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Juozas Gabrys and Lithuania at the League of Nations: Press, Business, Politics

Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2021
The activity of Juozas Gabrys and his colleagues at the League of Nations in Geneva from 1927 until 1939 is the main subject of this article. The questions about this group of people are analyzed through several perspectives, such as journalism, business,
Monika Šipelytė
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Polish camp literature. A few questions about a synthesis that is missing

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2017
The author of the text poses questions why there has never been a historical and literary synthesis regarding Polish camp literature, Lager-themed in particular, as Gulag literature possesses at least protosyntheses.
Dariusz Kulesza
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Die Macht des Peripheren. Zu den Grenzen klarer Zuschreibungen anhand Winders Nachgeholten Freuden

Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2021
While Ludwig Winder's novel Die nachgeholten Freuden (1927) appears at first glance to be a quite straightforward narrative of the interwar and post-Austro-Hungarian Bohemian region, it proves to be, at a second glance, bewilderingly enigmatic ...
Kristina Lahl
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Automobiles in interwar Chișinău [PDF]

Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
Based on archival sources, the author highlights one of the innovative elements of the era, namely the use of the automobile in the second largest city of Romania as a whole, by population.
Ion Valer XENOFONTOV
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Pensionul din Basarabia: Şcoala Eparhială de Fete din Chișinăul interbelic [PDF]

Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
The present study presents the activity of an elite educational institution in Bessarabia between the two world wars. The Diocesan School for Girls in the second city of unified Romania harmoniously combined theoretical, practical and religious ...
Ion Valer XENOFONTOV
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Interwar Crossroads

, 2022
Studying the entangled histories of the areas conceptualized as Middle Eastern and North Atlantic World in the interwar years is crucial to understanding the two areas' respective and common histories until today. However, many of the manifold connections, exchanges, and entanglements between the areas have not received thorough scholarly attention yet.
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Between the Visible and the Invisible: Art Collecting in the Interwar City of Timişoara, Romania [PDF]

Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art : Série Beaux-Arts, 2016
The current study deals with art collectors in Timişoara during the interwar period, documenting the Museum of Banat’s acquisitions policy between the 1950s and the 1960s, during the period of dissolution of the collections assembled between the two ...
Marius Cornea
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Geopolitics, City Life, and Contested Places in Eyvind Johnson’s European Journalism, 1921–1925

Edda, 2023
The article contributes to the understanding of thematic and stylistic patterns displayed in, and publication practices associated with, foreign-reportage journalism focused on European geopolitics, economy, and urban life in the interwar period. This is
Bjarne Thorup Thomsen
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From Horrors Past to Horrors Future: Pacifist War Art (1919–1939)

Arts, 2020
In this paper, I argue that interwar pacifists working in France presented an evolving narrative of what the First World War represented in order to maintain support for their movement and a continued peace in Europe.
Lauren Jannette
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‘Lower types of cranks, crooks and racial bigots’? The Universal Negro Improvement Association and black political violence in the United States, 1918–1930

Radical Americas, 2020
This article examines the involvement of the black nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in black political violence in the early-interwar period in the United States.
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