East European Quarterly articles from December 1999

East European Quarterly archives from December 1999

THE ASSAULT ON HISTORICAL MEMORY: HUNGARIAN NATIONALISTS AND THE HOLOCAUST.
December 22, 1999... Perhaps no other event in world history has been as thoroughly documented as the Holocaust, the destruction of close to six million European Jews during the Nazi era. Yet, this vast documentation notwithstanding, the authenticity of no other...

STRICKEN FIELD: MARTHA GELLHORN AND LOUIS EUGENE FAUCHER IN PRAGUE, 1938.
December 22, 1999... This article examines the historical relevance of a fictional work to our understanding of how the destruction of Czechoslovakia helped bring on the Second World War, and how the human cost of appeasement exposed the uncomfortably dark...

SAVING AN EMPIRE: THE CONTRIBUTION OF JOHN WENZEL COUNT WRATISLAW TO THE TURNAROUND IN 1704.
December 22, 1999... In his masterful biography of his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough, Winston Churchill write that Marlborough's breakthrough to the Danube leading to the great victory at Blenheim saved the Holy Roman Empire from imminent defeat and preserved it...

LABOR'S PARADISE: FAMILY, WORK, AND HOME IN NOWA HUTA, POLAND, 1950-1960.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... "Nowa Huta, as the first socialist city in Poland, should serve as an example not only for our Voivode, but also for the entire nation."(1) This is a tale of hubris, naivete, and gross callousness. In the aftermath of World War II,...

ARE THE CZECHS PRAGUE-MATIC?
December 22, 1999... Amid all East European states the Czech Republic is, it seems, the least understood and the most under-appreciated. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, the Czech Republic has not been perceived by the West as a part of it which fell under...

THE POLITICAL DYNAMICS OF ECONOMIC REFORMS: PRZEWORSKI'S THEORY AND THE CASE OF POLAND AND HUNGARY.(Adam Przeworski)(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... I. DEMOCRACY AND THE MARKET: THE DOUBLE TRANSITION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE The literature on transition has pervasively pointed out that post-communist transition in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) constitutes in many ways a...

NATO EXPANSION: ROMANIA AND BULGARIA WITHIN THE LARGER CONTEXT.
December 22, 1999... On July 11, 1997 a group of fifteen United States academics and their Romanian hosts gathered in a hotel room in Tulcea to witness President Bill Clinton's address to the Romanian people in Bucharest during which the president promised that...