Zwrot ku Europie
A Turn Towards Europe

Transformations of the Public Sphere in Real Socialism 1975-1989

Author(s): Christian Domnitz
Contributor(s): Adam Peszke (Translator), Jerzy Kałążny (Translator), Dominik Pick (Editor), Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel (Editor), Dominik Pick (Translator)
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Geopolitics
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Polish People’s Republic; Czechoslovak Socialist Republic; German Democratic Republic; intellectual history; conceptions of Europe; journalism; samizdat
Summary/Abstract: In the presented book Christian Domnitz analyses political journalism in the Polish People’s Republic, German Democratic Republic and Czechoslovakia from the signature of the CSCE Final Act in Helsinki in 1975 to the fall of communism in 1989. Comparing the narratives of European communist parties and the underground press, he explains the meaning of different conceptions of Europe. He also shows their transformations, rivalry between them and the role of individual journalists.

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