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Title:Unpacking tourism in the cold war : international tourism and commercialism in socialist Romania, 1960s–1980s Author(s):STEFAN, Adelina Oana
Date:2022Citation:
- Contemporary European history, 2022, OnlineFirst
Type:ArticleAbstract:The role of market-oriented tourist policies in the planned economies of socialist Eastern Europe has been long overlooked. This article examines how the socialist regime in Romania moved from sheer ideological rhetoric ...
Date:2022Citation:
Title:Paradoxes of the public purse : how and why West European democracies introduced public funding for political parties (1945-2021) Author(s):VERMORKEN, Christiaan EmmanuelDate:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:The present doctoral dissertation consists in a comprehensive historical-institutionalist study of the development and regulation of subsidies to political parties across the six founding Member States of the European ...
Date:2022Citation:
Title:Building connections, distorting meanings : Soviet architecture and the West, 1953-1979 Author(s):YAKUSHENKO, OlgaDate:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The transnational history of the Soviet Union often goes against everything we know as citizens of the post-Soviet world. We are used to imagining the Iron Curtain as an impermeable obstacle and any meaningful connection ...
Date:2021Citation:
Title:European socialist regimes' fateful engagement with the West : national strategies in the long 1970s Editor(s):ROMANO, Angela; ROMERO, FedericoDate:2021Citation:
- London : Routledge, 2021, Cold War history
Type:BookAbstract:This edited volume analyses European socialist countries’ strategy of engagement with the West and the European Economic Community in the long 1970s. The book focuses on a time when the socialist regimes of Central and ...
; ROMERO, FedericoDate:2021Citation:
Title:Dealing with dependency differently : the political economy of policy deviations in the Visegráds Author(s):SIMONS, Jasper Paul 
Date:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Why have the Visegráds – i.e. Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – dissimilarly deviated from the political economy status quo of the early 2000s, even though their transition to liberal market democracy and FDI-led ...
Date:2021Citation:
Title:Socialist Poland’s opening towards the West, 1970-1980 Author(s):KOMORNICKA, AleksandraDate:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis explores the phenomenon of socialist's Poland entanglement with the West in the 1970s. Between 1970 and 1980, the period of Edward Gierek's leadership, Poland multiplied its economic and political contacts with ...
Date:2021Citation:
Title:Squeezed between external trade barriers and internal economic problems : Bulgaria’s trade with Denmark in the 1970s Author(s):STANOEVA, Elitza Date:2020Citation:
- European review of history : revue européenne d'histoire, 2020, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 390-411
Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper investigates Bulgaria’s trade strategy towards the European Economic Community (EEC) in the 1970s: a decade of intensified economic exchange between East and West thanks to détente and, simultaneously, of growing ...
Date:2020Citation:
Title:Winner of the Saki Ruth Dockrill memorial prize ‘The unity of Europe is inevitable’ : Poland and the European economic community in the 1970s Author(s):KOMORNICKA, AleksandraDate:2020Citation:
- Cold war history, 2020, Vol. 20, No.4, pp. 483-501
Type:ArticleAbstract:This article explores the effects of Western European integration on socialist Poland in the 1970s. It argues that the existence of the European Economic Community (EEC) and its actions in that period helped weaken the ...
Date:2020Citation:
Title:Yugoslavia, Italy, and European integration : was Osimo 1975 a Pyrrhic victory? Author(s):ZACCARIA, BenedettoDate:2020Citation:
- Cold War history, 2020, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 503-520
Type:ArticleAbstract:This work reappraises the international dimension of the Osimo Treaties which, in 1975, solved the border question between Italy and Yugoslavia and also shows the connection of such agreements to Yugoslavia’s attitude ...
Date:2020Citation:
Title:Balancing between the COMECON and the EEC : Hungarian elite debates on European integration during the long 1970s Author(s):GERMUSKA, Pál Date:2019Citation:
- Cold War history, 2019, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 401-420
Type:ArticleAbstract:This article intends to uncover the internal disputes about foreign and trade policy between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s, and to highlight the Hungarian motives in both Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) ...
Date:2019Citation: