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This paper focuses on the musical analysis of Veress’s orchestral composition, Threnos. Written in 1945 and dedicated to the memory of Bartók, it is a one-movement work, divided into three independent internal sections, each of them representing an orchestral gradation. Being a threnody, Veress inserts two folk-like funeral laments, which are the composer’s melodic inventions, in the style of folk music. Veress, the ethnomusicologist and composer presents the bartókian principle of how to capture the ethos of folk music in its structure, melody, harmony, and rhythm, and how to express it in such a modern and innovative way, that a completely new quality is born from it.
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Urodziłem się w sobotę, 3 lutego 1934, chyba po południu, na etnicznych ziemiach polskich, we wsi Dylągówka, powiat Dynów, około 30 kilometrów na południowy wschód od Rzeszowa, gdzie moi rodzice byli nauczycielami, a ojciec dodatkowo dyrektorem szkoły. W mojej metryce chrztu widnieje informacja, że urodziłem się w rodzinnej miejscowości mojej matki – Turce, która leży na etnicznych ziemiach ukraińskich (bojkowskich), ale zrobiono to po to, abym wydawał się bardziej ukraiński. W akcie etnobójstwa, praktykowanym powszechnie przez rząd polski w tamtych czasach, moi rodzice – każde z nich osobno, bo się wtedy nie znali i poznali dopiero w Dylągówce – zostali wysłani jako nauczyciele do Polski, aby nie zarażali ukraińskich dzieci ukraińskim patriotyzmem. Zachodnia Ukraina, skąd pochodziliśmy, była wtedy pod polskim panowaniem.
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Review of: Špela Chomicki, Atletika – kraljica športa na Ptuju: zgodovinski razvoj med letoma 1908 in 2022, Pokrajinski muzej Ptuj - Ormož, Ptuj 2022 [e-edition], 226 pp.
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Mainly, the refugees from the region of Macedonia are organized in legal organizations, with the most massive and influential ones among the public being those in the Kingdom of Bulgaria, the USA and Canada. With the beginning of the Second World War, their activity began to be activated, and a rise in the national spirit was noticed. Here we will see the opinion and positions of these Bulgarians from Macedonia expressed through their societies and organizations for solving the Macedonian question, i.e. about the fate of the region of Macedonia.
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The publication is a critical review of the book „Отпретани сведоштва. Воjнички писма од Големата воjна 1914 – 1918“ [Torn Testimonies. Soldier’s letters from the Great War 1914 – 1918], published in Skopje, 2008. The analysis carried out shows that it is not a monograph, as claimed by the team that worked on it, but it cannot be accepted as a scientific documentary collection either. It has been argued that the subtitle “soldier letters from the Great War 1914 –1918” is scientifically unsustainable and does not correspond to the chronological scope and content of a significant part of the documents contained in the presented documentary collection. The paper reflects a number of weaknesses, inaccuracies, misread texts; the non scientific understanding of what a document is, adopted by the publishing team,as well as the distorted anti-Bulgarian interpretation of the very first published document. Reasonable suspicion of manipulative selection was also expressed – due to lack of information – on 12 documents from the presented collection. In conclusion, it is stated that the book can be perceived as a non-scientific propaganda publication with an anti-Bulgarian bias.
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Essay by Mădălin Bunoiu - "Why Is It Impossible, If It Is Possible?"/ Essay by Vladimir Tismăneanu - "Retro-spects"
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The “St. Cyril and Methodius ” National Library celebrated the 110th anniversary of the Balkan War with a photo documentary exhibition. Authentic documents and photographs from the Library‘s holdings were shown.The “St. Cyril and Methodius ” National Library celebrated the 110th anniversary of the Balkan War with a photo documentary exhibition. Authentic documents and photographs from the Library‘s holdings were shown.
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The Râmnicu Sărat penitentiary, now abandoned, is a space with a long biography, starting at the end of the 19th century, linked since its beginnings to the repressive political actions of the Romanian state; a space whose dark reputation it is nowadays associated especially with the repression of the communist period, as one of the main detention centres that formed the Romanian gulag. After the fall of the communist regime in Romania in 1989, the former penitentiary was the subject of numerous memoirs written by former political prisoners incarcerated at Râmnicu Sărat, as well as subject of interest for historians, becoming one of the most important “places of memory” of communist political repression, hence the intention to be transformed in the near future into a memorial museum. Despite this interest, the knowledge about the former political prison in Râmnicu Sărat (but not only) has remained an abstract one, informed by the descriptions of former political prisoners and, eventually, the archival documents. The former political prison was reduced to a simple stage for the events that took place within its walls, the only ones considered to be relevant, its materiality being completely ignored. In order to contribute to the improvement of this situation, between May 11-19, 2021, we carried out archaeological research in the former penitentiary in Râmnicu Sărat. In the present text, a narrative composed of fragments and not a linear one, we present a series of preliminary archaeological reflections generated by this first encounter with the former prison – reflections on the bodily perception of the various prison spaces; materiality and time; the role of materiality in the construction of specific prison experiences; the layers of memory contained in the buildings; the relationship between written memory (e.g. memoirs, documents) and material memory; ruination and vegetation; as well as the relationship between the materiality of the prison and the wider urban landscape. Thus, we hope to go beyond the historical discourses about the Râmnicu Sărat penitenciary and begin to understand what the former prison means.
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The article discusses the little-known episode of Maria Konopnicka’s biography, namely her stay in Wisla in Cieszyn Silesia. Around the poet’s stay in Wisla many myths and misunderstanings have arisen over the years, which in the light of correspondence and archival material found were subject to verification. Maria Konopnicka’s literary work and letters to her family partially explain the myster of her stay in the Beskids, and the recreated realities of the summer village which was just beginning to develop, shed new light on the possible frequent visits of the poet to Wisla.
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Review of: Anna Węgrzyniak, W świecie, który wciąż się rozpada. Lektury prozy XX i XXI wieku, Wydawnictwo Naukowe ATH, Bielsko-Biała 2019, ss. 215.
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The following text essentially reproduces a lecture that the author gave on September 26, 1979 at the branch office of the German Society for Eastern European Studies in Bonn and which expanded and updated a report that was published on October 19, 1978 in the "Working Group for Eastern West issues of the Foreign Office had been discussed. A third version of its content was presented on January 15, 1980 at the Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg; only in this last version, which is taken into account here, could the Iranian-Afghan double crisis be included in the consideration. The autumn of 1979 remains the starting point for the historical review of American-Soviet relations.
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The paper reconstructs the actions of the Serbian Government of National Salvation in the field of the organization of the propaganda in the occupied Serbia during WWII. The occupation authorities intended to achieve the tightly controlled management of the national authorities’ propaganda through the Serbian Propaganda Department of the Ministerial Council Presidency. The Government of National Salvation made a great effort in the field of supervising publications, film screenings and radiophonic shows. The main points of activity of national authorities in the field of radio propaganda were subordinated to German interests. The concept of radio propaganda was analyzed, as well as the German organization of the propaganda censorship apparatus and its influence on the work of the Serbian Propaganda Department in the field of radio propaganda. The content of the radio program and the activities of Radio Belgrade under German occupation were analyzed together with the example of the activities of the collaborationist authorities in the field of radio propaganda.
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The study of the Yugoslav‐Belgian relations during the Second World War aims to present the position of two de‐estated emigrant apparatuses under the auspices of the British diplomacy through a comparative analysis, starting from short‐term war operations and the evacuation of two structures abroad, the issue of gold reserves and the royal issue, to the political, military and material aspect of the given relations in the later war period. The parallel consideration of the Yugoslav and Belgian experience in dealing with the interests of the United Kingdom tends to demystify the stereotypes already established regarding the international position of the Yugoslav Government in exile.
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The paper publishes archival material – verdicts of the Military Court of the People’s Liberation Army, which operated in the area of southeastern Srem in 1944. The verdicts were handed down in criminal proceedings against eighteen Serbs, natives of Srem, who were accused of collaborating with the „Chetnik movement of Draža Mihailović”. The documents are stored in the Historical Archive of Belgrade. They have not been originally published until now, and therefore, their content brings new light to contemporary historiography, which dispels the prevailing opinion that eastern Srem was strongly partisan. At the same time, the content of the original archival material opens up a dilemma in the field of legal science: were the decisions of the Military Court justifed and fair? The objective of the paper is to deepen knowledge from the history of the development of military justice, as well as knowledge regarding specific events during 1944 in the part of the occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia – southeastern Srem.
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In the last days of the Second World War, in the moments when the final operations for the liberation of Yugoslavia were coming to an end, and the outlines of the future Cold War and post‐war alliances were becoming clearer, the need to establish a peacetime armed force was imposed in front of the Yugoslav General Staff. An important segment in the establishment of the future armed forces was the organization and work methods of the military intelligence service. Previous war experiences, mostly based on the legacy of guerrilla military operations conducted by the partisan movement during the liberation and civil wars, could only be partially used in the process of peacetime formation of the military intelligence service. That is why it was necessary to create a new model that involved relying on national experiences, primarily the intelligence services of the Army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the Second World War and the experience of the allied armies, especially the Soviet Red Army in the war conflict that was coming to an end. The study on the organization of the postwar military intelligence service with emphasis on the organization, scope of work and personnel of the Intelligence Department of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army was prepared by Colonel Frane Biočić. Colonel Biočić’s report contained the burden of the ideological and geopolitical environment in which it was written. Written near the end of the war in the conditions of the absolute triumph of the partisan movement under the leadership of the communists over the occupying, Quisling and rival anti‐fascist forces in the liberation and civil war, it contained the undisguised glorification of the partisan war heritage, as well as the negation of the value of the experiences of the pre‐war Yugoslav intelligence service, whose professional value was not only denied, but was already declared absolutely unusable due to open accusations against the professionalism and patriotism of its officers and associates. On the other hand, absolutely in accordance with the policy of close wartime alliance with the Red Army and projected post‐war cooperation, harmonization with the Soviet intelligence model was forced, reliance on the Soviet war experiences, the Soviet assistance in training and education of intelligence personnel was requested, and close cooperation along military intelligence lines was planned between the Yugoslav and Soviet General Staff.
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