Passive Resistance. Notes for a more complete understanding of the resistance practices of the rural population during the Franco dictatorship by Ana Cabana Iglesia

“…The dictatorship established by General Franco in Spain after the Civil War (1936-1939) sought to de-mobilize the entire population and, particularly, to achieve the full passivity of the rural population. …”
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Lebanon: An Ordinary “Consociational Democracy” in the Regional Context by A. V. Sarabiev

“…The stability of a country that has passed through a long civil war makes it stand out from a number of states in the region. …”
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Постреволюционная действительность глазами „маленького человека”. Мемуарная проза Вениамина Корсака... by Antoni Bortnowski

“…Veniamin Korsak is a writer who represents the Russian literature of the first wave of emigration and is known primarily through a series of five autobiographical no- vels presenting the story of a simple man who went into German captivity during World War I and then returned to Russia, which was overwhelmed by civil war. Korsak’s works are a testimony of a “little man”, looking at reality through the prism of ordinary everyday affairs, instinctively trying to survive in the historical turmoil. …”
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La primera obra de temática migratoria en el teatro mexicano : Los que vuelven, de Juan Bustillo Oro by Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora

“…The Teatro de Ahora  (1932) was created by Juan Bustillo Oro and Mauricio Magdaleno with the purpose of putting on stage the socio-political issues that affected Mexico after the civil war period called the Mexican Revolution. These two authors wrote and produced plays that have become classics of engaged theatre. …”
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Feministas por la paz. La prédica contra la guerra y militarismo en los albores del feminismo rioplatense by Gisela Manzoni

“…She dealt specially with the civil war in Uruguay. At the same time, the paper aspires to contribute to the characterization of this publication which, despite its importance, has been little studied in a systematical mode or as a cultural object.…”
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African American Womanhood: A Study of Women’s Life Writings (1861-1910s) by Élise Vallier

“…Drawing on their correspondence, diaries, and autobiographies, this article explores these women’s economic circumstances, their views on men, marriage, their roles as women, wives, and mothers, and the condition of being a woman of color between 1861 and the late 1910s—a period of dramatic change in the history of the United States, particularly regarding the question of women’s rights. Covering the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, and up to the beginning of World War I, this work examines the way these women expressed their self-identities.…”
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Украина начала XX века глазами Константина Паустов- ского by Antoni Bortnowski

“…In his autobiography Story of a life Paustovsky presents a very interesting view of Ukraine at the beginning of the 20th century and during the Russian Civil War. The author of this article analyzes Paustovsky’s perception of Ukraine and tries to give an answer to the question of how a descendant of Zaporozhian Cossacks and Polish intellectuals could become a Russian patriot.…”
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Человеческая жизнь на фоне временного пространства. Романы М.А. Осоргина „Свидетель истории” и „Книга о концах”... by Antoni Murawski

“…The writer tries to explain the sense of socialistic movement in Russia and it’s consequence – the revolution and the civil war 1917–1919. According to the point of view of Osorgin, the catastrophe, which happened to his country, is a part of the natural evolution of the universe. …”
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«En busca de un submarino». Crónica a bordo del buque insignia del exilio republicano en Argentina: el Massilia by Bárbara Ortuño Martínez

“…This article analyses the travel chronicle on board the Massilia of Constantino del Esla, journalist and correspondent in the Spanish Civil War, that was published as chapters in November 1939 by the Argentinian journal La Nación. …”
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Les arènes espagnoles sous le franquisme : un espace de « contre-pouvoir » ? by Justine Guitard

“…Traumatised by the fratricidal civil war, people retreated into themselves, tight-lipped and fearful. …”
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Les autres pirates des Caraïbes : transtextualités transatlantiques chez Michel Séligny (1807-1867), écrivain créole de la Nouvelle-Orléans by Clint Bruce

“…In pre-Civil War Louisiana, texts denouncing slavery were extremely rare, largely because of laws limiting freedom of expression on the topic. …”
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Madrid en los años treinta. Ambiente social, político, cultural y religioso / Madrid in the 1930´s. Social, political, cultural and religious situation by Julio Montero, Javier Cervera Gil

“…Intellectuals and cultural life together with the new political class and the Press stirred up a whirlwind which absorbed all of the city dwellers regardless of class or background sometimes in spite of themselves. The Civil War worsened these problems in a city which was at once a battle front and a rear guard.…”
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El eco de las batallas: música y guerra en el bando nacional durante la contienda civil española (1936-1939) by Igor Contreras Zubillaga

“…This article, based on several unpublished archive sources, analyzes three works composed during the Spanish Civil War, closely related to the nationalist faction, whose theme revolves precisely around the war: Nemesio Otaño’s anthem ¡Franco!…”
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Within small things. Reflections on techno-social boundaries between prehistory and recent past during a Lebanese fieldwork by Johnny Samuele Baldi

“…But from the very beginning this research has also tried to investigate with purely archaeological means the remains of the recent past of the village, especially the pithoi used in the 19th-20th centuries for food storage, and the ruins left by violent clashes that took place in Qleiaat at the end of the Lebanese civil war. Through a reflection on the possibility of reconstructing physical frontiers starting from the archaeology of fossil techniques, this paper applies to a recent case-study an approach used until now only for prehistoric material culture. …”
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Généalogie et usages sociaux de quatre lieux urbains paysagers à Beyrouth by Racha El-Dirani Chebbo

“…Beirut is a city that has suffered civil war starting in 1975 and lasting for 15 years, plus an Israeli invasion in 1982. …”
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De l’image avant toute chose : mémoires et mythes pour les Espagnes en exil de 1939 by José María Naharro-Calderón

“…The study of some graphic, essayistic, filmic, photographic, odonymic and/or museographic traces around plural 1939 Civil War Spain and its 1939 exiled shifts in France, as historical and memory amalgams fed by the transmission of diverse testimonies and imaginaries, represent other sources in order to redefine myths, between supra-European aspirations of peaceful identity agreed at the end of the 20th century, and national fears about globalization, regionalization, multiculturalism, Islamism and / or migratory pressures in the 21st century, particularly, when scrutinized through concentration practices, derived from the incapability of reconciling freedom and security.…”
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La sémantique des noms : taxinomie djihadiste et imaginaire médiéval by Enki Baptiste

“…In the context of the Syrian civil war, the reinvestment of apocalyptic literature allows the terrorist organization’s state project to be supported, despite its pitfalls. …”
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Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: Memoirs of Julian by S. P. Rosenbaum

“…This article publishes and comments on the memoirs of Julian Bell that Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell wrote shortly after he was killed in the Spanish Civil War. All of Vanessa Bell’s memoir and more than half of Woolf’s are included for the first time. …”
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La forja de Isidro Gomá como adalid del antirrepublicanismo en la Iglesia de España (1927-1933) by Roberto Ceamanos Llorens

“…Gomá, the archbishop of Toledo (1933-1940), is one of foremost personalities studied by Spanish Civil War historians, because of the backing he gave to the rebels. …”
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Die rol van die NGK-leierskap in die aanloop tot die eerste demokratiese verkiesing in Suid-Afrika: 1990-1994 by Johan M. van der Merwe

“…By doing so, the leadership of the church, which became known for the Biblical foundation of the notorious policy of apartheid, played an important role while South Africa was on the brink of civil war. Their efforts contributed to a peaceful first democratic election in 1994. …”
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