The Weight of Marino
Marino súlya
Keywords: Adrian Marino; autobiography; literary criticism
Review of Romanian literary crtic Adrian Marino's posthumously published autobiography "Viaţa unui om singur" (The Life of a Lonely Man).
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Keywords: Adrian Marino; autobiography; literary criticism
Review of Romanian literary crtic Adrian Marino's posthumously published autobiography "Viaţa unui om singur" (The Life of a Lonely Man).
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Keywords: Marxism; revolution; hypercapitalism; workers; accumulation; socialism
Offering a surprising revaluation of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989, the author argues that, ironically, it followed a Marxist “script”. The socialist regime itself created the social class composed of discontent urban workers and young intellectuals which overthrew it. Furthermore, the actually existing socialism has been, in fact, the hypercapitalism of the state, characterised by primitive accumulation based on agricultural expropriation, the extreme concentration of capital and the disharmony between production and consumption. As such, it was subject to Marxist laws, also meaning that its demise leaves open the possibility of an authentic socialism.
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Keywords: Zádor Tordai; essay; obituary
Farewell essay addressed to Hungarian philosopher Zádor Tordai.
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Keywords: Dilema Veche; Andrei Pleşu; classical studies
Review of the July issue of the Romanian cultural journal "Dilema Veche".
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Keywords: Andor Bajor; Pál Réz; Hungarian literature;
Three letters by Transylvanian Hungarian writer Andor Bajor to his friend Pál Réz, written in 1946-1947, and posthumously published for the first time.
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Keywords: Romania; orthodoxy; nationalism; statism; modernity; internal secularization
This article seeks an answer the question whether nationalism and statism, considered to be the two “natural temptations” of orthodox spirituality, essentially belong to orthodoxy. The author argues that, for historical reasons, the specific problems of modernity could not be raised within the confines of the Byzantine-Slavonic religious culture. Accordingly, the Orthodox Church tends to meet the challenges of the present with distorted reactions. A future solution to this problem could be based on reversing the process of internal secularization brought about by the traditional link between the Orthodox Church and the state.
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Keywords: art; photography; literature; Romanian revolution; Hungarian writers
Review of the book "Túlélő képek" ("Surviving Pictures"), edited by Lajos Kántor.
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Keywords: ofCorso; Bob Dylan; Péter Demény
Review of the cultural magazine "ofCorso".
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Keywords: Catholicism; Orthodox Christianity; dogma; heresy; Filioque; Immaculate Conception; Infallibility; Purgatory
The purpose of this essay is to refute the Orthodox critiques of the Catholic Church, proceeding from the historical and critical standpoint of catholic theologians on some “controversial dogmas” discussed by the author in the original context in which they were put forward. These disputed issues include the following: the doctrine of the Filioque, the Immaculate Conception, the ex cathedra infallibility of the Pope and the dogma of Purgatory. Beyond the scholarly debate, the paper is also a passionate plea for preserving the basic unity of the Christian Church.
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Keywords: Count Géza Teleki; art patronage; Art House
Essay on Count Géza Teleki's activities of art patronage with particular consideration for the "Művészház" (Art House) circle.
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Keywords: Romanian poetry; surrealism
Three prose poems by Romanian surrealist poet Ionathan X. Uranus (Marcel Avramescu), translated by Imre József Balázs.
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The article analyses the was out from the death camps in Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška in 1941-1945. Author crytisise the earlier works of the Yugodslav historiography, which mosly focused its works on the estimations of number of the victims killed in the camps, or decsribing the activities of the illegal Communist organisation inside the camp. All other ascpets of the camps existance and daily routine, including the cases of the detainees which were sent out from the camops, were researched and desribed as rare or random case.
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The article deals with the role of media in consolidation of the regime of Slobodan Milošević. It provides the overview of the media systems of socialist Yugoslavia and of the development in this sphere after the death of Josip Broz Tito, with particular emphasis of the realignment of the main Serbian media before, during and after the Eighth Session of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia and their subsequent support for Slobodan Miloševićand the creation of his regime.
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Author analyses development of “woman issues“ in Serbia and Yugoslavia during second half of 20th Century, in the context of its influence on marriage and family. Though these influences were often quite indirect, they can be observed as one of the most radical ideological penetration in the process of transformation of traditional value system. Ideological climate of the time implied abolishing of all kinds of authorities which were inbuilt in the bases of traditional social organization. This was primarily related to dissolution of faith in eschatological meaning of historical realities, thus “liberation” from God`s authority appeared to be condition and cause of all other ”liberties“. Atheisation meant gradual reduction of human existence to its ”horizontal“ dimension, and thus represented the base of most radical transformations of contemporary civilization. On the other hand, process of woman liberation, which was partly consequence of first, represented gradual (and still unfinished) realization of vision about different organization of human society inside this horizontal line
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The paper sketches the life of Dr. Djura Djurović, a pre WW2 lawyer and a member of the Yugoslav Home Army during WW2. He was convicted to 20 years in prison in 1945 as a member of the Central National Committee (CNK) of the Yugoslav Home Army. The paper compares trial to the leadership of CNK in 1945 and the second trial of Djurovićin 1974. On the basis of Djurović’s file from the SDB (Yugoslav communist secret service) the author analyses the ways how indictment against Djurovićwas staged in 1973, and a show-trial that followed. By comparing his verdict and report from an independent observer from the Amnesty International who witnessed the tiral the author analyses the trial and warns on traps in analyses of cases from that time. The author concludes that in the period of 30 years (1945-1974) Yugoslav judiciary advanced very little in the field of political criminal cases regarding the rule of law. In 1974 equaly as in 1945 there was a bond between secret service,the office of the public prosecutor and court panels dealing with criminal law.
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Yugoslav president Tito visited Autonomous Province of Vojvodina 18 th to 21 st April 1969. During those four days Tito visited several cities, Naftagas oil industry, held the meetings with the Province party leadership, as well as with the members of the Serbian party leadership and talk with the representatives of the agricultural establishments and organizations and common people. All of the meetings showe d that the Province was in difficult economical problems, that its development was weaker from the potentials and possibilities that it had.Although an agricultural region with reach potentials, Vojvodina’s development was even weaker than Yugoslav or Serbian average. Tito pleaded for theintegration of oil and chemical industry at the Yugoslav level, which he supposed that may have bost for the Vojvodina potentials.
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The article provides detailed account about forests and forestry in Kosovo and Metohija 1929-1941. It focuses on the work of the state institutions to improve forestry, and also analyses the work of the courts for establishing the forest boundaries. Forest vegetation which was very diverse and rich, started to decline as the result of of intensive exploitation. The authorities started to increase the number of forest guards, and to work in public with intention to change the attitude towards the usage of the forests stressing the importance and benefits. The article presents the most important forest complexes which wereon the territory of Kosovo and Metohija including their brief descriptions. It was written on the archival sources of the Archive Serbia and Archive of Yugoslavia.
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Complex and important issue of resolving the financial position of the Serbian Orthodox Church clergy in the new state has been presented. Starting with the great sacrifices endured during the war and the credit for contribution to the goals of the Serbian leadership, the Episcopate and clergy unanimously came forward with a request for solving the issue by adoption of an appropriate law. A number of texts had been submitted, but they were not adopted because of the political stance of necessity of compliance with the earlier reached agreements and constitutional provisions of equality of the recognized and adopted confessions. Recognizing the difficult financial position of clergy and adhering to the commitment that the adopted standards apply to all, the Regulation on the additions to the high cost was adopted, which provided basic social security to all the priests and religious officials. Precisely determining the awards for Orthodox priests for performed religious ceremonies, the state sent, through the new regulation, a clear message that it did not intend to give up control of the Serbian Orthodox Church and that it would apply the standards and procedures that were not designed for other confessions.
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Upon its creation, in late 1918, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, had a three different financial and currency systems. Those were of Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Montenegro and Austro-Hungarian Empire. On its territory there was also a huge amount of the occupation currencies, those of the Bulgarianad the Germany. Mutual state anticipated the creation of the mutual currency. But except for the choice of the currency for the new Kingdom, it was necessary to establish the relations between the existing currency, so that it should be used for the exchange. Central issue was the relation and the exchanging rate between the Serbian Dinar and Austro-Hungarian kruna. The accepted solution and rates were matter of the debates and disputesin economical and political circles in Kingdom of SHS (Yugoslavia) and continued until nowadays, almost a century after. This article provides closer look into different economical standpoints and opinions of the time, as well as the political standpoints and financial analyses of the values ofthe two currencies during the period of the exchange.
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