371 research outputs found
Alexandr Berndorf - author of my region
No full textTéma této bakalářské práce nese název Alexandr Berndorf autor mého regionu. Práce je rozdělena do několika částí. První kapitola se zabývá životem tohoto spisovatele a vychází z autorova vlastnoručně psaného životopisu a životopisné studie napsané Zdeňkem Papešem. Dále si práce všímá části beletristické tvorby Alexandra Berndorfa a jeho vztahu k rodnému kraji. Hlavním cílem práce je představit tohoto dnes již nepříliš známého autora a připomenout jeho přínos nepomuckému regionu.ObhájenoThe topic of this Bachelor thesis is Alexandr Berndorf an author from my native region. The work itself is divided into several parts. The first chapter maps the life of this writer and is based on his own autobiography as well as a biographic study written by Zdeněk Papeš. Furthermore, the thesis focuses on Berndorf's prose and his relationship with his birth land. Overall, its main goal is to introduce this almost forgotten author and to remind everybody of his contribution to the Nepomuk region
Alexandr Sukorov’s passıng world
No full textThe author of this article concentrates his attention on the films directed by Alexandr Sokurov, a distinguished contemporary Russian filmmaker. Syska describes the political and aesthetical background of Sokurov’s works, underlying their key motifs: melancholy, nostalgia, reminiscences, decay of physical world, memories and time. The author mentions autobiographical components of Sokurov’s screenplays, describes his childhood defined by eternal displacement of his family, as well as the adultness - with political troubles caused by anti-communism attitude and close friendship with Tarkovsky. Syska analyzes the literary context of Sokurov’s films, cultural paradigm, religious character of film narration and theme of carnal sacrifice. All of them allow him to describe the human as someone who is deeply devoted to the internal world of memories, nostalgia, passing time and intimate relationship with dying parents
Olga Velikanova, Popular Perceptions of Soviet Politics in the 1920s: Disenchantment of the Dreamers, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
No full textBook review - Olga Velikanova, Popular Perceptions of Soviet Politics in the 1920s: Disenchantment of the Dreamers, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 201
Anul 1924. Justificând separatismul: înființarea RASS Moldovenească și istoria politică în Republica Moldovenească Nistreană
No full textThe Year 1924. Justifying Separatism: the Establishment of the Moldovan ASSR and History Politics in the Transnistrian Moldovan Republi
Istoricheskaia politika v nepriznannyh respublikah Pridnestrov’ia i Donbassa v postsovetskom kontekste
No full textThe Role of the European Politics of Memory in the State Historical Politics of Moldova and Ukraine in the 2000s
No full textEuropean integration has become the key declared geopolitical orientation of Ukraine and Moldova in the 2000s. Rapprochement with the EU implies not only the demand for political and economic reforms, but also compliance with “European values,” which include, among other things, the European politics of memory. However, two largely contradictory tendencies have emerged in the European politics of memory. The first is based on the creation of elements of a pan-European historical narrative and the commemoration of the Holocaust, implying the responsibility of all Europeans for this tragedy. The second tendency, which has emerged recently, implies the condemnation of totalitarian regimes and focuses on the suffering of their own people. In their movement towards the European Union, Ukrainian and Moldovan politicians were faced with the need to comply with and the opportunity to use, at first, only the first tendency, and since about 2009 - with the coexistence of both. The article provides a comparative analysis of the role played by the two designated tendencies of the pan-European politics of memory in the state historical policy in Ukraine and Moldova. The formation of two contradictory directions in the European politics of memory created room for maneuver for the leadership of countries that declared European integration their geopolitical goal. In general, the European politics of memory became one of the sources of legitimization of political regimes in Ukraine and Moldova in the eyes of European institutions and, at the same time, an instrument of internal political struggle. The authorities of Ukraine and Moldova tried to cover up their failures in the sphere of political and economic reforms with ritual commemoration of the Holocaust. In turn, in the context of ambiguous attitudes towards the Soviet past in Ukraine and Moldova, European condemnation of totalitarian regimes became a convenient instrument for internal political battles. The goals and scale of anti-communist campaigns in both countries are different, but in both cases, European decisions serve as one of the ways to legitimize the “memory wars”. Instead of serving as a unifying factor, as it was originally intended, the European politics of memory often became one of the elements stimulating internal conflicts in Ukraine and Moldova
Los "Suvenires del meldar" de Alexandr Ben-Guiat
Full text linkThe present paper offers the edition of a Judeo-Spanish text describing certain aspects of the meldar -the Jewish religious elementary school- in late nineteenth-century Smyrne. The author of the text presents in an ironic fashion a number of amusing situations and anecdotes which he himself had experienced as a boy during his schooldays. The work provides us with important data of a socio-historical interest that broadens our knowledge of education within Sephardic communities in the Eastern Mediterranean world
A Tangle of Memory::The Eternitate Memorial Complex in Chişinău and History Politics in Moldova
No full textBuilt on up-to-date field material, this edited volume suggests an anthropological approach to the palimpsest-like milieus of Wrocław, Lviv, Chernivtsi, and Chişinău. In these East-Central European borderline cities, the legacies of Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, and violent ethno-nationalism have been revisited in recent decades in search of profound moral reckoning and in response to the challenges posed by the (post-)transitional period. Present shapes and contents of these urban settings derive from combinations of fragmented material environments, cultural continuities and political ruptures, present-day heritage industries and collective memories about the contentious past, expressive architectural forms and less conspicuous meaning-making activities of human actors. In other words, they evolve from perpetual tensions between choices of the past and the burden of the past
Internationalist Separatism and the Political Use of “Historical Statehood” in the Unrecognized Republics of Transnistria and Donbass
No full textThe article offers an analysis of historical politics and political use of the “historical statehood” concept in the unrecognized republics of Transnistria and Donbass. It traces the use of the “historical statehood” by the Transnistrian and Donbass separatist leaders for legitimizing their cause, in their political struggle and expansionist pursuits, and in the appeals to the population of territories under the control of the central governments. A specific strategy of self-legitimization and self-representation, emphasizing multiethnicity and declarative rejection of ethnic nationalism, influences the way these separatist regimes employ historical politics and instrumentalize their “historical statehood.” I suggest naming this approach “internationalist separatism.
Overlapping Spaces::Negotiating and Delineating the Ukrainian–Moldovan Border during the Interwar and Wartime Years
No full textThe history of Ukrainian-Moldovan border-making in the interwar years is linked primarily to the so-called Bessarabian question. That question related to questions of state belonging as well as to competition for the territory between the Prut and Dniester Rivers and the delineation of the overlapping Ukrainian and Moldovan ethnolinguistic and imaginary spaces within the Soviet framework. During the interwar years, this territory was also a source of tension between rival political projects, most notably the Romanian national and Soviet ones. Importantly, the role of the riverside region on the left bank of the Dniester (Transnistria/Pridnestrov’e) in the struggle over the borderlands..
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