‘Masters of Situation’: German and Austro-Hungarian Intervention in Ukraine in 1918 in the Light of Ukrainian Memoirs

Author(s): Grzegorz Skrukwa / Language(s): English Issue: 113/2016

The article discusses the image of the German and Austro-Hungarian intervention in Ukraine in 1918 in Ukrainian memoirs. While these works generally describe the policies of the Central Powers toward Ukraine as imperialist and dictated by the military and economic interests of the two states, only the most radical leftist writers fail to appreciate the role German and Austrian troops played in the removal of Bolshevik forces from Ukraine. Common and individual portraits of the military and political apparatus of the intervention forces differ depending on the political position of the writer. Those who viewed the repressive policies toward rural Ukraine from the perspective of the elites of Kiev discuss them only in abstract terms. In general, Austro-Hungary’s part in the intervention is described in less favourable terms than that of Germany.

’Gold’ in Mycenaean Greek and Indo-European

Author(s): Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak / Language(s): English Issue: 4/1994

“AN HESITATING JOURNEY THROUGH FOREIGN KNOWLEDGE”: NICULESCU, THE OSTRICH, AND CULTURE HISTORY

Author(s): Florin Curta / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

In a recent article, Gh. A. Niculescu raises the question of the relation between culture-historical archaeology and the so-called “production of knowledge” on ethnic phenomena. He targets the works of Volker Bierbrauer, Sebastian Brather, and Florin Curta. At a closer examination, however, Niculescu’s paper is based on a distorted understanding of what culture history actually is, and on wrong assumptions about such fundamental concepts as ethnicity or (material culture) style. Besides flaws in this line of thinking, his paper reveals Niculescu’s dishonest citation practices, his efforts to create a straw man, and his weak credentials for assuming any critical position in terms of the “production” of archaeological literature in the culture-historical mode. Beyond rhetorical tricks and smearing tactics, Niculescu does not in fact advance any solution to the problem, and remains ambiguous, if not altogether confused about the role of “social sciences” in the archaeology of (medieval) ethnicity.

“Los anticuarios” de Pablo De Santis y la tradición del gótico en la literatura argentina

Author(s): Mónica Bueno,Nora Orłowska / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 2/2016

Gothic fiction in Argentina, represented by such famous authors as Borges, Cortazar, Bioy Casares or Silvina Ocampo has its followers in the 21st century. In our paper, we present one of the contemporary authors, Pablo De Santis, born in Buenos Aires in 1963. His novel “Los Anticuarios” (“The Antiquarian”) is about vampirism in the Buenos Aires of the 1950s. Following the tradition of Gothic literature, the main character is involved in the lugubrious story of vampires known as the antiquarians. Although these long‑lived creatures have adapted to living in our times, they must still feed on blood. However, they prefer a substitute in the form of an elixir which allows them to dominate their victims’ minds. Besides, being victims of unrequited love themselves, just like classic vampires, they have a predilection for female blood.

“Socialist management” in Czechoslovakia - Conflict and Reconciliation

Author(s): Tomáš Vilímek ,Oldřich Tůma / Language(s): English Issue: 44/2017

“TEMPORAL MODERNIZATION” IN THE OTTOMAN PRE-TANZIMAT CONTEXT

Author(s): Marinos Sariyannis / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Studies on the perception of time, leisure and timekeeping in the Ottoman Empire have focused in the Tanzimat period, as the main paradigm is the development of such attitudes and practices during the rise of capitalist economy in Europe, now identified with the rise of “modernity”. The paper questions the use of “early modernity” as an interpretational tool and tries to assess developments and transformations in these perceptions during the earlier Ottoman history, in order to locate established mentalities and their changes. For this aim, different sources are analyzed, including diaries, chronicles and travel accounts in Ottoman Turkish and Greek. It is shown that, while there is a strong tendency for the use of temporal precision in various fields of everyday life and of state institutions throughout the eighteenth century, the use of clocks in labor appeared with a considerable delay, in the second half of the nineteenth century.

“Unmapping” The Ural Playscapes: An Analysis Of Playgrounds And Child Play Under The Post-soviet Urban Transition Of Yekaterinburg, Russia

Author(s): Aireen Grace Andal / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

This study examines playgrounds as lenses on urban transitions to explain the link between urban transformations and changes in the discourse of play and childhood. Specifically, it compares Soviet public playgrounds and post-Soviet privatized playscapes in the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia, through primary observation and secondary data analysis. Using the framework of social reproduction developed by Cindy Katz and Saskia Sassen to explain how the local forces affect cities, my analysis shows that the shift in the discourse of play and childhood in the post-Soviet period is hinged on global influences combined with local transformations, from the abandonment of Soviet ideals of communal play spaces to the embracement of today’s consumerist play places. Whereas the old Soviet playgrounds have uncertain purposes, in contemporary Yekaterinburg private playgrounds offer a narrative of play in terms of leisure, love, and convenience for parents. Children turn into consumers of private play, leaving most of the Soviet playgrounds as idle spaces in the city. This article argues that Yekaterinburg’s shift toward participating in the globalized economy combined with its transition from the Soviet ideals maintains social relations and reproduces social inequalities in childhood, as this condition favors consumerist narratives of play. I conclude that the playgrounds in Yekaterinburg are bystanders of new global ecologies whereby social, political, and economic transformations become an impetus to reproduce new ways of seeing the social importance and meaning of play and playgrounds.

„Din estul elenistic în vestul roman”. Observații pe marginea unui volum de studii recent apărut

Author(s): Victor Cojocaru / Language(s): Romanian,German Issue: 1/2007

Dank der Zusammenarbeit mehrerer „Heinen-Schüler“ und durch die Unterstützung des angesehenen Franz Steiner Verlags aus Stuttgart entstand der vorliegende Band als kleines Dankeschön zum 65. Geburtstag von Heinz Heinen. Der Autor bietet eine breite Diskussion zu dieser jüngst erschienenen repräsentativen Auswahl der kleinen Schriften des renommierten Historikers und Epigraphikers aus Trier. Die 29 wertvollen Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes, die alle kurz rezensiert wurden, geben einen umfassenden Überblick über die Spannbreite der Forschungsgebiete (Griechischrömisches Ägypten, Bosporanisches Reich und Schwarzmeerraum, Christentum und Spätantike, Sklaverei) sowie auchüber die komplexe Arbeitsmethode und besondere Kompetenz des deutschen Gelehrten. Diese ausführliche Rezensionhat zum Ziel, die rumänischen Leser an einer sehr nützlichen Zusammenstellung wichtiger Forschungsbeiträge zu denPhänomenen der Akkulturation und zu sozialhistorischen Fragestellungen aufmerksam zu machen, die für zahlreiche Forscher „vom hellenistischen Osten zum römischen Westen“ willkommen ist.

„Historyk i władza” – z Mychajło Hruszewskim o korelacjach między polityką i historią

Author(s): Julita Zielińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 9/2017

„Oba zuchy, oba żwawi…”. O braterstwie narodu polskiego i węgierskiego

Author(s): Ewelina Sikora / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2013

„Törekedni kell a sebek begyógyítására” Jugoszlávia, Magyarország és az 1968-as Prágai Tavasz a magyar külügyi dokumentumok tükrében

Author(s): Péter Dobrowiecki / Language(s): Hungarian Publication Year: 0

„Zaiste, nikt im losu zazdrościć nie może”. Robert Falcon Scott i Apsley Cherry-Garrard o swoich zwierzętach w drodze na biegun południowy

Author(s): Jacek Kurek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2015

The article is devoted to the attitudes of Robert Falcon Scott and his expedition companions towards animals on the way to the South Pole – both the animals they brought with them on the ship “Terra Nova” and those they encountered in Antarctica. Scott took 34 dogs and 19 Manchu ponies on this arduous expedition. None of them survived. This aim is to draw attention to the human dimension of the expedition, but it becomes a contribution to the history of relationships between humans and animals in Europe just before the First World War. Analysis of the reports of Robert F. Scott and Apsley Cherry-Garrard (a member of the expedition) allows us to conclude that the explorers felt a great deal of affection for the animals. In the face of their tragic fate, they often reflected on their own guilt and mistakes. The suffering of animals was marked firmly in their minds, and the only kind of justification was their desire to enrich humanity with new knowledge.

„Кризите като катарзис – политически, социални, стопански и културни измерения на екстремните ситуации в историята“

Научна конференция, организирана от Регионалния исторически музей в Плевен и Историческия факултет на Софийския университет

Author(s): Ani Istatkova-Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2021

„Палеобалкано-западноанатолийската общност“ – необходимият термин

Author(s): Alexandar Portalsky / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 23/2018

The paper justifies the use of the term Palaeobalkan-westanatolian community. The community is defined as over-lingual and culturally identifiable, but it demonstrates similarities in the political systems too.The community becomes identifiable from the second half of the 2nd millennium BC., slightly blurred in Hellenistic and Roman period, but its strong fundamentals hold until the end of antiquity. The announcement of Constantinople as an imperial capital plays a big role for that. It, in turn, is conditioned by the existence of this core that ensures the centuries long existence of Byzantium. Late manifestations of Palaeobalkan-westanatolian community are well documented and easily noticeable. A more significant question is since when we may identify this community and what might cause its formation. It`s appearance is related with the presence of similar natural conditions and the common to a great extent religion, as well as with the eased communication around the three seas - the Aegean, Sea of Marmora and Black sea.The community includes different languages, not all of which are ethnically close. Within the community appear some of the earliest protopoleis and cities in Europe. The Greek polis was born here too. Polis suggests a different type of culture and polity in comparison to the monarchy, but both are formed gradually and would have hardly strengthen without interaction with the other political formations in Palaeobalkan-westanatolian community. They do not simply accept greek apoikies, they need a symbiotic relationship with them. The easy migration of local population in the colonies shows that the way of life in them is known and acceptable for non-greeks. All that will emerge as a symbiosis between polis and monarchy in the era of Hellenism and in the Roman Empire, has already been tested within the Palaeobalkan-westanatolian community and has proven its viability.The term summarizes many previous observations made by many scientists. The term “Mycenaean Thrace” shows diachronic proximity between societies in Mycenaean Greece and Thrace from the early Iron Age. I can add also the parallels between Thrace and Phrygia synthesized in the term “Thracian-Phrygian contact zone” and “Thracian-Trojan ethnocultural community.” Subsequently the term “Palaeo-Balkan community” is introduced.Observations on ancient authors show awareness of the existence of such a community. It is expressed most often through mythological genealogy of eponyms of different ethnic groups that show the connections between them. This tradition began by Herodotus and increased during the Hellenistic era. Finally I offer examples which suggest the existence of a Palaeobalkan-westanatolian community in the understanding of kingship and cults.

„Романските" и славянските модели за изразяване на перфекта в границите на един западнобългарски диалект (Голо бърдо, Албания)

Author(s): Evdokia Christova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

The study mainly examined formal diversity of expressing perfect tense in the system of one west Bulgarian speech outside the Western frontiers of Bulgaria - the speech of ethnic Bulgarians in Golo Brdo, Albania.

Ὁ καλὸς καὶ ἀγαθὸς ἄνθρωπος L’HONNÊTE HOMME DANS LES MIROIRS DES PRINCES BYZANTINS

Author(s): Simona Nicolae / Language(s): French Issue: 4/2018

This research aims at drawing out the portrait of the Byzantine emperor, as a character in the mirror of princes. The analysis shows that the humanness and the morality of the basileus are more and more important throughout the history of the Empire, to the detriment of his political dimension. The image of the emperor is highlighted by two effigies which overlap: one of them is diverse and brings together various qualities, the other is a sketch of the man simply beautiful and good, stripped of any particular trait, like the ideal of the classical Athens. We have explored the semantic areas which designate the qualities recommended to the prince (concerning the physical lineaments, the mind, the soul and the religiousness). We have also examined the monochrome portrait, which unfolds a human archetype with a “quantitative” side (defined by the notion of μέγεθος) and a “qualitative” one expressed by adjectival structures such as πλαττόμενος, τελειός). An extremely simple lexical formula, καλὸς καὶ ἀγαθός, crowns the image being analysed. The emperor must be, after all, the wise or rather honest man, with no degree of comparison, with no useless determiner, morally beautiful and good in the aesthetic vision of the Antiquity, for which morals and aesthetics were never dissociated.

ІСТОРИКО-КУЛЬТУРОЛОГІЧНИЙ АНАЛІЗ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ ПРОБЛЕМАТИКИ НІГЕРІЇ В МІЖНАРОДНИХ ДОКУМЕНТАХ

Author(s): Joy Chidinma Otuonye / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2015

The article views the Major acceptable problems of National right , human right and human freedom development carried by International Organization Such as U. N .A ., U.N.E.S.C.O. and others.

Юбилейно за Маргарита Василева

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2009

Юбилейно откровение за доц. д-р Стоян Германов (по случай неговата 75-годишнина)

Author(s): Dimitar Tyulekov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2012

Яне Сандански: в сянката на македонизма или посмъртната драма на един български национален революционер

Author(s): Slavi Slavov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2009

In the course of several decades - from the establishing of Vardar Macedo­nia as a federative unit within the borders of Tito's Jugoslavia in the 40s of the XX с to present days - the personality and the activity of the voivode from the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization Yane Sandansky have been the object of historical falsifications and open political speculations concerning his natio­nality.