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East Central Europe Volume 32 Issue 1-2

Subject Areas: History; ; ;
Publisher: Brill - Brill
ISSN: 0094-3037
SJR: 10

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Preliminary material

East Central Europe, Editors

2005 East Central Europe

doi:10.1163/18763308-90001029
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INTRODUCTION: SYMBOLIC GEOGRAPHIES, COMPARATIVE HISTORIES

Antohi, Sorin

2005 East Central Europe

doi:10.1163/18763308-90001030
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WHY BOTHER ABOUT HISTORICAL REGIONS?: DEBATES OVER CENTRAL EUROPE IN HUNGARY, POLAND AND ROMANIA

Janowski, Maciej; Iordachi, Constantin; Trencsényi, Balázs

2005 East Central Europe

doi:10.1163/18763308-90001031

The article analyzes the ways in which the concept of Central Europe and related regional classifications were instrumentalized in historical research in Hungary, Poland and Romania. While Hungarian and Polish historians employed the discourse of Central Europe as a central means to contextualize...
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SPACING EUROPE: WHAT IS A HISTORICAL REGION?

Todorova, Maria

2005 East Central Europe

doi:10.1163/18763308-90001032

The focus of this article is the introduction of the category of historical legacy as the most adequate heuristic device in approaching and describing historical regions. Its central argument is that the notion of historical legacy, insofar as it allows more c1early to articulate the dynamism and...
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HISTORICAL REGIONS BETWEEN CONSTRUCTION AND PERCEPTION: VIEWING FRANCE AND POLAND IN THE LATE-EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY-NINETEENTH CENTURIES

Struck, Bernhard

2005 East Central Europe

doi:10.1163/18763308-90001033

This essay tackles the problem of spatial imaginations, representations, and "mental maps." Its main point of reference is Larry Wolff's thesis that the division of Europe into an Eastern - backward and uncivilized - part, on the one hand, and a Western - modem and civilized - part, on the other,...
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MOLDAVIA AND WALLACHIA IN THE EYES OF RUSSIAN OBSERVERS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Taki, Victor

2005 East Central Europe

doi:10.1163/18763308-90001034

Taking as its starting point the Enlightenment discourse about Eastern Europe, thc article examines the way Russian elites responded to the emergence of the West-East symbolic divide through discovery and appropriation of their own "Orient." The encounter of the Westernized Russian officer corps...
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MODELS OF EAST EUROPEAN BACKWARDNESS IN POST-1945 POLISH HISTORIOGRAPHY

Sosnowska, Anna

2005 East Central Europe

doi:10.1163/18763308-90001035

The article discusses the ideas of four Polish historians: Marian Małowist, Witold Kula, Jerzy Topolski, and Andrzej Wyczański on the nature, causes and effects of the economic backwardness in early modern Poland. The main stress is laid on the debate on the so-called second serfdom. While...
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INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENTS AND GEOPOLITICAL REGIONALIZATION: THE CASE OF THE EAST EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT

Brnardić, Teodora Shek

2005 East Central Europe

doi:10.1163/18763308-90001036

Although Western scholarship in the 1980s and 1990s tended to argue for the disunity of the Enlightenment movement, the so-called "East European Enlightenment" is still mostly taken as a unitary phenomenon. My aim is to describe the state of art of a virtually non-existent historical discipline -...
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A COMMENT ON TEODORA SHEK BRNARDIĆ'S ARTICLE

Okey, Robin

2005 East Central Europe

doi:10.1163/18763308-90001037

This comment expresses sympathy with the concern underlying Dr Shek Brnardić's paper, namely that East Central European history is in danger of homogenizing distortion in academic discourse emanating from the currently hegemonie West. It argues, however, that the remedy to this is not to be found...
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THE CROATIAN SPRING: INTERPRETING THE COMMUNIST HERITAGE IN POST-COMMUNIST CROATIA

Zubak, Marko

2005 East Central Europe

doi:10.1163/18763308-90001038

The article focuses on various interpretative traditions dealing with the 1971 Croatian national movement. A taboo theme during Yugoslav communism, the process failed to attract much interest within the post-1990 Croatian academic discourse. After identifying the causes for this scholarly gap,...

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