East European Quarterly articles from June 2002

East European Quarterly archives from June 2002

The peasants in early Turkish literature.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... In the Turkey of the 1930s, the peasants and villages had been a major concern and interest for the Republican intellectuals. As a matter of fact, a peasantist discourse, the so-called koyculuk, was widely accepted and disseminated by the...

Disputes in the Dardanelles: a report on Russo-Ottoman relations.
June 22, 2002... Documents on Russia's consular and commercial activities in the Ottoman Empire provide telling detail, direct information, and first-hand observation on the state of Russo-Ottoman affairs. These features, to varying degrees, are manifested in...

Imre Nagy, martyr of the nation: contested memory and social cohesion.
June 22, 2002... In June of 1996 the Hungarian Parliament passed a law that made Imre Nagy the Martyred Prime Minister of the Hungarian Nation. Nagy had been the Prime Minister of Hungary during the ill-fated Hungarian Revolution of 1956. His refusal to step...

Abortion and the right to life in post-Communist Eastern Europe and Russia.
June 22, 2002... Introduction The Cold War was, after all, about values. That is what people risked and sometimes gave up their lives for. States took values seriously: massive armies faced each other across value-divided lines around the world; behind...

National liberations in former Yugoslavia: when will they end?
June 22, 2002... Contested National Liberations National liberations on the territory of former Yugoslavia have a long and--not surprisingly--bloody history. This process of national liberations has now lasted two centuries. The first round of national...

The Denial of Bosnia.
June 22, 2002... By Rusmir Mahmutcehajic. Translation by Francis Jones and Marina Bowder. Introduction by Ivo Banac. State College: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. For many outsiders, Bosnia has already been virtually relegated to the...