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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Jewish Spectator
Author: East European Dissent
Author: Vojtech MastnyPublisher:
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Category : Dissenters
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
East European Dissent: 1953-64
Author: Vojtech MastnyPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Berlin Wall
Author: Pierre GalantePublisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
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Category : Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
1961 to 1965 chronicle of the heroic and tragic responses of the people of East Berlin to the "wall of shame", especially that of bicyclist Harry Seidel.
National Populism and Borders
Author: Oscar MazzoleniPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1802208054
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Despite the recent wealth of literature on national populism, research has often overlooked one crucial aspect: the border. This innovative book bridges these key concepts, providing a new theoretical conceptualisation of the interplay between populism, nationalism and territorial borders.
Driving the Soviets up the Wall
Author: Hope M. HarrisonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400840724
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The Berlin Wall was the symbol of the Cold War. For the first time, this path-breaking book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the communists' decision to build the Wall in 1961. Hope Harrison's use of archival sources from the former East German and Soviet regimes is unrivalled, and from these sources she builds a highly original and provocative argument: the East Germans pushed the reluctant Soviets into building the Berlin Wall. This fascinating work portrays the different approaches favored by the East Germans and the Soviets to stop the exodus of refugees to West Germany. In the wake of Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviets refused the East German request to close their border to West Berlin. The Kremlin rulers told the hard-line East German leaders to solve their refugee problem not by closing the border, but by alleviating their domestic and foreign problems. The book describes how, over the next seven years, the East German regime managed to resist Soviet pressures for liberalization and instead pressured the Soviets into allowing them to build the Berlin Wall. Driving the Soviets Up the Wall forces us to view this critical juncture in the Cold War in a different light. Harrison's work makes us rethink the nature of relations between countries of the Soviet bloc even at the height of the Cold War, while also contributing to ongoing debates over the capacity of weaker states to influence their stronger allies.
The Berlin Story
Author: Curt RiessPublisher:
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Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Hidden Topographies
Author: Raphael ZähringerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110535858
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book examines dystopian fiction’s recent paradigm shift towards urban dystopias. It links the dystopian tradition with the literary history of the novel, spatio-philosophical concepts against the backdrop of the spatial turn, and systems-theory. Five dystopian novels are discussed in great detail: China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station (2000) and The City & The City (2009), City of Bohane (2011) by Kevin Barry, John Berger’s Lilac and Flag (1992), and Divided Kingdom (2005) by Rupert Thomson. The book includes chapters on the literary history of the dystopian tradition, the referential interplay of maps and literature, urban spaces in literature, borders and transgressions, and on systems-theory as a tool for charting dystopian fiction. The result is a detailed overview of how dystopian fiction constantly adapts to – and reflects on – the actual world.
News from Hsinhua News Agency
Author: Narrative Means to Journalistic Ends
Author: Nora BerningPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3531926993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Nora Berning grasps the narrative potential of journalistic reportages via a set of narratological categories. Spurred by an interdisciplinary framework, she builds on transgeneric narratological research and shows that journalistic reportages can be described, analyzed, and charted with categories that originate in structuralist narratology. The author spells out minimal criteria for particular types of reportages, and challenges the argument that journalism and literature have distinct, non-overlapping communicative goals. By showing that the reportage is a hybrid text type that seeks to inform, educate, and entertain, this study advances a re-conceptualization of journalism and literature as two fields with permeable borders.