Central EuropePub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1080/14790963.2024.2294422
Camelia Dinu
{"title":"Vladimir Makanin and the Disorder of Post-Soviet Trauma","authors":"Camelia Dinu","doi":"10.1080/14790963.2024.2294422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790963.2024.2294422","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to demonstrate that post-Soviet Russian prose from 1991–2000 contains a critique of totalitarianism manifested as much on the level of literary problematics as on the art of the nar...","PeriodicalId":41396,"journal":{"name":"Central Europe","volume":"119 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139374087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Central EuropePub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1080/14790963.2023.2294409
Denisa Nešťáková
{"title":"In the Name of Helping Women: Women Against the Family Policy of the Slovak State1","authors":"Denisa Nešťáková","doi":"10.1080/14790963.2023.2294409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790963.2023.2294409","url":null,"abstract":"Fuelled by nationalism and Catholicism, the wartime Slovak state, a client state of Nazi Germany, aimed to promote population growth by forcing the return of women from public to private life and s...","PeriodicalId":41396,"journal":{"name":"Central Europe","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139376604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Central EuropePub Date : 2023-01-19DOI: 10.1080/14790963.2023.2150491
J. M. Ward
{"title":"Hungarian Emancipation as a Model Central European Expropriation: How Discourses of Serfdom Argued for Takings","authors":"J. M. Ward","doi":"10.1080/14790963.2023.2150491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790963.2023.2150491","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41396,"journal":{"name":"Central Europe","volume":"8 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81036416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Central EuropePub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14790963.2023.2181500
C. Aliprantis
{"title":"The Austrian Political Police Abroad in the Age of Revolutions, 1830–1867: A Microhistorical Approach","authors":"C. Aliprantis","doi":"10.1080/14790963.2023.2181500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790963.2023.2181500","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates the formation of a transnational secret police corps in the Habsburg Empire in post-Napoleonic Europe. It shows that widespread anxieties in imperigal Austria following several nineteenth-century revolutions (1830, 1848) led to the recruitment of secret police agents, who operated across Europe. These agents were used to keep track of revolutionaries and radical organizations beyond the empire’s borders, who – in the authorities’ perception – might be detrimental for state security. The article uses a microhistorical approach to analyse this state institution and follows closely the lives and careers of several such agents. It thus delivers a transnational and ‘from below’ perspective on nineteenth-century Austrian state formation. This perspective, the paper argues, underlines the blurred and complex relations between state and society, and highlights the personal agency of obscure figures such as secret agents and police informers. 1 1 I would like to thank Alexander Maxwell, Christopher Clark, Brendan Simms, Frank Lorenz Mueller, and the two anonymous reviewrs for their insightful comments during the preparation of this article.","PeriodicalId":41396,"journal":{"name":"Central Europe","volume":"45 1","pages":"20 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84672158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Central EuropePub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14790963.2022.2150492
Agnes Beretzky
{"title":"Twin Champions of the Slovak-Cause: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Robert William Seton-Watson","authors":"Agnes Beretzky","doi":"10.1080/14790963.2022.2150492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790963.2022.2150492","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Both Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and British publicist and historian Robert William Seton-Watson have been widely recognized as champions of the rights of small nations. Owing to their tireless engagement for the Slovak cause, they are regular “guests of honour” at conferences or commemorations in Slovakia to keep the memory of among others, the Černova tragedy of 1907 alive. Bjørnson’s activity for the Slovaks has received a very special attention in Norway, too, but so far only from a Czechoslovak/Slovak perspective. The emphasis is on the internationally acclaimed Nobel Prize-winning poet’s changing assessment of Hungary: his full support for Hungarian demands during the Austro-Hungarian constitutional crisis (1905-6), followed by a radical change for the worse in his attitude towards Hungary, and his heated debate with the Hungarian Minister of Education, Albert Apponyi. The article seeks to explore Bjørnson’s main motivations for such a large-scale international campaign, the shortcomings of which become all the more apparent in the light of Seton-Watson’s similar pro-Slovak activity. Moreover, Bjørnson’s and Seton-Watson’s articles and correspondence in Norwegian, English, German and French, as well as secondary sources in Slovak and Hungarian reveal hard lessons about the policy of Magyarization and the pre-war Hungarian attitudes towards well-meaning foreign critics. It is argued that instead of being used to foment national antagonisms and conflicts in Central-Europe, historical memory should be inspired by Bjørnson’s and Seton-Watson’s best vision of Europe as a continent of equals.","PeriodicalId":41396,"journal":{"name":"Central Europe","volume":"56 1","pages":"51 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89873271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Central EuropePub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14790963.2023.2181497
Oliver Zajac
{"title":"Austrian Bureaucrats and Polish Revolutionaries as Allies? Czartoryski, Galicia, and Plans for a Future Polish Uprising 1831-1846","authors":"Oliver Zajac","doi":"10.1080/14790963.2023.2181497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790963.2023.2181497","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates the debates of the Hôtel Lambert, the constitutional monarchist wing of the Great Polish Emigration, led by Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, about the Austrian rule in Galicia, with a specific focus on the question of the position of Austrian bureaucracy in plans for the future Polish uprising. From the Hôtel Lambert’s point of view, Galicia was an integral part of a restored independent Polish state. Discussions about its strategic position and the role of its inhabitants were a critical part of plans for the future uprising. The local Austrian bureaucracy was also among those groups who were, therefore, debated. The article concludes that although Czartoryski shared the generally accepted negative image of the bureaucracy in his pre-emigration writings, once in Paris all plans for the uprising emphasized the importance of maintaining the functioning administration. Consequently, according to the Hôtel Lambert’s plans, bureaucrats in Galicia (and in the Prussian and Russian partitions as well) would play one of the crucial roles during the Polish insurrection. Either voluntarily, receiving benefits like promotion, or by force, under the direct supervision of insurgents. In that case, they would be later released from the service and expelled from the country. 1 1 Several of the arguments presented in this article had been previously discussed in the author’s study, “Z kolonizátorov asimilovaní, z nepriateľov spojenci: Germanizácia Haliče z pohl’adu Adama Jerzyho Czartoryského a Hôtel Lambert 1830 – 1846 [From Colonizers to those who Were Assimilated, from Enemies to Allies: Germanization of Galicia through the Eyes of Adam Jerzy Czartoryski and Hôtel Lambert 1830 –1846]. In Dlhá cesta od monarchie k republike : zmeny režimov, myslenia a životného štšlu na Slovensku a v strednej Eurôpe od polovice 19. do polovice 20. storočia. Jubileum Dušana Kováča. - Bratislava : HistorickÝ ústav SAV : Veda, vydavate’stvo SAV, 2021, p. 65-82. ISBN 978-80-224-1921-5.","PeriodicalId":41396,"journal":{"name":"Central Europe","volume":"32 1","pages":"8 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80492045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Central EuropePub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14790963.2023.2181496
Alexander Maxwell
{"title":"Rebels into Loyalists, or Loyalists into Rebels? Habsburg Officials and Their International Contacts during the Age of Revolutions","authors":"Alexander Maxwell","doi":"10.1080/14790963.2023.2181496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790963.2023.2181496","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During the Age of Revolutions, the Habsburg monarchy initially opposed nationalist movements as revolutionary. While the monarchy later sought to co-opt loyal patriots, historical memory often imagines the Habsburg state as implacably opposed to both nationalism and nationalist movements. In practice, however, Habsburg officials and central European nationalisms overlapped and engaged with each other in surprising ways. Their interaction problematizes a sharp line between monarchism and nationalism. This essay speficially introduces a special issue of Central Europe, consisting of two papers presented at a 2022 conference on the Habsburg state apparatus. The two papers explored the tensions and interactions between Habsburg officials and patriot circles as they played out in international relations. Polish exiles sought to recruit Habsburg officials to the national cause, while Habsburg agents sought to recruit patriots to the spy network of the Habsburg political police.","PeriodicalId":41396,"journal":{"name":"Central Europe","volume":"217 1","pages":"1 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78416563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Central EuropePub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14790963.2023.2177934
Jeremy Adler
{"title":"Voices from Ukraine; Part 2","authors":"Jeremy Adler","doi":"10.1080/14790963.2023.2177934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790963.2023.2177934","url":null,"abstract":"This is the second part of an ongoing series that is part of this journal’s continuing commitment to our colleagues in Ukraine. In more peaceful times they could focus on publishing their work on the larger culture of central Europe in journals such as this one. Instead, they are now forced to confront the horror of war every day. The least we can do is provide another forum for their voices to be heard. We are grateful to our colleagues in Ukraine for their texts and to their translators for making this series possible.","PeriodicalId":41396,"journal":{"name":"Central Europe","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135754971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Central EuropePub Date : 2022-05-29DOI: 10.1080/14790963.2022.2077617
Jeremy Adler
{"title":"Voices from Ukraine; Part 1","authors":"Jeremy Adler","doi":"10.1080/14790963.2022.2077617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790963.2022.2077617","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This journal does not normally publish articles on contemporary politics. Its focus is the history, literature and culture of central Europe. Nevertheless, we believe that the voices of our colleagues in the Ukraine, whose lives have been transformed by this terrible war, have a right to be heard. We are, therefore, determined to bring to the widest possible audience their writings, which are rooted in the very history, literature and culture that is the focus of this journal.","PeriodicalId":41396,"journal":{"name":"Central Europe","volume":"18 1","pages":"68 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87198713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Central EuropePub Date : 2022-05-22DOI: 10.1080/14790963.2022.2069381
Johana Kłusek
{"title":"‘Our Second Capital on the Banks of the Thames’: The Evolution of the Anglophilia of Czechoslovak Exiles in Britain during the Second World War","authors":"Johana Kłusek","doi":"10.1080/14790963.2022.2069381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790963.2022.2069381","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study is the first to examine Anglo-Czechoslovak relations during the second world war from the perspective of discourse analysis. It reconstructs the evolution of the Czechoslovak exiles’ Anglophilia through articles published in three major exile newspapers – Čechoslovák, Mladé/Nové Československo and Nová svoboda – between October 1939 and May 1945. It claims that the new significant Other, whose image included numerous idealizations as well as objective reflections, liberated exiled Czechs and served as an important guide in the quest for a better future for their own country. The study also demonstrates how quickly favourable conditions can create fruitful transcultural space between nations that had, hitherto, been separated by geography, culture and language.","PeriodicalId":41396,"journal":{"name":"Central Europe","volume":"69 1","pages":"29 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90761547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}