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Deportările din Basarabia 1940-1941, 1944-1956
The book on Soviet Deportations in Bessarabia 1940-1941, 1944-1956
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Writing on Water grasps the phenomenon of sound in prayer, that is, a meaning in sounds and soundscapes, and a musical essence in the act of praying.The impetus for the book arose from the author’s fieldwork among traditional Jews during the era of communism in Budapest and Prague. In that period the Jewish religion and Jewishness in general were supressed and rituals became semi-secret and turned inward. The book is a witness to these communities and their rituals, but it goes beyond documentation. The uniqueness of the sounds of the rituals compelled the author to try to comprehend how melodies and soundscapes became the sustaining/protective environment, as well as the vehicle, for the expression of a world-orientation—in a situation where open discourse was inconceivable.The book is based on extensive interviews, musical recordings, photographs and scholarly analyses. It is unique in its choice of communities, its wealth of original documents, and its novel interpretation of sound.Writing on Water is creative non-fiction. The presentation is evocative and poetic, but at the same time it transmits knowledge. The book can aid research and serve in courses in philosophy, religion, music, ethnomusicology, anthropology, aesthetics, Jewish studies, folklore, oral history, and performance studies. It is also a work of art and literature.
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Editorial - Our Task // Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Foreword to the first edition // Andrei Sakharov - Foreword // Eugene Ionesco - Letter to the editor // Vladimir Kornilov - Without arms, without legs [novel]. First part // Yossif Brodskij - Three poems: In the Lake District - The end of the beautiful epoch - On the death of Zhukov // Alexander Solzhenitsyn - »Dialectical materialism - the progressive worldview« A withheld chapter from »The first circle of hell« // Igor Golomschtock - Paradoxes at the exhibition in Grenoble // Alexander Piatigorsky - Notes on the metaphysical situation in today's Russia // Carl-Gustav Ströhm - Meeting with Milovan Djilas // Ludek Pachman - A new »Prague Spring« - question and task / / Ota Filip - Between Ghetto and Emigration // József Cardinal Mindszenty - Farewell to Hungary and impeachment // Editing of the magazine »Kultura« - How we understand Solzhenitsyn's »Letter to the Soviet leadership« // Sinaida Schachowskaja - Commonality of hope and danger
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Robert Conquest — Kontinent and the West // Ignazio Silone — In search of historical truth // Alexander Solzhenitsyn — Dictatorship without a proletariat: Documents of the revolutionary workers from Russia from 1918 // Vladimir Maramsin — The story of the marriage of Ivan Petrovich . Story // Tamás Deák — The Blind. A fairy tale // Andrej Sinjawski — memory of the dead soldiers: Arkadij Belinkow // Graham Greene — Prague 1948 // Anatol E. Baconsky — poems and anti-poems // Ota Filip — stories from the forcibly »normalized« world // Vladimir Kornilov — without Arms without legs [novel]. Second part // Leszek Kołakowski — Three leitmotifs of Marxist theory // Josef Jedlička — A buried culture or What no longer came on the agenda // Gojko Borić — Why is there no Solzhenitsyn and no Samizdat in Yugoslavia? // Silva Salmanson — Return from Mordovia: Notes from the women's camp // Alexander Solzhenitsyn — Sakharov and the criticism of my letter to the Soviet leadership. To the publication of the samizdat volume »De Profundis«
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Vladimir Voinowitsch — An incident in the Hotel Metropol // Vladimir Maximow — The Ballad of Sawwa. [Narrative]. First part // Horst Bienek — Russian underground songs // Grigorij Pomeranz — Euclidean and non-Euclidean reason in Dostoyevsky's work // Alexander Bachrach — Andrej Belyj in Berlin [With poems from the »Berlin song cycle«] // Anatol E. Baconsky — The black church. Novel // Mihajlo Mihajlov — The mystical experience of bondage // David Anin — Is Bukharin relevant? // Leopold Labedz — The Fate of Writers in the Revolutionary Movement // Leszek Kołakowski — We always have a choice. A conversation with the Polish philosopher // Jiří Hochman — Letter to Vasil Bilak // Editor's rubric — After a year
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Andrej Sacharow — The World in Fifty Years // Milovan Djilas — The Sister // Andrej Sinjawski — People and Animals // Wladimir Maramsin — From the short story »I, with a slap in my hand« // Jossif Brodskij — Dedicated to Yalta // Anatolij Gladilin — A tiger crosses the street // Wladimir Maximow — The ballad of Sawwa. [Narration]. Part Two // Igor Golomschtock — The Language of Fine Arts in Totalitarianism // Leszek Kołakowski — On Sakharov's last book // Abdurachman Avtorchanow — Behind the scenes of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact // Editor's heading — One more time Sakharov
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Ota Filip & Pavel Tigrid — Unwilling Dissidents. First Part: Little stories from a world in which the Caretakers rule // Jan Trefulka — Report on Everyday Life // Alexander Kliment — Intellectuals // Ivan Kadlečík — Abraham became the father of Isaac, Isaac became the father of Jacob // Alexander Dubček — The Socialist State and Human Rights // Ivan Klíma — The misery of language // Václav Havel — The whole family sings with // Jiří Hájek — A request to the Prime Minister // Ludvík Vaculík — Good news — Bad news // Ludvík Vaculík — Sunspots // Karel Kaplan — Another letter to the lord of the castle // Ludvík Vaculík — A million dollar experiment // Karel Sidon — A sad privilege // Anonymous — The hidden death // Alexander Dubček — Farewell to Josef Smrkovský // Anonymous — An annoying confession // Jan Teren — Schwejk today // Vratislav Blažek — A crucial historical moment? // Anonymous — Pop in the Prague underground // Ivan Klíma — The end of civilization // Julius Tomin — As a philosopher at the steam boiler // Jan Milota — Three kinds of Czechs or: Letter to ourselves // Karel Šiktanc — Bohemian clock tower // Jaroslav Seifert — The Plague Column // Mojmír Klánský — The Exile // Jiří Gruša — Ladies Gambit // Ladislav Dvořák — Chronos and Kairos // Josef Frais — Finish // Jan Trefulka — The Great Construction Project // Ivan Kadlečík — An unpublished review of one unpublished novel // Bohumil Hrabal — The gentle barbarian. In memoriam Vladimir Boudnik // Václav Černý — The great Bafler. The work of Bohumil Hrabal // Bohumil Hrabal — I served the King of England // Zdeněk Rotrekl — Apocrypha // Antonín Brousek — authors of the volume
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Viktor Nekrasov – Views and a Little More // Wladimir Woinowitsch – Iwankiada // Michail Bulgakow – Letter to the Soviet government. The Red Island // Antonin Brousek – Poems // Jossif Brodskij – Poems: December in Florence – Torso // Anonymous – Program of the Polish Independence Movement // Emil Morgiewicz – On the Situation in Polish Prisons
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Andrej Sacharow - Letter to «Kontinent» // Naum Korschawin - Attempt at a poetic autobiography // Anatolij Gladilin - The restless dead / Vladimir Kornilow - The demobilization [excerpt] // Ota Pavel - The run through Prague // Jossif Brodskij - England [ A cycle] Letters from the Ming Dynasty continuing Plato // Ivan Sviták - Dissidence in bureaucratic dictatorships // Editorial continent - Panel discussion // Nicholas Bethell - Katyn
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Stefan Kisielewski — On this page // Andrei Sakharov — Unrest and Hope // MilovanDjilas — The Ideology is writing the History // NaumMejman — The monument in Babijjar // Jan Patočka — The Wars of the 20th Century — the 20th Century as War / / Alexander Zinoviev — Autobiography // On both sides of the Spassky Gate. Interview with Zdeněk Mlynář. // Vladimir Maximov — An ark for those who are not invited. Chapter from a novel. // Ion Daniel — Angor Pectoris // Sophia Motowilowa — letter before death // Felix Kandel This is not a phone call ... // Alexander Galitsch — my father's house. Poem // Lew Kopelew — Alexander Galitsch in memory // Michail Heller — poet and leader // Declaration by the Society for Scientific Courses // Kirill Podrabinek — The Unlucky Raven // The Podrabinek dossier // Letters and telegrams from the KoR to Russian civil rights activists // Obituary for Jurij Dombrowskij // Obituary for Ignazio Silone
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Leszek Kołakowski — On the Eternal Question of Imperial and Divine Laws // Naum Korschawin — The Enthusiasm of Our Contemporaries // Golo Mann: The Opium for Intellectuals // Andrzej Braun — Speech at the Polish Writers' Congress // Anatolij Fedosseew – Socialism, a dead end // What does Solzhenitsyn mean for each of us? A panel discussion // Interview with Pjotr Grigorenko // M. Petschkin — tua res agitur // Alexander Galitsch — The Song of the Exodus Poems // Julia Voznesenskaja — Poems // Sergej Dowlatow — The Jubilee Boy // Herbert Tomáš Mandl — The Destination of the Lost // Viktor Nekipelow — Cemetery of the vanquished // On some questions from church, state and society. A letter from Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński // Zygmunt Ossowski — About the current situation in Poland // Lech Dymarski -What was in May? // Documents on the Jewish question in the USSR // Pawel Abramowitsch — On the ban on the mother tongue of my people in the USSR // Declaration by Russian civil rights activists on the nationality question // Obituary for Gelij Snegirev
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This is the first book, devoted to the life, activities and tragic fate of Oleksandr Shumskyi (1890-1946). The former socialist-revolutionist, later the leader of the “Borotbists” party, and then a member of the Bolshevik party, People's Commissar of Education in 1919 and 1924-1927, he remained a Ukrainian patriot, and often went “against the flow” of official policy. It is not uncommon for the communist regime to have made it, quite by the definition of his contemporaries, rather non-human: at first, O. Shumsky was sent for a ten-year exile, and then he was brutally murdered. The publication contains unique documents of the communist secret services, as well as the other archival documents never published. The book is intended for a wide range of readers.
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The results of the analysis of ethno-political processes in Halychyna after World War II are represented in the book in the context of the mainstream of social changes under the Soviet Communist regime and in independent Ukraine. The link between political and ethnical factors is analysed on the bases of demographical shifts in the structure of population of Ivano-Frankivs’k, Lviv and Ternopil administrative regions, as well as socio-professional stratification of the local population, its linguistic, cultural and religious advantages, specific features of regional identity, electoral etc. social behaviour.
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Petro Shelest has a special place in the political history of Ukraine of the XX century. Having gone through a difficult life path, in 1963 he became the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. He supported Khrushchev and his political line, but he was among those who brought L. Brezhnev to power. He opposed the "Prague Spring" of 1968 and at the same time he blocked the total suppression of dissent in Ukraine. He recognized Stalin's authority and at the same time he demanded that the Moscow leadership adhere to the officially declared principles in relations between the centre and the then union republics. He was against the dismantling of the USSR and at the same time he contributed to the strengthening of Ukrainian national traditions, respect for Ukraine's past. What is the secret of such Petro Shelest’s duality? Who and how created for him the image of an "excessive" Ukrainian patriot and even a "nationalist"? How did his fate develop after he was sent for a "promotion" to Moscow and then subjected to political and ideological ostracism?
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The publication includes unique and previously inaccessible documents from the archives of the communist secret service, revealing the fate of Julian Bachynsky (1870-1940). Public and political figure, brilliant publicist, author of the famous book "Ukraine Irredenta" (1895), which justified the need to create an independent Ukrainian state, a former diplomat of the UPR, he in late 1933 with his daughter Elena came to Kharkov. Having started working in the editorial office of the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, Yu. Bachynsky did not suspect that fate would soon change dramatically. The publication is designed for anyone interested in history.
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The monograph entitled Underground behind the Wires is devoted to informal youth movements active in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1980s. The author centres on the countries such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union. The monograph sketches the emergence and development of musical subcultures as well as pro-environmental and pacifist youth circles from the aforementioned countries. The progression of informal youth religious movements, both connected with Christianity and Eastern religions, is also described. Particular emphasis is placed on the issues of contacts and cooperation between the circles in question, especially during the crisis and erosion of the communist system in the countries of The Eastern Bloc. The work closes with the elaboration of the position of youth subcultures during the period of political transformations that took place in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s. The content of the monograph is enriched by the visual material in a form of photographs depicting representatives of particular youth subcultures from the discussed Eastern Bloc countries. The security organs were interested in the activities of the circles under discussion, which is illustrated with the scans of the relevant documents.
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The background and reasons why the Prague-based ORBIS Publishing House, having played a significant role during the 1930s in publishing important books and booklets for the rote of democratic Czechoslovakia in a democratic Europe, decided to publish in 1951 an Albanian-language edition of a collection of photographs and drawings on Vladimir Lenin, will probably remain a historical mystery. Having found a copy of the book on a market in Tirana, CEEOL is offering a digitized copy of this volume. It containsa the text of a Short Biography of Lenin translated into Albanian, as it was offered at that time by the Marx-Engels-Lenin-OInstitute in Moscow.
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This book summarises the results of a research undertaken by the Centre for Ethnology of the Forum Minority Research Institute in Komárno. The research work assisted by external collaborators, was carried out in selected Hungarian-populated municipalities in Southern Slovakia. The research was not designed to exactly reconstruct the events of the 1968 invasion, but to examine what local memory has preserved at the micro level about the Soviet occupation. How did the informants experience the events of that time as eyewitnesses, and what memory have people born later kept of the stories they heard from their parents or others. With a few exceptions, no hostile comments were made about the invading Soviet army. In general, it can be said that many of them relieved the Soviet soldiers of responsibility because, in their opinion, they had followed orders and could do nothing against it, they had to come here. Informants viewed in positive terms that the Soviet soldiers helped unified agricultural cooperatives with agricultural work and in other areas as well, and last but not least, “we could bargain with them,” they had cheap access to fuel, various technical items etc. In summary, the vast majority of informants do not see the 1968 invasion as a tragic event, they are much more preoccupied with today’s real problems (or those considered real due to media influence) such as migration or unemployment. Many feel somewhat nostalgic about the period following 1968 when life was better, and they claim they were not bothered by the Soviets. The memory of informants has been influenced by many things over time, especially newspapers, television, and radio, which may have significantly influenced and modified personal stories over the past decades.
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