No. 8 (2025): Central-European Studies
Issue Eight of the yearbook Central European Studies is devoted to the theme of the city. It covers not only the history of individual cities and settlements, but also images of cities in fiction, journalism and letters, as well as their place and role as political, administrative, cultural and religious centres. The issue features twentieth-century Naples through the eyes of a Polish émigré writer, or Warsaw, which reminded Russian travellers in the early nineteenth century of both Capua and Kostroma, or Russian cities during the Civil War as seen from the perspective of Czech legionnaires. Articles about Red Moscow in the 1920s and 1930s, as viewed by political emigrants and visiting Western European intellectuals, are juxtaposed with studies on the symbolic politics of the communist authorities in Budapest in the 1950s and on the role of cities in the pre-election debate in contemporary Poland. The image of the city as the focus of national historiography is revealed through the example of Prague. The traditional sections “Biography and Creative Legacy” and “Review Articles” are supplemented by a new one — “Scholarly Life”. Thus, the journal opens up the floor for a dialogue among researchers and the exchange of scholarly experience.
Published:
2025-12-30
