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SUMMARY:“The Light Comes from the West!” The Politics of Eastern European M
	igration during the Cold War 
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231010
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DESCRIPTION:The lives of the citizens of the Soviet bloc countries were lar
	gely determined by imposed isolation from the rapidly modernising democrat
	ic Western world and radical restrictions on the free circulation of cultu
	ral goods and other commodities\, as well as foreign travel. This was moti
	vated\, above all\, by the ideological\, economic and cultural divide symb
	olised by the Iron Curtain and the fear on the part of the communist autho
	rities that the escalation of differences between their countries could co
	mpromise the unity of the entire Soviet empire.\n\nNo wonder that in contr
	ast to the title of a lecture given by the Romanian writer Mihail Sadovean
	u in 1945 – The Light Comes from the East – which predicted Soviet politic
	al dominance in Eastern Europe\, in the decades of the Cold War many citiz
	ens felt that the light came rather from the West. One way of fulfilling t
	his desire was migration\, motivated first of all by the repressive nature
	 of communist dictatorships\, political or religious discrimination and ec
	onomic hardship. The aim of the planned conference is to revisit the broad
	ly defined politics of migration in the light of new archival materials an
	d considering recent research approaches.\n\nParticipation in the conferen
	ce is free of charge but registration is obligatory. To register click bel
	ow:\nhttps://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=ap-ga2JFtEmPwvNQh
	_szWCrRUFVOvElBhj8LAQmun8RUM1haVVFZTlMwT004RUlKWU5KUDU4V0VWRC4u
URL:https://enrs.eu/project/the-light-comes-from-the-west-the-politics-of-e
	astern-european-migration-during-the-cold-war
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ORGANIZER;CN=European Network Remembrance and Solidarity :MAILTO:office@enr
	s.eu
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