TO EMPTY THE SEA WITH A THIMBLE: READERLY EXPLOITS, DISCOVERIES AND LOSSES by Piotr Nowak

“…It appears that we are still trying to compensate for these years of communist dry spell. The avalanche of attention-worthy books keeps growing, bursting into our already well-stocked bookshelves, in direct proportion, it seems, to the growing crisis of literacy and rising inflation of education. …”
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« Ici, pas de politique » by Alfredo Mignini

“…This article deals with Otello Palmieri’s atypical life trajectory: after taking part to the Resistance war as a member of the Italian communist party and reaching Prague as a political refugee in 1949-53, as soon as he arrived in Switzerland he dismissed all political activity, although his interest in Italian political affairs remained acute. …”
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Le droit du travail et les migrants ruraux : instituer un nouveau salariat en Chine by Muriel Périsse

“…Then the labour law, clearly instrumentalised by the Communist Party and supporting its social stability project, appears to be at the hart of the process of institutionalisation of the new Chinese migrant working class.…”
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Quels discours sur les crimes nazis dans la chronique judiciaire ouest‑allemande des années 1950 ? Le procès du camp du Stutthof à Bochum en 1955 vu par la presse locale et régiona... by Nathalie Le Bouëdec

“…The overall lack of criticism and perspective on the trial (with the notable exception of the communist press) is certainly striking. Nevertheless, the newspapers provided a lot of information on the fate of the prisoners and the extermination of the Jews and confronted their readers with the testimonies of the victims and the atrocities committed in the Stutthof. …”
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Rotonda Mihail Sebastian (MLR, 1975) 30 de ani de la moarte by Lucian Chișu

“…During the communist period, literary history recorded its main events through the writing of experts in the field. …”
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Felix Aderca – scriitorul sub vremuri by Mihaela Iancu

“…His creative effort proved to be unceasing throughout his fifty-year-long career, despite the unfavourable historical times in which he lived: being a Jew, he had to pass through a period of antisemitic policy immediately before and during World War II and he also experienced probably the most aggressive years of the communist regime in Romania under the rule of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. …”
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"Janus" Puzzle: a Case of Creative Application of Marxist Theory in the Soviet Lithuanian Historiography? by Aurimas Švedas

“…Resting on distinctions suggested by A. Bumblauskas (Communist pragmatism, Stalinism - Leninism, Marxism), the analysis regards this study as an effort to dissociate from the Stalinism-Leninism. …”
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L’engagement des femmes entre émancipations et dominations. Le cas de radio Lorraine Cœur d’Acier, Longwy, 1979-1980 by Ingrid Hayes

“…Some of the women involved were members of communist groups (both the CGT and the PCF) ; others shared a cultural background and a militant history that had emerged in the wake of 1968. …”
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Karakats: the Bricolage of Hybrid Vehicles that Skate and Swim by Patrick Laviolette, Alla Sirotina

“…The region of study was part of the Soviet Union so the phenomenon of self-assembled vehicles implies socialist and communist considerations. Local people are still surrounded by the material legacy of that time. …”
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Anders Breivik et le « marxisme culturel » : Etats-Unis/Europe by Jérôme Jamin

“…At the origin, and at the core of its e-book released a few hours before the attacks, we first discover an abounding literature that is born in the United States right after the collapse of communist regimes. This literature is at war with « multiculturalism », « cultural Marxism » and the « political correctness » seen as an ideology; it will cross the ocean during the nineties thanks to the Internet; and will finish its trip in a vast European blogosphere full of conspiracy theories on the « islamization » of the world. …”
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Srbija na istorijskoj prekretnici 1944: slom monarhista i pobeda komunističkih snaga by Nemanja Dević

“…The Allies’ decision to support the communist side influenced the outcome of the years-long civil war and enabled the communists to take over the state. …”
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CHINA THREAT THEORY: A CULTURAL INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE MASS MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 19TH CONGRESS by Mert Çetin, Hakan Cavlak

“…This study examines skepticism of the Western societies towards China’sgrowth which manifests itself on the Western mass media coverage of the ChineseCommunist Party’s 19th congress based on cultural-institutional approach. …”
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Dictaduras Militares y Tradiciones Obreras en Argentina y Brasil by Paula Andrea Lenguita, Marco Aurelio Santana

“…From the comparative approach adopted, we consider the contributions made ​​to the academic literature in this period hinge Latin American labor struggle and we analyze the continuities and ruptures that imposed repressive context to working class traditions: peronist, class, communist and cutista (Unified Workers´ Central Brazil). …”
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The linguistic expression of power in political addresses of Polish prime ministers from 1945 to 2019 (quantitative analysis) by Citlak Amadeusz, Kozioł Pamela

“…The concept of power provided a consistent explanation of the captured quantitative differences in the addresses: first, differences in language from the communist era and independent Poland after 1989; second, differences in language from the periods of breakthroughs in the country’s history (martial law, overthrow of communism, accession to NATO and the EU); third, in the addresses of the prime ministers representing different parties and political ideologies (Civic Platform and Law and Justice).…”
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Anatema capitalismului în presa românească din anii 1949–1950 – campanii – by Lucian Chişu

“…Starting with 1949, the publications in our country are being enslaved by the party propaganda, the authoritarian (communist) model shading its influence over the freedom of speech, broken by the iron hand of the political leadership. …”
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Tălmăcitori în „Graiul Nou” by Carmen Brăgaru

“…Their texts as well as the poems, songs or folklore pieces carefully selected from different areas of the Soviet Bloc needed gifted Romanian translators dedicated to the communist cause. Most of them were young, of the Bessarabian or Jewish origins, knowing the Russian language more or less, and they were sincerely involved in the russification process which had just begun on the Romanian territory. …”
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A «new society will come»: C.L.R. James in American Civilisation by Matteo Battistini

“…A Caribbean communist, historian of the black and Pan-Africanist movements, C.L.R. …”
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Irene Joliot-Curie, une féministe engagée ? by Louis-Pascal Jacquemond

“…She believed in the communist and soviet model despite some hesitations and disillusions.…”
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Robots poètes chez Stanisław Lem : réflexions sur la nécessaire étrangeté de la langue littéraire en contexte soviétique by Sylvia Chassaing

“…Finally, stylistic strangeness is therefore also the trace of the constraints under which texts were written in post-war communist Poland, as much as of the strategies that Lem found to circumvent them.…”
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Guerre, guerre civile, guerre révolutionnaire : la violence en héritage dans l'Italie républicaine, 1945-1980 by Virgile Cirefice, Grégoire Le Quang

“…During the 1960s and 1970s, anti-communist rhetorics and the resurgence of antifascism also contributed to dramatizing political oppositions, until the season of terror that culminated in the late 1970s. …”
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