Techniques laitières domestiques et conception du monde microbien laitier en Mongolie by Sandrine Ruhlmann

“…The analysis of dairy technology allows to draw the shape of a Mongolian conception of the bacterial world of dairy products which, in the post-communist context of democratization and globalization, consists of an art of composition between different systems, notably Buddhism, shamanism, hygienic communism, and international sanitary standardization.…”
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Web 2.0 et la politique au féminin en Roumanie postcommuniste by Daniela Roventa-Frumusani, Alexandra Irimescu

“…Starting from the hypothesis of a legitimacy deficit for women in the post-communist Romanian public space, the authors seek to determine whether, since the fall of communism (1990) and with the emergence of new campaign tools (social networks), women politicians opt to “do politics differently” or, on the contrary, adopt the same approaches and strategies as their male counterparts (play the “boys’ game”). …”
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El modelo soviético en los años 1930: los viajes de María Teresa León y Rafael Alberti a Moscú by Allison Taillot

“…This process coincided with the progression of communism among the members of a community of intellectuals dominated by the «Generation of ’27». …”
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“Come and find your (love) story”. by Sabina Owsianowska

“…In connection with broader economic, social and cultural changes after the collapse of communism, tourism promotion acted in multiple ways; among them, modification of the decades-rooted image of the region – and particular countries – may be considered the key function. …”
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La Public Diplomacy : de John F. Kennedy à Tony Blair by Vanessa Leclercq

“…This article emphasizes the critical role of public diplomacy in the fight against communism as well as the way the British authorities resorted to this concept almost forty years later to offer public opinion abroad a more modern and efficient image of the UK. …”
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De la porte de Brandebourg à La Havane : Wilder, Hitchcock et l’héritage révolutionnaire by Julie Michot

“…The aim of this essay is to study the devices used by both whether in their script or filming, to illustrate their vision of capitalism and communism. The two directors did criticize the revolutionary heritage—but in the midst of the Cold War, they also took an unsupportive attitude towards the proposed model of their adopted country.…”
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Crime in a Changing Society: Evidence from Romania by Simona Ilie

“… The study examines five sub-periods to analyze the characteristics of criminality in the decades following the fall of communism. It considers literature-identified risks associated with criminal activity (low level of employment, high-income inequalities), and significant changes of various nature during this time (accession to the EU, financial, political, or migrant crisis, the COVID pandemic). …”
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Constrained Choices: How Bosnian Communists Lost Their Party Before Losing the Elections by Muharemović Ensar

“…The case of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1990 demonstrates that slow, indecisive, and gradual policymaking during the transformational period from communism to democracy could have disastrous consequences for the electoral chances of the incumbent communist parties.…”
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L’anticommunisme, l’autre moteur de Jean-Marie Le Pen by Adrian Thomas

“…Retrospectives on Jean-Marie Le Pen highlight his most infamous statements, but almost systematically overlook a central aspect of his commitment: anti-communism. This is crucial because it is a cardinal point of the far right, inseparable from the global struggle to preserve a white Western civilization. …”
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Aspecte ale „înregimentării asumate” de scriitori în presa comunistă din perioada 1949–1965 by Doina Matei Marcu

“…After the first years of Communism, to remain present in the cultural world of Romanian literature, they write obediently, following the guidelines of socialist realism. …”
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« Si vous votez la loi d’exclusion aujourd’hui, c’est vous qui serez exclus demain » by Bilel Kchouk

“…As in the case of the fall of communism, we defend the idea of an enlargement of the political elite space allowing newcomers to cohabit with former political elites. …”
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Lay persons in catechesis. Experience and challenges in the case of Slovenia by Tadej Stegu

“…Unlike in most other countries, religious education did not return to public schools in Slovenia after the fall of communism. The Catholic Church intensively introduced and developed catechesis in parishes. …”
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The Public Image of Soviet Science During Franco’s Spain by Ruiz-Castell Pedro

“…After years of exploiting anti-Communism to enhance political stability, many Spaniards became suspicious of the Soviets and were convinced of the threat that their political ideology represented. …”
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A History of “Who Speaks for Islam?” in Bosnia-Herzegovina: An Official Versus Popular Islam Debate by Hüsrev Tabak

“…This paper examines the organisation of popular and official Islam during and after communism in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Through studying the interaction between the popular and the official forms of Islam in the historical context, this paper unfolds the debate on who speaks for Islam? …”
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De quelle nostalgie l’utopie andalouse d’Aragon est-elle le miroir ? by Stéphane Baquey

“…Thus, in Le Fou d’Elsa, the strategy of allusive speech allows shifts which re-qualify the status of utopia and nostalgia in a speech unleashed form orthodox communism. This nostalgia of what could have happened, being dislocated in the culture of the Muslim worlds, also leads to reconceive the claims of a universalism which would not take into account as a prerequisite a principle of hospitality.…”
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Florina Ilis by Cristina Balinte

“…The Romanian Literature published after the year 2000 is especially characterized by the emergence of a new generation of writers, most of them born and educated during the last decades of communism. As a consequence of cultural openness manifested in the 90’s, a fruitful period of takeovers of world literature thought a large amount of translations, they managed to win the international literary market by adopting the writing style of influence and success in the West, and – a very important detail – by adapting the content of their daily literary readings at the local realities. …”
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The concept of the "eternal left" by Ernst Nolte by Dostanić Dušan

“…The text then enumerates the key characteristics of the "eternal left" as understood by Nolte, that is, points out its origin and consequences. Since the fall of communism cannot be considered the final defeat of the "eternal left", the author tries to show that Nolte's understanding is still relevant in our time and that his description of the "eternal left" has not lost its importance.…”
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« Penser base-ball » by Peter Marquis

“…A weapon against “juvenile delinquency” and communism, baseball was thought to shape the minds of future citizens and to convey the values the country embraced in its post-1945 reconstruction years. …”
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Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetics of Commitment: the Modern Stigmata of Bereavement by Béatrice DUCHATEAU

“…To counter this void, like many others at the time, MacDiarmid found refuge in communism and nationalism and started to write political and idealist poetry. …”
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Cultural changes in the late modern period: Understanding the transition from materialistic to post-materialistic values by Vitezović Ivan

“…It started in the 1970s, continued during the 1980s (being further stimulated by social changes such as: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the emergence of the neoliberal capitalist paradigm at the global level) and continues even in the current age of intense globalization. , networking of society, increased competitiveness on the labor market, etc. …”
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