Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union Introduction: The oblique coordinate systems of modern identity György Péteri Were the Czechs more Western than Slavic Nineteenth century travel literature from Russia by disillusioned Czechs Karen Gammelgaard Privileged origins : national models and reforms of public health in interwar Hungary Erik Ingebrigtsen Defending childrens rights in defense of peace : children and Soviet cultural diplomacy Catriona Kelly East as true West : redeeming bourgeois culture from socialist realism to Ostalgie Greg Castillo Paris or Moscow Warsaw architects and the image of the modern city in the 1950s David Crowley Imagining Richard Wagner : the Janus head of a divided nation Elaine Kelly From Iron Curtain to silver screen : imagining the West in the Khrushchev era Anne E. Gorsuch Mirror mirror on the wall is the West the fairest of them all Czechoslovak normalization and its (dis)contents Paulina Bren Who will beat whom Soviet popular reception of the American National Exhibition in Moscow 1959 Susan E. Reid Moscow human rights defenders look West : attitudes toward U.S. journalists in the 1960s and 1970s Barbara Walker Conclusion: Transnational history and the East West divide Michael David Fox