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"This book explores the transformation of foodways in modern Bulgaria, through focused chapters on bread, meat, milk, vegetables, and wine. Such ingredients--as the Bulgarian diet itself--changed radically in form and substance in the shadow of changing global and local narratives, practices, and possibilities"--

Food --- Food habits --- History. --- Bulgaria. --- bulgarian cuisine, Ilya Mechnikov yogurt, wine under socialism, history of eastern bloc, bulkan food, food and the post-ottoman empire.

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Konrad Sziedat untersucht erstmals systematisch die Hoffnungen, die westdeutsche Linke seit 1980 in die Transformationsprozesse im "Ostblock" setzten. Ausgehend von der Unterstützungskampagne "Solidarität mit Solidarność" kann er mit den Möglichkeiten der historischen Netzwerkanalyse zeigen, wie Linke unterschiedlichster ideologischer Orientierung wiederholt zu gemeinsamen Aktionen zusammenfanden. Auch verdeutlicht er an der Historischen Semantik von Begriffen wie "Sozialismus", "dritter Weg" und "Zivilgesellschaft" Erwartungen und Enttäuschungen westdeutscher Linker bis Mitte der 1990er Jahre. Der tiefgreifende Wandel der Linken im späten 20. Jahrhundert wird damit in den größeren Zusammenhang des mittel- und osteuropäischen Umbruchs eingebettet. The West German left was heavily invested in the transformation processes in the "Eastern bloc" after 1980. It organized solidarity for Solidarność, and despite any ideological difference, continued to take part in joint activities. Konrad Sziedat traces the expectations - and disillusionments - of the West-German left through the mid-1990s by examining the historical semantics of such terms as "socialism," "Third Way," and "civil society."

Right and left (Political science) --- Socialism --- Civil society --- Socialist parties --- Communist parties --- Political parties --- Social contract --- Marxism --- Social democracy --- Socialist movements --- Collectivism --- Anarchism --- Communism --- Critical theory --- Left (Political science) --- Left and right (Political science) --- Right (Political science) --- Political science --- History --- Forecasting. --- Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands --- Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands --- History. --- Germany (East) --- Germany (West) --- Politics and government --- Disenchantment. --- Eastern bloc. --- civil society. --- historical semantics. --- solidarity.

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"The ruling communist parties of the postwar Soviet Bloc possessed nearly unprecedented power to shape every level of society; perhaps in part because of this, they have been routinely depicted as monolithic, austere, and even opaque institutions. Communist Parties Revisited takes a markedly different approach, investigating everyday life within basic organizations to illuminate the inner workings of Eastern Bloc parties. Ranging across national and transnational contexts, the contributions assembled here reconstruct the rituals of party meetings, functionaries' informal practices, intra-party power struggles, and the social production of ideology to give a detailed account of state socialist policymaking on a micro-historical scale"--

Communism --- History. --- Europe, Eastern --- Communist countries --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- civic. --- communist parties. --- eastern bloc countries. --- engaging. --- european history. --- everyday life. --- history. --- ideology. --- inner workings. --- marx. --- monolithic government. --- opaque institutions. --- political parties. --- political process. --- political science. --- political. --- politics. --- postwar europe. --- revolutionaries. --- russia. --- russian history. --- social issues. --- social problems. --- socialism communism. --- socialism. --- society. --- sociocultural approach. --- soviet bloc. --- transnational contexts. --- unprecedented power.

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Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations. This ambitious collection takes a much broader view, reconstructing and evaluating the historical trajectories of glasnost and perestroika on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Moving beyond domestic politics and foreign relations narrowly defined, the research gathered here constitutes a transnational survey of these reforms’ collective impact, showing how they were variably received and implemented, and how they shaped the prospects for “proletarian internationalism” in diverse political contexts.

Communism --- Communist parties --- Perestroĭka --- History --- History. --- Soviet Union --- Communist countries --- Europe, Western --- Politics and government --- Politics and government. --- collective impact. --- demise of communism. --- domestic policies. --- dramatic reforms. --- eastern bloc. --- eastern europe. --- end of ussr. --- european communism. --- european communist party. --- european economics. --- glasnost. --- international policy. --- iron curtain. --- mikhail gorbachev. --- perestroika. --- postwar history. --- proletarian internationalism. --- soviet union. --- transnational survey. --- western europe.

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The first in-depth account of the historic diplomatic agreement that served as a blueprint for ending the Cold WarThe Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five European and North American leaders at a summit in Finland in the summer of 1975, the agreement presented a vision for peace based on common principles and cooperation across the Iron Curtain. The Final Act is the first in-depth account of the diplomatic saga that produced this historic agreement. Drawing on research in eight countries and multiple languages, this gripping book explains the Final Act's emergence from the parallel crises of the Soviet bloc and the West during the 1960s, the strategies of the major players, and the conflicting designs for international order that animated the negotiations.Helsinki had originally been a Soviet idea. But after nearly three years of grinding negotiations, the Final Act reflected liberal democratic ideals more than communist ones. It rejected the Brezhnev Doctrine, provided for German reunification, endorsed human rights as a core principle of international security, committed countries to greater transparency in economic and military affairs, and promoted the freer movement of people and information across borders. Instead of restoring the legitimacy of the Soviet bloc, Helsinki established principles that undermined it.The definitive history of the origins and legacy of this important agreement, The Final Act shows how it served as a blueprint for ending the Cold War, and how, when that conflict finally came to a close, the great powers established a new international order based on Helsinki's enduring principles.

Cold War --- History. --- Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe --- Activism. --- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. --- Allies of World War II. --- Anatoly. --- Andrei Gromyko. --- Andrei Sakharov. --- Brezhnev Doctrine. --- Capitalism. --- Capitalist state. --- Central Committee. --- Citizenship. --- Cold War. --- Comecon. --- Communism. --- Communist propaganda. --- Communist state. --- Containment. --- Criticism. --- Czechoslovakia. --- De facto. --- Dictatorship. --- Disarmament. --- Dissident. --- Domestic policy. --- East Germany. --- Eastern Bloc. --- Eastern Europe. --- Edward Gierek. --- Erich Honecker. --- Europe. --- European Economic Community. --- European integration. --- Federal republic. --- Foreign policy. --- Fredrik Logevall. --- Georges Pompidou. --- German reunification. --- Grand strategy. --- Great power. --- Hans-Dietrich Genscher. --- Henry Kissinger. --- Ideology. --- Imperialism. --- Interdependence. --- International law. --- International relations. --- International security. --- Jay Winter. --- John Lewis Gaddis. --- Leninism. --- Leonid Brezhnev. --- Marxism–Leninism. --- Mikhail Gorbachev. --- Mikhail Suslov. --- Molly Worthen. --- Moral high ground. --- NATO. --- National security. --- Nikita Khrushchev. --- Non-interventionism. --- Nuclear warfare. --- Obstacle. --- Ostpolitik. --- Peaceful coexistence. --- Politburo. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Prague Spring. --- Precedent. --- Princeton University Press. --- Proletarian internationalism. --- Racism. --- Raymond Aron. --- Revanchism. --- Richard Nixon. --- Robert Bothwell. --- Romanians. --- Russians. --- Self-determination. --- Sino-Soviet split. --- Skepticism. --- Social democracy. --- Socialist state. --- Sovereignty. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet Union–United States relations. --- Soviet people. --- Stalinism. --- Treaty. --- United States Department of State. --- Urho Kekkonen. --- Walter Ulbricht. --- Warsaw Pact. --- West Berlin. --- West Germany. --- Western Europe. --- Western world. --- Westphalian sovereignty. --- Willy Brandt. --- World history.