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Religion in Eastern Europe After the Fall of Communism: From Euphoria to Anxiety
, 2020 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
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Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.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
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(In)voluntary builders of socialism. Young workers in the early Socialist Yugoslavia [PDF]
Istorija 20. Veka, 2015 This paper examines the role of the youth in the industrialization of Socialist Yugoslavia during the first postwar decade. Special attention is paid to the Communist Party propaganda that embellished the reality of socialist factories and the forced ...
Ivana Dobrivojević
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SLIKA JUGOSLOVENSKOG DRUŠTVA U ČASOPISIMA LIFE I TIME 1945–1980. [PDF]
Istorija 20. VekaThe representation of Yugoslavia and its populace in Life and Time magazines from the end of World War II until the rise of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1945 and the subsequent death of President Josip Broz Tito in 1980 was characterized by ...
Sanja Lukić
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'Commemorating a Disputed Past: Football Club and Supporters' Group War Memorials in the Former Yugoslavia [PDF]
, 2012 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
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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century
History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 66-89, January 2026.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
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Winds of Change 1989: A Perspective from an Office for Religious Affairs Somewhere in Eastern Europe
, 2020 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
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Idylls of socialism : the Sarajevo Documentary School and the problem of the Bosnian sub-proletariat [PDF]
, 2010 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
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Heroic Creation and the Socialist City: The Making of Villa El Salvador
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.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
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The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 37-51, January 2026.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
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