Historical Concepts Between Eastern and Western Europe

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-273-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 353 g

Reihe: New German Historical Perspectives

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hildermeier, Manfred

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Preface

Jane Caplan, Timothy Garton Ash, Jürgen Kocka, Gerhard Ritter, Margit Szöllösi-Janze

Introduction

Manfred Hildermeier

Chapter 1. National Socialist and Stalinist Rule: The Possibilities and Limits of Comparison

Ulrich Herbert

Chapter 2. Burgher and Town: Typological Differences and Functional Equivalents

Manfred Hildermeier

Chapter 3. Republicanism versus Monarchy? Government by Estates in Poland-Lithuania and the Holy Roman Empire, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

Michael G. Müller

Chapter 4. The Impact of Religion on the Revolutions in France (1789) and Russia (1905/17)

Martin Schulze Wessel

Chapter 5. Dictatorships of Unambiguity: Cultural Transfer from Europe to Russia and the Soviet Union, 1861–1953

Jörg Baberowski

Chapter 6. Europe and the Culture of Borders: Rethinking Borders after 1989

Karl Schlögel

Chapter 7. Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Comparison and Beyond

Jürgen Kocka

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hildermeier, Manfred
Manfred Hildermeier 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 Die Russische Revolution 1905-1920 (1989), Geschichte der Sowjetunion 1917-1991: Aufstieg und Niedergang des ersten sozialistischen Staates (1998), Die Sowjetunion 1917-1991 (2001), Die Russische Revolution (2004) and the edited volumes Stalinismus vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Neue Wege der Forschung (1998) and Europäische Zivilgesellschaft in Ost und West: Begriff, Geschichte, Chancen (2000).

Manfred Hildermeier 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 Die Russische Revolution 1905-1920 (1989), Geschichte der Sowjetunion 1917-1991: Aufstieg und Niedergang des ersten sozialistischen Staates (1998), Die Sowjetunion 1917-1991 (2001), Die Russische Revolution (2004) and the edited volumes Stalinismus vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Neue Wege der Forschung (1998) and Europäische Zivilgesellschaft in Ost und West: Begriff, Geschichte, Chancen (2000).