Title: Inventing Central and Eastern Europe (a collective monograph of Polish and French historians ‘History of Central and Eastern Europe’)
Abstract: The article presents a collective work of the Polish and French historians which deals with the common history of Eastern European countries to Russian audience. Attention is paid mainly to the critical analysis of the “Central-Eastern Europe” concept which is considered as an ideological pattern inherited by the modern historiography from the Cold War times as well as an attempt to revive some Rzeczpospolita grandeur’ myths. Regarding the main concept on which the book founded as invalid, this reviewer highly estimates the valuable contribution of his Polish and French colleagues to the investigation of many particular problems of Polish, Czech, Hungarian, and other countries’ history.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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