Vladimir Colin și basmul militant (II) by Cătălin Sturza

“…“The Second Colin”, who will be distinguished in the 1970s with some prestigious international literary awards, never cuts himself loose from Vladimir Colin – the Communist ideologist of the 1950s. Although they are not devoid of some aesthetic merit, these stories are lacking depth and fail to transpose the reader into the fairy tale universe.…”
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Venezia dei bassifondi: la città dei marginali, della classe operaia e del pittoresco popolare by Alessandro Casellato

“…It shows how concepts such as “tradition” and “local identity” have been contended and used by different political subjects (the Catholic Church and the Socialist Party in the first two decades of the 20th century, the nazional-fascismo between the two world wars, the Communist Party and again the Catholic Church after World War II).…”
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Juozas Jurginis in 1961 was criticized by Moscow by Arūnas Vyšniauskas

“… This study discusses the secret Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) on 16 August 1961. …”
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Usages du « genre » à l’Université : sur l’institutionnalisation des études féministes en Roumanie by Ioana Cîrstocea

“…Providing a brief overview of the feminist studies’ institutionalization in 1990s Romania, the paper analyses the context of this process, closely connected to some opportunities coming from the NGOs’ action and generally from the transnational programs promoting women’s rights within the democratization of the ex-communist countries. Various uses of gender are then reviewed. …”
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G. Călinescu la Universitate şi la Academia Română. Precizări şi adăugiri (II) by Pavel Ţugui

“…In 1949, he was sent away by the communist authorities, although he still was an employee on the paylist of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, until 1952. …”
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G. Călinescu la Universitate şi la Academia Română – precizări şi adăugiri – (I) by Pavel Țugui

“…In 1949, he was sent away by the communist authorities, although he still was on the paylist of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, until 1952. …”
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Sergei Eisenstein in the Proletkult by Biggart John, Bulgakowa Oksana

“…During these years the Agitprop Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, at Lenin’s behest, was taking steps to reduce the scope of activities of the Proletkult, discredit Bogdanov as a thinker, and exclude him from politics.…”
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The Identity Dilemmas Of The Romanian Writer In Exile And The Scriptural-Identitary Formula Of The Diarist Self – Gabriela Melinescu, „Jurnalul Suedez” / „The Swedish Journal”... by Simona Antofi

“…While trying to adapt to exile in Sweden and carrying with her the trauma of the communist dictatorship in Romania, the writer employs the mechanisms by which the journal creates successive illusions of the real so as to seek refuge from the illusive multicultural reality into a compensating search for the self.…”
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Da Lotta continua alla religione civile. La memoria di Peppino Impastato nelle storie di quattro militanti by Matteo Di Figlia

“…To do so, we will follow the biographical paths of four militants of Lotta continua, the political group in which Impastato was active until 1976, which was part of the vast and complex world of the Italian left outside the Communist Party. In particular, the focus will be on the way in which the public mourning for Impastato has been interlinked with the stratification of public discourse on the mafia and with the public rites linked to other victims of Sicilian organized crime.…”
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Mujeres militantes en el movimiento de Derechos Humanos de Argentina. El caso Tucumán by Rubén Isidoro Kotler

“…This paper aims to analyze some characteristics of de Human Right movement of Tucumán (Argentina) stressing the militancy of women in those organizations, based on the testimonies of: Laura Figueroa, Lawyer of Human Right causes and former Lawyer at the “Asociación de Abogados por los derechos humanos”, an organization that have a short but an intense participation on de movement at the first transition years to the democracy; Sara Mrad, the main leader of “Madres de Plaza de Mayo” in Tucumán since 1981 until now; Ángela Nassif, Historical leader of Communist Revolutionary Party in Tucumán and one of de “Asamblea por los Derechos Humanos” founder’s in this province in 1984, and finally Josefina Centurión, activist in H.I.J.O.S. …”
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Kay Boyle and Richard Wright, 1948-1960: A “Friendship Forever” in “a difficult time” by Toru KIUCHI

“…In the 1950s, when they were both suspected to be Communist sympathizers, Boyle and Wright—who kept in touch thanks to the editor Edward Aswell— never failed in supporting each other.…”
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REPERTOIRE OF CINEMAS AND AUDIENCE PREFERENCES IN THE ERA OF "STAGNATION" by M. Kosinova

“…In particular, the strengthening of censorship in the era of stagnation leads to the fact that the vast majority of directors "breaks" under the weight of the system and continues to work by inertia - in the space of canonical Communist ideas and the Soviet conception of life. …”
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Finding a Mentor and Being a Mentor by László Bruszt

“…In this short piece I first describe how I could find a mentor for myself in communist Hungary, and how he, and later also a second mentor, have helped me to position myself in a transnational scholarly field. …”
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Soviets et salaires : les sardinières dans la grève de Douarnenez (novembre 1924-janvier 1925) by Théo Bernard

“…Mobilizing 2200 workers, the strike lasted seven weeks and challenged, for a brief period, the power and authority of the bosses, the state and even the Communist militants at the head of the Douarnenez town hall and in the position of union intermediaries in the strike. …”
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El discurso anarquista en dos documentales sobre la Segunda República y la Guerra Civil realizados durante la Transición by Jaime Céspedes

“…The author studies these documentaries in their historical and ideological context and analyses their analogies and their differences in the light of their common aim: to oppose both to the Francoist version of the recent History of Spain and to the Communist version of this History.…”
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Neglected Questions on the “Forgotten War”: South Korea and the United States on the Eve of the Korean War by Mark Caprio

“…They strengthened calls for close vigilance lest the communist state launch a second surprise, unprovoked attack against its southern neighbor. …”
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La mémoire de la participation des Espagnols à la Résistance française : une construction difficile by Miguel Sans

“…The memory of the Spanish resistance is still impregnated with these polemics: every political family, and more particularly the anarchists and the communists, wants to make recognize its greater participation. …”
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The Concise History of the Theological Journal “Polonia Sacra” by Henryk Sławiński

“…However, because the communist government in Poland expelled the Theological Faculty from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and allowed only that the theology might be taught at the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw, the journal “Polonia Sacra” was published for a very short time in Warsaw. …”
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La guerre au-delà des langues : ex-Yougoslavie (1991-1999) et Tadjikistan (1992-1997) by Ksenija Djordjević Léonard

“…The wars in former Yugoslavia, on the one hand, and in Tadjikistan, on the other hand, were among the most dramatic conflicts at the end of the 20th Century, following the collapse of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. …”
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THE FRENCH STANCE TOWARDS THE POLISH PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC FROM THE ELECTION OF FRANÇOIS MITTERRAND TO THE LIFTING OF MARTIAL LAW AS ASSESSED BY POLISH DIPLOMATS by Mateusz Piotr GANCEWSKI

“…It evaluates the reactions of the French state and the Socialist Party, the French Communist Party, and the French public opinion. The French state – adhering to the political principles of Charles de Gaulle – was faced with a real conundrum: what policy to pursue when it came to the Polish crisis? …”
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