East European Quarterly articles from June 2003

East European Quarterly archives from June 2003

Alexander I, the Holy Alliance and Clemens Metternich: a reappraisal.
June 22, 2003... Tsar Alexander's Background: Character and Thinking Contrary to what most superficial observers think Tsar Alexander was far more a product of the West than of Russia. As far as his descent goes he was a grandson of Catherine II who was...

Giuseppe Mazzini's "geopolitics of liberty" and Italian foreign policy toward "Slavic Europe".
June 22, 2003... During the first half of the 19th century Western Europe looked with growing interest at the other half of the Continent, and especially at the emergence of a large Slav world that the rest of Europe had never appreciated before in all its...

Ethnic Polish students from the former Soviet Union in the homeland of their forefathers. An empirical study.
June 22, 2003... Introduction The aim of this article is to present the findings of an empirical qualitative research project on culture contact between ethnic Polish students from the former Soviet Union (the Polish diaspora is usually referred to as the...

Agrarian institutions and the state: Hungary and Slovakia in the post-communist era.
June 22, 2003... Within two years after the end of communist regimes in Central Eastern Europe, the trade organization Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) collapsed. (1) Hungary had been the only CMEA state that could provide for the agricultural...

Albanians' first post-communist decade. Values in transition: traditional or liberal?
June 22, 2003... Walls of self-imposed isolation were finally shattered in the Republic of Albania in 1990, and the Albanian society was laid open to Western influences. The roles of Albanian women have thus significantly changed, responding to social,...