East European Quarterly articles from June 1997

East European Quarterly archives from June 1997

Ideas about, and reactions to modernization in the Balkans.
June 1, 1997... It is my purpose in this paper to consider how development was thought about and imagined on the Balkans from the middle of the nineteenth century to World war II.(1) I am particularly interested in modernizing ideologies, i.e., such that...

The nature of faith in Albania: toward the 21st century.
June 1, 1997... As the third millennium approaches, Albania is fertile terrain for the awakening of indigenous religious sentiments and the propagation of new beliefs and faith groupings. The sight of new and restored mosques and churches, packed with...

National identity and tensional factors in South Eastern Europe.
June 1, 1997... It is commonly asserted that the new national states appeared in South Eastern Europe as a consequence of military conflicts and diplomatic agreements between the big powers. Historians from this area underline the long fight for independence...

Hungarian and mixed (Hungarian-Rumanian) families in Northern-Transylvania, 1942-1944.
June 1, 1997... Like everywhere else, there are also strokes of luck in the field of scientific research work. The fact that I was able to analyze the documents of a sociological survey taken more than 50 years ago is due to a fortunate accident. This survey...

German unification as a cultural dilemma: a retrospective.
June 1, 1997... It has been more than five years since the formal and official unification of Germany has happened. Yet, questions concerning the reality of German unity are still being raised. As Daniel Vernet, editor-in-chief of Le Monde, has been...

The diminishing real wage and collective bargaining: tripartism's balance of power in Hungary.
June 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION Inflation, currency devaluation, increased income taxes and a sharp decrease in real GDP are just a few of the macroeconomic variables responsible for the dramatic fall of the real wage, topping 50 percent in some Eastern...

The imperial Russian response to American contraband during the Russo-Japanese war: controversy and effects.
June 1, 1997... Although the broad outline of American-Russian relations of the beginning of the twentieth century has been well documented, including the evolution of American attitudes from anti-Russian to Roosevelt's mediation in ending the Russo-Japanese...