The outline of Levas Vladimirovas' professional career by Genovaitė Raguotienė

“…The essential part of Levas Vladimirovas' life and his entire scientific and teaching career is closely linked with Vilnius University. After World War II, he lectured on Marxism-Leninism (1948), the history of the book, and library science (1951). …”
Get full text

Peace through Institutions: Woodrow Wilson and the Paris Peace Conference by Burak Küntay

“…Post-WWI, Wilson’s fight with Congress and the U.S. not entering into the League of Nations resembles rifts between U.S. administrations and their Congresses in recent times, and it arguably indirectly contributed to the occurrence of the World War II. As U.S. public opinion once again begins favoring non-interventionism amidst volatility overseas, a critical approach to WWI history and its discourse invites salient questions about today’s international order…”
Get full text

O szabrze (glosa porządkująca rozważania językoznawcze) / On szaber (a Gloss on the Linguistic Considerations) by Jarosław Pacuła

“…The word szaber became particularly popular in Polish during World War II. Its provenance is not entirely clear; the source of the word’s meaning in post-war Polish is also not obvious. …”
Get full text

Fur Processing in Raižiai in the 20th Century: Craft and Image by Jonas Mardosa

“…Such attitude was appreciated by the customers and the quality of the work ensured the demand for the craft. After World War II, the situation had changed. First of all, private business was forbid­ den, therefore, fur craftsmen had to work illegally; they received bans from the authorities, and even fines were imposed. …”
Get full text

War and negotiations. How Vietnam defeated the American Colossus by A. M. Vasiliev

“…Over the course of the prolonged US war in Vietnam, the bloodiest one after World War II, it became obvious that there was no alternative to a negotiation process. …”
Get full text

Sudeten: Erinnerung reinterpretiert by Jan Pacholski

“…The obelisk, placed at the corner of today’s Kościuszki and Daszyńskiego streets in Kłodzko, originally commemorated Friedrich Wilhelm von Götzen, a Prussian general and hero of the Napo­ leonic Wars. After World War II, this monument was reinterpreted; Borussian symbols were removed from it, including the emblematic eagle taking flight and the visage of von Götzen himself, and replaced with a hammer and sickle and a red star. …”
Get full text

The 1945 World Order – Process with «Open» Continuation by V. T. Yungblud

“…The Yalta-Potsdam system of international relations, established by culmination of World War II, was created to maintain the security and cooperation of states in the post-war world. …”
Get full text

The narrative of the «Northern Territories» in the socio-political discourse of contemporary Japan by D. V. Streltsov

“…Of particular importance from the point of view of the emotional effect on public consciousness are the theses that the Southern Kurils are the “ancestral territory of Japan,” that the USSR committed aggressive and unfair actions against Japan during World War II, and modern Russia did not correct them, and that the Japanese natives of the Southern Kurils experience enormous moral suffering, not having the opportunity to freely visit the graves of their ancestors. …”
Get full text

Philosophy and Sociology Studies by S. A. Kravchenko, A. V. Shestopal

“…Frantsev made a great contribution to the restoration of Russian social and political science after World War II. After graduating from MGIMO, he worked at the Foreign Ministry of USSR, and then served as a rector of the Academy of Social Sciences and chief-editor of the journal "Problems of Peace and Socialism" in Prague. …”
Get full text

Local Self-Governments in Hungary: Recent Changes through Central European Lenses by Csaba Lentner, Szilard Hegedus

“… This article provides an overview of the regulatory environment of the Hungarian system of local self-government based on the methods of legal dynamics and economic analyses in a historical perspective tracing events back to the aftermath of World War II. The starting point of the analysis is 1947, the launching of soviet type command economy in Hungary. …”
Get full text

Analysis of anthropogenic transformation of the hydrographic network in the northern part of Lviv according to cartographic sources by Ye. Іvanov, O. Pylypovych

“…After that, the number of mills steadily decreased: at the beginning of the 19th century ‒ nine; in the second half of the 19th century ‒ seven; in the interwar period – five. After the World War II, the operation of all water mills was stopped. …”
Get full text

MBI-KG: A knowledge graph of structured and linked economic research data extracted from the 1937 book “Die Maschinen-Industrie im Deutschen Reich”MADATA by Renat Shigapov, Thomas Schmidt, Jan Kamlah, Irene Schumm, Jochen Streb, Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer

“…This historical source offers data on German companies within the mechanical engineering industry during the pre-World War II era.The book was digitized, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) was applied to extract text. …”
Get full text

The die is cast: Sweden and Finland’s long road to NATO by E. V. Korunova

“…The first section considers the formation of the non-aligned strategies of Finland and Sweden in the aftermath of World War II, which took the form of the so-called Paasikivi-Kekkonen and Unden doctrines, respectively. …”
Get full text

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." …”
Get full text

East Central Europe in the Federalist-Regional Concepts of the Polish Emigrants of the Second Half ofthe 20th century by Barbara Stankevič

“…The developments of World War II and post-war periods conditioned a half-century-long dualistic division of Europe into the democratic West and the Communist East, which left a deep imprint in the world historiography. …”
Get full text

Dyskryminacja dzieci pozamałżeńskich w ustawodawstwie cywilnym w Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej i próby jej przezwyciężenia w projektach kodyfikacyjnych by Leonard Górnicki

“…Work on the second reading of the drafts was not completed until the outbreak of World War II.…”
Get full text

Systemic Crisis in the US-Turkish Relations Under the Presidency of D. Trump by A. A. Davydov

“…To answer this question, the study is divided into two parts.The first part analyzes the evolution of American approaches to Turkey in US foreign policy, the implementation of these approaches since the end of World War II till nowadays. On the basis of a system-historical approach, the author analyses the evolution the Turkey’s strategic positioning in the US foreign policy strategy and the transformation of political, economic and military relations between the two states since the moment of their institutionalization. …”
Get full text

Evaluation for an Open Society: Then and Now by Robert Picciotto

“…In this troubled context, policy making has become more complex than when evaluation emerged out of the ashes of World War II. Economic and social dysfunctions have led to extraordinary concentration of wealth and privilege.  …”
Get full text

Italy and the history of preventive conservation by Simon Lambert

“…After a brief look at the history of preventive conservation from Antiquity to the Second World War, two seldom-discussed Italian initiatives are presented: The Franceschini Commission (1964) and the Pilot plan for the programmed conservation of cultural heritage in Umbria (1976).…”
Get full text

L’économie politique de l’Asie : état des lieux et perspectives de recherche pour l’Asie du Sud-Est by Pierre Alary, Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux

“…Asian and Southeast Asian countries have recorded deep socioeconomic transformations since World War 2. These main transformations are: introduction of capitalist regimes; high growth rates, urbanisation and demographic weight. …”
Get full text