Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

Contents

v Chapter 1. Introduction: The Oblique Coordinate Systems of Modern Identity 1 GyörGy Péteri Chapter 2. Were the Czechs More Western Than Slavic? Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature from Russia by Disillusioned Czechs 13 Karen GammelGaard Chapter 3. Privileged Origins: “National Models” and Reforms of Public Health in Interwar Hungary 36 eriK inGebriGtsen Chapter 4. Defending Children’s Rights, “In Defense of Peace”: Children and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy 59 Catriona Kelly Chapter 5. East as True West: Redeeming Bourgeois Culture, from Socialist Realism to Ostalgie 87 GreG Castillo Chapter 6. Paris or Moscow? Warsaw Architects and the Image of the Modern City in the 1950s 105 david Crowley Chapter 7. Imagining Richard Wagner: The Janus Head of a Divided Nation 131 elaine Kelly contentS peteri text3.indd 5 8/16/10 10:46 AM vi contents Chapter 8. From Iron Curtain to Silver Screen: Imagining the West in the Khrushchev Era 153 anne e. GorsuCh Chapter 9. Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall . . . Is the West the Fairest of Them All? Czechoslovak Normalization and Its (Dis)contents 172 Paulina bren Chapter 10. Who Will Beat Whom? Soviet Popular Reception of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 194 susan e. reid Chapter 11. Moscow Human Rights Defenders Look West: Attitudes toward U.S. Journalists in the 1960s and 1970s 237 barbara walKer Chapter 12. Conclusion: Transnational History and the East-West Divide 258 miChael david-Fox Notes 269 CoNtributors 329 iNdex 333 peteri text3.indd 6 8/16/10 10:46 AM ...