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Explaining economic backwardness : post-1945 Polish historians on eastern Europe

Sosnowska, Anna, 1969- author, translator, Tilbury, Jasper, translator

2019

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\"This monograph is about a string in the intellectual history of eastern Europe: the debate of leading Polish historians on the origins of the economic divisions within Europe. The work covers nearly fifty years that span between the publication of two pivotal works in 1947 and 1994. The author focuses on the works of four leading participants in the debate, Kula, Malowist, Topolski and Wyczaânski. The analysis provides an insightful interpretation of how local and generational experience shaped the post1945 Polish historians' notion on Eastern European backwardness, and how their debate on backwardness influenced Western historical sociology, discussion on origins of capitalism, social theories of development and dependency in peripheral areas, and image of Eastern Europe in western, Marxisminspired social science. Although created under the pressure of the adverse conditions of state socialism, censorship in particular, this scholarship, with its emphasis on international comparisons and global perspective, as well as its stress on social theory and explanations, is an important part of social science of the postwar period. Its analysis helps also to understand current differences that occasionally lead to conflicts between Europe's richest and economically most developed core and its southern and eastern peripheries\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Subject: Since 1900 / Social conditions. / Europe, Eastern Social conditions 20th century. / Europe, Eastern History 1945- / Eastern Europe.
• ISBN: 9789633862919, 9633862914

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HN380.7.A8 S6713 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE