Description
Book Synopsis More than a decade after the breakdown of the Soviet Empire and the reunification of Europe historiographies and historical concepts still are very much apart. Though contacts became closer and Russian historians joined their Polish colleagues in the effort to take up western discussions and methodologies, there have been no common efforts yet for joint interpretations and no attempts to reach a common understanding of central notions and concepts. Exploring key concepts and different meanings in Western and East-European/Russian history, this volume offers an important contribution to such a comparative venture.
Trade Review “…a useful guide both to the paths that the German historical profession has taken in the last decade or so and to the ways in which one might think about the social, cultural, and political history of modern Europe.” • Journal of Contemporary History
“There is no doubt that this collection of essays will provide historians with important stimuli for bridging the gap between the historiographies of eastern and western Europe. Of paramount importance is the authors’ emphasis on historiography own contribution to the construction of the long-existing and powerful distinctions in European geographic and historical imaginations.” • Slavic Review
Table of Contents Editorial Preface
Jane Caplan, Timothy Garton Ash, Jürgen Kocka, Gerhard Ritter, Margit Szöllösi-Janze
Introduction
Manfred Hildermeier
Chapter 1. National Socialist and Stalinist Rule: The Possibilities and Limits of Comparison
Ulrich Herbert
Chapter 2. Burgher and Town: Typological Differences and Functional Equivalents
Manfred Hildermeier
Chapter 3. Republicanism versus Monarchy? Government by Estates in Poland-Lithuania and the Holy Roman Empire, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Michael G. Müller
Chapter 4. The Impact of Religion on the Revolutions in France (1789) and Russia (1905/17)
Martin Schulze Wessel
Chapter 5. Dictatorships of Unambiguity: Cultural Transfer from Europe to Russia and the Soviet Union, 1861–1953
Jörg Baberowski
Chapter 6. Europe and the Culture of Borders: Rethinking Borders after 1989
Karl Schlögel
Chapter 7. Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Comparison and Beyond
Jürgen Kocka
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
