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As the decades pass since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the “Cold War,” the region that spans Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia has been tasked with reinventing itself. This chapter explains the book’s premise that “culture” has been central to this region’s multifaceted, and continuing, reinventions. Cultural change—via the arts, collective memory, social movements, law, national identity, religion, and popular culture—has emerged as a relatively autonomous force in the region’s transformations.
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This 2015 conference, “Mosaics of Change Revisited,” was a sequel to the 1999 conference, “Mosaics of Change,” by the same organizers, also in Kraków, Poland, resulting in an edited volume of the same name (Pearce & Sojka, 2000).
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Pearce, S.C., Sojka, E. (2021). Mosaics of Change. In: Pearce, S.C., Sojka, E. (eds) Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63197-0_1
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