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The publication is devoted to the role played by the means of technical reproduction and the image transmission processes in promoting avant-garde concepts of art in the early decades of the twentieth century. Referring to Walter Benjamin’s thesis from the 1930s that photography and the availability of reproduction changed the modern concept of art by offering new artistic tools, the author seeks to explore how the use of reproduction influenced the new ways of art presentation and the development of an international network of artistic exchange.
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The book contains texts of well-known historians, museologists and archivists of Łódź, who aimed at presenting the impact of the Polish-Soviet War (1919–1921) on the functioning of Łódź and its inhabitants as well as the participation of Łódź residents in this armed conflict. The authors present the role of the city as an administrative center and a center of socio-political, cultural and military life. They picture the activities of the Łódź community as well as the local political, intellectual and economic elites, confronted with the war with Bolshevik Russia. The authors draw expressive portraits of the Łódź politicians and social activists. At the same time, they are looking for traces of this dramatic period in the modern image of the city, its museums, archives and at the great necropolises of Łódź. They ask questions about the place of 1920 in the collective memory of generations of Łódź residents.
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The Historical Chronology of Hungarians in (Czecho)Slovakia in the Period of 1914–1945 is a result of many years, or rather, many decades of research work by the author, Gyula Popély. It also fits well into the portfolio of the Forum Minority Research Institute, as it complements and forms a unified whole with the chronology by Árpád Popély, published by the institute in 2006, which processed the history of Hungarians in Czechoslovakia between 1944 and 1992. The present volume brings closer to the reader the first two periods of the history of Hungarians in Slovakia in the form of factual descriptions in chronological order: the history of the years between 1914 and 1938, and between 1938 and 1945. The volume has been divided by the author into five structural parts. The descriptions of the first thematic and temporal unit show the path of Hungarians leading to the position of a national minority, starting from the outbreak of the First World War to the signing of the Treaty of Trianon. This section deals with, among others, the formation and establishment of the Czechoslovak statehood, the peace conference, the period of the Soviet Republic of Hungary, and the conclusion of the Trianon peace. The second chapter of the volume is entitled The Hungarian Multiparty System in Czechoslovakia (1920–1936). Measured in time, this is the book’s most voluminous and least dramatic part. It shows how the Hungarians fit into the Czechoslovak state and how they fought their political struggle with the Czechoslovak state power. The third structural part is entitled Under the Flag of the United Provincial Christian Socialist Party and Hungarian National Party (1936–1938) and covers the events of the period from the formation of the United Hungarian Party to the first Vienna Award, assigned to specific dates. It is a chronicle of a serious time of crisis, at the end of which the majority of Hungarians in Slovakia became citizens of Hungary again as a result of the first Vienna Award. The fourth chapter only covers the events of just over 6 months, in essence, the period of Slovak autonomy. This and the next chapter—which is a coverage of the period from March 1939 to the spring of 1945—present in parallel the life of Hungarians left in Slovakia and those who, as a result of the First Vienna Award, became nationals of Hungary. It is a chronicle of a tragic era when events such as the devastation by World War II and the tragedy of the Holocaust frame the story.The volume is closed with a personal name and place name index.
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The book presents the results of research on the experience of formation, trends, problems and current challenges of scientific knowledge about the place and role of national minorities of Ukraine in the political processes of XX – XXI centuries, namely: a) early XX century, b) during the First World War, Ukrainian revolution and state formation, c) in the interwar period, d) during the Second World War, e) in the Ukrainian SSR 1945-1990, e) in modern Ukraine.
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When Edvard Beneš, in 1931, was in office as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, he presented this Exposé to the Commissions of Foreign Affairs in both the House of Deputees and in the Senat. It has summarized his ideas about a solution of the Crises of European National Economies. The text has been published in 1931 by ORBIS-Publishing in Prague as issue 6 in the series "Sources and Documents on Contemporary Czechoslovak Hiostory"-
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When Edvard Beneš, in 1933, was still in office as Czechoslovak Minister for Foreign Affairs, he delivered this Exposé on European Collective Security to the house of Parliament in Prague as well as tot he Senat. The text was then published by ORBIS-Publisher in Pragie as issue Nr.29 in ist series „Czechoslovak Sources and Documents“
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When the Czech historian Kamil Krofta, in 1936, was in office as Czechoslovak Minister for Foreign Affairs, he delivered this political exposé on the Future of Europe to the Commissions for Foreign Affairs in both the House of Parliament and the Senate in Prague. The text was then published by ORBIS-Publisher in Prague as issue Nr.11 in its series „Czechoslovak Sources and Documents“
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This is a political essay written by Emil Strauss, born 1889 as son of a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague. He was active in politicsin early 20th century in the Czechoslovak / European Social-Demcratic environment. He workes as editor and journalist. He was killed in 1941 in Dachau.
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Seven months after his first Exposé delivered in 1937 to the House of Parliament and the Prague Senate, the Czech historian Kamil Krofta made this second speech on the International Situation of Czechoslovakia facing Nazi-Germany’s campaign in the Sudeten-Crisis and the forthcoming way to the Munich conference, bringing England’s and France’s appeasement policies with Hitlers stratggies. This text was delivered to the Parliament on November 11, 1937, and published by ORBIS-Publisher as issue 23 of the series “Czechoslovak Sources and Documents”
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On the basis of the usual definition of democracy as “government by the people, direct or through elected representatives”, there are not many Democracies left in Europe (1938). This little book is an attempt to examine objectively the state of democracy in the Czechoslovak Republic, to learn in how far government is by the people and for the whole people. The historical foundations of its institutions would have contributed to the study, but have been omitted for the sake of brevity except where necessary to indicate advances made under the Republic. Democracy has been considered herein, moreover, not only in its political, but also in its social and economic connotations. We shall take a glimpse at the democratization of agriculture through the land reform and cooperative credit and marketing. At democracy in education, social legislation, the relations of the several nationalities inhabiting the Republic, as well as at the status of representative government. (from the author's introduction. Text has been published in 1937 by the American Institute in Czechoslovakia.
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During the budget debate in the Czechoslovak Parliament, the Sudeten-German Party of Konrad Henlein brought-up numerous complaints about alleged incorrect treatment of the German minority by the Czechoslovak State. ORBIS-Publisher, with this booklet, offered in German language a collection of the answers delivered in the debates by the leading ministers oft he government.
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During the budget debate in the Czechoslovak Parliament, the Sudeten-German Party of Konrad Henlein brought-up numerous complaints about alleged incorrect treatment of the German minority by the Czechoslovak State. ORBIS-Publisher, with this booklet, offered in German, English and French languages a collection of the answers delivered in the debates by the leading ministers oft he government.
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During the budget debate in the Czechoslovak Parliament, the Sudeten-German Party of Konrad Henlein brought-up numerous complaints about alleged incorrect treatment of the German minority by the Czechoslovak State. ORBIS-Publisher, with this booklet, offered in German, English and French languages a collection of the answers delivered in the debates by the leading ministers oft he government.
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As long as Czechoslovakia exists, the Bohemia basin constitutes an advanced sentinel facing the North-West. Under its protection, the forces intended to bar the entrance to the Danubian countries head-on or to block by flanking action any maneuver to the east, across Poland, along the northern shore of the Black Sea or towards the South, across the Alps, against the Italian peninsula, can at leisure make their arrangements in the Danube region. With Czechoslovakia annihilated, the Danube region will be transformed into a base for German expansion in three directions: Italy, the Balkans, Poland and the U.S.S.R. (from the introduction)
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«This book contains, without any major changes, my lectures on the problems of democracy, which were delivered at the University of Chicago in March, April and May, 1939. I could wish that I had had more time to complete, or, at least, to adapt some chapters of rhe book for the enlightenment of European readers. Though that has not been possible, I am glad to have the opportunity this preface provides to add a few words for my British readers.» (from Beneš' Introduction) // Original Publication in 19349 by MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED, London 1939
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Published 1923 in Copenhagen by Rask-Ørsted Fund. In 1921 the administrative committee of the Rask-Ørsted Fund decided to publish a scientific work on the League of Nations, due to the collaboration of authors from different countries. The purpose of this work was to give an account of the origins of the League of Nations, its activity and the divergent opinions which arose in the different countries belonging or not to the League of Nations, on the subject of its importance and its importance. character. The idea of such a work met with the greatest interest among the personalities who participated in the creation of the League of Nations, or who later took part in its work. Representatives of allied and associated states, defeated states and neutral states met here in common work, all inspired by the same desire to contribute to the creation of an international organization based on the principles of peace and justice.
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