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Was ist davon zu halten, wenn ein Film, der von der Zensur zur Aufführung freigegehen wurde, nach wenigen Tagen von der Kinoleinwand verschwindet, weil das Justizministerium dagegen Einspruch erhoben hat? Eine bürokratische Panne infolge mangelnder Kompetenzabgrenzung oder ein Akt von tieferer, symptomatischer Bedeutung?
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Der Eiserne Vorhang schützt nicht vor der modernen Plage: Auch in Osteuropa werden immer mehr Fälle von HTL V-lII-Positiven zugegeben.
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Das neue Samizdat-Periodikum Komentáre ist zweifelsohne eine Zeitschrift, auf die viele schon seit langem gewartet haben. Zusätzlich hat sie ein gutes Niveau. Die einzige Ausnahme bildet diesbezüglich der Beitrag eines Charta-77- Unterzeichners, der sich in der Nr. 4 von Komentáre unter dem Pseudonym Politicus verbirgt.
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Nach wie vor kennt das jugoslawische Strafrecht die Todesstrafe, die für mehr als 40 Delikte verhängt werden kann. In den letzten zehn Jahren wurden 39 Menschen exekutiert, allein 1983 wurden zehn Todesstrafen verhängt. Nun formiert sich gesellschaftlicher Widerstand gegen diese inhumanste aller Straf arten.
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Die drei Sprecher der Charta 77, Jiri Dienstbier, Eva Kantůrkova und Petruska Sustrova, veröffentlichten am 11. März 1985 folgenden Aufruf den Charta-Aktivisten der unterschiedlichsten politischen Auffassungen gemeinsam erstellt haben. Er richtet sich in Form eines Briefes an den heurigen Friedenskongreß in Amsterdam. Der Appell soll eine Diskussionsphase über das Thema einleiten; jede Zustimmung, Kritik, jeder individuelle oder Gruppenstandpunkt, den der Aufruf im In- und Ausland hervorruft, ist willkommen: „Wir glauben, daß die Debatte Anregungen und Vorschläge hervorbringen kann, die zur Überwindung der Barrieren beitragen, die den Weg zu einem geeinten, demokratischen und souveränen Europa freier Bürger und Nationen versperren“, heißt'es im Begleitschreiben der Charta-77-Sprecher.
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Westlich -dekadente Miezen aus Playboy und Cosmopolitan — geliehen zur Illustration der Silvesterausgabe des offiziellen Organs der ungarischen KP, Népszabi, Dezember 1981. Ein kostenloses Zuckerl zum Jahreswechsel für alle Zeitungsmitarbeiter und wohl auch Mitarbeiterinnen. 1982 soll’s noch ärger gewesen sein.
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Im ersten Teil dieses Textes kritisieren die Unterzeichner die zunehmende Repression gegenüber Andersdenkenden. Der folgende zweite Abschnitt ist ungekürzt.
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Review of: Ndiaye Beránková, J. – Hauser, M. – Nesbitt, N. (eds.): Revolutions for the Future: May ‘68 and the Prague Spring. Lyon: Suture Press, Lyon 2020, 324 p., ISBN 978-2- 9569056-1-5
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In this material, we analyse the way in which a paradigmatic period for the evolution of art and sculpture as we see it today, the years 1960-1970, shaped the contemporary perception of the visual arts, in terms of reconnecting a spiritual approach and the art manifestation and perceptibility. The theme allows a radiographic introspection into the visual expressions, the diversity of materials, techniques, artistic and aesthetic solutions. The main goal is to facilitate the understanding of the mechanisms that led to nowadays perceptions of art (and of sculpture, as the main vehicle of operating with objectual and space). As most of the minimalist and post-minimalist sculpture orientations can be analysed though the perspective of various prominent artists or researchers such as Donald Judd and Hal Foster, we also assist to major shifts in institutionalizing anti-aesthetic or less-traditional art movements.
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The Italian Communist Party and the communist regimes of Eastern Europe through the magazine “Rinascita”. The cultural magazine of the Italian Communist Party “Rinascita” was published from 1944 to 1991, thus following the evolution of that party from the post-WWII to its self-dissolution. Through an analysis of the articles published in the magazine, this contribution studies the evolution of the image of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe among the Italian communists, retracing the strategic and ideological changes that characterized the Pci, along a difficult path that from the cult of Stalin eventually came to social democracy.
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Starting with the independence process of all the territories once colonies and later, overseas territories of the different states of Western Europe, Latin America meant an association of unique paradoxes. Portugal and Spain have dominated in the past, especially from a linguistic and religious perspective, the current space that became a varied cultural environment. In this context, the aim of this study is to capture, in the introductory part, characteristics of the Latin American complex identity(reflected, for example, in the names associated with this space of civilization, in political circumstances and social issues, in particular). In addition, another purpose is to highlight the way in which these aspects are considered in the prose of modern Latin American writers, Rodrigo Rey Rosa and Héctor Abad Faciolince. At the same time, emphasizing the scourge of discrimination or inequality, but especially the perpetual violence, the study concludes with a reference (also found in the literary discourse of the two texts chosen for analysis, Los sordos and El olvido que seremos) to the ethical spirit, but also to the feeling of empathy—subjects approached by both writers—in a world that seems more and more fragmented and depersonalized, as if it has been occupied by a continuous stigma of imbalance.
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This paper presents the development path and theoretical principles of critical discourse analysis (CDA). In the first part, the question of the influence of systems functional linguistics (SFL) on the theoretical assumptions and methodological framework of the CDA is discussed. CDA takes over from SFL a setting about the language as a reservoir or set of options available to the speaker. At the same time, every use of language implies the choice of a language form, and that choice is socially conditioned. By insisting on the dialectic of linguistic and social structures, SFL makes a departure from the formalistic approaches that had been dominant in linguistics until then. What distinguishes CDA from SFL is its critical attitude towards socially-conditioned language use. CDA takes this critical impulse from the critical linguistics that a group of researchers from the University of East Anglia began to develop in the late 1970s. In addition, the development of CDA has been significantly influenced by poststructuralist criticism, from which CDA derives emancipatory ambitions. In the last part of the paper, Fairclough’s model of the triad structure of discourse analysis is presented, composed of text, discursive practice, and sociocultural practice.
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The 1960s and the 1970s in Italian literature were marked by a standstill in narratology, that could no longer find any strength to renew its own expressive and representative forms. It seemed that both art and literature were facing death. It was the period when the postmodern was emerging and when novels started discovering some of its features, also emphasizing significant turning points in the history of twentieth-century literature. This was the moment that marked the end of history and a standstill of reality. It became impossible to produce something new, and, related to creativity in literature, art, theatre and cinema, what prevailed was a rejection to seek unknown solutions, as well as a tendency to repeat something that was already familiar or to write what had already been written or to resort to the past styles in order to combine them, constructing thus texts and works as collections of quotations. There is a distinction between three phases of the Italian postmodern: the beginning phase, the phase of the “true and genuine postmodern”, and the postmodern of the new generations that started from the assumptions already solidified by the previous generation. The mid-1990s mark the end of the postmodern. The masterpieces of the Italian postmodern are If on a Winter’s Night by Italo Calvino and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, published in 1979 and 1980, respectively. In the 1980s, the voice of the generation novel was heard, which, in keeping with its American role model, embodied the anxiety and disorientations of the youth. In this paper, we have attempted to define the phases of the Italian postmodern more precisely, to determine its beginning and end, as well as to establish its characteristics.
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This study examines women’s role in Nigeria’s fratricidal war that ended in 1970 by debunking several myths on the subject matter. With the war’s end, scholars have been unable to put in proper perspective the role of women in that conflict; instead, the generality of people prefer to live in denial by consigning the role of women to obscurity and oblivion. Male-dominated narratives of bravery and invincibility depict a shut-down mentality against the womenfolk whose wartime activities count for nothing. This seeming social exclusion and marginalization of femininity are very pronounced. Historical and oral evidence abound but remains mostly unacknowledged on successful women traders in times of conflict. Several women gave a good account of themselves during the war it would have been a measure of fairness in the civil war narratives if a few of these women had received the slightest mention. The above is a glaring lacuna and thus a significant challenge and concern for this study. The study used mainly oral sources interlaced with secondary materials and based on historical narrative style in giving relevance to women’s role in the war. It however came with the consequences of a moral dilemma.
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The article presents the activities of Dragutin Feletar related to economic history. One of the discussed segments is the development of enterprise research methodology in which a very important segment, in addition to industrial geography, was related to economic history. The article also presents how Feletar to a large extent viewed his regional synthesis of Podravina from the point of view of economic history, and he did the same in numerous articles and books about individual settlements. Regarding the relevance of individual books, the monograph of the Podravka company (1980) and numerous other books and articles should be singled out and divided into: a) Contributions to the history of banking (Varaždin, Koprivnica, Prva hrvatska štedionica (The first Croatian savings bank), etc.); b) Contributions to the history of industry - from the doctoral dissertation published as a book »Podravina Industry«, through articles on textile and wood industry in Međimurje, textile industry in Zabok and Zagreb, Sisak industry, Maribor, metal industry in Zagreb, wood industry Novska, food industry in Umag, almost all industries in Koprivnica, footwear and leather industry of the Varaždin region up to the definition of the development phases of the Zagreb industry and the periodization of the Croatian industry; c) Contributions to the history of mining (especially in the Podravina part of Bilogora); d) Contributions to communal activities and electrification (Komunalac and Elektra Koprivnica, history of electrification of northwestern Croatia); e) Contributions to printing industry (Međimurje, Koprivnica Podravina, Varaždin, Virje); f) Articles on guilds (Legrad, Koprivnica, Podravina, Donja Dubrava, etc.); d) Articles on cooperatives (Hlebine, Koprivnica Podravina, individual settlements); h) Articles on communications and trade (about the post office in Koprivnica, railways, old roads, rafting in Donja Dubrava, history of trade in Koprivnica).
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