Zdrowie w Szczecinie w latach 1945–1946

Author(s): Hadrian Kryśkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2017

Health care in Szczecin in the years 1945–1946 in a culminating way illustrating with its ruined landscape sanitary problems of West Pomerania can be taken for a epitome of the post-war overall Pomeranian situation. Both the length of the World War Two and its repercussions were to thoroughly revise many spheres in the life of the inhabitants of Szczecin and Pomerania, including the German population, and finally they brought about a loss of the illusion of living in a little homeland, a ‘back country’ (German: Hinterland), which seemed not to be threatened with an attack of foreign troops. Death of hundreds of thousands of people and the annihilation in the industry, economy and culture of the region and its capital were just a sort of sad accompaniment for the general health of the society in Pomerania of the time.

Metody działań organów bezpieczeństwa wobec duchowieństwa i wiernych Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego w województwie koszalińskim w latach 1950–1975

Author(s): Konrad Konkol / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2017

The end of the II WW brought Poland into the USSR’s influence zone. The 1940s was a decade which institutionalised the communist power imposed on every area of people’s lives. One of the most difficult task to implement was the secularization of polish society. Catholic world-view was one of the major factors that influenced their behaviour and way of thinking and meaningfully contrasted with atheism ‘recommended’ by the communists. That is why one of the Security Service priorities was clergy surveillance and repressions referred to undermine clergy’s authority as well as pulling back the believers away from the Roman Catholic Church learning. Those operations were equal in action in the whole country, including Koszalin Province, which was constituted in the summer of 1950.

Доверие, социален капитал и неформални мрежи. Културни специфики на постсоциалистическите общества в рамките на Европейския съюз

Author(s): Ivanka Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

The gradual joining of the post-socialist states to the European Union turned out to be a long and comparatively difficult process. The inclusion of these states in the structures of the Union is not just a political, economic and juridical act, but also an act containing cultural dimensions. It is important to know the historically determined social and cultural specifics of these states and to evaluate the possible impact resulting from them in order to understand and analyze the specific route of development of the post-socialist societies within the European Union. The present article aims at the revealing of some of these peculiarities present at the level of the everyday culture and stemming from the social logic of everyday life. They are integral elements of the cultural system and of the identity, being at the same time not constant and, as the practice shows, liable to change under certain conditions. The text analyzes the apprehension and the attitudes to the private and public sphere, the ways to build trust and social capital, as well as the role and the meaning of the informal nets of relations in the post-socialist societies. It also follows the changes in the mentioned above cultural characteristics after 1989 and studies the reasons for the dissimilarities in the processes of change in the different states.

Кръпките по дрехите на македонизма

Author(s): Voin Bozhinov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2013

The Republic of Macedonia exists on the European political map for more than two decades. For this not short time period, very few things in the young country have changed.

Истината на един очевидец за така наречения възродителен процес

Author(s): Zhivko Sahatchiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2013

Македонска Голгота. Спомени и изповеди от Ениджевардарско. С., Тангра ТанНакРа–ИК, 2009. 751 с.

Author(s): Divna Gotseva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2015

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Марко Димитров. Държавата и икономиката в България между двете световни войни 1919–1939 г. (Факти, анализи и оценки за икономическата политика). С., Издателски комплекс – УНСС, 2014. 283 с.; библиография, приложение от 25 статистически таблици

Author(s): Rumyana Parvanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2015

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Николай Поппетров, Войн Божинов. Национално могъща и обединена България. Формациите на радикалната десница и националният въпрос. С., ИК „Гутенберг“, 2014. 273 с.

Author(s): Rumyana Parvanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2015

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В памет на Рита Петровна Гришина (1930–2015)

Author(s): Tatiana V. Volokitina / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2015

Габор Деметер. Балканите и Османската империя. Том І. Обществени и икономически преобразования от края на ХVІІІ до средата на ХХ век. Обща част и България. Будапеща, 2014. 767 с.

Author(s): Penka Peykovska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3-4/2015

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Нови документи за големия род Пулиеви

Author(s): Rositsa Stoyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3-4/2015

The aim of the report is to inform the scientific community about a new, previously unknown and very interesting collection of documents chronologically and thematically related to the recent history of Bulgaria. The archive was created by Todor Hristov Puliev (1837-1913), a successor to and representative of the great Pulievs’ family from Karlovo. After his death the documents were kept by the family of a politician well known in the past Theodor Theodorov, whose granddaughter Nadezhda Teodorova donated the archive to the archive collection of BHA. The report consists of two parts – the author’s text and 13 documents. In the first part the author provides biographical information about Todor Hr. Puliev, presents his donations and the kinship ties of the Pulievs. Then she makes a review of the documents arranging them by type, origin and content. The archive is a treasure trove for researchers of the post-liberation history. Thematically it contains a wealth of data testifying to persons and events, problems of everyday life, business, mentality and culture of the social stratum to which Todor Puliev belonged. This is evident from the documents selected for publication.

Предстоящ юбилей на Татяна Викторовна Волокитина

Author(s): Elena Valeva,Iliyana Marcheva,Penka Peykovska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3-4/2015

Дипломатическата роля на България и Франция по пътя към заключителния документ от Хелзинки (1975)

Author(s): Irina Grigorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe reflected the East-West détente’s relaxing tensions and the differences between the two camps as well. In this paper, mainly negotiations about cultural interactions, known as the Third basket – whose principal Eastern delegate, by Moscow authorization, was Bulgaria – are revealed. On the other hand, France, among the Western countries, had the most important influence on the arrangement of the Conference and the papers drawn up later. The research presents the démarches and the actions undertaken by Sofia and Paris in defence of their concepts.

Граници и мостове в градското пространство. Примери из историята на Сливен

Author(s): Adelina Fendrina / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

This article is part of a student essay dedicated to the history of Sliven, which has been awarded second prize in the IX National History Competition „Borders in History - History without Borders“ organized by Values Foundation (2015-2016). The selected part of the paper examines the ethnic borders in the wake of Bulgaria’s National Revival.

Academic Interaction between Economists of Central and Eastern Europe and China (1978–1989)

Author(s): Bao Hongzheng / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2015

When starting economic reform in 1978, China had the socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (SCCEE) as an alternative model. From 1978 to 1985 there were frequent contacts between Chinese economists and those with SCCEE background, who were introduced by Chinese economists of old generation (born in 1900s-1920s). The Chinese economists of middle generation (born in 1930s) led the criticism of the SCCEE economic reform in late 1980s, participated by their young assistants (born in 1940s-1950s). After 1989 China lost its interest in SCCEE economic reform, but the economists of middle and young generations who were familiar with SCCEE economic history became the principal consultants of policy-making in 1990s and even policy-makers in 2000s and 2010s. They were trained just in the studies of SCCEE economic theories and practice.

La politique de la Bulgarie visant à stimuler le peuplement du pays et se reflétant dans la législation Bulgare après la libération (1879–1912)

Author(s): Mario Aleksandrov / Language(s): French Issue: 3-4/2015

The paper reveals the formation of the concept in Bulgaria’s laws in the period 1878–1912, related to the stimulating the settlements in the country. Starting with the Constitution, the author examines some basic laws connected with the implementation of this aim such as the Law on Population of Uninhabited Lands in Bulgaria (1880), the several versions of the Law of Acquisition of Bulgarian Citizenship as well as the legislation connected with the settling of the refugees. Particular groups of laws were targeted to different categories of population abroad with regard to attracting them to the Bulgarian Principality. For the realization of this policy the legislators set out mainly encouraging measures of economic and political nature, with the dominance of those of economic character. The main tendency in reflecting this political concept in the envisaged laws was to gradually expand the opportunities for attracting potential settlers to the country. Nevertheless, there was a marked inconsistency in the implementation of this trend by the government. This was mainly due to the lack of convenience among the ruling circles about the necessity of this type of policy and its enforcement through the existing legislation in the country at that time.

Curriculums in Turkey: A Comparative Study

Author(s): Pınar Bilasa / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2015

Primary school education is considered to be the most significant means of raising republican people in Turkey. Along with the proclamation of the republic in 1923, innovations were made as in other areas as well. In this study, innovations made in educational curriculums are exhibited by comparing the differences among the curriculums. Document review model was used to do the research and historical method was utilized. Data were collected and analysed by literature review. As the result of the research; it was observed that each practiced curriculum has much impact on the new curriculum and each new curriculum is prepared to compensate the deficiencies of former curriculums. For this purpose, suggestions were made to eliminate defective points of the curriculum in primary schools instead of studying to develop a new curriculum.

Обучение студентов из Чехословацкой республики в Народном военно-морском училище им. Николы Вапцарова в период 1953–1959 гг

Author(s): Asen Kozhuharov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3-4/2015

The author investigates the selection and the training of foreign students from Czechoslovakia in the period 1953–1959, and also their realization in shipping and at shipbuilding enterprises after their graduation. The most important factors for success are the good selection and high-level of adaptation of students as well as special preparation and pedagogical skill of the lecturers of Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy.

Factors Influencing Political Apathy: Comparative Context of the Political Culture and Apathy

Author(s): Veton Latifi / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2015

Political apathy means lack of interest in politics and it plays a significant role in identifying the level of involvement of citizens in public policy issues and democracy. Interested citizens are familiar with numerous political issues and are more active than apathetic citizens. Apathy means a political indifference and the opposite of it is the political interest in democracy. Political apathy is an attitude, rather than only any lack of activity and it doesn’t mean only the ‘no vote’ situation. The mount of political apathy in some European countries eventually can be treated as specific peculiarity of political systems of those countries and as a consequence of specific political cultures of certain countries. But, in the case of the Balkan countries, aside these reflections, one may identify some other reasons that lead to the decline of interest to take part actively in the political processes, especially in terms of their declining percentage in the voting outcomes. In studying the political factors and simulation elements to the political apathy, apart of the premises that reflect with challenges of political participation and difficulties of political representation; and the issue of citizens’ political involving discouragement, however one should consider as well as the specifics of the political culture. The paper explores the core factors and challenges of the political scenes of the Balkan countries in the transition and it pretend to identify the systematic phenomena that reflect from these factors and challenges within the theoretical context of the political culture.

Róbert Fiziker, Csaba Szabó (eds.). Der erste Weltkrieg aus ungarischer Sicht. Wien, 2015, Institut für ungarische Geschichtsforschung in Wien, 436 S.

Author(s): Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2015

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