Editors’ Note

Author(s): / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

Welcome to our spring 2021 issue of The Agonist: “The Antichrist.” We would like to thank all of our contributing writers and dedicated editorial team. We would also like to express our enormous gratitude to our new publishers, Ibrahim Sirkeci and the Transnational Press London. We look forward to working with you! In this issue our writers present four essays that once again rethink our relationship with Nietzsche’s controversial, later writings. Robert Malka explores the ways in which a story can find its basis in both the self and the world in Nietzsche's works. Gary Shapiro reimagines Nietzsche as a proto-ecologist or prophet of environmentalism. Bradley Kaye mines the strange affinities between Nietzsche and Pelagianism. And finally, Thomas Steinbuch treats us to “Cursing the Curse: Nietzsche on the Machiavellianism of Pity” in the early sections of The Antichrist.

Notas desde la Dirección Editorial

Author(s): / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 2/2021

We live in an era of intense turbulence of much disenchantment and bewilderment. Geopolitical tensions are deepening and are transforming international relations. Political tribalism is revealing deep divisions between nations and the political and economic failures of countries are causing mass exoduses from Belarus, Libya, Afghanistan or Venezuela to name a few. The pandemic caused by the SARS-COV2 virus has accentuated these changes, as expressed in the latest Oxfam report (2021) calling it the virus of inequality, where more than 2 million people have lost their lives and hundreds of millions have fallen into poverty, while most of the world's richest people and companies remain the richest on the planet. Their multimillion-dollar wealth has returned to pre-pandemic levels in just nine months, while for the poorest it could take more than a decade to emerge from the impacts of the pandemic (Berkhout, Galasso, Lawson, Rivero Morales & Taneja, 2022).

Editörden: Göç Ekonomisi Özel Sayısı

Author(s): / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2022

UNHCR’ın istatistiklerine göre 2020’nin sonunda toplam 82,4 milyon zorla yerinden edilmiş kişi bulunmaktadır ve bunların 26,2 milyonu mülteci statüsündedir. Ayrıca mültecilerin de %86’sı kalkınmakta olan ülkelerde yaşamaktadırlar. 2011’den önce göç yazınında daha çok Avrupa’daki Türk göçmenler ve şehirleşme bağlamlarında ele alınan Türkiye, günümüzde en fazla mülteciye ve mülteci çocuğa ev sahipliği yapan ülke olarak göçün ekonomiye etkisi konusunda incelenmesi gereken önemli araştırma sahalarından biri haline gelmiştir.

Introduction

Author(s): / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

On behalf of myself and the editors for this debut edition, Yunus Tuncel and Francesca Ferrando, we are most pleased to offer the first publication of the World Posthuman Society, which we name “Infinity.” The papers collected here were presented at the 24th World Congress of Philosophy, held in Beijing in 2018. The papers are drawn from roundtables and workshops organized to accommodate the surging interest in posthumanism. The reader may accept my assurance that these pages are contained some of the most avant-garde thinking in this bourgeoning movement in philosophy.

Образът на Стефан Богориди в изследването на Кристин Филиу „Биография на една империя. Управлението на османците в епоха на революция“

Author(s): Victoria Rahilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2021

The article presents the image of Stefan Bogoridi (1775–1859), which Christine M. Philliou builds in monograph “Biography of an Empire. Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution”. A little-known study in Bulgarian historiography. The sources used by the author are considered, as well as the theses, protected by her about the personality of the Bulgarian, who has risen to the rank of High Turkish Dignitary. In the article is paid special attention to discovered by Philliou coded documents written by Bogoridi in the early 1850s.

Editorial

Author(s): / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Remittances are the funds transferred from migrants to their homes and home countries. They are the private savings of workers and families that are spent on food and clothing among other things, and at a macro-level, they are often critical to a nation’s overall financial health. While remittances can be much more, much of our discussion of the macro-level impacts of remittances are framed around discussion of develop and dependency and note how states use (or misuse) remittances as well as the critical role remittances play as measured against international aid. These discussions will often and inevitably hinge on the positive outcomes that lead to development (whether at the level of the household, community and/or state) or the negative impacts of remittance activity that drives increasing dependency. In this issue of Remittances Review, our authors push beyond the development/dependency debate and explore a series of often unasked questions that capture the dynamic outcomes (and surprises) that are central to remittances practices and critical to the growth and maturity of theory and analysis.

Documents from the Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine on the Activities of the Personnel of the International Committee of the Red Cross during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

Author(s): Natália Váradi / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2022

The main purpose of the study is to show the KGB documents concerning the personnel of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which are held in the Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine in Transcarpathia, Uzhgorod and give evidence about the deportations to the Soviet Union during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. To write my study I used the following method: analysing archival documents, study professional literature. Results: Nowadays, more and more archival sources prove that Transcarpathia had an important role during the days of the Hungarian revolution in 1956, and also in the period after it. The representatives of the Soviet political leadership, that led the crushing of the revolution, settled at Uzhgorod. The KGB leaders, and high-ranking officers delegated from Moscow to Transcarpathia constantly informed the Soviet Union Communist Party’s Central Committee and Secretariat. Also, from Uzhgorod they organized the deportations of the Hungarian revolutionists to the Soviet Union. Three members of the ICRC were among the deported ones, who were taken to the prison to Uzhgorod. The ICRC had sent a telegram to Dmitri Shepilov, the Soviet foreign minister concerning the Hungarian peoples’ deportation to the Soviet Union, in early November 1956. It received a very short answer from Andrei Gromyko, then deputy foreign minister, suggesting the organization instead of the Soviet authorities should contact the Hungarian government. At the end of the year, Janos Kadar announced that all deportees had been repatriated, and according to the KGB documents most of them were really taken back to Hungary, among them the co-workers of the ICRC.

Болгаро-турецкие отношениях в конце 1913 – первой половине 1914 гг. по донесениям русской военной разведки на Балканах.

Author(s): Dmitriy Labauri,Ilya Gradoboyev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1-2/2022

The publication is a collection of previously unpublished reports from Russian military agents in the Balkans, dedicated to the problem of Bulgarian-Turkish cooperation between the Balkan wars and the First World War. In the published array of sources, two main storylines can be distinguished. The first concerns information about the political rapprochement between Bulgaria and Turkey and the negotiations between them on the conclusion of a secret military convention directed against Greece and Serbia. The second block of questions concerns cooperation between the Internal Revolutionary Macedonian-Adrianople Organization (IMARO) and the Young Turks’ leadership in organizing sabotage and chetnik attacks on the Greek and Serbian territory of Macedonia. The cited material demonstrates, on the whole, the high efficiency of Russian intelligence, which managed to catch the vector of Bulgarian-Turkish interaction and supply the Foreign Policy Department in St. Petersburg with valuable information obtained through intelligence. The Russian authorities were informed about the main stages of the Bulgarian- Turkish negotiation process, as well as about the eventual plans of Bulgaria and Turkey regarding the revision of the Bucharest Treaty. The published documents allow us to conclude that, despite the presence of tangible contradictions between Sofia and Constantinople, the negotiations between them in 1913-1914 paved the way that led to the signing in August 1914 of the Bulgarian-Turkish Union Treaty, which hastened Turkey’s entry into the World War and securely fastened Bulgaria to the camp of the Triple Alliance powers.

Берлинский мир перед русским общественным мнением

Author(s): Boris Nikolaevich Chicherin,Sergey Leonidovich Chernov / Language(s): Bulgarian,Russian Issue: 3-4/1998

The text of B.N. Chicherin’s memorandum “The Peace of Berlin before Russian Public Opinion” is accompanied by an explanatory text of Associate Professor Sergey Leonidovich Chernov of “M.L. Lomonosov” Moscow State University, a researcher of Russia’s foreign policy problems during the second half of the 19th c. The article acquaints the readers with the principal view that existed in Russian society in 1878 on the decisions of San Stefano and Berlin, and with the specific opinion of B.N. Chicherin of the role of the state and particularly of Russia in the dynamically changing process in the European Southeast. B.N. Chicherin developed in detail this position in the document published where also he sought a behaviour of the Russian Empire adequate to the established situation and advantageous for the interest of the state.

Паисий Хилендарски: 300 години от рождението му и 260 години от завършването на „История славянобългарска“

Author(s): Margaret Dimitrova,Dimitar Peev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Национална научна конференция „Под шарената черга“: Чудомир рисува и разказва

Author(s): Rossitza Chernokozheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Научна конференция „Книга и шрифт. Традиция и съвременност“

Author(s): Stefan Peev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Балканските култури: диалог, трансфер и метаморфози

Author(s): Slaveya Nedelcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Малгожата Коритковска на 80 години

Author(s): Julia Mazurkiewicz-Sułkowska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Светлина Николова на 80 години

Author(s): Boyka Mircheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Уилям Федер на 80 години

Author(s): Anisava Miltenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Татяна Славова на 65 години

Author(s): Maria Totomanova-Paneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Искра Христова-Шомова. Охридски миней. Т. 1, Т. 2, Библиотека Охридски извори

Author(s): Veneta Savova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Ivan N. Petrov. The Development of the Bulgarian Literary Language: from Incunabula to First Grammars, Late Fifteenth – Early Seventeenth Century

Author(s): Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022

Маргарита Куюмджиева, Ликът на Бога. Изображенията на Света Троица в православното изкуство

Author(s): Georgi Gerov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2022