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The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins: Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s

Autor Professor Maria Todorova
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Maria Todorova's book is devoted to the 'golden age' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from essentialist notions. In doing so, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe's Margins moves beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time.The study provides a social and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy. Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction of 'structures of feeling' that inspired an exceptional group of individuals.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350201835
ISBN-10: 1350201839
Pagini: 378
Ilustrații: 50 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Uses around 3,500 biographies and roughly 4,000 documentary sources from diaries and personal correspondence to oral interviews and unpublished memoirs

Notă biografică

Maria Todorova is Gutgsell Professor of History Emerita at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is the author of Imagining the Balkans (revised edition, 2009), which has been translated into 15 languages; Bones of Contention: The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero (2009); Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern: Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria (revised edition, 2006); and Scaling the Balkans: Essays on Eastern European Entanglements (2018). She led large scale international research projects resulting in several edited and co-edited volumes, including: Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory (2002); Remembering Communism: Genres of Representation (2010); Postcommunist Nostalgia (2010);and Remembering Communism: Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experiences in Southeastern Europe (2014). She has held awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and The Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, and is the recipient of honorary degrees from the European University Institute in Italy, the University of Sofia, Bulgaria and Panteion University in Greece. In 2022, she received the Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Award and was elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Cuprins

PrefacePart I - Centers and Peripheries1. Accommodating Bulgarian Social Democracy within the Socialist International2. Provincial Cosmopolitans and Metropolitan NationalistsPart II - Generations3. The Prosopography of the Bulgarian Left4. Tales of Formation5. Socialist Women or Socialist WivesPart III - Structures of Feeling6. Dignity and Will: The Odyssey of Angelina Boneva7. Love and Internationalism: The Diary of Todor Tsekov8. Romanticism and Modernity: Koika Tineva and Nikola SakarovCodaBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Todorova is particularly good at bringing to life specific individuals caught up in the Bulgarian socialist movement. The practical, romantic, and ideological world of these young idealists (who then, alas, grew old) opens up new insights into the history of Europe, socialism, and the Balkans.
A rich history of socialist militants from outside the movement's Western Europe core.
Specialists will be drawn to Todorova's uncanny ability to question established interpretations and offer fresh perspectives from the "periphery." Advanced students will profit as Todorova walks readers through the process of making sense of data, archival fragments, and varied theoretical approaches to connect personal dramas to national and continental developments.
This brilliant study by Maria Todorova makes crucial contributions both to the history of European socialism and the history of southeastern Europe, while also offering a pioneering investigation of the history of the sentiments and emotions in relation to political thought.
The Bulgarian socialist movement was one of the main intellectual transmitter belts for political, social and economic ideas between Russia, Western Europe and Germany--the stronghold of international socialism before World War I--on the one hand and post-Ottoman Bulgaria on the other. Maria Todorova brilliantly reconstructs a "lost world": The pan-European network of socialist theoreticians and activists like Blagoev and Kautsky, Kirkov and Trotsky, and many others. A must read for every Europeanist!
A triumphant vindication of the historian's view from the periphery. Using Bulgaria as the fulcrum for her analysis, Todorova challenges taken-for-granted approaches to early European socialism, while at the same time re-animating the ideas, experiences and emotions of men and women who shared the potent dream of 'a utopia of the future'.