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The task in hand, then, is to explain the political transformations of contemporary Europe during this period of eighty years. Being unable to deal with the whole movement of European civilization within the period, I have purposely confined myself to the political history. I have avoided all social phenomena that have had no direct effect on political life: art, science, literature, religion, private manners, and customs. I have sought chiefly to make clear the formation, composition, tactics, and policies of the parties, as being the capital facts determining the fate of institutions. But I have not thought it possible to limit political history to an account of strictly political events and institutions. Aiming above all to explain the phenomena by showing how they are connected with each other, I have reserved room for some non-political facts: local administration, the army, the church, the schools, the press, political theories, economic systems—in all cases in which they have reacted on political life. (extract from Preface)
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The task in hand, then, is to explain the political transformations of contemporary Europe during this period of eighty years. Being unable to deal with the whole movement of European civilization within the period, I have purposely confined myself to the political history. I have avoided all social phenomena that have had no direct effect on political life: art, science, literature, religion, private manners, and customs. I have sought chiefly to make clear the formation, composition, tactics, and policies of the parties, as being the capital facts determining the fate of institutions. But I have not thought it possible to limit political history to an account of strictly political events and institutions. Aiming above all to explain the phenomena by showing how they are connected with each other, I have reserved room for some non-political facts: local administration, the army, the church, the schools, the press, political theories, economic systems—in all cases in which they have reacted on political life. (extract from Preface)
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The Booklet published by the political party SZDSZ in 1991 comprises three speeches of SZDSZ-deputies in the Hungarian Parliament regarding the problems of compensation (of property that has been expropriated during Communism), of privatization (by giving security papers to the citizens)
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Creating the conditions for improving the quality of life of the population by developing an economically competitive society, based on knowledge, capable of sustainable economic growth, jobs and high social cohesion is the fundamental objective of the National Development Strategy for 2008 -2011 (SND) of the Republic of Moldova. However, the problems of poverty continue to persist both nationally and globally, prompting experts in the field to investigate the causes and mechanisms that favor this condition in order to reduce the risks of social exclusion. // PUBLISHED BY UNDP (MOLDOVA), UNIFEM UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR WOMEN, NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS (MOLDOVA)
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The PDF-document is a copy of the 1916 print in German FRAKTURA - useful for readers only who are able to read this FRAKTURA font. Published in 1916 by G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Berlin
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If it were to my heart, I would begin this book with the words: It is untrue that Albania is a country full of robbers and dangers, ruled by an operetta king under the lictor's ax of the mighty Mediterranean, that it looks somehow like those Caucasian principalities that American film-kitsch wants to make us believe as the setting for the ever popular court intrigues. It is untrue that the Skipetarian population is divided into two classes, the urban proletariat of the intelligentsia, and all the rest of the rest, who scowl like astrologers in illustrated advertisements and handle the rifle with habitual determination. It is also untrue that forests and swamps are literally teeming with rare game, which European travel hunters, who are immortalized in the picture with their slain lions, could offer a welcome and easy change. So much is untrue that is being spread about this strange country and that is being used in Western ideas. TRUE IS MUCH MORE ... (this, the author is offering in his book)
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Extract from the issue 1/1938 of the journal Znanost i život
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Published in 1995 by EDITURA FUNDAȚIEI CULTURALE ROMÂNE, BUCUREȘTI
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This book contains only some of the speeches, articles and statements by Lazar Koliševski published in his first book in the Macedonian language (which has seen three editions). Despite this limitation, we believe that the reader will become well acquainted with the historical past of the Macedonian people, the Yugoslav policy on the national question and the Yugoslav views on relations with its neighbouring countries. All this, it is hoped, may contribute to a better understanding of the present-day Yugoslav reality. (the editorial introduction)
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From 1924 to 1926, the Soviet government, or more precisely the Cheka, detained me, a foreigner, not guilty of any crime, in various places of detention, and finally deported me to the concentration camp. of Solovetzk for a period of three years, without prior judgment and in force by a simple decision of the Gué-Pé-Ou, in other words the Cheka. // My experiences in Soviet Russia are so implausible, because of the cruelty and cynicism shown towards me, that I have found it useful to add to this book the copy of certain documents extracted correspondence concerning my "case" and exchanged between the Consulate of Finland and the Public Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. Unfortunately, I am currently unable to publish in full the many documents relating to the talks between the Finnish government and the Soviet government regarding my arrest and release. But the few pieces that I have found opportune to publish amply confirm the veracity of my account. I would like to draw the reader's attention to the fact that in the course of the following account I have changed the surnames of the people I have mentioned, as well as certain circumstances, but only in cases where I do so. I deemed it necessary for the safety of these people, who are still alive and who are in a territory where they would risk being reached by the Gué-Pé-Ou, in other words the Tcheka. (from Author’s introduction) - DIGITIZED COPY OF THE 1928 EDITION OF «EDITIONS JULES TALLANDIER», Paris
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published by: J. H.W.DIETZ NACHFOLGER, BERLIN //When Friedrich FG Kleinwächter says in his far too little read, very informative book “The Downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy” that Europe knew more about Japan and India than about the South Slavic countries of the Habsburg Empire, the South-Slavic world still today is not in the bright midday light of being known. // In Germany, too, there is often an almost encyclopedic ignorance about the southern Slavs, although they come across our tribal territory on a broad front and one day they will also be our border neighbors in the state; Gone are the days when a Jakob Grimm, an Alexander v. Humboldt, a Leopold v. Ranke were eager to gain an understanding of South Slavic matters. // This regrettable fact - more regrettable for us than for the southern Slavs - justifies the summary and publication of treatises which, whether they have been in "Society" or "Wage", Viennese, workers' Newspaper ”,“ Frankfurter Zeitung ”or“ Prager Presse ”have appeared, are based on knowledge of the subject, strive to penetrate the subject matter and are carried by the will to objectivity. (the author)
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One part of these speeches comes from the activity in a small Lutheran village in Transylvania, which hangs on the last terrace of the Transylvanian southern Alps, right at the foot of the highest mountain giants ... But the rest arose during a six-month winter trip through the United States, on which the author visited his emigrated ethnic and religious comrades. It contains the fruits of the moment, which saw the light of day in workshops and factories, on the street, steamships and railways, at best in an inn... Their purpose was to let life speak to life. (O Wittstock) – THE ORIGINAL IS PRINTED IN GERMAN FRAKTURY TYPESET. READERS SHOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH THOSE CHARACTERS. 1927 published in second edition (1st in 1914) by »Honterus Buchdruckerei« in Hermannstadt (Sibiu)
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in 1943 the "Feldluftgau-Kommano XXX" dept. "Wehrbetreuung" of the German Wehrmacht occupying Serbia published this City-Guide for German Soldiers in Belgrade.
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Precisely because there is so much to say about the political processes in the Danube region and on the Balkan Peninsula today, this book does not aim to prove, but to make it understandable. It only wants to illustrate the tragedy of a development that knows no guilt and no mistakes - but a fate; which postponed a South Slav unification at the same time as the Italian and German unification took place; which lay in the fact that the completed German unification had to pass the postponed unification of the southern Slavs, determined by closer, immediate concerns, strive for new goals and new ties. - No politics should be pursued with facts, but rather an actual course should be reproduced, which eluded the waking consciousness of historiography under the force of advancing events.
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