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The Open Window into the Soviet Bloc

Author : Jakub Tyszkiewicz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000963381
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Open Window into the Soviet Bloc written by Jakub Tyszkiewicz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes US policy toward communist-ruled Poland in the fields of diplomacy, economy, culture, and public diplomacy. It highlights the limitations in developing cooperation between democratic and nondemocratic countries resulting from the Cold War conflict. No comprehensive account of US policy toward Poland from 1956 to 1968 has emerged in historiography. This book aims to answer why, since the political changes of the Polish October 1956, Washington ceased to see Polish affairs as “Soviet-related matters.” Instead, it recognized communist-ruled Poland as a separate political entity among other Kremlin-dependent states in Eastern Europe. This policy, introduced by the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, was continued by his successors John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Recently declassified US and Polish archival sources allow the presentation of more considerations around the decision-making mechanisms by presidential administrations regarding communist Poland after 1956. They also reveal the dependence of the implementation of US actions on the climate of international relations. Moreover, they can now explain how Poland became an “open window” toward the Soviet bloc and a model example of the changes in the US policy of diversifying its approach to Eastern European countries under Soviet control in the next decades.

The Holocaust and Soviet War Crimes Trials in the Cold War Context

Author : Gintarė Malinauskaitė
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100385284X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Holocaust and Soviet War Crimes Trials in the Cold War Context written by Gintarė Malinauskaitė and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to offer a fresh perspective towards the evaluation of Soviet war crimes trials of Holocaust perpetrators, their representation through various means of media, and their reception in the context of the Cold War. By examining the 1964 Klaipėda war crimes trial in Soviet Lithuania through a microhistorical perspective, the book explores the history of the “second wave” of Soviet justice in the 1960s. It attempts to offer insight not only into how this Soviet war crimes trial was initiated and investigated, but also into how it was presented in the courtroom and channeled through the media for publicity. The book argues that the war crimes trials conducted by the Soviet Lithuanian judiciary can be on one hand perceived as an intrinsic element of Soviet ideological propaganda and, on the other, viewed as an alternative space for disclosing memories of the mass murder of Jews, offering an opposing perspective to the official Soviet politics of memory. Intended for both an academic audience and the general public, this volume unveils an intertwined compilation of Soviet legal history, politics of retribution, memory, and media during the Thaw period.

A Cultural History of Serbia

Author : David A. Norris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429797974
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Serbia written by David A. Norris and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on Serbia’s need to manage change while preserving community identities, a narrative that avoids the common depiction of Serbian culture as a hostile struggle between modernizers supporting foreign models and traditionalists advocating forms of national cultural patrimony. Traditions only function if they are allowed to bend to the necessary modifications demanded by a community’s changing historical circumstances. Tradition and change are two sides of the same coin which Serbia, in its many different incarnations, has experienced over the centuries, protecting its national heritage while borrowing and adapting intellectual and other trends from Byzantine, Ottoman and Western sources. Outside influences have been imposed as a direct result of foreign rule or through more friendly channels of communication, leading to a complex relationship between autochthonous and alien elements in Serbian society and culture. This book argues that the division between the national and international frameworks has often been a false dichotomy, with outside features embedded in domestic symbolic capital and Serbian culture simultaneously determined on local, national, regional and global levels. David A. Norris’s approach offers a new perspective to students, academics and general readers interested in the history of Serbia’s participation in the broad networks of cultural exchange.

Putin’s Dark Ages

Author : Dina Khapaeva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000985164
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Putin’s Dark Ages written by Dina Khapaeva and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a “special operation” was launched against Russian historical memory, aggressively reshaping the nation’s understanding of its history and identity. The Kremlin’s militarization of Russia through World War II propaganda is well documented, but the glorification of Russian medieval society and its warlords as a source of support for Putinism has yet to be explored. This book offers the first comparison of Putin’s political neomedievalism and re-Stalinization and introduces the concept of mobmemory to the study of right-wing populism. It argues that the celebration of the oprichnina, Ivan the Terrible’s regime of state terror (1565–1572), has been fused with the rehabilitation of Stalinism to reconstruct the Russian Empire. The post-Soviet case suggests that the global obsession with the Middle Ages is not purely an aesthetic movement but a potential weapon against democracy. The book is intended for students, scholars, and non-specialists interested in understanding Russia’s anti-modern politics and the Russians’ support for the terror unleashed against Ukraine.

Greek-Albanian Entanglements since the Nineteenth Century

Author : Alexis Heraclides
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000963756
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Greek-Albanian Entanglements since the Nineteenth Century written by Alexis Heraclides and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive study of more than 200 years of the shared and interconnected histories of Greek-Albanian relations, a field of inquiry that has not attracted the international scholarly attention it deserves. The book presents and analyses in detail topics including the contested borderland (1800–1912), the Greek Revolution (1821–1830) and Greek- Albanian entanglements during the Greek Revolution, Greek nationalism (identity and narrative), the Albanians (pre-modernism, belated nationalism, origin), the rise of Albanian nationalism, Albanian national identity and historical narrative, Greek-Albanian relations from the League of Prizren (1878) until Albania’s declaration of independence (1912), Greek irredentism (the "Northern Epirus Question", 1912–1920) and Albania’s precarious independence, Greek irredentism and Greek-Albanian relations (the "Northern Epirus Question", 1940–1971), the Greek minority in Albania, the Cham (Muslim Albanian) issue, the turbulent first part of the 1990s, the pending Greek-Albanian issues, and public opinion. It concludes with a road map for an eventual Albanian-Greek reconciliation. This volume will interest scholars and students of Southeastern Europe (Balkans), international relations and history, political science and sociology. It will also be a valuable resource for diplomats, journalists, think tanks and other organizations and institutions involved in the Balkans Greek-Albanian relations.

The Best of All Possible Islands

Author : Richard Maddox
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791484890
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Best of All Possible Islands written by Richard Maddox and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1992 world's fair in Seville serves as a vantage point from which to examine Spain's developing democracy and Europe's emerging unification, according to Richard Maddox in The Best of All Possible Islands. Visited by over fourteen million people, the Seville Expo drew the participation of more than one hundred countries and dozens of corporations. As part of Spain's "miraculous year" in which Barcelona hosted the summer Olympics and Madrid was designated the Cultural Capital of Europe, the Expo advanced a remarkably optimistic, cosmopolitan, and liberal vision of the past, present, and future of the "new Spain" and the "new Europe." Yet no aspect of this vision went unchallenged, and the Expo was at the center of fierce political rivalries and dramatic manifestations of popular discontent. In an engaging and accessible narrative, Richard Maddox demonstrates how visitors and local residents understood the significance of the event in ways that largely escaped the knowledge and control of the Expo's organizers. Understanding how and why this occurred casts critical light on the transformation of Spain since the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1976 and illuminates some of the key cultural and political dilemmas that processes of European and global integration pose for citizens of democratic societies.

The Awakening of the Soviet Union

Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674055513
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Awakening of the Soviet Union written by Geoffrey A. Hosking and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's preeminent scholars of the Soviet Union with many personal contacts there, Geoffrey Hosking provides a unique perspective on the rapid changes the country is experiencing. Other books have focused on the political changes taking place under Gorbachev; Hosking's lively analysis illuminates the social, cultural, and historical developments that have created the need-and openness-for sweeping political and economic change.

Discovery of Divinity Within

Author : Sourin Banerji
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788170229544
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Discovery of Divinity Within written by Sourin Banerji and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of an Indian journalist.

Report on the Soviet Union, Poland and Czechoslovakia-August 1956

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report on the Soviet Union, Poland and Czechoslovakia-August 1956 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Consular Convention with the Soviet Union

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Consular Convention with the Soviet Union written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers problems relating to foreign diplomats' and tourists' rights under the proposed Consular Convention with the Soviet Union. Includes "U.S.-U.S.S.R. Consular Convention Together with Protocol Thereto," June 1964 (p. 283-318).

To Make a Village Soviet

Author : Emily B. Baran
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228012473
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book To Make a Village Soviet written by Emily B. Baran and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1949 the Soviet state arrested seven farmers from the village of Bila Tserkva. Not wealthy or powerful, the men were unknown outside their community, and few had ever heard of their small, isolated village on the southwestern border of Soviet Ukraine. Nevertheless, the state decided they were dangerous traitors who threatened to undermine public order, and a regional court sentenced them to twenty-five years of imprisonment for treason. In To Make a Village Soviet Emily Baran explores why a powerful state singled out these individuals for removal from society. Bila Tserkva had to become a space in which Soviet laws and institutions reigned supreme, yet Sovietization was an aspiration as much it was a reality. The arrested men belonged to a small and misunderstood religious minority, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and both Witnesses and their neighbours challenged the government’s attempts to fully integrate the village into socialist society. Drawing from the case file and interviews with the families of survivors, Baran argues that what happened in Bila Tserkva demonstrates the sheer ambition of the state’s plans for the Sovietization of borderland communities. A compelling history, To Make a Village Soviet looks to Bila Tserkva to explore the power and the limits of state control – and the possibilities created by communities that resist assimilation.

Problems of Communism

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Problems of Communism written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The House on Harlandale

Author : Gary Hill
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796098396
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The House on Harlandale written by Gary Hill and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House on Harlandale offers a historical scenario drawn on real people, real events, and the inevitable aftermath of conflicting ideologies. Like thousands of meteors racing to a point of collision, powerful forces fueled by Cold War paranoia came together in a small house in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas in November 1963. The result was the death of a president and a radical change in world politics. Diverse Cold War forces merged out of nationalistic ideology, lust for power, intolerance, hatred, and greed. Rogue US Intelligence operatives, Cuban patriots, Mafioso, and military hawks allied to a common goal. The government was stolen in a coup d’etat, using lies and fear to manipulate the masses into acceptance. This book is the story of how it may have all come together at the House on Harlandale.

Durational Cinema

Author : Michael Walsh
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030760928
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Durational Cinema written by Michael Walsh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the years after 1968, and the international cinema of gallery spaces as well as film festivals since the 1990s. Figures studied include Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, Claude Lanzmann, James Benning, Kevin Jerome Everson, Lav Diaz, and Wang Bing.Durational cinema is predominantly minimal, but has from the beginning also included a more encompassing or encyclopedic kind of filmmaking. Durational cinema is characteristically representational, and converges on certain topics (the Holocaust, deindustrialization, the experience of the working class and other marginalized people), but has no one meaning, signifying differently at different moments and in different hands. Warhol’s durational cinema of subtraction is quite different from Jacobs’s durational cinema of social disgust, while Lav Diaz’ durational sublime is quite different from Kevin Jerome Everson’s unblinking studies of African-American working people.

Russia under Kruschev

Author : Abraham Brumberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000866718
Total Pages : 809 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Russia under Kruschev written by Abraham Brumberg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1962, Russia under Kruschev is a comprehensive collection of articles from Problems of Communism, a journal published by U.S. Information Agency. These provide a chronological and thematic commentary on internal developments in Soviet Union varying from the changes in official ideology to the latest development in Soviet agriculture. They provide the broadest picture of the political, economic, and cultural trends of Kruschev’s Russia, and represent a galaxy of writing talent including work by Carew Hunt, Lowenthal, Avon, Dallin, de Jouvenel, Peter Wiles and others. This is an interesting read for scholars of Russian history and Soviet history.

India's National Security

Author : Satish Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134931239
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book India's National Security written by Satish Kumar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth volume in the series India’s National Security: Annual Review offers a detailed analysis of India’s complex security environment: persistence of major threats, alongside a constructive engagement with major powers based on its economic growth, military power and political stability. Topping the list of India’s external security concerns is China’s veiled hostility, manifest in its strategic nexus with Pakistan, incursions into India’s borders and enhanced military deployment in India’s immediate neighbourhood. Added to these are the intractable boundary dispute and uncertain implications of the recent leadership change in China. India, nevertheless, is attempting to cope with China’s pressures by engaging with it at a diplomatic level and improving its own defence capability. Pakistan remains another major threat, because of its refusal to take action against militants responsible for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, its efforts at expanding its nuclear arsenal, and the increasing sway of right-wing elements on its society, politics and security forces. India further faces the challenges of facilitating Nepal’s difficult transition to democracy, safeguarding its strategic interests in Afghanistan, stabilising Maldives’ fledgling democracy, and tackling ethnic insurgencies along its borders with Myanmar. On the other hand, there are positives like India’s strategic partnerships with Russia, US, France, Britain, Germany, and Japan, as well as a flowering relationship with Bangladesh. India’s internal security situation is less alarming, with progress in talks with some North-Eastern insurgent outfits; a sharp fall in casualties due to left-wing extremism (LWE); and a gradual reduction in terrorist-related incidents in Kashmir. But sporadic cross-border infiltrations in Kashmir and spread of LWE to urban areas still pose challenges. Addressing such and other issues, this book will be indispensable for policymakers and governmental organisations; those in defence and strategic sectors; and students of defence studies, foreign policy, international relations, and political science.

NASA Authorization for Fiscal Year 1979

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book NASA Authorization for Fiscal Year 1979 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: