Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Mastery of Space and the Crises of Modernity in Central and Eastern Europe / A Moving Target or a Lost Illusion? East Central Europe in Pursuit of the West in Two Globalization Phases / Image and Reality of a Splitting Country: The Case of Hungary / The Ostrava Industrial Agglomeration in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Where the Urban Countryside met the Rural Town / The Ruralization of Bucharest and Warsaw in the First Post-War Decade / Nowa Huta, Eisenhüttenstadt and Ostrava-Poruba in Early State Socialism: The Proletarianization and Ruralization of New Cities / Changing the Cityscapes: The Ruralization of Yugoslav Towns in Early Socialism / Ruralization, Urban Villagers and Perceptions of Migration in Hungary during ‘De-Stalinization’ (Budapest, Sztálinváros) / Integration or Decentralization? The Construction of Railways and Waterways in Cisleithania / The Sea(side) Borderland of Modernity: Rostock, Klaipe˙ da and Tallinn from the 1870s to the 1920s / "We bring order, discipline, Western European democracy, and culture to this land of former oriental chaos and disorder." / List of Contributors -- Index.