University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Negotiating Modernity: Cultural Reform in 1920s Hungary
Abstract
dc:description"Because other central and eastern European societies have exhibited similar programs and similar debates between ""Westernizers"" and ""nativists,"" my dissertation provides an important comparative perspective. Viewing central and eastern European history as a process of negotiating the contradictory desires in approaching modernity provides a new, more complex explanation for the polarization of the region's societies, their political instability and their infamous manifestations of authoritarianism, illiberality, ethnic conflict and anti-Semitism. No longer viewed as aberrations arising from an inadequate understanding of modernity, such manifestations can be seen, to the contrary, as the direct outcome of ever-more intensive, deliberate and conscious efforts to establish a relationship with the spirit of the moment."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Herzog, Stephen Michael
- Contributors dc:contributor
-
- Hitchins, Keith
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3086080
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84642