.001.0001
Borodziej, Włodzimierz y Górny, Maciej, Der Vergessene Weltkrieg: Europas Osten 1912-1923, Darmstadt, WBG Theiss, 2018.
Connelly, John, Captive University: the Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education,1945-1956, Londres, University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Conrad, Sebastian, What is Global history? An introduction, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2016.
Danyel, Jürgen y Behrends, Jan Class (eds.), Grenzgänger und Brückenbauer. Zeitgeschichte durch den Eisernen Vorhang, Berlin, Wallstein, 2018.
Eisenstadt, Shmuel, Multiple Modernities, New York, Routledge, 2000.
Falina, Maria, Trencsényi, Balázs, Baar, Mónica, Janowski, Maciej y kopecek, Michal, A History of Modern Political thought in East Central Europe. Vol. I. Negotiating modernity in the "long nineteenth century", New York, Oxford University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737148.001.0001
Gerschenkron, Alexander, Economic backwardness in historical perspective, a book of essays, Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962.
Gerwarth, Robert, Los vencidos. Por qué la guerra final no concluyó del todo 1917-1923, Madrid, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2017.
Górny, Maciej, The Nation Should Come First. Marxism and Historiography in East Central Europe, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2013. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-03538-4
Górny, Maciej, Polska bez cudów. Historia dla dorosłych, Varsovia, Agora, 2021.
Gross, Jan Tomasz, Vecinos. El exterminio de la comunidad judía de Jedwabne, Barcelona, Crítica, 2002.
Habermas, Jürgen, Die nachholende Revolution, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1990.
Hobsbawm, Eric, Historia del siglo XX, Barcelona, Crítica, 1994.
Judson, Pieter, Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria, Cambridge, MA, 2006. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv22jnrgp
Kolář, Pavel, Der Poststalinismus: Ideologie und Utopie einer Epoche, Colonia, Böhlau, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7788/9783412506490
Kopeček, Michal, Hledání ztraceného smyslu revoluce. Zrod a počátky marxistického revizionismu ve střední Evropě 1953-1960, Praga, Argos, 2009.
Krastev, Ivan y Holmes, Stephen, La luz que se apaga: Cómo Occidente ganó la Guerra Fría, pero perdió la paz, Barcelona, Debate, 2019.
Kunicki, Mikołaj, Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism and Communism in 20th-Century Poland - The Politics of Bolesław Piasecki, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2012.
Levi, Giovanni, «Microhistory and Global History», Historia crítica, 69 (Bogotá, 2018): 21-35. https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit69.2018.02
Liulevicius, Vejas Gabriel, War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity and German Occupation in World War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497186
Machcewicz, Paweł, The War that Never Ends: The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Boston, de Gruyter, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110659092
Mark, James, The Unfinished Revolution. Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2010.
Miłosz, Czeslaw, «Central European Attitudes», Cross Currents: A Yearbook of Central European Culture, 5/2 (Ann Arbor, 1986): 101-108.
Puchalski, Piotr, Poland in a Colonial World Order. Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918-1939, Londres, Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003131663
Todorova, Maria, Imagining the Balkans, Nueva York, Oxford University Press, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195387865.001.0001
Tomka, Bela, Austerities and Aspirations. A comparative History of Growth, Consumption and Quality of Life, Budapest, Central European University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633863527
Trencsényi, Balász, Late Enlightenment: emergence of the modern "national idea" Budapest, Central European University Press, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1515/9786155053849
Walicki, Andrezj, Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1995.
Winkler, Heinrich August, Der Lange Weg nach Westen, Munich, CH. Beck, 2000.
Wolff, Larry, Inventing Eastern Europe. The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightment, Standford, Standford University Press, 1994.
Zahra, Tara, «Imagined Non-Communities: National Indifference as a Category of Analysis», Slavic Review 69/1 (Nueva York, 2010): 93-119. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0037677900016715
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
© CSIC. Manuscripts published in both the print and online versions of this journal are the property of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and quoting this source is a requirement for any partial or full reproduction.
All contents of this electronic edition, except where otherwise noted, are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. You may read here the basic information and the legal text of the licence. The indication of the CC BY 4.0 licence must be expressly stated in this way when necessary.
Self-archiving in repositories, personal webpages or similar, of any version other than the final version of the work produced by the publisher, is not allowed.
