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Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century

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  • Jun 2024

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Editors:
  1. Marcus Colla

    1. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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  2. Paul Betts

    1. St Antony's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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  • Takes stock of the current state of the art in research on ‘socialist space’
  • Explores socialist spaces across several continents and analyses the interactions between them
  • Provides insights for researchers in multiple disciplines around the rubric of ‘space’

Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Keywords

  • Soci
  • Socialism
  • Communism
  • Space
  • Place
  • Twentieth Century
  • Socialist regimes
  • Architecture
  • Urban history
  • Social history
  • Cultural history
  • History of China
  • African history
  • East Germany
  • USSR
  • Mongolia
  • Atlas
  • Global socialism
  • Geographical history

About this book

This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century. Bringing together contributions from international scholars with expertise in the architectural, urban, social, and cultural history of twentieth-century socialism, the book includes examples from China, Africa, Mongolia, Eastern Europe and the USSR. The volume reflects on how developments in the field over the past two decades have altered our understanding of how such spaces were constructed (both literally and discursively), how they could become sites of contested meanings, and how they were perceived outside the socialist world. Moreover, the volume is concerned with how scholarly approaches associated with post-colonialism, global history, gender history, and the ‘temporal’ and ‘sensory’ turns have reconfigured our knowledge of, and approach to, the history of socialist space.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Marcus Colla

  • St Antony's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Paul Betts

About the editors

Marcus Colla is Associate Professor of Modern European Political History at the University of Bergen, Norway. Previously, he was the Mark Kaplanoff Research Fellow in History at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. His first book, Prussia in the Historical Culture of the German Democratic Republic: Communists and Kings, was published in 2022. Further publications have appeared in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, History and Theory, Journal of Contemporary History, Central European History, European Review of History, German History, and Contemporary European History.

 

Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History in St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, UK. He has published widely on modern European history, including most recently Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after World War II (2022), and a co-written volume entitled Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation (2023). He has also co-edited seven volumes, among them Religion, Science and Communism in Cold War Europe (2016), with Stephen Smith.

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century

  • Editors: Marcus Colla, Paul Betts

  • Series Title: St Antony's Series

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54580-1Due: 22 June 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54583-2Due: 22 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54581-8Due: 22 June 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2633-5964

  • Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 271

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations

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