East European Quarterly articles from March 2000

East European Quarterly archives from March 2000

THE SOCIETY OF JESUS AND THE CULTURE OF THE LATE BAROQUE IN BOHEMIA 1730-1773(*).
March 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION Nowhere is a reassessment of the Jesuit contribution to eighteenth century culture more overdue than in Bohemian studies.(1) The usual handicaps of confessional bias and political polemic are compounded by the selective...

A STABLE ECUMENICAL MODEL? HOW RELIGION MIGHT BECOME A POLITICAL ISSUE IN ALBANIA.
March 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION To a great extent, the social conflicts which have erupted in the formerly communist countries, have been, at least on the surface, religiously motivated.(1) This is not only characteristic of the former Communist states....

"A LA RECHERCHE DU PAYS PERDU": ANDREI MAKINE'S RUSSIA.
March 22, 2000... Andrei Makine is "Russian, but he is not a Russian writer." This is because "Makine the Russian wrote a novel in French since he was not up to writing it in Russian, and we Russians can only make sense of it in its translation from the French."...

THE SOPRON PLEBISCITE OF 1921: A SUCCESS STORY.
March 22, 2000... The multi-ethnic character of states in Central and Eastern Europe has been an ongoing source of instability in the twentieth century. At times this has created grave difficulties, especially in 1918 when the multi-ethnic Habsburg Monarchy...

RELATIONS BETWEEN THE COMMUNIST AND SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES IN HUNGARY IN 1945.
March 22, 2000... On April 4, 1945, the last Nazi combatants were driven out of Hungary by the Soviet Red Army, marking the end of more than a decade of Hungarian cooperation with Nazi Germany as well as thirteen months of German occupation of Hungary. Behind...