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The paper presents the technological changes made to the CSO from the purchase of the first Powers and Hollerith punch-cards machines in the twenties then starting in 1967 computerization and automation of works in the CSO and the Central Statistical Library, to the creation of the CSO information WWW, reporting and geo-statistical portals, development of warehousing and databases in the last years.
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The author discusses his work in statistics and CSO from September 1955 to the present day. He was mainly involved in the sampling surveys, the quality of statistical data, estimation methods for small areas, poverty research methods, methods of testing consumer prices and methods of statistical analysis. He also worked in the Department of Economic and Statistical Research CSO and Sciences and the Committee on Mathematical Commission of the CSO. For eight years Jan Kordos worked as an expert or consultant to FAO, the World Bank, Eurostat and the United Nations Statistics Division in Ethiopia, the PRC, Nepal, Lithuania and Latvia. In conclusion, he remembers with gratitude several statisticians who had a significant influence on his work in statistics.
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The study examines the demythologization and remythologization of the Bulgarian-Russian and Bulgarian-Soviet relations in 1989–2019 in the context of the politics of history pursued in Bulgaria. It reveals the role of myths in politics of history for creating identities by maintaining certain interpretations in view of the new geopolitical orientation of the country after the end of the Cold War. The author analyzes the accumulated Bulgarian historical literature, which includes not only academic but also journalistic and parahistorical works. She points out the public reactions, fuelled by certain interpretations of some key moments of the Bulgarian-Russian and Bulgarian-Soviet relations. These are the character of the Russo- Turkish War of 1877/78, the role of Count Ignatiev and the character of the national holiday March 3, the Bulgarian-Soviet political and economic relations, and in particular – the Stalinist repressions, the occupation regime 1944–1947, the Soviet decisions of the debt crises of the 1960s and 1970s. It is concluded that after 1989 the demythologization of the Bulgarian-Soviet and Bulgarian-Russian relations took place as a moment in the development of the Bulgarian historical science. And to a large extent, the one-sidedness that turns this demythologization into a new remythologization is due to the use of new historical interpretations as an element of memory policy to overcome the communist past and “Sovietophilia”, as well as the politics of history to overcome “Russophilia”.
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The series of events in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the early 1990s had an undeniable impact on society and contributed significantly to rupturing the continuity of popular and religious customs. In the meantime, social openness means that Bosniaks are increasingly exposed to religious and cultural influences from both the East and West. This situation has made it exceptionally diffcult to preserve the continuity of Bosniak religious customs. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the refraction of intercultural and inter-muslim influences in Bosnia and Herzegovina is reflected in Bosniak religious customs. The author therefore examines a selection of Bosniak religious customs related to the lifecycle: the birth of a child, marriage, and death, all of which show Bosniaks cleaving strongly to the regulations of Islam, with a gradual adoption of Western attainments and cultural values.
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The present paper investigates the biographies of actors published in the periodical press of Greece and Greek communities abroad, from the independence of the nation state (1830) to the 1930’s. One of the main bibliographical and historiographical problems a researcher of the history of Greek Modern Theatre has to face is the insufficient –almost non-existent– information about the fleeting work of actors. The current research aims at contributing to the history of acting and finding answers to questions such as: how the profession of the actor in Greece and in Europe evolves during the 19th century and how this significant change is reflected in the Greek periodical press.
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The article presents an analysis of historical memory narratives conveyed to high school students during history classes. Of particular interest is the way in which history teachers shape their in-class narratives in the context of narrative conflicts between the cultural memory and the politics of history of the country’s government and the historical consciousness of the national group the teacher belongs to. The article claims that, in such cases, the way teachers shape their narratives pertaining to the past is a product of their agency and the strategies they adopt regarding the official narratives. The article distinguishes three strategies concerning government narratives (Hall1980): hegemonic, negotiated, and oppositional. The article is based on observationof history classes conducted in a Vilnius school with Polish as a teaching language, as well as interviews with history teachers employed by the school. The research carried out shows that, when it comes to selecting the strategy, a key role is played by theteachers’ emotions resulting from their personal experiences. In the Vilnius school, the experiences connected with one’s national group were the deciding factor.
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The aim of the research is to trace the process of demographic transition in the area of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, enlarged by areas with a predominantly Polish-speaking population, Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia, as well as Southern Masuria. The time frame of the work covers the years 1865–1912. Changes in the basic indicators of the vital statistics of the population were analyzed: the crude death rate (death rate per 1,000 population), the crude birth rate and the crude marriage rate. The source of the data is the work of Adam Krzyżanowski and Kazimierz Kumaniecki, Statystyka Polski [Statistics of Poland], which was in fact the first statistical yearbook of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and other predominantly Polish-speaking areas. The analysis was carried out strictly according to the requirements of the demographic transition theory. A comparative analysis of the demographic situation in these lands on the eve of the outbreak of World War I was carried out using Ward’s taxonomic method and the k-means method. The results of the analysis indicate that the process of demographic transition in these lands was varied and was conditioned by their economic development and geographical location.
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The article aims to show the value that Protestant parish registers kept in the State Archives in Szczecin have for demographic research. The paper will also examine the internal structure of the Pomeranian and New Marchian parish registers, showing the changes that took place in the records over a period of more than 350 years (from the end of the 16th century to the mid-20th century). The material is also intended to encourage academics to use the sources in their research work.
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The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the connections between aesthetic and politics as exemplified by the Szczecin Television Centre in the 1960s. Szczecin, since the establishment of the regional centre of the Polish Television (TVP), has been associated primarily with the marine and shipbuilding industry, the port, the profession of seaman, water sports, spending free time at the riverside, by the lake or at the seashore. These characteristic features of Szczecin were repeatedly emphasized by the aesthetic dimension of the films and television materials of that time period – e.g. their inherent element was the sound of a ship’s siren – which had clearly persuasive, propaganda character. The Szczecin television was created by the artists – radiomen, actors, authors, whose work was situated at the junction of two spaces: aesthetic and politic.
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The contemporary local governments in the public sphere face the need to undertake multiple actions in response to the existing social problems. In order to solve these problems, The West Pomeranian units of local government use the normative, confidence-based forms of inter-sector cooperation. By transmitting the catalogue of public tasks into the area of their own tasks, the gminas and counties in West Pomeranian Voivodeship develop public policies at their level. Hence, if within a democratic politic-legal order non-governmental organizations are an attribute of a civic society, they should occupy a specific position in co-designing and implementing public tasks. Does West Pomeranian Voivodeship develop public policies based on participation of the non-governmental organizations? If so, in which extent?
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The article traces the regained popularity of a healing water source, promoted by the feigned healer and wonder-worker Angelush. The activities of Angelush are connected with the appearance of the Great Comet, observed in Europe in 1861. Many newspapers from this period reflect the miracles and the impressive crowds of people that visited the healing water source in Northeast Bulgaria, near the Danube River. The present-day ‘intervention’ in media background seems to result from the need of shedding light on the visible traces of the ‘heroic time, which are pertinent due to the proximity to the anniversary of the April 1876 uprising and to the exploit of Hristo Botev’s rebel band and the use of ‘Radetzki’ steamship in the same year. The text analyses a concrete case of inventing tradition, which appears necessary for present-day political and social purposes. The significance of the Well of Angelush as a sacred place is constructed entirely in media background, creating the myth that ‘Radetzki’steamship was built with the money earned from transporting visitors to the healing water source. In this case, the theme of the ‘heroic time’ and the immediate relation with the national narrative is used to testify the significance of a religious site, the belief in which should be a sufficient justification for its existence. Thus, in the 21st century, we witness how an increasing number of churches and monasteries in Bulgaria construct their past through the links they establish with nationally significant topics, characters and images. They do so by emphasizing not that much the spiritual and religious aspects – as connected with faith or with sacred scriptures, but rather – with the presence of traces of the heroic time, which inscribe the cult sites in the toponymic space of the nation.
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This article deals with a corpus of little known archival documents dating from 1888-1889, stored in the deposits of the Scientific Archives at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and concerning the population in the territory of present-day Bulgaria as well as the prevailing way of dressing of different groups towards the end of the 19th century. A number of photographs are included as illustrations in support of the textual descriptions. The author’s attention is focused on such archival units containing descriptions of women’s garb, attesting to the fact that during the period under review, part of the Gagauz women wore shalwar. The evidence presented shows that towards the late 19th century, this type of garment established a solid presence among the Gagauz community inhabiting the Black Sea coastal areas of Bulgaria. The styling, cut and manner of wearing of that garment comes as evidence that while originally the shalwar was worn exclusively by Muslim women, during the period of modernization of the Ottoman empire, they were ‘adopted’ by the Christian Orthodox Gagauz women.
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Review of: Mira Kolar-Dimitrijević - Ludwig STEINDORFF, Kroatien, Regensburg 2001., Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 272 str.
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Review of: Robert Holjevac - Mustafa IMAMOVIĆ, Historija Bošnjaka, Sarajevo 1996
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Review of: Vijoleta Herman - F. WILLIAM ENGDAHL, STOLJEĆE RATA. ANGLO-AMERIČKA NAFTNA POLITIKA I NOVI SVJETSKI POREDAK, AGM, Zagreb, 2000, 420 str.
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