And, 30 years later, a response to #Kundera by #Ukrainian intellectual Mykola #Riabchuk: "Shifting the Wall Further East."
https://www.aspen.review/article/2021/shifting-wall-east-kunderas-tragedy-central-europe-three-decades-later/

Ryabchuk points out that Kundera's setting "Western" European traditions against "Eastern" non-European ones - pushed nations further east outside the consciousness of Europeans, where they were left to fend for themselves against an #Russian will to dominate.
#CentralEurope #CentralEasternEurope #Ukraine

The first is Milan Kundera's "Un Occident kidnappé" of 1984, here in English translation: "The Tragedy of Central Europe"

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1984/04/26/the-tragedy-of-central-europe/

#Kundera sets the culture of Central European nations against the foreign culture of Russian colonisation, bemoaning in passing the demise of the #Habsburg Empire.

#CentralEurope #CentralEasternEurope #Ukraine

Beyond the Cold War: Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe
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We contribute to understandings of international rhetoric, studying leaders of the countries and exchanges where leaders meet—in state visits or as candidates debating. We make the case for treating the leaders of the region with their own agency, rather than as agents of others.

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#TeamRhetoric #CEE #CentralEasternEurope

Beyond the Cold War: Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe authors include:

Cezar M. Ornatowski,
Agnieszka Kampka & Ewa Modrzejewska,
Svilen Trifonov & Nadezhda Sotirova,
Marta Lukacovic,
Andrew C. Jones,
Adriana Cordali,
Gábor Pál,
Anna Bendrat & Agnieszka Budzyńska-Daca,
Alena Vasilyeva,
Ralph Frasca & Mary L. Kahl,
Rebecca M. Townsend,
Menno H. Reijven, and
Timothy Barney

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#TeamRhetoric #CEE #CentralEasternEurope