The Role of the Military-Political Elite of Egypt in the Struggle for National Independence in the Post-World War II Period (1945-1952) by I. E. Ibragimov

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The Politics of Voice in Duke Ellington’s Beggar’s Holiday (1946) by James O’Leary

“…By analyzing a number of recordings of Beggar’s Holiday’s opening song, “In Between,” I demonstrate that Ellington and Latouche simultaneously invoked and undermined this aesthetic dichotomy to make an intervention into post-World War II left-wing political debates.…”
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When Ethnic Identity is a Private Matter by Kjell Olsen

“…This article analyses the change of articulation of ethnic boundaries on the coastline and the fjord areas in Finnmark, Northern Norway in the post-World War II period. From being a ‘social stigma’ in the 1950s a Sámi identity is today something that can be expressed in certain cultural constructed spaces. …”
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Quand le mieux est l’ennemi du bien : David Ross Brower, la militance environnementaliste et la prospérité matérielle by Jean-Daniel Collomb

“…This article addresses the vulnerability of American environmentalist discourse during the post-World War II boom: while the growing success of the environmental movement in the United States can largely be attributed to an unprecedentedly large distribution of material wealth after 1945, many environmentalists had warned Americans against the negative effects of economic growth and mass consumption. …”
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Experts on the defensive: The Tsiganologue versus Romani activism (1959-1973) by Begoña Barrera López

“… This article discusses the figure of the Tsiganalogue, the expert on the “Tsigane question,” in post-World War II France. Specifically, it analyses the role played by one of these experts in the police persecution of Roma ethnic activism during the 1960s and early 1970s. …”
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Innenentwicklung in ländlichen Räumen zwischen Planungsideal und Akteurinteressen: Der Einfluss von sozialen Aspekten by Jennifer Gerend, Marina Beck

“…The results of a survey were assigned to four spatially coded settlement types: historic town centres, post-World-War II settlement types, settlements from the 1980s and 1990s, and new developments after 2000. …”
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Toward a Methodology of Spatial Neighborhood Evaluation to Uncover the “Invisible Spaces” in Neighborhoods Built Through State Initiatives Between 1945 and 1980 by Hadas Shadar, Dalit Shach-Pinsly

“…This article examines the ideological and spatial characteristics of neighborhoods built through the initiative of various states, particularly in Europe, in the post-World War II years, from 1945 to 1980. We argue that despite these neighborhoods being older and subject to economic, professional, and ideological criticism, they feature beneficial physical spaces that came to light, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Soviet View of the World. Exploring Long-Term Visual Patterns in “Novosti dnia” Newsreel Journal (1945-1992) by Mila Oiva, Tillmann Ohm, Ksenia Mukhina, Mar Canet Solà, Maximilian Schich

“…Studies in Soviet visual culture have recognized both continuities of repeating patterns and changes in the post-World War II period. This understanding is based primarily on temporally limited source selections, while a more systematic study of the developments in Soviet visual culture over a longer period is pending. …”
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Une histoire oubliée : la genèse française du terme « film noir » dans les années 1930 et ses implications transnationales by Thomas Pillard

“…In the 1990s, North American and British scholars started to re-evaluate film noir and show that this genre was not exclusive to American cinema: in fact, Charles O’Brien revealed that the label “film noir” had first been used in France before the war to describe a group of French films that are more or less the same ones we now identify as “poetic realism”; he then went on to refer to a new tendency in post-World-War-II Hollywood cinema. However, his work has, for the most part, gone unrecognized in France, where film noir is still seen as purely American. …”
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Soviet Diplomatic Efforts to Prevent Hungary’s Alignment with Germany in World War II (1939– 1941) by V. F. Pryakhin

“…Hungary, as strategized by Budapest, hoped to secure a position among these observers, avoiding direct conflict participation, and to later engage in territorial reconfiguration post-World War II. However, the reality in Europe by the early 1940s diverged significantly, with Western powers (the USA and Great Britain) unable to redirect Hitler's global domination ambitions eastward. …”
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Zwischen Sprechen und Singen. ›Performative Formgebung‹ in den Chansons von Edmund Nick und Erich Kästner aus der Münchner Schaubude by Daniel Ernst

“…For example, the chansons that were performed at Munich’s post World War II cabaret venue Die Schaubude are not only documents of historical value, they are also well-suited for the study of the reciprocal influence of performance and score. …”
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Ideas of Multipolarity in the Conceptual Frame of the Soviet Diplomacy during the Final Phases of the Great Patriotic war (1943–1945) by I. E. Magadeev

“…Tarle), who have garnered relatively less scholarly attention.Of paramount interest is the manner in which Litvinov and Maisky envisaged the post-World War II international landscape, albeit without explicitly employing the term "multipolarity." …”
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