Inequality and historical legacies: evidence from post-communist regions
Egalitarianism is one of the key elements of the communist ideology, yet some of the former communist countries are among the most unequal in the world in terms of income distribution.
A. Libman, Anastassia V. Obydenkova
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Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi‐clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, historians, as well as those in adjacent disciplines, have often been unable to gain access to sufficient records or data to conduct analysis of who supports
Evan Smith, Lauren Pikó
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LAJOS JÁNOSSY’S REFORMULATION OF RELATIVITY THEORY IN THE CONTEXTS OF „DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM” AND TRADITIONAL SCIENTIFIC RATIONALISM [PDF]
The late Hungarian physicist Lajos Jánossy is respected in international physics first of all for his results achieved in the field of cosmic radiations, but his work in the alternative, Lorentzian tradition of relativity theory is also of historical ...
Székely, László
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Representations of sport in the revolutionary socialist press in Britain, 1988–2012 [PDF]
This paper considers how sport presents a dualism to those on the far left of the political spectrum. A long-standing, passionate debate has existed on the contradictory role played by sport, polarised between those who reject it as a bourgeois ...
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An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post‐Bandung Indonesia
Abstract This article analyzes the anticolonial worldmaking of postcolonial Indonesia's first president Sukarno, during Guided Democracy (1959–1965). Using worldmaking as a conceptual interface, the article offers three interconnected interventions.
Say Jye Quah
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Political Soldiers of the Party: A Political and Social Portrait of the KGB Cadre
The KGB cadres are undeservedly left in the shadow of the agents, even though they were the ones who implemented the repressive policy, persecuted and interrogated individuals, and recruited agents and formed assignments for them.
Kristina Burinskaitė
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Book review: European integration and the communistdilemma: communist responses to Europe in Greece, Cyprusand Italy [PDF]
Using an array of interviews with party elites, European Integration and the Communist Dilemma finds that Communist parties in Western Europe have responded to European integration in very different ways, and that they moderate their positions on ...
Keith, Dan
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Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front
Abstract Negotiating factional conflict is crucial to successful coordination: Political parties, rebel alliances, and authoritarian elites must all overcome internal disagreements to survive and achieve collective aims. Actors in these situations sometimes employ hardball tactics to block outcomes they dislike, but at the risk of causing coordination ...
Elaine Yao
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The article concerns a specific period in the history of Polish cinematography, called socialist realism (1949–1954). The new style of filmmaking (according to the ideology of the Polish Communist Party), was imposed by the filmmakers, but was not ...
Marek Sokołowski
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An Impossible Utopia: People’s Art and the Cultural Revolution
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution period of the People’s Republic of China (1966-1976) was crucial in the creation of modern-day China. The material culture of that period mirrors the turbulent political activity of students and the directives of
Reynolds, Molly E.
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