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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe : Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part I: 1918-1968 by Balazs Trencsenyi; Michal Kopecek; Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič; Maria Falina; Monika Baar; Maciej Janowski is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe , authored by an international team of researchers, offers the first-ever synthetic overview of the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. Covering twenty national cultures and 250 years, it goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural entanglement of political ideas and discourses. Its principal aim is to make these cultures available for the global market of ideas and help rethink some of the basic assumptions about the history of modern political thought and modernity. The second volume starts with the repercussions of the collapse of multinational empires in the region after World War I, followed by multiple cycles of democratization and authoritarian backlash. Analyzing the intellectual paradigms and debates of the Stalinist and post-Stalinist decades it shows that although the imposed Sovietization had similar blueprints, it also entailed a negotiation with local intellectual traditions. At the same time, the book identifies paradigms, such as revisionist Marxism, which were eminently transnational and crossed th

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Author
Balazs Trencsenyi; Michal Kopecek; Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič; Maria Falina; Monika Baar; Maciej Janowski
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published
2019
Language
EN
ISBN
9780198803133
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, Science, History

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