Contact Admin. The conference from which this book emerges was generously supported. A literary evening with Kapka Kassabova and Mike Phillips as well as a series of film screenings were hosted by the Freiburg Haus fΓΌr Film und Literatur.
The Cold War had finally ended, and with it a period in which the world was neatly bisected into ideological hemispheres. Today, Russian spacecraft take wealthy Western tourists into space. Only two decades since the opening of old borders, East-West relations have undergone considerable change. Its special focus is on Britain as a Western country that has engaged with Eastern Europe for centuries in diverse ways and as a contact zone.
As others have noted before, the European East has always been a construct of the imagination more than a geographical fact. Representations of the eighteenth century are thus different in quality from those of the Renaissance, when Russia in particular was already depicted in travel writing. For a selection cf. For the wider context cf. In the shadow it was possible to imagine vaguely whatever was unhappy or unpleasant, unsettling or alarming, and yet it was also possible not to look too closely, permitted even to look away β for who could see through an iron curtain and discern the shapes enveloped in shadow?
However, it is hard to overlook that, since the s, the break-up of the Soviet Union and the cessation of Soviet influence over its former satellite states has resulted in dramatic change, for the better and the worse, and not only in these countries themselves. In Britain, like in other countries receiving these migrants, their presence has had a considerable impact on recent debates about integration, human rights, citizenship, cultural diversity and national identity.
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