In many ways what is identified today as "cultural globalization" in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat ("do-it-yourself" underg

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More than a decade after the breakdown of the Soviet Empire and the reunification of Europe, historiographies and historical concepts still stood very much apar

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The world is full of copies. This proliferation includes not just the copying that occurs online and the replication enabled by globalization but the works of a