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Review of: Minu elu ja armastus. Eesti rahva elulood. Kahes köites. Koostajad Rutt Hinrikus ja Tiina Ann Kirss. Tallinn–Tartu: Tänapäev, Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum, 2018. 487 + 536 lk.
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Review of: Minu elu ja armastus. Eesti rahva elulood. Kahes köites. Koostajad Rutt Hinrikus ja Tiina Ann Kirss. Tallinn–Tartu: Tänapäev, Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum, 2018. 487 + 536 lk.
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Review of: Jaan Tõnissoni kirjad Oskar Kallasele 1891–1936. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2018. 407 lk.
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This article focuses on Paweł Pawlikowski’s 2013 film Ida, analysing how the formal and aesthetic aspects question silent witnesses about the difficult past using pictures as a useful testifier. In the context of Poland’s national memory, its current political discourse and the Polish-Jewish relations during World War II, Ida offers a significant contribution. The process of scrutinising this difficult past becomes a journey, a troublesome event when a remembrance must be constructed and experienced. The film journey offers a possibility to get back to this period of time and encourages us to pose certain questions: how do sites of memory remain with us through cinematographic or photographic representations? How can we define this physical and mental landscape of the journey as being a fragile memory? Drawing on Carlo Ginzburg’s index paradigm, the author proceeds to reflect upon the traumatic events of the Holocaust in the Polish landscape through two important photographic moments related to cinema.
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Twenty years ago, Olga Racoviță (1915-2009), descendant of important aristocratic families (Suțu, Cantacuzino, Lahovary) and niece of the great conservative politician Petre P. Carp, former prime minister of Romania, gave an interwiev about her life story. Sevastia Cantacuzino-Carp, the maternal grand mother whose remembrance shone brightly in Olga’s memory, raised the little girl because the father was killed on the battlefield during the Great War (1916) and the mother was involved in a new marriage. The Carp manor at Țibănești (Iași County), place of a happy childhood, is nostalgically evoked, recalling the special atmosphere of this aristocratic residence in good times and also after the devastations that followed the entrance of the Soviet Army in Romania. Historical places like Miclăușeni castle, ennobled once before by aristocratic characters, became intertwined in Olga Racoviță’s memories with dramas that followed the year 1948 when her life turned into an endless fight for survival, her mind being focused only at her descendants and their future. The victory over the past was the result obtained by Olga Racoviță at the sunset of her life.
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The memoirs of Witold Hubert, a non-commissioned officer from the destroyer ORP “Wicher,” were written down in 1970. They cover three days of combat in September 1939. The account has never been published before. It supplements in an important way the existing knowledge on the engagements of the Polish Navy in the Polish campaign of 1939. The publication of the memoirs reminds readers of the tragic days of September 1939 and the figure of Witold Hubert.
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The article deals with the problem of institutional mechanics and willingness for acquisition of the Nazi worldview in the Kriegsmarine. In the centre of the reflections remains a crucial question: how the indoctrination process in the German navy took place during the time after 1935. Furthermore, the organisational interactions between the NSDAP and the Kriegsmarine are analysed, as well as motives and limits of the Party’s endeavours to ideologically impact the attitudes and views of the sailors. How this development of indoctrination efforts was carried out and what results it brought is described on the basis of the Nazi pseudo–pedagogic concept of “military spiritual leadership” (wehrgeistige Führung). As part of the measures to preserve its “state within the state” status, the navy, especially during World War II, began to systematically Nazify itself in a paradoxical aim to show Adolf Hitler that it was not necessary to put an end to its traditional independence. In order to prevent the “coordination” (Gleichschaltung) from above, the Kriegsmarine engaged itself more and more in a process of self–indoctrination. The text is an outline of the subject matter.
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Review of: Aivar Kull. August Gailit. Lahtiste allikate poole. (Eesti kirjanikke.) Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2022. 400 lk.
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Review of: Nehrudin Rebihić: Bošnjačka poezija 20. i 21. stoljeća, Zavod za kulturu sandžačkih Bošnjaka u Republici Srbiji, Novi Pazar, 2020.
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În perioada interbelică, s-a manifestat în rândul intelectualilor români ardeleni un interes constant pentru studierea literaturii maghiare și a relațiilor culturale și literare româno-maghiare. În cadrul acestei generații de intelectuali, proeminentă este personalitatea lui Ion Chinezu, critic literar important, autorul primei sinteze de referință despre literatura maghiară din Transilvania, Aspecte din literatura maghiară din Transilvania (1919-1929), publicată la Cluj, în 1930, carte care, datorită valorii sale documentare și exegetice, s-a bucurat de un ecou important în presa de limbă maghiară, fiind considerată cea mai semnificativă și sistematică analiză a literaturii maghiare ardelene din primul deceniu de după Unirea din 1918.
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Contemporary discourse on gender equality in the mass media focuses primarily on analysing news programmes, TV series and advertisements. However, films also constitute powerful cultural stimuli, capable of modifying the attitudes and behaviour of both audiences and the society as a whole. The strength and longevity of their impact lie in their deep roots in the culture in which they operate. For cinematic representations of women and men, this process implies the need to constantly refer to a certain stock of conventions, cultural stereotypes and ways of thinking about gender present in the mentality and social structures of a given community. The same applies to images of women in power in film, which on the one hand are determined by cultural patterns attributed to each gender, while on the other they themselves contribute to their perpetuation in the social consciousness, at the same time creating social images of relations between gender and power in political and economic life. The article discusses this phenomenon in relation to selected Polish films after 1989. The paper will analyse how the roles and behavioural patterns attributed to women were (re)defined in the (changing) public sphere and what the position of characters representing these characteristics was in the narrative of the films.
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Region Bliskiego Wschodu w historii ludzkości odgrywał istotne znaczenie geopolityczne i geoekonomiczne. Wynikało to z jego położenia geograficznego, co powodowało, że stanowił swego rodzaju „pomost” w handlu łączącym Europę z Azją i Afryką. Współcześnie jednym z kluczowym aspektów są znajdujące się na tych obszarach znaczące złoża ropy naftowej, a także zbiegające się interesy geopolityczne mocarstw regionalnych i globalnych. Doprowadziło to do sytuacji, że region ten stał się jednym z kluczowych obszarów geopolitycznych i geoekonomicznych we współczesnej polityce międzynarodowej. Historycznie w tym regionie dominowały państwa o reżimie autorytarnym lub monarchicznym. Pod koniec 2010 i na początku 2011 r. doszło jednak do masowych wystąpień w szeregu krajów regionu. Protestująca ludność dążyła do poprawy swojej sytuacji politycznej i socjoekonomicznej, a wystąpienia nazwane zostały później Arabką Wiosną. Arabska Wiosna zmieniła krajobraz polityczny regionu, co dotyczyło zwłaszcza reżimów w Egipcie, Libii, Tunezji i Jemenie. Przemiany w krajach arabskich miały szereg skutków politycznych, społeczno-ekonomicznych i geostrategicznych. Sytuacja w poszczególnych państwach jest nierozerwalnie związana z polityką regionalną i globalną. Kluczowe są tu uwarunkowania geopolityczne i geoekonomiczne, uwzględniając role globalnych i lokalnych graczy, tj. Stanów Zjednoczonych, Chin, Rosji, Turcji, Izraela, Iranu czy Arabii Saudyjskiej. Arabska Wiosna nasiliła geopolityczną rywalizację i rozprzestrzeniła ją na Syrię. W artykule podjęto się próby charakterystyki definicji pojęć geopolityki oraz geoekonomii. Celem głównym było przedstawienie przeobrażeń geopolitycznych oraz geoekonomicznych w regionie Bliskiego Wschodu po wydarzeniach Arabskiej Wiosny z 2011 r. [The Middle East region has played an important geopolitical and geoeconomic role throughout human history. This was due to its geographic location, which made it a kind of „bridge” in trade connecting Europe with Asia and Africa. Nowadays, one of the key aspects is the significant oil deposits located in these areas, as well as the converging geopolitical interests of regional and global powers. This has led to the region becoming one of the key geopolitical and geo-economic areas in modern international politics. Historically, the region has been dominated by states with authoritarian or monarchical regimes. In late 2010 and early 2011, however, there were mass uprisings in a number of countries in the region seeking to improve the political and socioeconomic situation of the societies living there, and the uprisings were later dubbed the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring changed the political landscape of the region, which especially affected the regimes in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen. The Arab transition has had a number of political, socioeconomic and geostrategic effects. The situation in individual countries is inextricably linked to regional and global politics. Geopolitical and geo-economic factors and conditions are key, taking into account the roles of global and local players, i.e. the United States, China, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Iran or Saudi Arabia. The Arab Spring intensified the geopolitical rivalry and spread it to Syria. The article attempts to characterize the definitions of the concepts of geopolitics and geo-economics. The main objective was to present the changes in geopolitical and geo-economic conditions in the Middle East region after the events of the Arab Spring of 2011.]
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Review of: Ivo Goldstein, Antisemitizam u Hrvatskoj od srednjega vijeka do danas [Anti-Semitism in Croatia from the Middle Ages to the Present] (Zagreb: Fraktura and the “Bet Israel” Jewish Religious Community in Croatia, Zaprešić and Zagreb, 2022), 632 pages
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Firstly, the author analyzes those resources of historical memory that distinguish Hungary and Poland from the other states of Central and Eastern Europe. On the one hand, these resources most strongly associate them with the West, and on the other, they allow them to oppose it to justify their alternative development path. Secondly, he analyzes the cases of populists of various types across the region since 1989, highlighting those who campaigned with interpretations of the past to delegitimize political opponents, mainly from the left. Finally, and thirdly, he presents policies of memory of the right-wing governments of Hungary and Poland. In his opinion only they meet the criteria for the definition of historical populism. This term is what he calls a consistent governmental policy aimed at liberal elites and globalization as embodied by the West. It is conducted by changing the sense given to the entire past following the ideology of ethnocentrism and neo-traditionalism. This ideology is addressed to people-nation (lat. populus) to whom it assigns the role of an heir of a unique history and national tradition.
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Review of: Thoughts at Launching a Good Book: „Journey to the Centre of the Heart”, author Alexandru Athanasiu (Niculescu Publishing House, 2018)
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The study carried out is intended to inform the interested parties about a part of the contributions of some Romanian thinkers to the promotion and development of the theory and philosophy of law in our country, over the last hundred years. For the purposes of the above, we considered helpful to present these contributions by three temporal pillars: the inter-war period, the post-war period and the modern times. The inter-war period – times of freedom and creative exuberance in all social fields – brought an increased doctrine concern, among others, in relation to the theory and philosophy of law. Thinkers, such as Al. Oteteleşanu, Petre Andrei, Ioan Petrovici, Dumitru Drăghicescu, Andrei Rădulescu, Petre P. Negulescu, Radu Goruneanu, Gh. Băileanu, Traian Ionaşcu, Octavian Ionescu, Petre Pandrea, Alexandru Văllimărescu and, especially, Eugeniu Speranţia and Mircea Djuvara, by their writings, kept pace with the thinkers of those times, giving – to the consistent questions over the merits, role and purpose of law in the society – adequately substantiated and relevant answers. After the Second World War, under other – unfortunately – social and political and ideological conditions of the development and affirmation of the Romanian science, they found the necessary resources for keeping and developing specific concepts of the theory of law of Prof. Ioan Ceterchi and Prof. Gh. Boboş, together with many other authors, who have not been examined in this study (yet). In the modern times, mainly after 1989, valuable doctrinaire concepts emerged in Romania, originating from the examined field. Among the most illustrative authors, we may list: Nicolae Popa, Ion Craiovan, Sofia Popescu, Gheorghe Mihai, Ioan Humă, Gheorghe Dănişor. Their studies emphasized creative concepts in law, such as: the concept of the objectives of law, the complex referential concept over the philosophy of law, the cultural and legal itinerary as a structural factor in setting up and developing legal thinking, the visibility and pervasiveness of the concept of integrative legal knowledge, the set up of the concept of legal thinking, the working-out of a research program likely to promote the affective paradigm in law and so on. To conclude, it may be stated that the famous Romanian thinkers did their duty and continue to do their duty, keeping pace with other elite thinkers of the world, significantly contributing to the promote and develop the theory and philosophy of law.
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Using a Key-Scheme, the following parts of the study are analyzed successively: Preamble; The identification of the constitutional regulations on the judicial power in the Romanian constitutional system – selective aspects; Romanian doctrinal references on the judicial power.
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Cotroceni Palace, which today is the seat of the Presidential Administration and a host of Cotroceni National Museum, is located in a historical place having a tradition of more than four hundred years. The museum is arranged within a historical monument being outstanding for the Romanian architecture at the end of the 19th century, namely Cotroceni Royal Palace, which integrated a significant part of the mediaeval architecture of the monastery founded by the prince of Wallachia, Şerban Cantacuzino, towards the end of the 17th century. In the Centennial Year, Cotroceni National Museum intends to continue its mission, namely that of being an environment for debate and artistic dialogue, and, on the other hand, of supporting the initiatives regarding the process of restoration, preservation and capitalization of the national cultural heritage, as a way to promote the national identity, closely connected to the academic environment and civil society. Beyond a very respectful reminder of the past, the mark-up of the Centennial year must be focused on the educational side.
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The end of the First World War found the Albanians in no enviable position, both in the domestic and international level. Kosovo and Macedonia were subjected to occupation, namely violent Reconquista from Serbian, Yugoslav state respectively. The situation became even more difficult, given that the destinies of peoples are determined by the factor of power and the position of the winner. Armies, which had entered Albanian lands, considered themselves part of the Entente Alliance, which won the war. Consequently, they had already made plans for cutting the Albanian lands among them. On the other hand, Albania, in this very unfavorable situation in the Paris Peace Conference (1919) have made the correct efforts historical injustices that had been done in the past and reconfirmation of independence. The situation was far more complex than can be said, therefore at the last moment, when we face seriously open to question, to reconfirm the independence of Albania and is preparation script fragmentation of Albania between Italy, Greece and the Kingdom of SCS, came the response from American diplomacy and President Wilson for reconfirmation of Albania's independence and accession of Albania state to the League of Nations.
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It is widely obvious that the modern business depends on many new previously unknown factors: innovations, technology expanding, information dispersion and collection, culture, imaginations, and other intangible productive factors. This paper deals with some of the unexpected changes that we could recognise as the most influential ones in the new economy era. Purpose and findings of the substantial theoretic and empirical analysis are oriented to the modernisation and sophistication of today business, especially in developing, emerging and small countries. All of them are exposed to severe market reforms, in order to be more efficient and effective in global and regional level. This paper contains the analysis of content of global development documents and literary materials, as well as cross-referencing of statistical and other available data. The findings of this study could result in better orientation of industrial policies and clearer path for the future broader researches to be conducted in this field.
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