Conflit foncier, reconfiguration territoriale et valeurs de la terre dans les montagnes de Cahabón (Guatemala) by Agnès Bergeret

“…These accounts provide additional elements that help to understand the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996), often interpreted through the prism of the Cold War, i.e. counter-revolutionary strategies led by a military regime against communist guerrillas. This article cross-analyses different observation points on a conflict process that has transformed a territory once dominated by a single large coffee estate into a new, highly fragmented configuration of villages populated by small-scale farmers. …”
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Changes of the Lithuanian Periodical Structure (1988-1995) by Genovaitė Burneikienė

“…The article reveals impact of publications of Sąjūdis movement on the Lithuanian society and the official press (in 1988 appeared about 70 publications of Sąjūdis movement) and the ways used by local individual editorial offices to disengage from "care" of the periodical press of the Communist Party. The article investigates development of the system of the Lithuanian periodical press after adoption of the Law on Mass Media (February 09, 1990) that liberated editorial offices from dependence on the Party and established the main provisions of freedom of the press. …”
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It Is Not All Because of Socialism — On East-West Differences and Their Origins by Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, Ludger Wößmann

“…Never before has such an unexpected introduction and abolition of a communist regime occured on the territory of a previously and subsequently united country. …”
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A Critique on the Book History of Iranian Studies in Russia by Abbas Panahi

“…Given that the book The History of Iranian Studies in Russia is one of the most recent works in the field of Iranian studies in Russia, the author was expected to critique the achievements of Russian Iranologists with an analytical approach; especially for the fact that, during the communist era, the Russians attached special importance to Iranian studies in line with the plans and policies of the ruling Soviet party. …”
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The effectiveness of coercive measures in motivating vaccination: Evidence from China during the COVID-19 pandemic by Yue Guan

“…Moreover, members of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, as well as individuals favouring Western vaccines unavailable in China, were more likely to cite coercive mobilisation as the reason for their vaccination. …”
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A. A. ZINOVIEV ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOVIET MANAGERIAL ELITE by E. M. Amelina

“…The paper identifies the main characteristics of the Brezhnev and Gorbachev management elite, as a privileged stratum cut off from the people, who have lost faith in communist ideals and are ready for capitalist transformation. …”
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Research on Multiparty Payment Technology Based on Blockchain and Smart Contract Mechanism by Yanjun Zhang

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Življenje kralja Petra II. Karađorđevića po drugi svetovni vojni v luči ohranjenih britanskih dokumentov by Blaž Torkar

“…During his first years in exile, he drew attention to the fact that a communist dictatorship had taken over in Yugoslavia, hoping that there would be a change in power and that he would return home. …”
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The history of an Indonesian asylee in the Soviet Union / Russian Federation: Sartoyo, 30 years without citizenship (1966–1997) by A.I. Danial

“…However, a coup attempt on September 30 – October 1, 1965, which was considered to be planned by the Indonesian Communist Party, changed his fate. This tragedy had a major influence on Sartoyo’s life. …”
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„Miasto nigdy się nie kończy…”. Mroczne oblicze miasta w prozie Herty Müller by Estera Głuszko-Boczoń

“…This article also explores the aesthetics of ugliness which affects the understanding of the role of cities in Herta Müllerʼs prose, and analyzes important urban symbols such as asphalt, apartment blocks, parks and the flora and fauna characteristic of communist cities. In many of Müllerʼs texts, cities form a dramatic backdrop for acts of violence and repression against ‘the Stranger’ – for instance, the German minority, the Roma community, and women. …”
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The Renewal of the Twenty Years in Theater: Revisions Based on The Danton Case by Stanisława Przybyszewska from 2008 by Katarzyna Fazan

“…This makes it possible to bring to the fore not the monumental theater of Leon Schiller, built on Polish Romanticism as a continuation of the freedom tradition, but on a program of rejected – both in the 1930s and during the communist period – leftist ideas, important for socio-cultural progress. …”
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CATHOLIC POLITICAL DOCTRINE DURING THE WORLD WARS by G. T. Sardaryan

“…Moreover, it was precisely because of the emergence of the communist threat that the Catholic Church perceived a number of authoritarian regimes in the early years of their existence as subjects that could be oriented toward a less hostile direction of development. …”
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INTERNATIONALIZATION OF CONFLICT AS A CHALLENGE TO PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA by ANTHONY IMEH UMOH, BARINAADAA NWINKOL

“…It blames the Cold War rivalry between the capitalist United States and the communist USSR as it were, where attempt by the African allies to delink from either of the ideologies to favour the other, always led to intervention by these powerful nations. …”
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Gina Pane and Krzysztof Jung: Queer Love in European Performance Art of the 1970s by Paweł LESZKOWICZ

“…Gina Pane is a well-known star of European body art of the 1970s; Krzysztof Jung as a Polish artist from the former communist Eastern Block almost disappeared from mainstream art history. …”
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Formation of National Identity in Slovakia by M. V. Vedernikov

“…For the Czech Republic, anti-communism became a basis, while in Slovakia there was no complete denial of the communist past. In many respects, this affected the perception of the USSR and Russia as its successor.…”
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Searching for the grey zone in Slovak sci-fi literature during the normalisation period by Olha Norba

“…It connects the emergence and expansion of this grey zone to the gradual ideological erosion of the communist system during the late normalisation period. …”
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Modernization of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army by A. M. Belyaev, F. F. Sharipov, M. A. Dyakonova

“…In order to turn the Chinese Armed Forces into a world-class army by 2049, the centenary of the founding of the state, the Chinese authorities are making efforts to qualitatively upgrade all branches of the armed forces in accordance with the course of the Communist Party of China in the field of military construction and the instructions of President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping on strengthening the army in the new era. …”
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Red Sports Culture Integrated into Ideological and Political Education in Colleges and Universities Value Characteristics and Implementation Path by Feifei Liu, Rongde Liu, Xiaoying Huang, Changxin Luo, Zuwei Mi

“…Findings: Red sports culture refers to the sports and cultural activities led by the Communist Party of China. Red sports culture has gone through three stages: germination, basic establishment and further growth. …”
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Higher education and science in the Republic of Albania: Cooperation with the French Republic, state and perspectives by Topalović Milica

“…The work covers a wide field of origin, development, but also the current state of higher education and science in the Republic of Albania. In all post-communist countries, higher education is a mirror of the entire society and the political-economic state of the country, and in Albania, too, a long evolutionary process of turmoil between conservative and more liberal higher education policies can be observed, which resulted in a decline in the quality of education and scientific research. …”
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Constructing Change or Status Quo. An Analysis of Transitivity Choices in Polish Newspaper Headlines by Anna Łazuka-Banach

“…To do that it takes the popular analytical tool of transitivity taken from Halliday’s systemic-functional grammar to examine particular configurations of process types as employed by three Polish daily newspapers: Trybuna Ludu [People’s Tribune] - the official voice of the communist authorities, Trybuna [Tribune] - Trybuna Ludu’s ideological successor, and Gazeta Wyborcza [Electoral Newspaper] - the opposition’s newspaper. …”
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