Image and Reality of a Splitting Country: The Case of Hungary

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Key Perspectives
5. Mastery of Space and the Crises of Modernity in Central and Eastern Europe 17
6. A Moving Target or a Lost Illusion? East Central Europe in Pursuit of the West in Two Globalization Phases 31
7. Part II: The Ruralization of Urbanization
8. Image and Reality of a Splitting Country: The Case of Hungary 53
9. The Ostrava Industrial Agglomeration in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Where the Urban Countryside met the Rural Town 71
10. The Ruralization of Bucharest and Warsaw in the First Post-War Decade 99
11. Nowa Huta, Eisenhüttenstadt and Ostrava-Poruba in Early State Socialism: The Proletarianization and Ruralization of New Cities 121
12. Changing the Cityscapes: The Ruralization of Yugoslav Towns in Early Socialism 139
13. Ruralization, Urban Villagers and Perceptions of Migration in Hungary during ‘De-Stalinization’ (Budapest, Sztálinváros) 159
14. Part III: Space and the Crises of Modernity
15. Integration or Decentralization? The Construction of Railways and Waterways in Cisleithania 183
16. The Sea(side) Borderland of Modernity: Rostock, Klaipe˙ da and Tallinn from the 1870s to the 1920s 205
17. “We bring order, discipline, Western European democracy, and culture to this land of former oriental chaos and disorder.” 223
18. List of Contributors 251
19. Index 255