Melissa Feinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3680216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Feinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Feinberg |
| SIGNATURE | FEINBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Against the World
On the eve of World War I, the Hungarian feminist Rosika Schwimmer triumphantly hosted an international congress of women's suffrage activists in Budapest. A decade later, Schwimmer was a stateless refugee without a passport. Her fate was emblematic of the way the world changed after 1914. Prewar enthusiasm for the free movement of goods, ideas, and people around the world shriveled. Across Europe and the United States, support for internationali…
Judith Szapor. Hungarian Women’s Activism in the Wake of the First World War
In the aftermath of the First World War, Hungary experienced a liberal revolution, a Communist coup, foreign invasion, a rightist counterrevolution, and the loss of some two-thirds of its former territory via the Treaty of Trianon. Judith Szapor’s book Hungarian Women’s Activism in the Wake of the First World War: From Rights to Revanche is the first to examine the politicization of Hungarian women during this tumultuous period. Szapor concentrat…
Telling Lies, Making Truth
This chapter analyzes the political function of show trials in Eastern Europe. It argues that while show trials told lies, their primary purpose was to reveal new truths about the Cold War world to their East European audiences. Show trials described a world where the peace-loving socialist East was continually menaced by the imperialist West, which sent spies and saboteurs to wreck its economic development and plotted to destroy it in a nuclear …
The Fight for Peace
This chapter examines the Communist-led peace movement and analyzes its propaganda. Like show trials, the peace movement spread a similar set of messages around the Soviet bloc and throughout the world. Unlike the show trials, peace discourse was primarily concerned with revealing the truth of the warmongering West. For example, peace activists detailed American war crimes in Korea and exposed American racist policies at home. Within Eastern Euro…
Curtain of Lies
'Curtain of Lies' examines the role of truth in the political culture of the Cold War by looking at Eastern Europe during the period from 1948-1956. It examines how actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain tried to delineate the 'truth' of Eastern Europe and how this worked to set the parameters of knowledge about the region
James Krapfl. Revolution with a Human Face
Journal Article James Krapfl. Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989–1992. Get access James Krapfl. Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989–1992. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013. Pp. xxi, 260. $45.00. Melissa Feinberg Melissa Feinberg Rutgers University–New Brunswick [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Elusive Equality
Democracy and Its Limits
On 28 October 1918, a group of Czech nationalists stood on the steps of the Obecni Dům (Municipal House) in Prague and proclaimed their independence from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, allying themselves with the new state of Czechoslovakia. Their declaration marked the beginning of a new era in the Czech lands, one in which Czechs, as the majority nation, hoped to redefine the terms of political discourse. The new Czechoslovak Republic, its Czec…
La politique de la personne
Cet article analyse le genre de la citoyenneté et des droits dans la Tchécoslovaquie entre 1918 et 1945. En 1918 la nouvelle République démocratique a proclamé l'égalité, y compris l'égalité entre hommes et femmes. Aux femmes étaient accordés toute une série de nouveaux droits, le plus important étant le vote ; elles sont devenues, en principe, des citoyennes égales aux citoyens. Néanmoins, il est rapidement devenu évident que cette égalité citoy…
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La politique de la personne
Cet article analyse le genre de la citoyenneté et des droits dans la Tchécoslovaquie entre 1918 et 1945. En 1918 la nouvelle République démocratique a proclamé l'égalité, y compris l'égalité entre hommes et femmes. Aux femmes étaient accordés toute une série de nouveaux droits, le plus important étant le vote ; elles sont devenues, en principe, des citoyennes égales aux citoyens. Néanmoins, il est rapidement devenu évident que cette égalité citoy…
Democracy and Its Limits
On 28 October 1918, a group of Czech nationalists stood on the steps of the Obecni Dům (Municipal House) in Prague and proclaimed their independence from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, allying themselves with the new state of Czechoslovakia. Their declaration marked the beginning of a new era in the Czech lands, one in which Czechs, as the majority nation, hoped to redefine the terms of political discourse. The new Czechoslovak Republic, its Czec…
Elusive Equality
James Krapfl. Revolution with a Human Face
Journal Article James Krapfl. Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989–1992. Get access James Krapfl. Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989–1992. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013. Pp. xxi, 260. $45.00. Melissa Feinberg Melissa Feinberg Rutgers University–New Brunswick [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Telling Lies, Making Truth
This chapter analyzes the political function of show trials in Eastern Europe. It argues that while show trials told lies, their primary purpose was to reveal new truths about the Cold War world to their East European audiences. Show trials described a world where the peace-loving socialist East was continually menaced by the imperialist West, which sent spies and saboteurs to wreck its economic development and plotted to destroy it in a nuclear …
The Fight for Peace
This chapter examines the Communist-led peace movement and analyzes its propaganda. Like show trials, the peace movement spread a similar set of messages around the Soviet bloc and throughout the world. Unlike the show trials, peace discourse was primarily concerned with revealing the truth of the warmongering West. For example, peace activists detailed American war crimes in Korea and exposed American racist policies at home. Within Eastern Euro…
Curtain of Lies
'Curtain of Lies' examines the role of truth in the political culture of the Cold War by looking at Eastern Europe during the period from 1948-1956. It examines how actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain tried to delineate the 'truth' of Eastern Europe and how this worked to set the parameters of knowledge about the region
Judith Szapor. Hungarian Women’s Activism in the Wake of the First World War
In the aftermath of the First World War, Hungary experienced a liberal revolution, a Communist coup, foreign invasion, a rightist counterrevolution, and the loss of some two-thirds of its former territory via the Treaty of Trianon. Judith Szapor’s book Hungarian Women’s Activism in the Wake of the First World War: From Rights to Revanche is the first to examine the politicization of Hungarian women during this tumultuous period. Szapor concentrat…
Against the World
On the eve of World War I, the Hungarian feminist Rosika Schwimmer triumphantly hosted an international congress of women's suffrage activists in Budapest. A decade later, Schwimmer was a stateless refugee without a passport. Her fate was emblematic of the way the world changed after 1914. Prewar enthusiasm for the free movement of goods, ideas, and people around the world shriveled. Across Europe and the United States, support for internationali…
Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Cold war (2 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (2 works)