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Entangled Paths Toward Modernity Contextualizing Socialism and Nationalism in the Balkans
By Augusta Dimou
Copyright 2009
474 Pages
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Central European University Press
The book is a study in comparative intellectual history and discusses how socialist ideology emerged as an option of political modernity in the Balkans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.Focusing on how technologies of ideological transfer and adaptation work, the book examines the introduction and contextualization of international socialist paradigms in the Southeast European... Read more
Acknowledgments, List of Abbreviations, I. Introduction, II. Intellectuals, III. The Ambiguities of Modernity, IV. Caught up in the Contradictions of Modernity, V. Modernity Without Socialism, VI. Epilogue, Index
Biography
Augusta Dimou is Gerda Henkel Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies, Chair of Comparative European History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. She is a historian specializing in contemporary comparative European History with a regional focus on Southeast and East-Central Europe. She is currently completing her habilitation on the development of intellectual property rights and cultural politics in twentieth-century Eastern Europe.
