This volume highlights the specific experiences and challenges of modernity in twentieth-century Eastern and Central Europe. Contributors ask how spatial and temporal conditions shaped the regions transformation from a rural to an urban, industrialized society in this period and investigate the states role in the mastery of space, particularly in the context of state socialism. The volume also sheds light on the ruralization of cities and mutual perceptions of the rural and urban populations in this region.

Wlodzimierz Borodziej, Stanislav Holubec und Joachim von Puttkamer, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena.