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Czech Post-Dissident Neoconservatives in Post-Communist Transformation
More...A Discourse Analysis of the 1994–1998 Failed Hungarian Constitution-making Enterprise
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The author looks at the issue of women trafficking at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. She considers how to explain the widespread interest in the practice compared with very few cases of the trafficking confirmed by historical sources. The author also puts a question if laying responsibility for the practice on the partitioning powers and the Jews was reflected in reality. In her research, the author used methodologies assuming the existence of moral panic and the myth of women trafficking.
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Clearly, wherever myth forms part of an educational syllabus, value judgements have been made by those who chose the texts, with regard to content, approach, usage, emphases, purpose and many other elements. [...] the present volume examines the reception of such myth within formal education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries […]. It focuses for the most part on school education, but with forays into post-high school where relevant, and includes a wide geographical and chronological range. With regard to the latter limitations, the general emphasis is on modern day, and the current situation, but as a result of individual historical circumstances in each example (Lisa Maurice, Editor of the Volume). This is a task of paramount importance, as educational processes have a lasting influence on us – all the more so as we are exposed to them already in childhood, when the capacity for critical thinking is being formed by none other than school curricula shaped and developed in specific circumstances. This volume makes us aware of these complex processes, their implications, and the opportunities they create for the future of Classical Antiquity (Katarzyna Marciniak, Editor of the Series).
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The book explores the problem of economic emigration from Poland to Latvia and Estonia in the interwar period. The author discusses the issue from many aspects, looking at it from the perspective of political, economic, social, demographic and national processes which took place in Central-Eastern Europe.
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The publication, spearheaded by Prof. Tomasz Ochinowski and Prof. Izabella Łęcka of the Faculty of Management, was prepared by an impressive team of young researchers, students hailing from a range of the University’s programmes, who not only carried out interviews with heroes of the Martial Law but also undertook to transcribe and annotate the material. The volume features accounts from: Maryla Kiersnowska, Andrzej Kaczanowski, Jerzy Kwaśniewski, Barbara Malak-Minkiewicz, Lech Mankiewicz, Anna Owczarek, Anna Radziejowska-Hilchen, Joanna Papis, Jan Rempała, Julian Srebrny, Jerzy Siedlecki, Jerzy Szatyłowicz, Zuzanna Toeplitz, Ryszard Zieliński and Mariusz Ziółkowski. The very list of names shows that the young researchers and their mentors aimed to go beyond the most notable participants of the dramatic events unleashed on 13 December 1981 by General Wojciech Jaruzelski and his communist associates.
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The book proposes a sociological analysis of Polish historiography of the contemporary period that treats the creation of Polish history as a type of public policy. Based on rich empirical material and using a number of research methods, most notably Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of fields, the author argues that policy of this kind was pursued, albeit using somewhat different methods, both in the People’s Republic of Poland and after the fall of communism. In keeping with this approach, the historians he studies are also seen as co-creators of historical policy, inevitably entangled in processes of instrumentalizing history, which Valentin Behr systematically investigates in terms of interrelations between social fields.
More...The Ancient Myths as Medicine for the Hardships of Life in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture
Classical Antiquity is a particularly important field in terms of “Hope studies” […]. For centuries, the ancient tradition, and classical mythology in particular, has been a common reference point for whole hosts of creators of culture, across many parts of the world, and with the new media and globalization only increasing its impact. Thus, in our research at this stage, we have decided to study how the authors of literary and audiovisual texts for youth make use of the ancient myths to support their young protagonists (and readers or viewers) in crucial moments of their existence, on their road into adulthood, and in those dark hours when it seems that life is about to shatter and fade away. However, if Hope is summoned in time, the crisis can be overcome and the protagonist grows stronger, with a powerful uplifting message for the public. […] Owing to this, we get a chance to remain true to our ideas, to keep faith in our dreams, and, when the decisive moment comes, to choose not hatred but love, not darkness but light. (Katarzyna Marciniak, University of Warsaw, From the introductory chapter)
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This edition contains duplicates of documents produced by the University of Warsaw in 1915–1919. All the documentation from that period was destroyed during World War II and was presumed irreversibly lost. The recent discovery of the duplicates in the University Archives and their publication contribute to our knowledge of not only the political aspects of University life but also the material and social dimensions of its day-to-day operations in that period. They also bring back the memory of the University’s technical and administrative staff, who are all too often overshadowed by the faculty.
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The monograph attempts to reconstruct the history of sport infrastructure in Warsaw between the First and the Second World War. Sport was a rapidly developing sphere of social life in interwar Poland. Sport clubs, divisions and organizations sprang up, associating increasing numbers of people eager to spend their leisure time seeking fulfilment in physical competition. This, in turn, generated a need for the development of sport infrastructure: sports fields, running tracks, tennis courts, ice rinks, cycling tracks, boating harbours. In 1918–1939, hundreds of new sport facilities were erected – from impressive complexes of the Central Institute for Physical Education or the Służewiec Racecourse all the way to local sports fields, school swimming pools and workplace shooting ranges.
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The publication contains articles on organizing and functioning of archive networks in selected European countries, i.e. in Poland, Spain, Liechtenstein, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. The authors discuss the factors shaping archive networks and their relations with social needs, asking questions about the incentives which facilitate the organization of stable and effective archive networks, the possibility of its modification, or the importance of digital technologies in sharing archival resources.
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Immediately after 1991, the activity of nationalist circles in Belarus led to a change in the Soviet historical narrative, which used to be the only permitted one. However, they did not manage to develop a coherent and effective politics of memory or to subsequently put this new message across to the public. The modest achievements of the first few years of independence were wasted after Alyaksandr Lukashenka came to power. He ordered a return to the Soviet vision of history that was only slightly modified. The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR), recognised as the first Belarusian state in history, still remained its pivot. It was only at the dawn of the new century that the regime, which had radically dissociated itself from the national narrative, began to see a need for conducting a politics of memory that would not only be based on the Soviet legacy, but also on earlier periods of Belarusian history. In Belarus, governed as it is by an authoritarian regime, the politics of memory is determined primarily by the Presidential Administration, which in fact has a monopoly on shaping it. Neither the opposition, which is weak and fragmented, nor independent historians have a real say in formulating the message addressed to the citizens.
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The main purpose of this study is the short and long-term relationships between economic policies and consumer confidence research, using monthly data between 2008:01-2021:12 in Turkey. Data of the variables is obtained from the Turkish Institute of Statistics (TUIK) and the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) database. The Extended Dickey Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron (PP) tests used to examine the stationarity of the variables revealed that the relevant variables are generally first-degree static. For this reason, to investigate the long-term relationships between the variables, cointegration and Delay Distributed Autoregressive (ARDL) Model approach have been applied. As a result of the discoveries obtained from the analyzes made with the ARDL method, the long and short term relationship between economic policy variables and consumer confidence index in Turkey have been determined. While the positive effect on consumer confidence index has been seen by the indirect taxes ratio to total tax revenues and central government budget expenditures in the long term, the short term effect is negative . It has been observed that inflation and interest rates have a negative effect on the consumer confidence index in both the short and long terms.
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The aim of this study is to create a new financial stress index that will provide early warning signals for Turkish economy and to determine the relationship between this index and economic activity variables. Financial sustainability risks are usually followed by financial crisis along with the dangers associated with irregular fiscal adjustment. The findings of the study are expected to provide insights to financial institutions and policy makers regarding the perception of financial stress in the economy and the direction of fiscal policy through a leading indicator of financial stress. For this purpose, first of all, a set of financial indicators to be used in the measurement of sustainability risk and the calculation of financial stress was created by using the conceptual framework developed by Cottarelli (2011). Turkey’s financial structure for the period of 1990-2021 has been determined by taking into account the financial sustainability indicators such as basic financial variables related to asset and liability management and long-term financial trend variables. The aggregation process has been based on the approach developed by Kaminsky, Lizondo and Reinhart (1998). It is the first study in Turkish literature to create financial index for Turkish economy using early warning signal approach. In addition to that, the study has examined the linear dynamic relationship of the mentioned index with the economic activity variables through frequency domain casuality tests and the nonlinear dynamic relationship was examined by Markov regime-switching VAR and causality tests based on regimes which are related to this model and impulse response analysis. It is thought that the findings of the study will contribute to the deveplopment of a financial monitoring framework with the primary purpose of assessing financial re-borrowing risks. Monitoring financial sustainability in developing economies is of vital importance, especially during periods of economic crisis.
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An intimate look at the life of Professor Andrzej Koźmiński and at the same time a portrait of a family of Professors hailing from the Warsaw intelligentsia, whose roots trace back to the Eastern Frontier of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. We get to know a scholar of an international, cosmopolitan orientation, a university teacher representing a positivist work ethic and Enlightenment-derived criticism, a leader fascinated by new technologies, a sensitive poet and an art collector. His biography abounds in stories of success but also failure as well as of the obstacles he had to overcome on his way to realizing the dream about his own university, a business school meeting European standards.
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The books contains an edition of 29 profiles of Polish and foreign scholars of broadly understood antiquity studies: classical philology, ancient history and classical archaeology. The documents come from the personal archive of Ryszard Gansiniec (1888-1958), one of the most versatile Polish scholars. The profiles, written mostly in the interwar period, with some coming from World War Two days and the postwar years, provide valuable information on both prominent researchers and those who due to various circumstances have not registered in our collective memory.
More...Przebaczyć? Z honorem i godnością
The book consists of two essays: “To forgive?” and “With honour and dignity.” Both deal with the issue of forgiveness for the wrongs committed by Nazi Germany during the period of the Second World War. “To forgive?” – an essay devoted to the Holocaust in which the author openly opposes the attitude of those who not only wish to forget about the crimes committed by the Nazi criminals but also more or less consciously belittle their significance. “With honour and dignity” – a polemical analysis of French society whose attitude and choices resulted in France playing the role it played during the Second World War.
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