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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 #4
战后欧洲史·卷四:旧欧洲·新欧洲
Το 1945 η Ευρώπη ήταν συντρίμμια, ρημαγμένη από τον πόλεμο, τους βομβαρδισμούς και τις μαζικές σφαγές. Ευρύτατες περιοχές της ανατολικής Ευρώπης περιέρχονταν στο σοβιετικό έλεγχο, αντικαθιστώντας τον παλιό δεσποτισμό μ' έναν νέο. Σήμερα, η Σοβιετική Ένωση δεν υπάρχει πια και οι δημοκρατίες της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης φθάνουν μέχρι τα σύνορα της Ρωσίας.Ο Τόνυ Τζαντ αφηγείται με σαφήνεια και πυκνότητα αυτή την πολυσύνθετη ιστορία, όπως ξετυλίγεται κάτω από τη μόνιμη σκιά του ίδιου του πολέμου: την ανόρθωση της Ευρώπης μέσα από τα ερείπια, τις αποκλίνουσες εμπειρίες της Ανατολικής και της Δυτικής Ευρώπης, την παρακμή και την πτώση του σοβιετικού καθεστώτος και την άνοδο της ΕΟΚ και της ΕΕ, το τέλος των ευρωπαϊκών αυτοκρατοριών, τις μεταβαλλόμενες σχέσεις της Ευρώπης με τις δύο μεγάλες δυνάμεις που την περιβάλλουν, τη Ρωσία και την Αμερική.Ανάμεσα απ' αυτές τις γενικές γραμμές προβάλλουν συγκεκριμένα πολιτικά γεγονότα, φαινόμενα και πρόσωπα: η δικτατορία του Σαλαζάρ στην Πορτογαλία δίπλα στην Ισπανία του Φράνκο αλλά και τη Ρουμανία του Τσαουσέσκου, ο εμφύλιος πόλεμος στην Ελλάδα, οι αγώνες στη Βόρεια Ιρλανδία και στη Χώρα των Βάσκων, ο Μάης του '68 στο Παρίσι και τα γεγονότα στην Ιταλία και στην Πράγα, οι εντάσεις ανάμεσα στις γλωσσικές κοινότητες του Βελγίου, η σοσιαλδημοκρατία στις σκανδιναβικές χώρες, ο ρόλος του Τσώρτσιλ, του Στάλιν, του Φράνκο, του Μιτεράν, του Γιαρουζέλσκι, του Μπερλουσκόνι και πολλών άλλων. Σχηματίζεται ακόμη ένα μωσαϊκό από οικονομικές, κοινωνικές και πολιτιστικές ιστορίες, όπως η ανάπτυξη της γερμανικής αυτοκινητοβιομηχανίας, η εμφάνιση του ψυγείου και η εξάπλωση του καταναλωτισμού, η μετανάστευση και οι γκασταρμπάιτερ, ο υπαρξισμός και η παρακμή του δημόσιου διανοούμενου, ο γαλλικός και ο τσέχικος κινηματογράφος, η μπητλομανία και το πανκ ροκ...
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Tony Judt
56 books661 followersBorn in 1948, Tony Judt was raised in the East End of London by a mother whose parents had immigrated from Russia and a Belgian father who descended from a line of Lithuanian rabbis. Judt was educated at Emanuel School, before receiving a BA (1969) and PhD (1972) in history from the University of Cambridge.
Like many other Jewish parents living in postwar Europe, his mother and father were secular, but they sent him to Hebrew school and steeped him in the Yiddish culture of his grandparents, which Judt says he still thinks of wistfully. Urged on by his parents, Judt enthusiastically waded into the world of Israeli politics at age 15. He helped promote the migration of British Jews to Israel. In 1966, having won an exhibition to King's College Cambridge, he took a gap year and went to work on kibbutz Machanaim. When Nasser expelled UN troops from Sinai in 1967, and Israel mobilized for war, like many European Jews, he volunteered to replace kibbutz members who had been called up. During and in the aftermath of the Six-Day War, he worked as a driver and translator for the Israel Defense Forces.
But during the aftermath of the war, Judt's belief in the Zionist enterprise began to unravel. "I went with this idealistic fantasy of creating a socialist, communitarian country through work," Judt has said. The problem, he began to believe, was that this view was "remarkably unconscious of the people who had been kicked out of the country and were suffering in refugee camps to make this fantasy possible."
Career: King's College, Cambridge, England, fellow, 1972-78; University of California at Berkeley, assistant professor, 1978-80; St. Anne's College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, fellow, 1980-87; New York University, New York, NY, professor of history, 1987--, director of Remarque Institute, 1995--.
Awards: American Council of Learned Societies, fellow, 1980; British Academy Award for Research, 1984; Nuffield Foundation fellow, 1986; Guggenheim fellow, 1989; Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction finalist, 2006, for Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945.
Like many other Jewish parents living in postwar Europe, his mother and father were secular, but they sent him to Hebrew school and steeped him in the Yiddish culture of his grandparents, which Judt says he still thinks of wistfully. Urged on by his parents, Judt enthusiastically waded into the world of Israeli politics at age 15. He helped promote the migration of British Jews to Israel. In 1966, having won an exhibition to King's College Cambridge, he took a gap year and went to work on kibbutz Machanaim. When Nasser expelled UN troops from Sinai in 1967, and Israel mobilized for war, like many European Jews, he volunteered to replace kibbutz members who had been called up. During and in the aftermath of the Six-Day War, he worked as a driver and translator for the Israel Defense Forces.
But during the aftermath of the war, Judt's belief in the Zionist enterprise began to unravel. "I went with this idealistic fantasy of creating a socialist, communitarian country through work," Judt has said. The problem, he began to believe, was that this view was "remarkably unconscious of the people who had been kicked out of the country and were suffering in refugee camps to make this fantasy possible."
Career: King's College, Cambridge, England, fellow, 1972-78; University of California at Berkeley, assistant professor, 1978-80; St. Anne's College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, fellow, 1980-87; New York University, New York, NY, professor of history, 1987--, director of Remarque Institute, 1995--.
Awards: American Council of Learned Societies, fellow, 1980; British Academy Award for Research, 1984; Nuffield Foundation fellow, 1986; Guggenheim fellow, 1989; Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction finalist, 2006, for Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945.
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January 2, 2021
从旁观者的角度来看，苏联解体之后的欧洲史就相对不那么有趣了，充满了太多无关紧要的争执和细节，撑不起一册书的体量，即便有南斯拉夫内战也于事无补。但对生活在其中的人们来说，无趣的时代往往才是最好的时代吧。
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