Eastern Europe in the Global History of Decolonization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23641478 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Mark (University of Exeter), Quinn Slobodian (0000-0001-6569-1859, Wellesley College) |
| Editors | Martin Thomas (0000-0002-2261-5888), Andrew S Thompson |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 350-372 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198713197.013.20 |
| OpenAlex | W2924665186 |
| ISBN | 9780198713197 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
This chapter places Eastern Europe into a broader history of decolonization. It shows how the region’s own experience of the end of Empire after the World War I led its new states to consider their relationships with both European colonialism and those were struggling for their future liberation outside their continent. Following World War II, as Communist regimes took power in Eastern Europe, and overseas European Empires dissolved in Africa and Asia, newly powerful relationships developed. Analogies between the end of empire in Eastern Europe and the Global South, though sometimes tortured and riddled with their own blind spots, were nonetheless potent rhetorical idioms, enabling imagined solidarities and facilitating material connections in the era of the Cold War and non-alignment. After the demise of the so-called “evil empire” of the Soviet Union, analogies between the postcolonial and the postcommunist condition allowed for further novel equivalencies between these regions to develop.
Ancient history · China · Cold war · Colonialism · Communism · Decolonization · Demise · Economic history · Empire · European union · Geography · Great power · International trade · Political science · Power (physics) · World history · World War II · European history and politics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law
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| Citations per year | 0.88 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |