{"product_id":"9781350201835","title":"Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eImagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMaria Todorova\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Europe \/ Eastern\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria Todorova's book is devoted to the 'golden age' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from essentialist notions. In doing so, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost World of Socialists at Europe's Margins\u003c\/i\u003e moves beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe study provides a social and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy. Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction of 'structures of feeling' that inspired an exceptional group of individuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMaria Todorova\u003c\/b\u003e is Gutgsell Professor of History Emerita at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eImagining the Balkans\u003c\/i\u003e (revised edition, 2009), which has been translated into 15 languages; \u003ci\u003eBones of Contention: The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero (2009)\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBalkan Family Structure and the European Pattern: Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria\u003c\/i\u003e (revised edition, 2006); and \u003ci\u003eScaling the Balkans: Essays on Eastern European Entanglements\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). She led large scale international research projects resulting in several edited and co-edited volumes, including: \u003ci\u003eBalkan Identities: Nation and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e (2002); \u003ci\u003eRemembering Communism: Genres of Representation\u003c\/i\u003e (2010); \u003ci\u003ePostcommunist Nostalgia\u003c\/i\u003e (2010);and \u003ci\u003eRemembering Communism: Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experiences in Southeastern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). She has held awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and The Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, and is the recipient of honorary degrees from the European University Institute in Italy, the University of Sofia, Bulgaria and Panteion University in Greece. In 2022, she received the Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Award and was elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24 March 2022\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350201835\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e378\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18.72\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51333171445900,"sku":"9781350201835","price":38.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_9b7627fe-e39b-4a09-a182-cfeb4c4638cb.jpg?v=1783608754","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350201835","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}