scholarly journals REPATRIATION OF THE BAKHMETEFF ARCHIVE: RUSSIAN DREAMS AND AMERICAN REALITY

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Tanya Chebotarev
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
European History ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Government Program ◽  
East European ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Resource

Since the early 1990s, the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture at Columbia University, like many other Russian émigré archives all over the world, has become a critical resource in the process of rewriting twentieth-century Russian history. Now and then, references to the Bakhmeteff's holdings have appeared in Russian archival publications. Regrettably, some of these publications contain alarming instances of Russian demands for the “repatriation” of the Bakhmeteff Archive's holdings. A major factor behind this trend is an official government program to retrieve archival Rossica at any price; but it also is due in part to . . .

Going West

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 785-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Zahra
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
European History ◽  
East European ◽  
European Context ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

“Going West” explores the potential of integrating East European History into broader histories of Europe and the world. Placing the history of Eastern Europe in a European context, I argue, may enable us to challenge the tropes of backwardness, pathology, and violence that still dominate the field. I also suggest that historians explore the extent to which conceptions of minority rights, development, and humanitarianism first developed in Eastern Europe radiated beyond the region in the twentieth century.

A NEW IMAGE OF THE NATION: READING CENTRAL AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-271
Author(s):  
GÁBOR BÁTONYI
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Association ◽  
European History ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
East European ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Duke University

The Little Entente and Europe (1920–1929). By Magda Ádám. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1993. Pp. 330. $40.00.The economy and polity in early twentieth century Hungary. The role of the National Association of Industrialists. By George Deák. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 209. $32.00.Stefan Stambolov and the emergence of Modern Bulgaria, 1870–1895. By Duncan M. Perry. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1993. Pp. xi + 308. £37.95.Hungarians and their neighbors in modern times, 1867–1950. Ed. Ferenc Glatz. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. 347. $42.00.The Czech fascist movement, 1922–1942. By David D. Kelly. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 243.

André Martinet (1908–1999)

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-293
Author(s):  
Johannes Klare
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Position ◽  
Research Director

André Martinet holds an important position in the history of linguistics in the twentieth century. For more than six decades he decisively influenced the development of linguistics in France and in the world. He is one of the spokespersons for French linguistic structuralism, the structuralisme fonctionnel. The article focuses on a description and critical appreciation of the interlinguistic part of Martinet’s work. The issue of auxiliary languages and hence interlinguistics had interested Martinet greatly from his youth and provoked him to examine the matter actively. From 1946 onwards he worked in New York as a professor at Columbia University and a research director of the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). From 1934 he was in contact with the Danish linguist and interlinguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943). Martinet, who went back to Paris in 1955 to work as a professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), increasingly developed into an expert in planned languages; for his whole life, he was committed to the world-wide use of a foreign language that can be learned equally easily by members of all ethnic groups; Esperanto, functioning since 1887, seemed a good option to him.

Verschweizerung, or: Some Brief Remarks on Sovereignty, Transnationality, and “Sense-Security” in the Middle of Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Geyer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
English Translation ◽  
State Power ◽  
European History ◽  
Central European ◽  
The World ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
Better Than

Even for readers of Central European History, it is easy to forget that there is more than one country in the middle of Europe and that there is more than one solution to the geopolitical problem associated with the perception of being in the “middle.” That problem is so overwhelmingly claimed by Germany and its interpreters, and it is so weighed down by reflections on the (ab)uses of state power, articulated in the long-running debate on the “primacy of foreign policy,” that it is somewhat jarring to encounter a book with the title In the Middle of Europe—André Holenstein's Mitten in Europa: Verflechtung und Abgrenzung in der Schweizer Geschichte—that is not at all concerned with Germany. It has Switzerland as its subject and Verschweizerung as its substance and subtext. I leave the term untranslated because it means nothing to most of the world and an English translation would surely not capture the partly facetious, partly scandalized, partly admiring undertones that the German conveys: “Die Welt wird entweder untergehen oder verschweizern,” in the words of Friedrich Dürenmatt. Even if not taken in jest, it still sounds better than: “Am deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen.” But if horror in the latter case makes sense when looking back at the twentieth century, why is there so much mockery in response to the former?

MUNICH, CARPATHO–UKRAINE, THE ‘VELVET REVOLUTION’, AND THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION

1999 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 1169-1178 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIKULÁš TEICH
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
National Interests ◽  
East European ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Velvet Revolution

Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler: the diplomacy of Edvard Beneš in the 1930s. By I. Lukes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii+318. ISBN 0-1951-0267-3. £22.50.Carpatho–Ukraine in the twentieth century: a political and legal history. By V. Shandor. Cambridge, MA: distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 1998. Pp. xvii+321. ISBN 0-9164A-5886-5. £21.95.Czechoslovak national interests, Part I: A historical survey of Czechoslovak national interests, Part II: Reflections on the demise of Czechoslovak communism. By Oskar Krejčí. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1996. Pp. 193, 167. ISBN 0-8803-3343-X. £31.00

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