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Articolul prezintă istoria fostului sat Poiana Uzului.
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Articolul prezintă istoria fostului sat Poiana Uzului.
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Review of Katharina Friedla: Juden in Breslau/Wrocław 1933-1949. Überlebensstrategien, Selbstbehauptung und Verfolgungserfahrungen. (Lebenswelten osteuropäischer Juden, Bd. 16.) Böhlau. Köln u. a. 2015. 552 S., Ill. ISBN 978-3-412-22393-9. (€ 69,90.). Reviewed by Markus Nesselrodt.
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Review of Hans-Christian Harten: Himmlers Lehrer. Die Weltanschauliche Schulung in der SS 1933-1945. Schöningh. Paderborn 2014. 707 S. ISBN 978-3-506-76644-1. (€ 78,−.). Reviewed by Alexander Hesse.
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Review of: Deutschland und das Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren. Aus den deutschen diplomatischen Akten von 1939 bis 1945. Hrsg. von Gerald M u n d . (Veröffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum, Bd. 127.) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Göttingen – Bristol/CT 2014. VIII, 689 S., Ill. ISBN 978-3-525-37305-7. (€ 79,99.). Reviewed by Tatjana Tönsmeyer.
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After the end of the First World War, in the years 1919-20, the victorious Allied Powers instituted a total of thirteen plebiscites in order for the local inhabitants to clarify the allegiance of areas between states. Special notice should be taken of the external borders of the new Poland. After the Allies (already at the end of 1919) had renounced the plebiscite in East Galicia on the basis of the impending victory of the Red Army in the Russian Civil War, and had awarded East Galicia without the referendum to Poland, Polish foreign policy from the end of April 1920 aimed at the prevention of referendums in favor of negotiated settlements. The basis for this was the rather poor prospects for Poland to decide the matter in its favor through referendums, prospects which were further diminished through the Polish Soviet War that had begun at 25 April 1920. The policy of sabotage achieved partial successes: four of seven planned referendums were cancelled by the Allies, including when successive Polish diplomatic maneuvers against Czechoslovakia did not manage to secure better results through negotiations. Only with respect to the voting area of Vilna could a complete incorporation in 1922-23 be enforced. The three referendums on the German-Polish border which took place in 1920-21 were the only authentic ones, and ended as expected without a single victory for Poland. In Upper Silesia, the League of Nations decided after all it was for the good of Poland to divide the territory. That the National Democrat dominated Polish National Committee under the leadership of Roman Dmowski, which represented in Paris the Polish interests against those of the Allies, opposed the Plebiscite in a closed minded fashion, is already well researched. In contrast the attempts of the Polish side to bar the use of the Plebiscite already in 1920 has found scarcely any attention, and it once more shows the rejection of this political process. In these acts of rejection and sabotage, it was in no way merely about the basic question of the value of elections by referendum, but also about the enforcement of Polish claims that often did not coincide with the majority opinion of the affected population. That full hearings for the affected parties where they actually took place, turned out negative for Poland, can produce only little surprise. Because the National Democrats and Conservatives were in the majority in the Constitutional Sejm in Warsaw, the 1921 March Constitution of Poland did not contain any elements of direct democracy.
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Is twenty years enough time for the creation of a functioning democratic system? This question was posed by no less than Tomáš G. Masaryk himself. In his abdication from the Presidency of Czechoslovakia, he expressed the opinion that the Republic would need no less than fifty years in order for its society to become democratic. The continued existence of a democratic system is dependent upon the respect of democratic rules. As the divergence between the declared democratic values and norms, on the one hand, and actual policy, on the other, becomes larger and larger, society becomes increasingly disillusioned with the functioning of the democratic system. In consequence of this disillusionment, the affection of parts of society increases for authoritarian movements and parties, which offer promises of improvement that are: clear, definite, and quick to take effect. The democratic concept and its reception in the Slovak part of the First Czechoslovak Republic are at the forefront of this paper. In order to evaluate the perception of democracy as a disappointing experience, it aims to clarify first what was understood at that time in Slovakia by “democracy”, the expectations that the population associated with democracy, and to what extent the Slovak society at the end of 1918 and start of 1919 was prepared for the new democratic order. Furthermore, the issue is clarified as to what experience the population in the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia had with the democratic system, and how the Slovak political actors responded to the Czechoslovak concept, its interpretations and its instrumentalization.
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Review of: Dariusz Jerczyński: Józef Kożdoń a narodowość śląska. [Josef Koždon und die schlesische Nationalität.] Narodowa Oficyna Śląska. Zabrze 2011. 289 S., Ill. ISBN 978-83- 60540-08-4. Reviewed by Kai Struve.
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Na proljetnom definitorijalnom sastanku provincije Bosne Srebrene, održanom u Sarajevu od 10. do 13. svibnja 1932. godine, župnik župe Sv. Ante Padovanskog u Beogradu fra Arkanđeo Grgić premješten je u Tuzlu, a na njegovo mjesto postavljen fra Josip Markušić (1880–1968) koji je već od 1931. bio član beogradskog samostanskog bratstva. Sada, u novoj funkciji, on je bio zadužen i za brigu oko nastavka gradnje svetišta i crkve koja je povjerena slovenskom arhitektu Josipu (Jože) Plečniku (1872–1957) 1928. godine. Prvi službeni Markušićev dopis Plečniku u novoj funkciji nosi datum 14. lipnja 1932. godine. U njemu se Markušić žali da su iz Beograda na druge službe premješteni bivši gvardijan fra Bernardin Sarić (1878–1940) i župnik fra Arkanđeo Grgić (1889–1975), kojima najviše pripada zasluga da je Plečnik prihvatio izradu plana za izgradnju crkve, ali što i njega samoga čini sretnim da će biti „dionik u izgradnji ove monumentalne crkve, čijoj originalnosti u isticanju religiozne logike, shvaćanju ljepote, te vezanju svete umjetnosti, ljepote i molitve u jedinstven pojam sigurno nema ravne u Jugoslaviji“.
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Review of: Gerd Behrens: Der Mythos der deutschen Überlegenheit. Die deutschen Demokraten und die Entstehung des polnischen Staates 1916-1922. (Die Deutschen und das östliche Europa. Studien und Quellen, Bd. 9.) Lang-Ed. Frankfurt am Main 2013. 749 S. ISBN 978-3-631-63466-0. (€ 99,95.). Reviewed by Pascal Trees.
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Modern type schools of Ahiska Turks, which are a unique people with their rich culture, have an important historical background. It is an important research subject to reveal the entire landscape of the education life of the Turks in Georgia. This article can be described as one of the first experiences, first steps in this direction. In this article, prepared within the framework of the scientific research project carried out at Ardahan University, the activity aspects of the schools of Ahiska Turks before the exile of 1944 are illuminated in the Meskhet-Cavakheti region in the south-west of Georgia. Firstly, the materials of Turkish newspapers published in the region between 1930 and 1944 were considered. We have personally reviewed these newspapers in the F and P archive funds of the National Library of the Georgian Parliament. In the research process, historical-pedagogy analysis method was applied.
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Review of: Felix Schnell: Räume des Schreckens. Gewalträume und Gruppenmilitanz in der Ukraine, 1905-1933. Hamburger Edition. Hamburg 2012. 575 S. ISBN 978-3-86854-244-8. (€ 28,–.). Reviewed by Mathias Voigtmann.
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Review of: Anna Moskal: Im Spannungsfeld von Region und Nation. Die Polonisierung der Stadt Posen nach 1918 und 1945. (Studien zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas, Bd. 23.) Harrassowitz. Wiesbaden 2013. XIV, 298 S., Ill. ISBN 978-3-447-06755-3. (€ 56,–.). Reviewed by Agnieszka Zabłocka-Kos.
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Review of: Die Grafschaft Glatz zwischen 1918-1946. Beiträge über eine schlesische Kulturlandschaft. Festschrift für Franz Jung zum 75. Geburtstag. Hrsg. von Horst-Alfons Meißner und Michael Hirschfeld . Aschendorff. Münster 2012. 524 S., Ill., Kt. ISBN 978-3-402- 12896-1. (€ 29,80.). Reviewed by Tomasz Przerwa.
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The study examines the activity of Polish diplomacy towards Bulgaria during the crucial period after WW I and the emergence of a new arrangement of international forces after the end of the armed conflict. The developments analyzed are presented against the broad background of the conditions under which both states, dependent on the decisions and activities of Great Powers, carried out their policy. National security considerations, including the great importance of transit routes from Southern Europe to Poland, but also historical ties and interest in the cultural heritage of partners as well as establishing and developing economic relations influenced the nature and scope of the actions undertaken, often carried out with participation of leading politicians of both countries. A significant role in this process was played by Tadeusz Grabowski, an expert in the history and culture of Bulgaria. He was the first Polish diplomat in Bulgaria after Poland regained its independence and fulfilled his mission with great commitment. The joint efforts of both countries during this period created a lasting basis for mutual relations.
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The aim of the article is to present selected aspects of the activities of the Polish legation in Sofia in the years 1930–1941, based on the analysis of documents contained in the “Polish Diplomatic Documents” series. These sources indicate the intentions and main directions of activities of the Polish diplomatic mission in the political field. Due to the fact that the selection of Polish diplomatic documents included in the series was based on the criterion of importance, the analysis will also show the significance of the diplomatic mission in Sofia in Polish foreign policy of the period examined.
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The article analyzes the Soviet strategy of exporting petroleum products in the 1920s and 1930s, the purpose of which was initially to obtain a monopoly position in the markets of the Baltic States and Finland. Exports of kerosene, gasoline, and fuel oil (crude oil accounted for an insignificant share of exports) was one of the main sources of currency for the Soviet economy. In contrast to timber exports, the Soviet foreign policy Department (People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs) was actually excluded from participating in the solution of related issues. Oil exports were considered by the Soviet diplomacy as tool for achieving foreign policy goals. Attempts to “conquer” the market of oil products in the Baltics and Finland faced objective obstacles in the early 1930s: the policy of industrialization led to sharp growth in domestic needs for oil, while changes in the foreign policy orientation of the Baltic States and state regulation of import operations promoted pushing out Soviet oil exports. As a result, in the second half of the 1930s the USSR abandoned its previous ambitious plans.
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The article briefly presents the activities of Russian anti-Bolshevik organizations in 1920–1940 as reflected in the documentation of the Latvian Political Police Department (Latvian State Historical Archive, Collection 3235). Because of the sizeable Russian ethnic minority and White émigré community (those who settled in Latvia after the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Civil War), a significant anti-Bolshevik movement existed in the Republic of Latvia during the interwar period. In most cases, these organizations were branches of the international anti-Bolshevik movement, led by former officers of the Russian Imperial Army, who had fought against the Bolsheviks during the Civil War. The organizations had different programs and political views, but were united by their main aim: the destruction of the Bolshevik dictatorship and the recovery of Russia. Despite the European character of the Republic of Latvia, these organizations operated in a different way compared to branches in other European countries. In documentation of the Latvian Political Police Department, anti-Bolshevik organizations were viewed and interpreted in a special (often quite subjective) way, due to several local characteristics. These peculiar properties (which need to be taken into account to achieve objectivity) are also examined in the article.
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Articolul prezintă informații cu privire la economia Depresiunii Dărmănești de-a lungul timpului.
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The article explores the institutional aspect of the politics of memory of World War I in Soviet Russia/USSR in the 1920s and 1930s. The author characterizes the factors playing a special role in the politics of memory and the importance of ‘reformatting memory’” about the war. The role of the most influential actors in the politics of memory, which played a decisive role in the adoption of the concept of “imperialist war” in mass consciousness of early Soviet society, is revealed. These major actors were the Central Committee of the RCP(b)/CPSU(b), the Red Army, and the Comintern. The specificity of activities of the Red Army and Comintern and their interaction in managing mass political campaigns on anniversaries of the war is discussed. The organizational mechanism of mass commemorations devoted to the “imperialist war” was reconstructed on the basis of archival materials of the Agitprop Central Committee of the RCP(b)/CPSU(b), the Agitpropotdel of the Political Administration of the Red Army, and the Agitprop Comintern Department. The special role of “anniversary” campaigns in promoting the concept of “imperialist war,” involving the masses in public commemorations, is explored. The author analyzes the activity of state structures in creating the Associations of World War veterans, the institutionalization and ideologization of their commemorative practices, and displacement of alternative memory narratives. The article characterizes the evolution of the politics of memory andthe adjustment of the concept and change in the use of the image of war in propaganda of the mid-late 1930s.
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Using a broad source base, including previously unpublished materials, this study examines teaching in Magnitogorsk in the period of accelerated industrialization as a unique emotional community with a special type of daily life.. The predominant historical sources are recollections of Magnitogorsk teachers, written at different times relative to the time of studied events. The article uses methodological tools proposed by Iu. Bessmertny, H. R. Iausom, J. Plamper, and W. Reddy. The social portrait of a Magnitogorsk teacher was far from ideal. Teachers were dominated by women under the age of 20, with minimal experience and education, but official discourse and memories about teachers at Magnitostroi drew on a universal reference image of a professional Soviet teacher. The educational community at Magnitostroi was a complex emotional microcosm in which a variety of emotional repertoires coexisted, and teachers themselves belonged to different emotional communities that demonstrated sometimes unusual emotional reactions. Features of social conditions, the overall level of improvement of teachers’ lives and work of teachers, defined the landscapes of everyday life and features of the dominant emotional regime. The last was an official state ideology, adapted to the specific sociocultural and individual peculiarities of city, community, and people.
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