A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe. Volume II. Negotiating Modernity in the „Short Twentieth Century” and Beyond. Part I., 1918-1968

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Trencsényi, B. - Kopeček, Michal - Gabrijelčič, L. L. - Falina, M. - Baár, M. - Janowski, M.
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe. Volume II. Negotiating Modernity in the „Short Twentieth Century” and Beyond. Part I., 1918-1968.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 472 s. ISBN 978-0-19-873715-5
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : political philosophy * political theory * Central and Eastern Europe
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

II. The volume is a sequel to Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the ‘Long Nineteenth Century’. It begins with the end of the Great War, depicting the colorful intellectual landscape of the interwar period and the increasing political and ideological radicalization culminating in the Second World War. Taking the war experience both as a breaking point but in many ways also a transmitter of previous intellectual traditions, it maps the intellectual paradigms and debates of the immediate postwar years, marked by a negotiation between the democratic and communist agendas, as well as the subsequent processes of political and cultural Stalinization. Subsequently, the post-Stalinist period is analyzed with a special focus on the various attempts of de-Stalinization and the rise of revisionist Marxism and other critical projects culminating in the carnivalesque but also extremely dramatic year of 1968.
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