Mastery and Lost Illusions : : Space and Time in the Modernization of Eastern and Central Europe / / ed. by Wlodzimierz Borodziej, Stanislav Holubec, Joachim Puttkamer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• HerausgeberIn: Borodziej, Wlodzimierz,; Holubec, Stanislav,; Puttkamer, Joachim,
• MitwirkendeR: Borodziej, Włodzimierz,; Brzostek, Błażej,; Dobrivojević, Ivana,; Gyáni, Gábor,; Holubec, Stanislav,; Horváth, Sándor,; Jajeśniak-Quast, Dagmara,; Jakubec, Ivan,; Jemelka, Martin,; Kochanowicz, Jacek,; Kochanowski, Jerzy,; von Puttkamer, Joachim,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert : Schriften des Imre Kertész Kollegs Jena , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I: Key Perspectives --; Mastery of Space and the Crises of Modernity in Central and Eastern Europe --; A Moving Target or a Lost Illusion? East Central Europe in Pursuit of the West in Two Globalization Phases --; Part II: The Ruralization of Urbanization --; Image and Reality of a Splitting Country: The Case of Hungary --; The Ostrava Industrial Agglomeration in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Where the Urban Countryside met the Rural Town --; The Ruralization of Bucharest and Warsaw in the First Post-War Decade --; Nowa Huta, Eisenhüttenstadt and Ostrava-Poruba in Early State Socialism: The Proletarianization and Ruralization of New Cities --; Changing the Cityscapes: The Ruralization of Yugoslav Towns in Early Socialism --; Ruralization, Urban Villagers and Perceptions of Migration in Hungary during ‘De-Stalinization’ (Budapest, Sztálinváros) --; Part III: Space and the Crises of Modernity --; Integration or Decentralization? The Construction of Railways and Waterways in Cisleithania --; The Sea(side) Borderland of Modernity: Rostock, Klaipe˙ da and Tallinn from the 1870s to the 1920s --; “We bring order, discipline, Western European democracy, and culture to this land of former oriental chaos and disorder.” --; List of Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110364316; 9783110238570; 9783110635836; 9783110369526; 9783110370225
• ISSN: 2366-9489
• DOI: 10.1524/9783110364316
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Wlodzimierz Borodziej, Stanislav Holubec, Joachim Puttkamer.

This volume highlights the specific experiences and challenges of modernity in twentieth-century Eastern and Central Europe. Contributors ask how spatial and temporal conditions shaped the region’s transformation from a rural to an urban, industrialized society in this period and investigate the state’s role in the mastery of space, particularly in the context of state socialism. The volume also sheds light on the ruralization of cities and mutual perceptions of the rural and urban populations in this region.