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Author : György Gyarmati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789632365428
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Prelude to Demolishing the Iron Curtain written by György Gyarmati and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meredith Woo-cumings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000312593
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Past As Prelude written by Meredith Woo-cumings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we interpret the recent changes in world politics and what is the future likely to hold? The contributors to this volume share an assumption that history repeats itself. The book places the events of the past few years in broad historical context, examining how the political, military and economic arrangements of the past are reflected in current events. By tracing historical patterns in Western Europe, Russia, East Asia, Latin America and the United States, the contributors aim to provide a new perspective on the pressing questions and conflicts that characterize international politics now and in the years to come.
Author : Stella Ghervas
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067497526X
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Conquering Peace written by Stella Ghervas and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer lasting peace. Political peace in Europe has historically been elusive and ephemeral. Stella Ghervas shows that since the eighteenth century, European thinkers and leaders in pursuit of lasting peace fostered the idea of European unification. Bridging intellectual and political history, Ghervas draws on the work of philosophers from Abbé de Saint-Pierre, who wrote an early eighteenth-century plan for perpetual peace, to Rousseau and Kant, as well as statesmen such as Tsar Alexander I, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Robert Schuman, and Mikhail Gorbachev. She locates five major conflicts since 1700 that spurred such visionaries to promote systems of peace in Europe: the War of the Spanish Succession, the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Each moment generated a “spirit” of peace among monarchs, diplomats, democratic leaders, and ordinary citizens. The engineers of peace progressively constructed mechanisms and institutions designed to prevent future wars. Arguing for continuities from the ideals of the Enlightenment, through the nineteenth-century Concert of Nations, to the institutions of the European Union and beyond, Conquering Peace illustrates how peace as a value shaped the idea of a unified Europe long before the EU came into being. Today the EU is widely criticized as an obstacle to sovereignty and for its democratic deficit. Seen in the long-range perspective of the history of peacemaking, however, this European society of states emerges as something else entirely: a step in the quest for a less violent world.
Author : Maura E. Hametz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501313460
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Sissi’s World written by Maura E. Hametz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history. Sissi's World explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist. Despite the continuing fascination with “the beloved Sissi," the Habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy have received scant attention from scholars. This collection will go beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.
Author : Matthew Longo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393540782
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)
Download or read book The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain written by Matthew Longo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world. In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic—it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment. On wisps of rumor, thousands of East German “vacationers” packed Hungarian campgrounds, awaiting an opportunity, fearing prison, surveilled by lurking Stasi agents. The Pan-European Picnic set the stage for the greatest border breach in Cold War history: hundreds crossed from the Communist East to the longed-for freedom of the West. Drawing on dozens of original interviews—including Hungarian activists and border guards, East German refugees, Stasi secret police, and the last Communist prime minister of Hungary—Matthew Longo tells a gripping and revelatory tale of the unraveling of the Iron Curtain and the birth of a new world order. Just a few months after the Picnic, the Berlin Wall fell, and the freedom for which the activists and refugees had abandoned their homes, risked imprisonment, sacrificed jobs, family, and friends, was suddenly available to everyone. But were they really free? And why, three decades since the Iron Curtain was torn down, have so many sought once again to build walls? Cinematically told, The Picnic recovers a time when it seemed possible for the world to change. With insight and panache, Longo explores the opportunities taken—and the opportunities we failed to take—in that pivotal moment.
Author : Nandor Dreisziger
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442625287
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Church and Society in Hungary and in the Hungarian Diaspora written by Nandor Dreisziger and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Church and Society in Hungary and in the Hungarian Diaspora, Nándor Dreisziger tells the story of Christianity in Hungary and the Hungarian diaspora from its earliest years until the present. Beginning with the arrival of Christianity in the middle Danube basin, Dreisziger follows the fortunes of the Hungarians’ churches through the troubled times of the Middle Ages, the years of Ottoman and Habsburg domination, and the turmoil of the twentieth century: wars, revolutions, foreign occupations, and totalitarian rule. Complementing this detailed history of religious life in Hungary, Dreisziger describes the fate of the churches of Hungarian minorities in countries that received territories from the old Kingdom of Hungary after the First World War. He also tells the story of the rise, halcyon days, and decline of organized religious life among Hungarian immigrants to Western Europe, the Americas, and elsewhere. The definitive guide to the dramatic history of Hungary’s churches, Church and Society in Hungary and in the Hungarian Diaspora chronicles their proud past and speculates about their uncertain future.
Author : Igor Gouzenko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Iron Curtain written by Igor Gouzenko and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Boies Hawthorn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Korea Prelude to Catastrophe Or Consummation? written by Boies Hawthorn and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Iron Curtain written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : MATTHEW. LONGO
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781529920987
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)
Download or read book PICNIC written by MATTHEW. LONGO and published by . This book was released on 2025 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Newsletter from Behind the Iron Curtain written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francesco Di Palma
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789200210
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Perestroika and the Party written by Francesco Di Palma and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations. This ambitious collection takes a much broader view, reconstructing and evaluating the historical trajectories of glasnost and perestroika on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Moving beyond domestic politics and foreign relations narrowly defined, the research gathered here constitutes a transnational survey of these reforms’ collective impact, showing how they were variably received and implemented, and how they shaped the prospects for “proletarian internationalism” in diverse political contexts.
Author : Michael E. Haas
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780788149832
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Apollo's Warriors written by Michael E. Haas and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a fascinating insider's view of U.S.A.F. special operations, this volume brings to life the critical contributions these forces have made to the exercise of air & space power. Focusing in particular on the period between the Korean War & the Indochina wars of 1950-1979, the accounts of numerous missions are profusely illustrated with photos & maps. Includes a discussion of AF operations in Europe during WWII, as well as profiles of Air Commandos who performed above & beyond the call of duty. Reflects on the need for financial & political support for restoration of the forces. Bibliography. Extensive photos & maps. Charts & tables.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Listener written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edith Sheffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199737045
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Burned Bridge written by Edith Sheffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines "Burned Bridge," the intersection between two sister cities in East and West Germany, and reveals how the daily adjustments of anxious residents shaped the barrier that divided them.
Author : D. Kirby
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403919577
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Religion and the Cold War written by D. Kirby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-12-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although seen widely as the twentieth-century's great religious war, as a conflict between the god-fearing and the godless, the religious dimension of the Cold War has never been subjected to a scholarly critique. This unique study shows why religion is a key Cold War variable. A specially commissioned collection of new scholarship, it provides fresh insights into the complex nature of the Cold War. It has profound resonance today with the resurgence of religion as a political force in global society.
Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735223998
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Global Age written by Ian Kershaw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back,' the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities. Yet Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety. There were, by most definitions, striking successes: the Soviet bloc melted away, dictatorships vanished, and Germany was successfully reunited. But accelerating globalization brought new fragilities. The interlocking crises after 2008 were the clearest warnings to Europeans that there was no guarantee of peace and stability, and, even today, the continent threatens further fracturing. In this remarkable book, Ian Kershaw has created a grand panorama of the world we live in and where it came from. Drawing on examples from all across Europe, The Global Age is an endlessly fascinating portrait of the recent past and present, and a cautious look into our future.
