This article explores the controversial issue of concepts defining the East-Central European Romanian and Hungarian identities (nem, neam, popor, nép). It specifically focuses on the translation and adaptation of the German concept of nation by examining the inclusive or exclusive meanings this concept acquired in these two languages and political cultures during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Peculiarities of the Translation and Adaptation of the Concept of Nation in East-Central Europe
The Hungarian and Romanian Cases in the Nineteenth Century
Victor Neumann
The East Side Story of Gender and Feminism
The Hungarian and Czech Cases
Gabriela Dudeková Kováčová
., Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe , Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2016, 325 pp., no price listed (hardback), ISBN 978-0-25302-189-2. Recent publications on women's and gender history in Central and Eastern Europe
From “Liberal Minimum” to the “Complete Catalog of Human Rights”
On Central Concepts of Hungarian Postdissident Liberals
Ferenc Laczó
This article analyzes how five leading Hungarian postdissident liberal thinkers conceptually constructed their view of liberalism in the early years of postcommunism. Studying Beszélő, the most signi cant liberal journal during the early years of representative democracy, it shows how they did so through references to political “threats” and the idea of a “liberal minimum” (János Kis), local liberal and democratic traditions and “progressive patriotism” (Miklós Szabó), the ongoing “liberal-conservative revolution” and the creation of a “new political community” (Gáspár Miklós Tamás), antipolitics and “expertise” (György Konrád), and the “complete catalog of human rights” and the agenda of “modernization” (István Eörsi), respectively. Next to its conceptual analysis of heavily influential individual thinkers, the article discusses the ambition of postdissident Hungarian liberals to harmonize liberal and democratic tenets. Last but not least, it elaborates on the left-wing origins of many of their central concepts that, as suggested here, ultimately hindered liberalism's assumption of a central position in the new political system.
Adriana Zaharijević, Kristen Ghodsee, Efi Kanner, Árpád von Klimó, Matthew Stibbe, Tatiana Zhurzhenko, Žarka Svirčev, Agata Ignaciuk, Sophia Kuhnle, Ana Miškovska Kajevska, Chiara Bonfiglioli, Marina Hughson, Sanja Petrović Todosijević, Enriketa Papa-Pandelejmoni, Stanislava Barać, Ayşe Durakbaşa, Selin Çağatay, and Agnieszka Mrozik
and Árpád von Klimó, eds., The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700 , New York: Routledge, 2017, 522 pp., GBP 175 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-58433-3. Book review by Sophia Kuhnle University of Mainz, Germany The anthology The
Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
An Essential Resource
Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild
Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia. A Comprehensive Bibliography. Volume I. Southeastern and East Central Europe. Edited by Irina Livezeanu with June Pachuta Farris for the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS), Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, xvi + 892 pp., (hb) ISBN 978-0-76560-737-9.
Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia. A Comprehensive Bibliography. Volume II. Russia, the Non-Russian Peoples of the Russian Federation, and the Successor States of the Soviet Union. Edited by Mary Zirin and Christine D. Worobec for the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, xix + 1200 pp., $388.95 (for both volumes together), hb; ISBN 978-0-76560-737-9.
Theo Jung, Cristian Roiban, Gregor Feindt, Alexandra Medzibrodszky, Henna-Riikka Pennanen, and Anna Björk
: Suhrkamp, 1999). Negotiating Modernity The Entanglement of Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century Balázs Trencsényi, Maciej Janowski, Mónika Baár, Maria Falina, and Michal Kopeček, A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, Volume
Janet Elise Johnson and Mara Lazda
friends in actually existing postcommunism.” 12 Her just published book, Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe (2020), written as she wrestled with the consequences of cancer, is an exemplar of her genre. The book—a love letter
From “De Facto King” to Peasants’ Communes
A Struggle for Representation in the Discourse of the Polish Great Emigration, 1832–1846/48
Piotr Kuligowski
circulation of political ideas in East Central Europe. 3 It is worth mentioning that in examining the Polish Great Emigration of the 1830s and 1840s, conceptualization of representation was both rapid and multidimensional. In ongoing discussions surrounding
Challenges and Pitfalls of Feminist Sisterhood in the Aftermath of the Cold War
The Case of the Network of East-West Women
Ioana Cîrstocea
Education in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Asymmetric Politics and the Regional-Transnational Configuration,” East Central Europe/ECE 34–35, nos. 1–2 (2007–2008), 131–160, https://doi.org/10.1163/18763308-0340350102007 . 3 See
“Home Is Home No Longer”
Political Struggle in the Domestic Sphere in Postarmistice Hungary, 1919-1922
Emily R. Gioielli
charge of the violation of personal liberty. 2 As in much of East Central Europe, an explosion of political violence and revolution marred the period following the November 1918 armistice in Hungary. The war had put a tremendous political and economic