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Historical Concepts Between Eastern and Western Europe
eBook - New German Historical Perspectives
ISBN/EAN: 9781789204193
Umbreit-Nr.: 2292082
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 132 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.06.2007
Auflage: 1/2007
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p> More than a decade after the breakdown of the Soviet Empire and the reunification of Europe historiographies and historical concepts still are very much apart. Though contacts became closer and Russian historians joined their Polish colleagues in the effort to take up western discussions and methodologies, there have been no common efforts yet for joint interpretations and no attempts to reach a common understanding of central notions and concepts. Exploring key concepts and different meanings in Western and East-European/Russian history, this volume offers an important contribution to such a comparative venture.</p>
- Kurztext
- More than a decade after the breakdown of the Soviet Empire and the reunification of Europe historiographies and historical concepts still are very much apart. Though contacts became closer and Russian historians joined their Polish colleagues in the effort to take up western discussions and methodologies, there have been no common efforts yet for joint interpretations and no attempts to reach a common understanding of central notions and concepts. Exploring key concepts and different meanings in Western and East-European/Russian history, this volume offers an important contribution to such a comparative venture.
- Autorenportrait
- <p><b>Manfred Hildermeier</b> is Professor of East European History at the University of Göttingen; he was Fellow of the Historische Kolleg in Munich and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and Chairman of the Association of German Historians (2000-2004); his writings on Russian and Soviet history include<i>Die Russische Revolution 1905-1920</i> (1989),<i>Geschichte der Sowjetunion 1917-1991: Aufstieg und Niedergang des ersten sozialistischen Staates</i> (1998),<i>Die Sowjetunion 1917-1991</i> (2001),<i>Die Russische Revolution</i> (2004) and the edited volumes<i>Stalinismus vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Neue Wege der Forschung</i> (1998) and<i>Europäische Zivilgesellschaft in Ost und West: Begriff, Geschichte, Chancen</i> (2000).</p>