Results 61 to 70 of about 37,256 (228)
Religion in Eastern Europe After the Fall of Communism: From Euphoria to Anxiety
In the decades prior to the implosion of the communist system, change could be discerned here and there in Eastern Europe. The purpose of this article is to provide a general overview of the most pertinent developments that spurred the transition from ...
Mojzes, Paul B
core
'Commemorating a Disputed Past: Football Club and Supporters' Group War Memorials in the Former Yugoslavia [PDF]
This article documents the existence of numerous football-related war memorials throughout the former Yugoslavia. Utilizing photographic evidence of these monuments, plaques and other methods of memorialization, it illuminates the ways in which those ...
Mills, Richard
core +1 more source
ABSTRACT Recent studies urge deeper debate on memory and social justice in postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe. One of the harshest events in communist Romania was the deportation from the Romanian‐Yugoslav border to the Bărăgan Plain. By analyzing 27 interviews from www.deportatiinBaragan.ro, we examine how memories of deportation unfolded.
Remus Crețan +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Idylls of socialism : the Sarajevo Documentary School and the problem of the Bosnian sub-proletariat [PDF]
This historical overview of the Sarajevo Documentary School considers the films, in the light of their recent re-emergence, as indicative of both the legacy of socialist realism (even in the context of Yugoslav media) and attempted social engineering in ...
Aitken I. +21 more
core +2 more sources
Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
wiley +1 more source
La Yugoslavia de Tito : el fracaso de un estado multinacional
Al término de la II Guerra mundial, Tito tuvo la oportunidad de construir gracias a la revolución comunista, un nuevo sistema político, una ideología universal y un Estado multiétnico.
Marina Casanova
doaj +1 more source
Winds of Change 1989: A Perspective from an Office for Religious Affairs Somewhere in Eastern Europe
Under communism, in what used to be Eastern Europe, religion was neither outlawed nor favorably regarded either. In some cases, church and state had been at latent or open war as in Poland or in the former Yugoslavia.
Perica, Vjekoslav
core
Heroic Creation and the Socialist City: The Making of Villa El Salvador
Abstract J.C. Mariátegui believed Indo‐American socialism would be neither calque nor copy, but heroic creation. This article explores an attempt at heroic creation in 1970s Peru: the Self‐Managed Urban Commune of Villa El Salvador (Villa). Putting Marxism in conversation with decolonial theory, I argue Villa shows universality and particularity can be
Rafael Shimabukuro
wiley +1 more source
Abstract This article analyzes how the Leningrad Affair, one of the most poorly understood of Joseph Stalin’s purges, was weaponized by Nikita Khrushchev and his comrades‐in‐arms in order to consolidate power during the 1950s and early 1960s. An exposé of how Khrushchev accused four different people of being responsible for the purge over the span of ...
David Brandenberger
wiley +1 more source
ABSTRACT Euroscepticism has become a mainstream phenomenon in European politics since the concept's first appearance in The Times of 11 November 1985. The post‐Maastricht Treaty period was an important initial turning point, but Euroscepticism became especially visible during the crises that hit the European Union more recently.
Patrick Bijsmans, Luca Mancin
wiley +1 more source

