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The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered International Relations in Eastern Europe 1955-1969

The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered International Relations in Eastern Europe 1955-1969

The Warsaw Pact is generally regarded as a mere instrument of Soviet power. In the 1960s the alliance nevertheless evolved into a multilateral alliance in which the non-Soviet Warsaw Pact members gained considerable scope for manoeuvre. This book examines to what extent the Warsaw Pact inadvertently provided its members with an opportunity to assert their own interests emancipate themselves from the Soviet grip and influence Soviet bloc policy. Laurien Crump traces this development through six thematic case studies which deal with such well known events as the building of the Berlin Wall the Sino-Soviet Split the Vietnam War the nuclear question and the Prague Spring. By interpreting hitherto neglected archival evidence from archives in Berlin Bucharest and Rome and approaching the Soviet alliance from a radically novel perspective the book offers unexpected insights into international relations in Eastern Europe while shedding new light on a pivotal period in the Cold War. | The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered International Relations in Eastern Europe 1955-1969

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The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture

The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture

The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture offers a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Germany in the 21st century. It gathers the expertise of internationally leading scholars of German culture politics and society to explore and explain: historical pathways to contemporary Germany the current ‘Berlin Republic’ society and diversity Germany and Europe Germany and the world. This is an essential resource for students researchers and all those looking to understand contemporary German politics and culture. | The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture

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The City Symphony Phenomenon Cinema Art and Urban Modernity Between the Wars

The City Symphony Phenomenon Cinema Art and Urban Modernity Between the Wars

The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Combining experimental documentary and narrative practices these films were marked by a high level of abstraction reminiscent of high-modernist experiments in painting and photography. Moreover interwar city symphonies presented a highly fragmented oftentimes kaleidoscopic sense of modern life and they organized their urban-industrial images through rhythmic and associative montage that evoke musical structures. In this comprehensive volume contributors consider the full 80 film corpus from Manhatta and Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt to lesser-known cinematic explorations. | The City Symphony Phenomenon Cinema Art and Urban Modernity Between the Wars

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Mediating Post-Socialist Femininities

Mediating Post-Socialist Femininities

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall this collection of essays examines the ways in which popular media re-construct ideas and ideals of femininity in the post-socialist cultural space. The authors explore a comprehensive range of questions including: How have post-socialist women engaged with media as media producers and consumers as well as objects of media representation? What are the consequences of the commodification of femininity in the post-socialist context? How does the female body serve as a battleground for the enactment and renegotiation of gendered identities and ideologies? How can we understand and theorize post-socialist women’s activist movements? In seeking answers to such questions this volume highlights the need to reconsider feminism as a political and theoretical project with many faces. It bridges research on the mediation of post-socialist femininities with broader concerns about the transnational trajectories of feminism today. This book was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies. | Mediating Post-Socialist Femininities

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The New Tenement Residences in the Inner City Since 1970

The New Tenement Residences in the Inner City Since 1970

This book examines new tenements—dense medium-rise multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since the 1970s and came with a new positive view on urban living. Focusing principally on Berlin Copenhagen Glasgow Rotterdam and Vienna it relates architectural design to an evolving intellectual framework that mixed anti-modernist criticism with nostalgic images and strategic goals and absorbed ideas about the city as a generator of creativity locale of democratic debate and object of personal identification. This book analyses new tenements in the context of the post-functionalist city and its mixed-use neighbourhoods redeveloped industrial sites and regenerated waterfronts. It demonstrates that these buildings are both generators and outcome of an urban environment characterised by information exchange rather than industrial production individual expression rather than mass culture visible history rather than comprehensive renewal and conspicuous difference rather than egalitarianism. It also shows that new tenements evolved under a welfare state that all over Europe has come under pressure but still to a certain degree balances and controls heterogeneity and economic disparities. | The New Tenement Residences in the Inner City Since 1970

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The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia. However while appearing regional the war itself in fact had a major global impact. The conflict and Japanese victory stimulated the Russian revolutionary movement in 1905 and hence the Russian Revolution of 1917. In addition the Peace Treaty of Portsmouth created a tension between the United States and Japan that would establish the starting point for the road directly leading to Pearl Harbor in 1941. Eventually the war had a major impact on Germany whose diplomats wanted to use the war to bind St Petersburg to Berlin and whose military planners closely observed the events to prepare themselves for the next possible conflict. This book makes a strong argument for the consideration of initially minor events in the analysis of global history. By describing and analyzing the interrelationship between the events in East Asia and the major developments in Europe and the United States it shows the significance of the Russo-Japanese War as a key factor in determining the most momentous historical events of the twentieth century: The First World War the Second World War and the Cold War. | The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

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Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe

Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe

A quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall and from the vantage point of a post-Cold War globalised world there is a need to address the relative neglect of postcommunism in analysis of postcolonial and neo-colonial configurations of power and influence. This book proposes new critical perspectives on several themes and concepts that have emerged within or been propagated by postcolonial studies. These themes include structures of exclusion/ inclusion; formations of nationalism structures of othering and representations of difference; forms and historical realisations of anti-colonial/anti-imperial struggle; the experience of trauma (involving issues of collective memory/amnesia and the re-writing of history); resistance as a complex of cultural practices; and concepts such as alterity ambivalence self-colonisation dislocation hegemonic discourse minority and subaltern cultures. Taken together this volume suggests that some of the methodological instruments of postcolonial criticism can be fruitfully applied to the study of postcommunist cultures and conversely that the experience of the Soviet brand of imperialist rule in the form of communism in East-Central Europe can function as an ideological moderator in Third-World oriented Marxist-inspired postcolonial discourses. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. | Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe

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Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities

Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities

Contrary to earlier views of preindustrial Europe as an essentially sedentary society research over the past decades has amply demonstrated that migration was a pervasive characteristic of early modern Europe. In this volume the theme of urban migration is explored through a series of historical contexts journeying from sixteenth-century Antwerp Ulm Lille and Valenciennes through seventeenth-century Berlin Milan and Rome to eighteenth-century Strasbourg Trieste Paris and London. Each chapter demonstrates how the presence of diverse and often temporary groups of migrants was a core feature of everyday urban life which left important marks on the demographic economic social political and cultural characteristics of individual cities. The collection focuses on the interventions by urban authorities and institutions in a wide-ranging set of domains as they sought to stimulate channel and control the newcomers' movements and activities within the cities and across the cities' borders. While striving for a broad geographical and chronological coverage in a comparative perspective the volume aims to enhance our insight into the different factors that shaped urban migration policies in different European settings west of the Elbe. By laying bare the complex interactions of actors interests conflicts and negotiations involved in the regulation of migration the case studies shed light on the interrelations between burghership guilds relief arrangements and police in the incorporation of newcomers and in shaping the shifting boundaries between wanted and unwanted migrants. By relating to a common analytical framework presented in the introductory chapter they engage in a comparative discussion that allows for the formulation of general insights and the identification of long term transformations that transcend the time and place specificities of the case studies in question. The introduction and final chapters connect insights derived from the individual case-study chapters to present wide ranging conclusions that resonate with both historical and present-day debates on migration. | Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities

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Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein Edited with Critical Review by John Steiner

Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein Edited with Critical Review by John Steiner

Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein is based on a series of six lectures given by Melanie Klein to students at the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1936 and repeated several times in subsequent years. They were discovered in the Melanie Klein Archives housed in the Wellcome Medical Library and have been previously described by Elizabeth Spillius but never before published. In this book John Steiner explores what characterises Kleinian Technique how her technique changed over the years what she saw as the correct psychoanalytical attitude and how psychoanalytic technique has changed since Klein’s death. Melanie Klein who moved to England from Berlin in 1927 became one of the leading psychoanalysts following Freud and making an important contribution in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. A pioneer in child analysis her work remains widely influential throughout the world. This book consists of the full text of the original six lectures accompanied by a critical analysis from John Steiner who is known internationally as a leading Kleinian analyst and writer. Steiner demonstrates the importance of the lectures in understanding Klein’s work and their continued relevance for contemporary psychoanalysis. In addition also published for the first time this book includes annotated transcripts of a preserved recording of a seminar Klein held in 1958 with young analysts of the British Psychoanalytical Society. In this seminar close to the end of her life many of the points made in the earlier lectures were elaborated upon and brought further up to date in light of developments in Klein’s thinking during the intervening years. Featuring rare previously unpublished material Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein provides a new and significant contribution to understanding of the Kleinian paradigm. It will be essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists interested in and influenced by Klein’s work and legacy. | Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein Edited with Critical Review by John Steiner

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