Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on a similarly impressive variety of intriguing and previously underexplored sources to offer a synopsis of Central and Eastern European political thought. It discusses a transnational approach to explore the transfer to and adaptations of crucial historiographical innovations in Central and Eastern Europe. The book provides a multidimensional and in many ways original analysis, in turn tackling the foundational ideas and agendas, the institutional contexts, and the gradual evolution of television programming. It explores a wide variety of spatial and, more concretely, regional conceptualizations, several of which continue to pose as alternatives in the early twenty-first century, but also reveals the repeated transformation of the primary contexts, basic ambitions and intellectual-political stakes of such discussions.