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Article is devoted to the analysis of relations between Russia and the Polish in the 90ies of the 20th century. The author comes to the conclusion that it was not an easy time for formation of the relations between the countries on the foundation of the principles of partnership and democratic. Considering different geostrategic interests of both countries and the heavy historical heritage it’s hard to talk about harmony
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This article examines the interaction between the Soviet animation and the political environment during the Brezhnev era, particularly focusing on the life and work of animators at the studio “Soiuzmultfilm”. By tracing the animators’ family backgrounds, professional, and life experience, this study offers an insight into the particularities of evolution of Soviet animation and its socio-cultural context. As we will argue, the studio “Soiuzmultfilm” created a social substratum of cartoon animators, who through their work produced an alternative message to the official one. The cartoon directors, in search for novel and effective ways to express their inner world, in the early 1960s launched a period full of experiments, which became the “Golden age” of the Soviet animation. The avalanche of styles, genres, and artistic techniques contributed to the apparition of cinema d’auteur genre, which brought international recognition to the Soviet animation.
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Is unchangeability really the touchstone of integrity? we ask, picking our way among the remains of defunct futuramas, whether aggressive or friendly. Consider the requirement of absolute, across the- board consistency, the yardstick that the implacable Constructivist Lajos Kassák insisted was the measure of twentieth-century art. Was it necessary to equate the aesthetic with the moral, see as authentically aesthetic only what was perceived as morally right?
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The authors aim to present a first series of 13 decorations and medals awarded by the Kingdom of Romania between 1878 and 1933. They represent both civilian and military awards and entered in the numismatic collection of the Institute of Archaeology – Iași, through various donations. These medals, although we do not know their actual owners or their deeds, bear witness of our national history in the last 150 years
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The review of: Magyarország története 1918-1945. Egyetemi jegyzet (A History of Hungary 1918-1945. Lecture Notes) by Zsuzsa L. Nagy; Second, enlarged edition, Történelmi Figyelő Könyvek 3, Debrecen: Multiplex Média, 1995, 266 pp.
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Research and the discussions over forty years have produced a huge volume of publications that deal with practically every aspect of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Questions are asked, and some of the answers are given. Time itself is of great assistance, historians continuously interpreting and reinterpreting events, hindsight shedding light on new aspects. The picture becomes more complete as new detail and analysis become available; it is also being seen in an ever new light from a different perspective with an ever shifting emphasis.
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“This population is the most mixed with diverse nations of any in the kingdom,” a sixteenth-century inhabitant of Lyon said to account for disorders there: “Italians, Florentines, Genoese, Lucchese, Swiss, Germans, Spanish and other nations. This is a city of as many parts as the spots of a leopard’s skin. A strange populace!” In his memoir The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European childhood, the writer Elias Canetti recalled fondly the mix in his Danube town of Ruschuk in the early twentieth century.
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The review of: A centralizáció csapdája (The Trap of Centralization) by László Bruszt; Szombathely: Savaria University Press, 1995, 293 pp.
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Hungary is considered as a musical country thanks to the large number of Hungarian-born musicians who have attained world fame. This claim can be further backed by a unique feature of the forty years of totalitarianism in Hungary (1949-89). They produced a snobbish dictatorship that tried to educate its citizens, initially through severe censorship, which later became more relaxed. The less money this policy had at its disposal, the less it exercised censorship on education. One of the focuses of this campaign “Let’s Educate the Hungarian Masses” was classical music—Hungarian and foreign.
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The review of: Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 622 pp.
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This text deals with one of the neglected topics of contemporary social pedagogy which extends to developmental psychology and sociology. This topic is so-called cult of youth which is often mentioned in the academic literature, but has not been precisely conceptualized. This text was therefore focused on the definition of basic category, i.e. youth, and then discussed the relationship to the cult of youth and the individual elements that helps to form it. The cult of youth is associated with so called youth culture, which has been spread and produced by global media. The influence of the media has been already evident from the 60’s of the 20th century, when we often talk about American cultural hegemony which presents within its production the popular culture and youthful lifestyle, which is then presented in magazines, music media, fashion industry, etc. For contemporary capitalist society the concept of the cult of youth is a useful concept as only successful, young and efficient individuals can consume new and new products (as well as use the services) typical for this still-rising imaginary phase of human life. Therefore the cult of youth is the domain of successful people who do not want to lose their success. Only socially successful can try to be “forever young”.
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Social and economic changes on the turn of 19th and 20th century caused some unprofitable changes in the existence of polish families, so that we can say about new categories – pictures of childhood, for example: “childhood of subjective and objective” categories, “television childhood”, ”computer childhood”, “childhood in net”, ”childhood of worse chances”. All these refer to sick, disable children and also these, who are from multiply families, village families, children living in the street. Valorization of present, social care system should take into consideration some rules to have it the features of civic character. Social work is a new formula of protective society. Specific the present social care expresses in fact, that care, in a great degree has out of institutional features. Care and social work, specific for previous system isn’t sufficient area for practice activities, because it’s character refers to narrow group children and youth: sick, disable, who need care activity, in spite of social work, which has wider context and refers to practice activity, forming new models and work conceptions in local environment. In social work professional activities has been mainly taken by social workers. So that social care should have community character (family centered practices). These conceptions of social care are propitious by community ideas, as also ideas of civic nation. These type of activities should include, gradually, European standards about children care, describing in concrete documents, based on autonomy family, primacy family in children education, what describe the rules of organization the social care institutions. Actually social care should take into consideration, a part of concentration idea, reintegration rule (searching for new alternatives for institutional care, creating small family institutions and make easy contact orphans with their families. The idea of civic society should also develop, in a wilder scale, activities based on respect in family living the solidarity and auxiliary rules. Such a role might act voluntary work, which tradition is known from XII century. The map of social needs, described by dangers of families lives is a kind of challenge for developing new form of help and care, especially out of institutions, thanks to them “childhood of worse chance” might be less painfully experienced.
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Since the late 1980s there has been a growing interest in women’s migration, which led to the emergence of intersectional analysis as a main focus of gendered studies of mobility. However, intersectional research of global migration processes rarely includes the analysis of religion in the experience of migrants, not asking about the possible role of religion in the gender revolution. Studies focus primarily (and often only) on the gendered division of care work, new forms of maintaining transnational families, and caring for children from abroad. In this article I present a preliminary overview of studies, which analyze the intersection of migration, gender, care work, and religion. I show that the inclusion of religion in the analysis helps to answer in a more complex way, how the shifts in gender roles, contracts, and the public-private division happen.
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This text has a biographical character – it presents the history of a descendant of a family belonging to Polish gentry, from the happy years of the interwar period, through the dramatic time of the German occupation, and no less difficult post-war years under the communist rule. Barbara Newelska, connected with the estate in Boczki, is the granddaughter of Adam Nencki, brother of Marceli Nencki, a world-famous biochemist. Besides the available published sources, the author makes use of the rich materials from Barbara Newelska’s family collections.
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