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Vybrané aspekty úspešnosti náborových akcií zamestnancov pre Východoslovenské železiarne

Author(s): Marianna Bobková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2016

The thesis deals with selected factors that were influencing the development of employees´ number of Eastern Slovakia Steel factory. The company, today under the name United States Steel Corporation, is situated in Košice, the second largest city of Slovakia, with more than 240,000 citizens. However, during the 1950s the city had approximately 60,000 citizens only, but the census of 1980 recorded in excess 200,000 citizens. For reasons that in the second half of the 20th century, the population increased fourfold which could not be caused by the natural population growth only, it is appropriate to focus on the causes during that particular historical period. The years from 1948 to 1989 are characterized by strong influence of totalitarian regime and government interference in both economic as well as social life of citizens. Above all the interests of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had to be respected, which was reflected also in the type of industrialization and its focus on the Cold War development. In The Czechoslovak Republic the idea of increased industrialization was enforced on the territory of today’s Slovakia. One of the plans was the industrialization of population-rich, but economically declining eastern Slovakia. Košice represented a strategic centre of the eastern part of the republic, in which the construction of industrial enterprises was supposed to be carried out and which impacted on the population. The construction of Eastern Slovakia Steel factory started in 1960. The factory was supposed to provide the biggest number of job opportunities not only in the Košice city, but also in the nearby districts, which led to migration of the population. Therefore, this thesis focuses on depiction of the relation between industrialization and the physical movement of people. There are two types of recruitment actions and activities for gaining workers described in this article. Through numerical data recorded in charts and graphs the rate of recruitment percentage together with explanation of causes stated in reports is highlighted. Additionally, propaganda activities which played a significant role in appealing to public are also depicted. Articles in newspapers and company brochures were supposed to be in favour of gaining persons into employment for metallurgical factory. The article offers opportunities for better understanding of the mutual relation and influence between political system, industrialization and the society. The intention here was the systematization of statistical data that may represent resource for further research in the field of development of Košice, the growth of the population and the total transformation of the city. Furthermore, to provide a resource for the llustration of the nature of political, economic and social changes of the given time period.

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ИНДУСТРИАЛЬНОЕ РАЗВИТИЕ И ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ ПРОСТРАНСТВО ПРОВИНЦИАЛЬНОГО ГОРОДА В КОНЦЕ XIX – НАЧАЛЕ XX В. (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ИВАНОВО-ВОЗНЕСЕНСКА)

Author(s): Kirill Evgenievich Baldin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2014

The article is devoted to the features of Ivanovo- Voznesensk industrial development at the turn of the 20th century. It was one of the biggest industrial centers in pre revolutionary Russia. The problem and potential analysis of the local textile industry is made. Also it was studied in the connection with Ivanovo- Voznesensk professional schools activities research. Ivanovo-Voznesensk had more professional schools than contiguous cities.

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Cultural Heritage of the Post-totalitarian Cities: 20th and 21st Centuries. Foreword

Author(s): Martin Pekár,Andrea Pokludová / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

Throughout the world cities after the fall of the totalitarian regimes deal with numerous issues that affect the everyday life of their inhabitants. The cities, which benefited from the economic direction of the totalitarian regime concerning selected sectors of the economy, may become sites on the periphery of events after several years. Conversely, the democratization of post-totalitarian societies associated with the opening of borders, free movement of persons, knowledge and technologies in a short time can affect the development of cities and towns stagnating in the previous era.

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Мюсюлманите в България – изследователски проблеми и приноси

Author(s): Evgenia Troeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

The paper presents the topics and contributions in the contemporary study of the culture of Muslims in Bulgaria. It discusses scientific publications with an anthropological focus from the post-1989 period, when the theme about ethnic and religious minorities in Bulgaria became particularly relevant. One of the main topics of research is the state policy towards Bulgarian Muslims in the 20th century, which receives a new interpretation and evaluation. The study of inter-confessional relationships remains one of the leading lines of research in the early 21st century, too. Numerous studies have been published on the various ethno-confessional groups – Bulgarian Turks (Sunni, Alevi), Roma, Tatars, Muslim Bulgarians. The publications analyze elements of their culture, issues of religion and identity. Ordinary people, their culture, their strategies for adaptation in the changing social environment became increasingly an object of study instead of political history. Changes occur also in the approach to research; attention is redirected from highlighting the common elements in the culture of Christians and Muslims to analyzing the specificities, the alternative memories, local culture and identity of Muslims in Bulgaria.

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Културни организации и идентичност на турците в България в началото на ХХІ век

Author(s): Bojidar Alexiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

After the restoration of the rights of the Turks in Bulgaria in the beginning of the 1990s, they again received the opportunity to develop culture in their mother tongue. Over the time the Turkish chitalishta (culture centers), which had existed in the past, were re-established and new organizations pursuing various educational, creative and informational activities appeared. Already for several years on end, the Turkish cultural associations in Bulgaria have been organizing events and staging traditional and modern musical and dancing performances. The article studies the functioning of the Turkish cultural organizations in Bulgaria as well as the Turkish community’s self-representation by means of folklore performances in front of the other communities.

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Building a lieu de memoire in Romanian Consciousness: From Sorin Ilieşiu's Documentary "Queen Marie-The Last Romantic, the First Modern Woman" to the Golden Room in Pelişor Castle

Author(s): Marina-Cristiana Rotaru / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

In 2018 Romania will celebrate the centenary of the Union of 1918, or the Great Union, when all Romanian provinces united into one state: Great Romania, a national ideal which Romanians strove for and achieved on the battlefield and which the Trianon Treaty of 1920 confirmed. For such a time as this hundredth anniversary, it is only natural to call to mind people who made this ideal come true. Queen Marie is rightly considered one of the artisans of the Great Union, being regarded at the time and afterwards as “the living consciousness of Romanian unity, the symbol of confidence in final victory” (Boia 2001: 208). This article aims to investigate the manner in which the queen’s memory is kept alive, and draws on two distinct attempts to portray the queen: Sorin Ilieşiu’s documentary Queen Marie – The Last Romantic, the First Modern Woman and the Golden Room in Pelişor Castle, Queen Marie’s official residence in Sinaia, the royal resort in the Carpathians. These two attempts illustrate how present-day Romanian society tries to regain parts of a common memory that was purposefully obliterated by the communist regime, and strives to rediscover and remap places of their shared memory. My analysis of Ilieşiu’s portrayal of the queen is circumscribed to the field of social semiotics, mainly to the concepts of “distance”, “angle” and “gaze” which Theo van Leeuwen uses in the visual representation of social actors. In my investigation of memory remapping, I draw on Pierre Nora’s concept “lieu de mémoire” and aim to prove that the Golden Room in Pelişor Castle, a place that reflects the personality of the chatelaine and where the queen symbolically reconnected with her origins, has turned into a realm where Romanians have access to a part of their memory which communism did its best to extirpate.

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Идеология за масова употреба: носталгията и ревитализацията на вещите от всекидневието на близкото минало

Author(s): Nikolay Papuchiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The focus of the article is on the recent past – the era of socialism, and especially on the goods for mass consumption. In spite of the fact that the objects are not ideologically burdened, their nowadays’ fate is very interesting – they are one of the main transmitters of the feeling of nostalgia about a simpler and better life in the past. No more part of people’s style of living, they are nevertheless rich in personal memories. Such presence provokes a lot of reminiscences and imaginations about slow and safe but already irrevocably lost life. Exploiting nostalgic feelings among big groups in Bulgarian society, nowadays market actors create special places full of objects of the recent past. Two of them – Raketa restaurant and Com.bar in the centre of the city of Sofia are very representative places for entertainment. This is the reason they to be on the focus of the anthropological fieldwork.

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Historical Sciences in Bulgaria and the Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Author(s): Daniel Vatchkov / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2018

The article examines the scientific work of the Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since its establishment in 1947 to the present day in the context of the general development of historical science in the second half of the 20th century. The era of communist totalitarianism had a heavy impact on the research of historians. They had, willingly or unwillingly, to study historical processes following the ideological formulations set by the Communist Party. In the 1960s, a slight liberalization of public life began, allowing for a more adequate examination of a number of issues from Bulgarian and world history, mainly from the point of view of the facts. Since the fall of the communist regime in 1989, the ideological constraints on historical science and the work of the scientists at the Institute for Historical Studies fell away too. Research freedom, as well as the wide opening of archives, allowed historians to start exploring many new themes and to seriously reconsider others. However, the new conditions in which historical science has been evolving give rise to a number of challenges. In short, the task of historians in the new conditions is to create historical texts that are freed from the myths that have accumulated over time; to give the most accurate picture of the past and thus to offer to society appropriate solutions to the current problems in its development.

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Сайтът „Изгубени в Прехода: историята в снимки“ като възможен освобождаващ наратив за Прехода

Author(s): Dena Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

The paper addresses the potential to challenge the dominant narrative of the official memory of the Transition period in Bulgaria through live archives. The specific website, Lost in the Transition: history in photos, is studied as an example of live space for memory reconstruction that could provoke authentic reflection about the recent past and provide a shared space for reflexive dialogue in the contemporary Bulgarian society. This dynamic process can result in a critical attempt to better understand the period and cocreate a liberating and empowering narrative.

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HYBRID THREATS AND ACTIVITIES: MODERN PERCEPTION AND EVOLUTION

Author(s): Vitalie Sili / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The constantly changing security environment has recently been influenced by a series of hybrid threats, widely used by various entities, including states, to achieve the proposed objectives. The specific feature, characteristic of the ongoing events, including the war in Ukraine, denotes the merging of hybrid methods and tactics of action with the conduct of active armed operations. In this context, we consider it extremely important to study the forms of manifestation characteristic of hybrid attacks to identify, prevent and counter them.The use of hybrid methods, often extremely complex, requires combining the efforts of the international community and adopting concrete actions that would contribute to the protection and promotion of true democratic values.The danger of hybrid threats consists in combining a wide spectrum of tools, such as: disinformation, propaganda, cyber-attacks, use of cyberspace, support and promotion of terrorist forms of operation, frequently externalized through certain crimes of a terrorist nature, interference in the internal affairs of the state, manipulation of opinion public etc.

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Author(s): Jiří Křesťan,Martin Dolejský,Václav Chalupný,Hana Bortlová-Vondráková / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2024

BEZDÍČEK, Viktor: Hledání světla: Portrét skladatele Zdeňka Šestáka. Praha, Nakladatelství Akademie múzických umění v Praze 2022, 552 s., ISBN 978-80-7331-615-0; BRÝDL, Miroslav – BOŠTÍK, Martin: Nezouvat, prosím! Vyprávění emeritního litomyšlského starosty Miroslava Brýdla o jeho životě a moderní architektuře. Litomyšl, Regionální muzeum v Litomyšli 2022, 302 s., ISBN 978-80-88464-02-0; FIDLER, Jiří: To ví přece každý: Zažité interpretace československých dějin. Praha, Fortuna Libri 2022, 272 s., ISBN 978-80-7546-433-0; FRIEDL, Jiří: Domů, a za svobodou: Role Československa v migracích obyvatel Polska v letech 1945–1948. (Edice 1938–1953.) Praha, Academia – Historický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., 2020, 463 s., ISBN 978-80-200-3110-3 a 978-80-7286-353-2; HRUBÝ, Karel: Věřil jsem v budoucnost. Ed. Petr Zídek. Praha, Torst 2022, 316 stran, ISBN 978-80-7215-692-4; NAYA ORTEGA, Ramón – PRADES ARTIGAS, M. Lourdes: Hablamos diferentes idiomas, pero una misma lengua: Multilingüismo y pedagogías en las Brigadas Internacionales. Cádiz, Universidad de Cádiz 2023, 215 s., ISBN 978-84-9828-861-2.

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ПУБЛИКИ И ПОСЕТИТЕЛИ В ПОСТКОВИД МУЗЕЙ – ОТ ИДЕНТИФИЦИРАНЕ КЪМ СЪУЧАСТИЕ

Author(s): Silvia Trifonova-Kostadinova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 23/2024

The text examines the results of a study on the audiences of the museum in Rousse, Bulgaria. The research helps to understand their attitudes and reactions during their actual stay in a museum environment. The information collected will be used to shape the repertoire policies of the cultural institute and to establish lasting relationships with visitors. During the museum events in 2023, the attitude of the museum audiences to the proposed initiatives was observed – exhibitions, concerts, public lectures and presentations, scientific forums, events with free entry, nights at the museum. Surveys were used to gather user opinion. They aim to define the approaches to interacting with audiences and the activities to be planned in the future to best meet people’s expectations. The current research was undertaken to identify changes in the postcovid situation and to derive workable models to benefit the museum in its future event planning activities. To a large extent, the proposed conclusions are valid for most of the Bulgarian museums, as well as the proposed work models, which include the participation of audiences in the activities of the museums.

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CROSS-BORDER ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE. SPECIFICS OF THE TRANSNISTRIAN SEGMENT OF THE BORDER OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Author(s): Svetlana Cebotari,Valeriu Lungu,Carolina Budurina-Goreacii / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

In the context of the war in Ukraine, cross-border organized crime is becoming an increasingly present phenomenon in the region, increasingly attracting the attention of national governments and international organizations, as well as the academic community and civil society. In the context of the new geopolitical realities, conditioned by the unjustified invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, cross-border organized crime is becoming one of the phenomena present in the region, including in the Republic of Moldova.Regarding organized crime using the Transnistrian segment of the Republic of Moldova border, the phenomenon of cross- border organized crime includes human trafficking (for prostitution or forced labor), migrant smuggling, drug trafficking, illicit goods trafficking, counterfeiting, cultural activities related to goods trafficking, arms trafficking, armed robbery and money laundering the money.The purpose of this article is to highlight the main aspects of cross-border crime conditioned by the war in Ukraine.

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РОССИЙСКО-УКРАИНСКИЙ ВООРУЖЕННЫЙ КОНФЛИКТ И ПРИДНЕСТРОВЬЕ: ВОЗМОЖНО ЛИ ИЗМЕНЕНИЕ ПОЗИЦИИ РОССИИ?

Author(s): Zurab Todua / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2024

Transnistria is a pro-Russian region situated in the East of the Republic of Moldova, sandwiched between Chisinau and Ukraine. It is attracted by Moscow, Kyiv, Chisinau, and other capitals. In peacetime, the unhurried negotiation process was quite satisfactory for all interested parties. In the context of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Transnistria becomes a factor that causes concern and sometimes irritation among many politicians and military personnel.In Kyiv, there are some fears that military sabotage in the direction of Odesa is possible from Transnistria. On the other hand, proposals are being made to take control of the region, thereby inflicting a significant military, political, and image defeat on Russia. In Chisinau, plans for the country's reintegration under the new conditions are discussed. But at the same time, they would like to avoid unjustified risks. In Tiraspol, they watch everything that is happening with alarm and apprehension. And they do not lose hope that in the event of an escalation of the situation, Moscow will provide Transnistria with assistance and support.All these circumstances force Russia to keep the situation under constant control to react at the right moment to any changes in the situation around Transnistria.The situation is extremely complicated and at any moment can move from a calm phase to a fast development of events.

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A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE FIRST AND SECOND NAGORNO- KARABAKH WARS

Author(s): Mihai Melintei / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The Nagorno-Karabakh wars is one of the most protracted and complex disputes in the post-Soviet space, involving Armenia and Azerbaijan over the control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The first war broke out in the late 1980s and early 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnically Armenian-majority area, had been under Azerbaijani control during Soviet regime. As tensions between Armenians and Azerbaijanis grew, the conflict escalated into a full-scale war from 1991 to 1994. The result was a devastating loss of life, mass displacement, and a de facto Armenian control over Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding Azerbaijani territories, although these gains were never internationally recognized.A fragile ceasefire was agreed upon in 1994, but the situation remained volatile with periodic skirmishes. The second war erupted in September 2020, with Azerbaijan launching a large- scale offensive to reclaim Nagorno-Karabakh. The 2020 conflict was marked by heavy military engagement, with Azerbaijan receiving support from Turkey, while Russia played a mediating role. The war ended with a ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia, shifting the region’s geopolitical dynamics and strengthening Azerbaijan’s position. Despite the ceasefire, tensions remain high, and the conflict continues to shaperelations in the South Caucasus.

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CAZUL KOSOVO: SEPARATISM ȘI INDEPENDENȚĂ

Author(s): Cristina - Alexandra Deffert / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2024

Kosovo, a de-facto state in the Balkans, with a history of ethnic and political conflict, has pursued independence amid a complex separatist dynamic.This paper examines Kosovo's evolution through the lenses of separatism, focusing on pivotal milestones: the aftermath of the 1999 war, Ibrahim Rugova’s reforms, and the 2008 Declaration of Independence. Furthermore, it explores the ongoing challenges Kosovo faces in securing full international recognition, especially considering opposition from key states and regional geopolitical complexities.The study aims to assess Kosovo's current global position, focusing on its prospects for international recognition andEuropean integration.

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GEORGIA SUB ASEDIUL SEPARATISMULUI: ABHAZIA ȘI OSETIA DE SUD

Author(s): Olga State / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2024

This article analyzes the case of separatism in post-soviet Georgia. Starting from the main causes that led to the secessionist movements, the cases of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are described in detail. Throughout the article, the position of the Russian Federation regarding one disputant’s claims or another will be defined. Russian implication on this matter through the peacekeeping forces has had a great impact on the development of the situation. Considering this fact, there was a possibility for a potential ceasefire and to establish some interstate relations, only under Russian monitoring.Most of the conflicts taking place in the South Caucasus region imply the presence of the Russian state. Nevertheless, their political elites overestimate the capability of Moscow in the proceeding to find an equitable solution that would benefit all theconflictual sides.

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THE ARMED CONFLICT OF THE DNIESTER. THREE DECADES LATER (PETER LANG, 2023)

Author(s): Iuliana Neagoş / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The volume “The Armed Conflict of the Dniester. Three Decades Later” published by the prestigious Peter Lang Publishing Group, represents the 3rd in the "South-East European History" series.It presents a valuable scientific source of information and analysis, particularly considering present events in Ukraine. The authors provide an original approach to the Dniester conflict, from 1992. They collect and analyze information and offervaluable interpretations within the frame of the regional security and geopolitical context.

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DIVIDED CITIES: A CASE STUDY ON RECENT EVENTS IN MITROVICA

Author(s): Eugen Străuţiu,Cristina - Alexandra Deffert / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

The city of Mitrovica, located in the north of Kosovo province, went through a bloody phase during the war in 1999, when almost the entire Roma population was evacuated from the town and the Serb population, originally living on the south bank of the Ibar River, was resettled on the north bank.Today, Mitrovica remains an ethnically and religiously segregated town, the object of peace-keeping missions by KFOR (Kosovo Force) and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Violent clashes between nationalities, or between the Serb population and the authorities, have recurred several times.The objective recapitulation of events is the first step towards a correct understanding of the phenomenon and then to sketch out scenarios of pacification and civilized coexistence of nationalities. Our research aims to provide an updated listing of the main moments in the recent history of the conflict, based on which we will contribute to a correct understanding and prioritization of the causes, detail and explain the current picture of the problem, and then sketch some scenarios for solutions. We will add a brief comparative look, with explanatory value, on other cases of divided cities, to grasp the common and different elements.To this end, we will use tools specific to history, political science, cultural studies and security studies. We will operate with document analysis, causal analysis, comparative analysis and case study, in the hope of getting as close as possible to the correct explanations and feasible solutions.

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BETWEEN THE SACRED AND THE VIOLENT: THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL MOVEMENT AND THE NEW PARADIGM OF TERRORISM

Author(s): Iulian Dinulescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) is an ultra-nationalist and extremist organization that combines imperialist ideology with a rigid view of Russian Orthodoxy. The RIM's distinctive feature is the use of religious symbolism to legitimize both its political goals and violent actions, including involvement in armed conflict and acts of terrorism. The group is known for providing paramilitary training to far-right extremists in Europe, contributing to violent attacks such as the Sweden bombings.Although designated a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, Australia, and the European Union, RIM continues to operate relatively freely in Russia, gaining influence through propaganda and recruitment activities. The movement advocates a vision of Russia as a pure Orthodox nation engaged in a sacred confrontation against what it perceives as decadent and demonic Western values.This article explores the dynamics between religion, nationalism, and political violence within RIM, showing how Orthodox symbolism is instrumentalized to support an extremist agenda. RIM is not only a political movement, but also an ideological force that combines religious radicalism with imperialist goals, generating significant global security risks through collaboration with other extremist groups and by disseminating its messages through social media.

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