株式会社極東書店トップ ＞ 商品一覧 ＞ Communism's Public Sphere : Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany.
商品詳細
Communism's Public Sphere : Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany.
・ISBN 978-1-5017-6704-3 hard US$ 52.95
￥12,405.- (税込) ※（※）価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。
電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック（eBook）ISBN 978-1-5017-6706-7
| 著者・編者 | Kunakhovich, Kyrill, |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (Cornell U. Pr., US) |
| 出版年月 | 2023.01 |
| ページ数 | 354 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜679-1631 679-728＞ |
解説
Communism's Public Sphere explores the political role of cultural spaces in the Eastern Bloc. Under communist regimes that banned free speech, political discussions shifted to spaces of art: theaters, galleries, concert halls, and youth clubs. Kyrill Kunakhovich shows how these venues turned into sites of dialogue and contestation. While officials used them to spread the communist message, artists and audiences often flouted state policy and championed alternative visions. Cultural spaces therefore came to function as a public sphere, or a rare outlet for discussing public affairs.
Focusing on Krakow in Poland and Leipzig in East Germany, Communism's Public Sphere sheds new light on state-society interactions in the Eastern Bloc. In place of the familiar trope of domination and resistance, it highlights unexpected symbioses like state-sponsored rock and roll, socialist consumerism, and sanctioned dissent.
By examining nearly five decades of communist rule, from the Red Army's arrival in Poland in 1944 to German reunification in 1990, Kunakhovich argues that cultural spaces played a pivotal mediating role. They helped reform and stabilize East European communism but also gave cover to the protest movements that ultimately brought it down.