The Rediscovery of Central Europe

Judt, Tony

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“…Berman tells us of Lenin's theory of a 'contest of two systems': 'in which West and East could survive alongside, but without ceasing to determine the class struggle' (Charter 77, 1977, p. 119). Such fears materialised in the image of an Iron Curtain, an image that gave free rein to imagined threats and to an opposition in which Eastern Europe was invented as an intellectually and culturally separate land (Judt, 1990).…”

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Socialism and Legal History

Erkkilä¹,

Haferkamp²

2020

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This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge and explain the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments.The volume studies legal historians and legal histories written in Eastern European countries during the socialist era after the Second World War. The book investigates whether there was a unified form of socialist legal historiography and, if so, what can be said of its common features. The individual chapters of this volume concentrate on the regimes that are situated between the Russian, and later Soviet, legal culture and the area covered by the German Civil Code. Hence, the geographical focus of the book is on East Germany, Russia, the Baltic states, Poland, and Hungary. The approach is transnational, focusing on the interaction and intertwinement of the then hegemonic communist ideology and the ideas of law and justice as they appeared in the writings of legal historians of the socialist legal orders. Such an angle enables concentration on the dynamics between politics and law as well as identities and legal history.Studying the socialist interpretations of legal history reveals the ways in which legal scholars, situated between legal renewal and political guidance, gave legitimacy to, struggled to come to terms with, and sketched the future of the socialist legal orders.The book will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of legal history, jurisprudence, philosophy of law and European Studies.

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Socialism and Legal History

Erkkilä¹,

Haferkamp²

2020

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“…Comment peut-on dès lors s'étonner des préjugés dont les pays de l'Est sont victimes ? En ce sens, « le problème semble résider dans le fait l'Europe centrale court toujours le risque d'être le produit de notre imagination » (Judt 1991).…”

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Généalogie des perceptions Est-Ouest

Truchlewski¹

2018

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Cet article fait face aux problèmes des perceptions et des préjugés de l'Ouest à l'égard de l'Est. Ce sujet a déjà été traité dans une littérature de plus en plus abondante, mettant en avant la construction mentale des représentations de l'Europe de l'Ouest et de l'Europe de l'Est. Cette littérature a pourtant deux limites. D’abord, elle ne fournit aucun cadre analytique pour traiter rigoureusement la question. Ensuite, elle ne tire pas les conséquences politiques des perceptions biaisées. Cet article fournit les outils analytiques nécessaires en puisant dans la philosophie herméneutique (le cercle de la compréhension en particulier) et l'applique aux crises politiques récentes qu'a traversées l'Union européenne (UE). Une telle approche permet d'expliquer le poids des préjugés et des structures de compréhension et leur rôle dans les échecs politiques que connaît l'UE.

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“…] [T]o suppose that this part of the Continent was once a near-paradise of cultural, ethnic, and linguistic multiplicity and compatibility, producing untold cultural and intellectual riches, has been part of the Western image in recent years." 35 Yugoslavia failed, it was argued, because it did not have the "cosmopolitan tolerance" of the Habsburg Empire. 36 A century ago Yugoslavia inherited large parts of Habsburg territory.…”

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1918 and a Hundred Years of Habsburg and Yugoslav Historiography

Vojinović¹

2019

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A century has passed since the demise of the Habsburg Empire and the birth of Yugoslavia, and for the last hundred years, historians have tried to make sense of this change. I strive to answer the question, what are the loudest silences of the two states’ historiographies? I employ a mountain metaphor, and argue that although a mountain looks different from various positions, every mountain still has only one shape. I analyze how the turbulent history of the last hundred years pushed historians toward different “truths” and watchtowers, and demonstrate how both historiographies were shrouded around notions of loss and creation, in the case of both Hapsburg and Yugoslav historiographies, respectively. This essay argues that the loudest silence of both historiographies is the fact that historiography itself constitutes, at least in part, the “mountain” of both Yugoslav and Habsburg history.

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The Rediscovery of Central Europe

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Socialism and Legal History

Socialism and Legal History

Généalogie des perceptions Est-Ouest

1918 and a Hundred Years of Habsburg and Yugoslav Historiography

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