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Adriana Cordali Gradea - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the rhetoric of leaving or the mirage of the fetishized west in cristian mungiu s occident
Journal of European Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Adriana Cordali GradeaAbstract:In one of his earlier films, Occident (2002), Cristian Mungiu showcases the East–West divide in post-communist Romania. First, the rhetoric of leaving and the rhetoric of staying are complex historical legacies of the communist period, when communist propaganda demonized capitalism and the West. In the communist totalitarian public rhetoric, East–West binaries emphasized the East and Communism, which led to a fetishization of the West in the private sphere. I call the motility of predominant discourses between private and public spheres the dialectic of rhetoric, which is also always historical. Secondly, the fetish of the West is a kind of Occidentalism, or a reversed Orientalism, and it is made apparent in the film’s title. The film’s characters are trapped between binaries, given that all these factors have social, political and psychological consequences on people’s lives. Compositionally, the film’s multiple narrative planes compile a postmodern, fragmented structure, mirroring the breakdown of rheto...
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The rhetoric of leaving, or the mirage of the fetishized West in Cristian Mungiu’s Occident:
Journal of European Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Adriana Cordali GradeaAbstract:In one of his earlier films, Occident (2002), Cristian Mungiu showcases the East–West divide in post-communist Romania. First, the rhetoric of leaving and the rhetoric of staying are complex historical legacies of the communist period, when communist propaganda demonized capitalism and the West. In the communist totalitarian public rhetoric, East–West binaries emphasized the East and Communism, which led to a fetishization of the West in the private sphere. I call the motility of predominant discourses between private and public spheres the dialectic of rhetoric, which is also always historical. Secondly, the fetish of the West is a kind of Occidentalism, or a reversed Orientalism, and it is made apparent in the film’s title. The film’s characters are trapped between binaries, given that all these factors have social, political and psychological consequences on people’s lives. Compositionally, the film’s multiple narrative planes compile a postmodern, fragmented structure, mirroring the breakdown of rheto...
Donna Harsch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Communism and Women
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2013Co-Authors: Donna HarschAbstract:This article discusses women and gender relations under Communism, beginning in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, continuing through the Cold War era in Eastern Europe, and including Cuba and China today. It addresses communist gender theory, ideology, and discourse. Women’s role in politics and government is discussed. The article covers employment and education, the peasant and urban family, social policies, and socialist consumption. Under Communism, the article argues, women, especially married mothers, broke through traditional resistance to women’s participation in paid, including skilled, labour. Their levels of education and employment increased dramatically in most communist states. Yet women did not attain economic equality with men in any communist society and their share of political power remained stunningly low.
Andrea Mariuzzo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Communism and anti-Communism in early Cold War Italy
2018Co-Authors: Andrea MariuzzoAbstract:The struggle in projects, ideas and symbols between the strongest Communist Party in the West and an anti-Communist and pro-Western government coalition was the most peculiar founding element of the Italian democratic political system after World War II. Until now, most historians have focused their attention on political parties as the only players in the competition for the making of political orientations and civic identities in Italian public opinion. Others have considered Italian political struggle in the 1940s and 1950s in terms of the polarisation between Communism and organized Catholicism, due to the undoubted importance of the Church in Italian culture and social relations. This book enlarges the view, looking at new aspects and players of the anti-Communist ‘front’. It takes into account the role of cultural associations, newspapers and the popular press in the selection and diffusion of critical judgements and images of Communism, highlighting a dimension that explains the force of anti-communist opinions in Italy after 1989 and the crisis of traditional parties. The author also places the case of Italian Cold War anti-Communism in an international context for the first time.
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Communism and anti-Communism in early Cold War Italy - Religious and moral values
Communism and anti-Communism in early Cold War Italy, 2018Co-Authors: Andrea MariuzzoAbstract:This chapter highlights the extent to which a radical and absolute struggle such as the Cold War opposition of Communists and anti-Communists involves the aspects of religious faith and moral values. The theological anti-Communism promoted by the Churches of Pius XI and Pius XII strongly influenced the perception of Communism in Italy. Communists were frequently seen as ‘godless’ sinners and immoral corruptors of the youth. Such common perception forced the Italian Communist Party to a reaction based on the claim of its full compliance to the inner spirit of the Christian message of charity and solidarity.
Gregory Schwartz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Communism of capital
2013Co-Authors: Armin Beverungen, Anna-maria Murtola, Gregory SchwartzAbstract:The 'Communism of capital' - what could this awkward turn of phrase, this seeming paradox, mean? What might it signify with regards to the state of the world today? Does it have any relationship with the concept and reality of what we understand to be Communism, and to what extent does it relate to the ways in which communist ideas, language and forms of organization are used presently? We can begin exploring the significance of the phrase by identifying some of the many conspicuous contexts in which elements of Communism and capital meet today.
E. A. Rees - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Intellectuals and Communism
Contemporary European History, 2007Co-Authors: E. A. ReesAbstract:Bradley F. Abrams, The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation: Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), 362 pp., $87.00 (hb), $29.95 (pb), ISBN 074253023X. Ian H. Birchall, Sartre Against Stalinism (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004), 242 pp., ?14.95, ISBN 1571815422. Lee Congdon, Seeing Red. Hungarian Intellectuals in Exile and the Challenge of Communism (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001) 223 pp., $40.00, ISBN 0875802834. Fran?oise Mayer, Les Tch?ques et leur Communisme: M?moire et identit?s politiques (Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2004), 304 pp., 24.00, ISBN 2713218152.
