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Author Sosnowska, Anna, 1969- author.

Title Explaining economic backwardness : post-1945 Polish historians on eastern Europe / Anna Sosnowska
Edition English-language edition
Published Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 366 pages) : illustrations
Summary This monograph is about an exciting and valuable 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, Małowist, Topolski and Wyczański. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Translated from the Polish
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 05, 2022)
Subject Social conditions
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045774
Subject Eastern Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018058649
ISBN 9789637326318
9637326316
Other Titles Zrozumieć zacofanie. English
Post-1945 polish historians on eastern Europe
Post nineteen forty five Polish historians on eastern Europe