The periodical Aesthetic Review was published during the 1930’s by the Aesthetic Department of the Hungarian Psychological Society and contains essays, publications written by Hungarian and foreign authors in the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, literature, theatre, music and fine arts.
More..."Ost-Probleme" was founded in 1948 as a biweekly newsletter and a kind of digest, offering texts, extracts or complete articles from (mostly) Eastern European newspapers and periodicals translated into German. When the content seemed to be of remarkable importance for the Western readership, other sources were used as well. During its first years of appearance, "Ost-Probleme" was published by the Embassy of the United States of America in Bonn (USIS, Press Division), the American High Commissionar for Germany. Later-on the editorship turned into the publishing house "Wissenschaft und Politik" (Bonn). It's obvious, that this newsletter in the cold war era played a very special role in the information policy about the European countries which were under communist rule, and the transition from poor information to an instrument of propaganda might be sometimes smooth. But exactly because of its role as such an instrument of information policy in the 50’s and 60’s, "Ost-Probleme" is an interesting source serving as a kind o protocol of the Western perception of the communist world. CEEOL will create digital reproductions of all the issues, which are still available to us and offer them to our library users.
Remarks:
1) in the summaries of many dossiers original titles of articles are often quoted in Latin transcription. We therefore use the transcription as we find it in the printed originals of "Ost-Probleme"
2) The Editorial Notes ("Redaktionelle Notizen") of each issue, which provide more detailed information about the special focus of can be downloaded free of charge. You find it in the list of articles always as "Cover - Content - Editorial"
3) Since the digitization of the "Ost-Prbleme" has been made based on originals, which we have received as a donantion by Prof. Iring Fetscher in Frankfurt am Main, some of the pages may contain some underscores or marks made by Prof. Fetscher. We forbeared from cleaning these notes beause, due to the quality of the paper, cleaning the original would have destroyed the pages, and cleaning the scans would need an incommensurable input of time.
More...The Praxis journal was published by a group of praxis theoreticians, mainly from Zagreb University. It was published in two editions: Yugoslav and foreign. The first issue of the Yugoslav edition was published on 1 September 1964 and was published until 1974. As for the foreign edition, it was published between 1965 and 1973. Its founders were Branko Bošnjak, Danko Grlić, Milan Kangrga, Rudi Supek, Gajo Petrović, Predrag Vranicki, Danilo Pejović and Ivan Kuvačić. The first editors of the journal were Petrović and Pejović, but in 1966 Pejović resigned from Praxis. After that, Supek was the co-editor of the journal together with Petrović. In January 1974 Supek also resigned and was replaced by Kuvačić as the co-editor of Praxis (Souce:Wikipedia)
More...»Gegenstimmen« was founded in 1980 by a "Socialist Committee« in Vienna - a goup of leftist intellectuals with rather Maoist than Moscow-related sympathies. In a standard text included in many issues opf the journal the editors are introducing themselves in the following way:
»More and more Socialists and Marxists in the West are taking a stand against the suppression of democratic freedoms in Eastern European countries. The labor movement has the same international responsibility in this area as in supporting anti-imperialist struggles in the Third World. A socialist strategy in the West must be one with the anti-bureaucratic struggles in the East. The Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eyes of many. Therefore, we can not leave reporting on these countries and solidarity with the democratic and socialist opposition to the bourgeois media.«
CEEOL has re-digitized the journal (as far as issues were available), because we consider this specific point of view on Central and Eastern European Communism as a significant element of the contemporary approach to the reality in this part of Europe.
Keywords: European agricultural market; USA-imperialism; Franz Joseph Strauss; Gernot Erler; Heinz Hoffmann; Julius Balkow; Bruno Leuschner;
More...Keywords: Society for German-Soviet Friendship; Willi Richter; despotism in Greece; Salazar-dictatorship; message N. S. Khrushchev to J. F. Kennedy;
More...Keywords: Soviet aide-mémoire; Franz Joseph Strauss; West-German Association of Victims of Nazism; U.N. disarmament committee,; J. S. Konev; Cuba;
More...Keywords: 7th German Peasants’ Congress; Leipzig Spring Fair; Robert F. Kennedy in Berlin (West);
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