Eastern Europe

Communism, a type of government in Eastern Europe at a time, where everyone was poor, became every citizen’s worst nightmare. Drakulić, Slavenka’s, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (1992), describes the struggle of Eastern European citizens, specifically women in the fight to end communism. Slavenka Drakulić was a Croatian journalist who travelled through various countries such as Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia East Germany, and Bulgaria, spending time with women and listening to…

In postwar Europe the opportunity to seize the nations of Eastern Central Europe was presented. Not necessarily by any fault of their own but because the great powers of Europe were not concerned with the sovereignty of the small nations of East Central Europe and allowed for their disregard. During this time of indifference the Soviet Union came in and asserted their power over the smaller nations in an attempt to Sovietize them. It is of vital importance that the reasons why, how, and to…

War, medicine, and religion broadly summarizes the Middle Ages. Bloodlines and culture clashed as the Roman empire fell, and time stood still as large, Eastern european civilizations crumbled with systematic disaster. With no political script to follow, for the first time townsmen experienced a sense of unpreparedness as they saw their rulers fall and be conquered by invaders. Throughout the Middle Ages not only was a monumental shift occurring culturally and politically, but specifically in…

Today, we know how the plague was spread and why it spread from Asia to Europe. In the 14th century, no one understood it. They did not understand how they got it, or how it spread from person to person. Some people thought that looking into the eyes of the sick would make themselves sick. The doctors that would tend to the sick attempted to treat it by bloodletting and actually puncturing and trying to drain the swollen skin buboes. Many people would avoid all human contact with the sick,…

countries, this essay will delineate a lesser debated difference. That difference being the working habits and norms of Europeans VS Americans. Now, for economy of wording I will group European countries thusly: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, southern Europe, and Northern Europe. While these countries all identify as European, their differences in societal…

Communism in Eastern Europe has been an issue for decades and has often been reflected in the cinema the region releases. Whether being analogized through theatrical performance or sex and manhood, the argument of resistance has been a very loud one in Eastern European cinema. In this essay I plan to address the following points of concern: Sexual conquest and its use as passage into an altered state of thought. Play-acting and theatrics and whether or not they are purposeful in film or are they…

“ Iron Curtain” When Winston Churchill spoke of an iron curtain that was descending on Europe he suggested that while it was not a physical iron curtain dividing Europe,. He spoke metaphorically referencing Soviet domination in Eastern Europe and the obvious divide between Western and Eastern ideologies. Churchill coined the term “Iron Curtain” while giving a speech in Missouri. In 1947 Bernard Baruch created the term the “Cold War” is an attempt to describe post WWII relations between Western…

It all began in 1945, at the end of World War II, when the Allies had divided Germany and its capital, Berlin, into four occupation zones. The eastern part of the country went to the Soviet Union, while the western part went to the United States, Great Britain and eventually, France. To prevent the migration phenomenon and to control the eastern part, Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's successor at the helm of the USSR, proposed and applied a fateful solution for this so-called "problem" –building the…

One consequence of the Truman Doctrine was the introduction of Marshall Aid into Europe, where America funded the rebuilding of various countries that had suffered economically from WWII. The Truman Doctrine was a response to the rising threat of Russia and Communism, as it expanded its influence into the impoverished Eastern Europe, and was the official attitude that the USA took towards quashing the spread. The doctrine stated that, in order to prevent the spread of communist control,…

After World War II (WWII), Germany was split into a Western and Eastern half. The Soviet Union took the Eastern half, and the United States, France, and Great Britain took the Western half; they were considered the victors of World War II. Berlin being in the center of the Soviet Union’s territory was also split. Instead of two sides, it was split in to four sections. One side was for each victor to oversee and rebuild, since it was basically destroyed during the war. Because of this, the four…