The Phoney Peace. Power and Culture in Central Europe 1945^9

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1 A The Phoney Peace Power and Culture in Central Europe 1945^9 edited by ROBERT B. PYNSENT School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London 2000

2 Notes on the Contributors Preface ix xiii 1 Introduction 1 Robert B. Pynsent 2 'East of the Elbe': The Communist Take-over and the Past 17 Ldszlo Peter 3 Austria and the 'Jewish Question', Roberts. Wistrich 4 Jews and Poles on the Barricades of Warsaw: Two Polish Plays on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 58 Halina Filipowicz 5 The Politicization of Mass Murder: Immediate Czech Reactions to theshoah, ' 71 Derek Paton 6 'Old Wine in a New Bottle': The Jews as Perceived in Post-war Communist Poland, Joanna Michlic I Yugoslav and British Policy towards the Carinthian Question, Dusan Biber 8 The Sorbian Movement in Lusatia, Peter Schurmann 9 How Soviet Was the Soviet Zone of Occupation in Germany, 1945^9? 119 Martin McCauley 10 A 'Soviet' Currency Reform in Germany. The Soviet Union and the Question of German Currency, Jochen Laufer I1 Reform and Retribution: The British Impact on the Re-establishment of the Rule of Law in Germany after the Second World War 137 Ulrike Walton-Jordan

3 vi 12 Young People and Youth Movements in the Soviet Zone of Occupied Germany 149 Gareth Pritchard 13 Compensation for Nationalized American Property in Czechoslovakia, 1945^ Slavomir Michdlek 14 National or Social Revolution? Liquidating the Latifundia in Czechoslovakia, Eagle Glassheim 15 The Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia: Western Policy and Response 182 Abbott G leas on 16 Austria and the Bohemian Lands, : The Two Paths of Two Neighbours 194 Arnold Suppan 17 Chiliastic Factors in Post-War Czech Literature and the World of Jan Karafiat's Little Beetles 200 Vladimir Macura 18 The Drama of Local Power: Theatre as Politics and Metaphor in Bolestaw Drobner's Cracow 207 Laurie Koloski 19 'Unreconstructable Girondins': Hungarian Radicals after the Second World War 216 Attila Pok 20 British Political Attitudes to Hungary through the Workings of the British Component of the Allied Control Commission, Eva Figder 21 Vaclav Cerny, Peter Bugge 22 'Verachtet mir die Meister nicht': The Furtwangler Case 241 Richard Aczel 23 Surrealism and the Catholic Moderna in Slovakia, Ludwig Richter 24 'National Revival': The Programme of a Newspaper 263 Petra Bombikovd

4 vii 25 Panslavism in the Work of Czech Writers in Wartime Exile 270 Vladimir Papousek 26 Catastrophe and Renewal: On the Post-War Situation of German Literature 279 David Midgley 27 Austria's Second Coming: The Literary Response to a Restored Austria in the Early Years of the Second Republic 288 Anthony Bushell 28 The Rise and Fall of Bourgeois Literature in Hungary, 1945^9 294 Mihdly Szegedy-Maszdk 29 Transition in the Work of Vaclav RezaC 306 Alena Pfibdhovd 30 Stanislaw Dygat and the 'Re-evaluation of the Intelligentsia' in Polish Fiction, 1945-^9 310 Hans-Christian Trepte 31 Days of Judgement: Egon Hostovsky and the Period 1945^8 317 Radojka Miljevic 32 Warsaw in : The Emergence of a New Chronotope 328 Wojciech Tomasik 33 Building the Organs of State Power: Soviet 'Cadres' and the Polish People's Army, 1945^ Paul Latawski 34 Jan Racek, Zdenfik Nejedly and the Construction of Czech Music History after the Second World War 346 Geoffrey Chew 35 Reflections of Ideological Values in the Standard Concise Dictionary of Czech ( ) 359 Tom Dickins 36 Horses for Courses, or: Hitching Czech to the Soviet Bandwagon 385 David Short 37 Polish Linguistic Issues at the End of the Second World War: Unfinished Business, Jezyk Polski 1939^ Nigel Gotten

5 viii 38 The Label Pre-socialist in Hungarian Lexicography of the 1950s 406 Peter Sherwood 39 Between State and Nation: The Central Czech Amateur Theatre Association, Andreas Beckmann 40 Anxiety in the Early Works of Dominik Tatarka 455 Kathleen Hayes 41 The Path towards Socialist Realism in Czechoslovakia, 1945^8 465 Tim Beasley-Murray : From Socialism to Socialism. Czech Literature and the Party 477 Michal Bauer 43 Czech Women Writers in Transition 485 Robert B. Pynsent Index 506