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Solidarność – Despite Reservations Income Disparities A quarterly scholarly journal and news magazine. September 2010. Vol III:3 REVIEW. Lexicon From the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) of Expulsions Södertörn University, Stockholm BALTIC W O Rbalticworlds.com L D S My mother, the Red Countess Heritage of the von Humboldt brothers European peasant leaders The seven Gorbachev years POLAND IN TRANSITION Solidarność – despite reservations Income disparities reports & commentaries UKRAINAN AVANTGARDE / HUNGARY’s cOUNTER-REVOLUTION / ESA-PEKKA SALONEN & CO. / DIVING IN INLAND SEAS 2short takes Clipping. New section on Available for On the expansion the Web site. research. of the EU Election coverage Stasi-Data The EU was once a cosy club tion and lots of harmoni- The Supreme Administrative Court of western European countries. sation – including that old of Sweden has agreed that Profes- ”Now 27-strong, stretching from dream of the left, a Euro- sor Birgitta Almgren, of Södertörn the Baltic to Cyprus and taking in ten pean minimum wage. University, and author of the book Inte ex-communist countries, the union’s Even in a negative bara Stasi... [Not only the Stasi...], shall best justification may be as a means of scenario, such voices be allowed to examine the so-called managing globalisation. would struggle to win Rosenholz files, which catalog the con- The free-market liberals, the en- all their arguments: en- tacts the East German secret service larged union’s size and diversity is itself largement has given the At the end of July and early August, ICCEES’s had in Sweden during the time of the an advantage. By taking in eastern newcomers a big say, eighth international conference took place in Stock- GDR. Almgren was thus vindicated in countries with lower labour costs and and they are not about to holm. Professor Archie Brown’s keynote speech the end. workers who are far more mobile than harmonise away all their is contained in this issue of BW and can be found, The Swedish court has thus come their westerns cousins, the EU in effect advantages. In private along with the entire opening ceremony, at to a different ruling than the Supreme brought globalisation within its own even French politicians www.balticworlds.com. Mikhail Gorbachev’s greet- Administrative Court of Finland in a borders. For economic liberals, that know they need cheaper ing to the congress was accompanied by a discussion similar case. flexibility and dynamism offers Europé’s eastern manufacturing, in which, among others, the ambassador to Moscow Analyses of the case can be found at best chance of survival. too. But if growth does during the Reagan and Bush administrations, Jack www.balticworlds.com. ≈ But, for another camp, involving not return resonably Matlock, participated. As he did twenty years ago, Europe’s left (and more or less the soon, the voices against Ambassador Matlock expressed his regret that a entire French political class), the point free markets will grow federative state entity was not able to be created out Latvia. Another of Europé is to keep globalisation at even louder.” ≈ of the former Soviet territory. bay, or at least curb its power. Ac- On www.balticworlds.com there is a discussion “occupation”? cording to this thinking, single nations The Economist connected to Lennart Samuelson’s review (BW III: 2) According to a claim reported in the are too small to maintain high-cost July 10, 2010 of Andrei Zubov’s large work about twentieth-century Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet social-welfare models in the face of Russian history. And Thomas Lundén reports from (September 15, 2010), the Latvian global competition. But the EU, with its the international symposium on “The Management of oligarch Ainars Slesers, who wants to 500m people, is big enough to asser a Lost Vision” (see BW III: 2). become his country’s next prime the supremacy of political will over Starting in the fall of 2010, the Web site will contain minister, promises to end what he calls market forces. For such politicians, Eu- a special section with analysis and commentary of the financial occupation of Latvia: ropean diversity is a problem because general elections that have taken place in countries “Our economy is controlled from it undermines the most advanced within BW’s area of focus. Ann-Cathrine Jungar, abroad”, he says, “primarily by Swedish (meaning expen- research director at CBEES, is arranging this. banks. I did not like being dominated sive) social models. In November, the first Baltic Worlds Annual Round- by the Soviet Union, now we are domi- Such competition table will be organized, on the theme of energy policy nated by the Swedes. I don’t like that must be curbed with in the Baltic Sea region. The theme will be covered in either.” restrictions on labour the year’s final issue of BW (III: 4). Slesers believes that banks such as migration from estern Baltic Worlds is a freely distributed, quarterly Swedbank, SEB and Nordea “have too Europé, subsidies for journal. Subscriptions can be made through much control”. ≈ rich-country produc- www.balticworlds.com. ≈ Russian media. Tools of power he Aleksanteri Series has dedi- protect their own interests. ing to Minna-Mari Salminen however, civil society, their role in assessing cated its fourth edition in 2009 to In 2001, eleven years after Russia Russian researchers have a somewhat government authorities has no roots in Tthe media market in Russia. As passed a law guaranteeing freedom of different analysis of the development. Russian history. Part of what becomes everyone knows, the media were used the press, the state seemed once again Since the state took over ownership, clear in this anthology is that Russia as a propaganda tool during the Soviet to be taking control of the major channels private media moguls are making it dif- has not adopted the Western system, period. This way of using the media did and newspapers. It was in 2001 that ficult for people from using the media to where the media play an active role not end with the collapse of commu- Gazprom took over NTV. In the West, re- strengthen their own position. There is in the support of the establishment of nism and the privatization of the media. searchers like Lipman and McFaul con- a difference between private ownership democracy. ≈ TV channels and the major newspa- tend that this was an attack on freedom in order to pursue one’s own purposes, pers were the investment targets for of the press and a manifestation of Rus- and a defense of an independent press Reference: Perspectives to Media in the nouveau riche oligarchs who were sia’s increasingly becoming a controlled in a democracy in the making, according Russia: “Western” Interests and Rus- quick to use that leverage for their own democracy. They called for a free, inde- to Russian researchers. sian Developments, Aleksanteri Series purposes, to burnish their image and pendent press, as in the West. Accord- Even though the media are part of 4:2009 BALTIC editorial 3 W O R L Dbalticworlds.com S Sponsored by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies Swings of the pendulum A quarterly scholarly journal and news magazine. September 2010. Vol III:3 REVIEW . Lexicon From the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) of Expulsions Södertörn University, Stockholm BALTIC contents ntil 1933, Germany was the nation WORLDS D L R O W balticworlds.com feature of science and My mother, the Re d Co u n t e s s Heritage of the von Humboldt brothers European peasant leaders German was the Th e s e v e n Gorbachev years U POLAND IN 4 Poland on the way up language of science. Research TRANSITION – a stratified society universities and modern tech- Solidarność – d e s p i t e reservations In c o m e nical colleges contributed as disparities reports institutions to Germany’s rapid industrial expansion in the reports & commentaries UKRAINAN AVANTGARDE / HUNGARY’S COUNTER-REVOLUTION / ES A - P E K K A SALONEN & CO. / DIVING IN INLAND SEAS Communist with late 19th century. Chemistry, Editor-in-chief 17 a Lithuanian face electricity, and the natural Anders Björnsson sciences became areas of Editor 18 Pomerania, borderland knowledge with great strate- Ninna Mörner gic significance. Professors Publisher 19 Bridges over the Baltic Sea could frequently be found in Anu Mai Kõll the laboratories of corpora- Editorial advisory board 20 Folk music & mud baths tions. Professorial chair hold- Thomas Lundén, Board ers — the so-called mandarins Chair, CBEES, 27 Occupational therapy for — comprised a revered guild Sari Autio-Sarasmo, export both in the Empire and the Aleksanteri Institute, Weimar Republic. Not surpris- Helsinki, Ole essays ingly, German Nobel Prize Elgström, Lund winners predominated during University, Michael Gilek, 10 Sweden & Solidarity the first four decades of the CBEES, Ann-Cathrine 20thcentury. Jungar, CBEES, 22 Perestroika in focus The rise of Hitler triggered illustration: Katrin STENMARK Anu Mai Kõll, CBEES, an intellectual exodus that pri- Jens E. Olesen, 33 A Humboldtian bicentennial marily benefited the American academic community. Germany, France and Britain were the University of Greifswald The time was ripe for big projects, driven and spon- promised lands of the scientific experi- Editorial staff story sored by the military build-up. The Cold War trans- ment. Throughout the postwar period, in this issue formed the United States into a scientific superpower, especially from the 1980s, Europe has Péter Balogh, Brian 28 My mother’s European but even Russia, its arch rival, could claim a similar felt left in the dust and made awkward Manning Delaney, Peter odyssey status. Ironically, prominent nuclear physicist Andrei attempts to imitate the American elite Johnsson, Teresa Sakharov, icon of the Soviet dissident movement, was universities and research institutions in Kulawik, Michael reviews educated by the planned economy’s deliberate focus various respects.
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