Uniting Europe from Afar: Exile Plans for a Central European Federation in the Cold War

2020 ◽  
pp. 221-246
Author(s):  
Pauli Heikkilä
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
European Federation ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Cold War

scholarly journals Discourse Beyond Borders: Periodicals, Dissidents, and European Cultural Spaces

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Reijnen
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Spatial Perspective ◽  
Central European ◽  
East European ◽  
European Public ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
The Cold War

Émigré periodicals in Cold War Europe have long been considered isolated islands of Central and East European communities with limited relevance. In the second half of the Cold War, some of these periodicals functioned as crucial intersections of communication between dissidents, emigrants and Western European intellectuals. These periodicals were the greenhouses for the development of new definitions of Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Europe at large. This article studies Cold War émigré periodicals from a spatial perspective and argues that they can be analysed as European cultural spaces. In this approach, European cultural spaces are seen as insular components of a European public sphere. The particular settings (spaces) within which the periodicals developed have contributed greatly to the ideas that they expressed. The specific limits and functions of periodicals such as Kultura or Svědectví [Testimony] have triggered perceptions of Central European and European solidarity. The originally Russian periodical Kontinent promoted an eventually less successful East European-Russian solidarity.  

‘Dionysian Socialism?’: The Korčula Summer School as Kurort of the New Left

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-493
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn Tucker Sorenson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Summer School ◽  
New Left ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Central European ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Social Orders

Abstract This article explores and analyses several remarkable parallels between two unique cultural spaces, namely, that of the Korčula Summer School and that of the Kurorte – the Grand Spas of Central Europe. Though distinct from one another with respect to their historical as well as topographical locations within Europe, it is as cultural spaces that the two share their least apparent – but perhaps most significant – points of affinity. Just as Baden-Baden had served as the ‘summer capital of Europe’ for one set of cultural elites across political, linguistic and national boundaries, so did Korčula offer a space for cultural and intellectual exchange for philosophers from both sides of the Cold War. The article demonstrates how both of these spaces were marked by their shared internationalism, their political engagement, their privilege, their respective distance from daily social orders, and their intellectual intensity. Thus, it is suggested that Central-European Kurort culture – commonly considered a belle-époque phenomenon – did indeed survive the Great Wars, and found new expressions in a post-war, socialist context.

An aerial archaeology training week, 15–22 June 1996, held near Siófok, Lake Balaton, Hungary

Antiquity ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (270) ◽  
pp. 745-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bewley ◽  
Otto Braasch ◽  
Rog Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Lake Balaton ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Cold War

The end of the Cold War in 1989 prompted the opening of central European skies that had been closed to archaeological air photography for decades. The occasion of a summer school in 1996 provided the opportunity to record some results from Hungary.

Communist Europe and the Kurdish Question During the Cold War (1940s 1980s)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Etienne Forestier-Peyrat
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Central European ◽  
Kurdish Question ◽  
Kurdish Issue ◽  
The Cold War

While abundant scholarship has been produced concerning the Kurdish diaspora in Western Europe, little is known about the development of Kurdish communities in Central and Eastern Europe, especially during the Cold War. This paper analyses the specific situation of the Kurds in Communist Europe through the prism of Bulgaria, a frontline country in direct contact with the Middle East from the 1940s until the end of the 1980s. It demonstrates the weight of diplomatic and economic factors in explaining the persistent difficulty faced by Central European regimes in conceiving of the Kurdish issue beyond separate national fighting grounds. Abstract in Kurmanji Ewropaya komunîst û pirsgirêka kurd li serdema Şerê Sar (salên 1940î-1980î) Li gel berdariya xebatên akademîk ên li ser diyasporaya kurd li Ewropaya rojava, em xwediyên agahiyên pir kêm in li ser pêkhatina civatên kurd li Ewropaya naverast û rojhilat, nemase li serdema Şerê Sar. Ev nivîsar li rewşa taybet a Kurdên Ewropaya komunîst dikole û bi xusûsî li ser Bulgaristanê disekine, ku welatekî li ser sînor e û, ji salên 1940î ta dawiya salên 1980î, rasterast bi Rojhilata Navîn re di nav têkiliyan de bû. Bi vî hawî, nivîsar giraniya faktorên aborî û dîplomatîk derdixe pêş bo ravekirina zehmetiyên mayînde yên rejîmên Ewropaya naverast di ponijîna pirsgirêka kurd li derveyî meydanên ceng ên neteweyên cihê de. Abstract in Sorani Ewrupay komonîzt û dozî Kurdekan le serdemî cengî sarda (sallekanî 1940-1980) Le ‌katêk da twêjînewey zor le ser Kurdekan le Ewrupay rojawa, le tarawge berhemhênrawe, zanyarî kem le ser geşesendinî komellgey kurdî le Ewropay nawerrast û rojhellatî da heye, be taybetî le serdemî Cengî Sar da. Em twêjînewey şirovey barudoxî taybetî Kurdekanî Ewrupay komonîzt le rêgay Bulgaryawe, ke dewlletêkî berey ceng bû û peywendî rastewxoy legell Rojhellatî Nawerrast da le sallanî 1940ewe ta 1980ewe hebuwe. Twêjîneweke qursayî faktere dîplomatî û abûriyekan derdexat, be rûnkirdinewey astengî hewlle ‌berdawemekanî rûberruwî rijêmekanî Ewrupay nawerrast botewe le têgeyştin le dozî Kurdekan be der le kêşeyekî rûberrûbunewey neteweyi serbexo. Abstract in Zazaki Ewropaya komunîste û wextê Cengê Serdinî de (1940an-1980an) mesela kurdan Herçiqas ke derheqê dîyasporaya kurdanê Ewropaya Rojawanî de xeylê eserê zanyarî ameyê dayene kî, derheqê averşîyayîşê komelanê kurdanê Ewropaya Mîyanên û Rojhelatî de zanayîş hîna kêmî yo, bitaybetî demê Cengê Serdinî ser o. No nuşte rewşa taybetî yê kurdanê Ewropaya Komunîste analîz keno. Analîz pê prîzmaya Bulgarîstanî yeno kerdene: welatêkê serê cebheyî ke 1940an ra heta peynîya 1980an Rojhelatê Mîyanênî de têkilîya xo ya rasteraste estbî. Bi musnayîşê giranîya faktoranê ekonomîk û dîplomatîkan ra îzah beno ke rejîmanê Ewropaya Mîyanêne cenggehanê neteweyîyanê cîyakerdeyan ra teber fehmkerdişê mesela kurdan de tim zehmetîye antêne.

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