Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II

1998 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Robert Legvold ◽  
Ivan T. Berend
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
World War

scholarly journals Federalist Plans in Central and Eastern Europe and the Question of the Baltic States in the Context of Polish Politics During World War II

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Kisielewski
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
European Federation ◽  
World War ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Polish Government

This paper deals with federalist plans of Central and Eastern Europe during World War II. The Polish government in exile and its Czechoslovak counterpart actively participated in the implementation of such plans. A Central- and Eastern European federation was to be an eventual alternative to Stalin’s plans of Europe’s Sovietization and to Hitler’s ‘New Europe’. For some time these federalist plans were supported by Great Britain and the United States. Besides, in British and American circles there were also other models for creating a European regional union. On 11 November 1940 Poland and Czechoslovakia managed to sign a declaration on the formation of a federation. However, soon disagreements concerning attitudes towards the Soviet Union as well as over Lithuania’s place in the federation arose.

Immigration and Citizenship in Germany

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Münz ◽  
Ralf Ulrich
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
World War ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Foreign Labor ◽  
German States ◽  
Recent Immigration

In Germany, as in many other European democracies, immigrationand citizenship are contested and contentious issues. In the Germancase it was both the magnitude of postwar and recent immigration aswell as its interference with questions of identity that created politicaland social conflict. As a result of World War II, the coexistenceof two German states, and the persistence of ethnic German minoritiesin central and eastern Europe, (West) Germany’s migration andnaturalization policy was inclusive toward expellees, GDR citizens,and co-ethnics. At the same time, the Federal Republic of Germany,despite the recruitment of several million foreign labor migrantsand—until 1992—a relatively liberal asylum practice, did not developsimilar mechanisms and policies of absorption and integration of itslegal foreign residents.

Boomerangs and Bombs: The Zagreb School of Animation and Yugoslavia's Third Way Experiment

Slavic Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-138
Author(s):  
Paul Morton
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Self Management ◽  
World War ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Post World War Ii

The Zagreb School of Animation, one of the great achievements of Yugoslav culture, produced hundreds of films from the 1950s to the early 1990s. This paper studies the early development of the Zagreb School and the films that satirized the universal concerns of the post-World War II landscape: industrialization, militarism, environmentalism, nuclear annihilation, and urban alienation, as well as the conforming pressures of commercialization and mass culture. This paper argues that the Zagreb School, which was made up neither of dissidents nor propagandists, breaks many of the stereotypes about artists in the dictatorial states of central and eastern Europe. Its approach to the animation medium is adjacent to the two most important features of Yugoslavia's Third Way experiment: the development of workers’ self-management and a commitment to internationalism. The paper places the Zagreb School in this historical context with a formalist analysis of Boris Kolar's Bumerang (Boomerang, 1962).

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