Geromettovci a ich vzťah k štúrovskému hnutiu

Author(s): Juraj Považan / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 3-4/2015

This article aims to point out the important role played by the members of the Gerometts family from Žilina (Slovakia) in the national movement in the middle of the 19th century. Even though their origin was Italian, during three generations they completely adapted to Slovak enviroment. They have become contributors to periodicals published by Ľudovít Štúr and Jozef Miloslav Hurban. They were active supportes of the national movement and they are demonstrations of overconfessional cooperation by the improvement of the Slovak nation.

Jozef Miloslav Hurban a posolstvo jeho myslenia v Slovenských po- hľadoch (1846 – 1847, 1851 – 1852)

Author(s): Eva Bachletová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 3-4/2015

In her study the author focused on the activity of Jozef Miroslav Hurban as a publicist, editor and publisher in the context of the journal Slovenske pohlady that he published during the years 1846–1847 and 1851–1852. The study is a reflection on the way of Jozef Miloslav Hurban's thinking as found on pages of Slovenske pohlady in times of national awakening of Slovaks and during the period when the intelligence around Stur was active.

Zrozumiteľnosť spravodajstva v Štúrových Slovenskích národňích novinách

Author(s): Terézia Rončáková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 3-4/2015

News issued 170 years ago were, obviously, very different from the current ones. But it is worthwhile to work with them during lessons and to explore how comprehensible are they for the students and to what extent are students able to rewrite these old texts into modern ones, publishable today. We analysed 450 texts from 90 students, who were remaking the same five news: two domestic and three fo- reign ones, studying the comprehension (general sense and reality of that time), the language (lexis, syntax, grammar) and the journalistic news form. We found, that the understanding of the text is very low. Moreover, the old texts lured students to archaic lexis, syntax and grammar, as well as the journalistic met- hods, which are unacceptable in today’s journalism. This exercise seems to be very fruitful whilst teaching students the evolution of genres, origins of Slovak journalism and principles of processing news texts.

Чешки приноси в българското Възраждане

Author(s): Teodorichka Gotovska-Henze / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2013

The article presents the revolutionary events of 1848 in Prague and Vienna and their main actors (writers, students and Czech national leaders) with special emphasis on the negotiations of the Slav Congress at the beginning of June 1848. The author analyses the idea of the Slav cooperation within the Habsburg Empire, its main political elaborations and its main supporters. As shown, some of the participators in the Slav Congress and the June Uprising in Prague emigrated eastward and settled down in Bulgarian lands. Others stayed home, but also were in some way or another supportive to the Bulgarian National Revival.

Американската революция. Войната за независимост и създаваното на федералната република. Документална и интерпретативна история. Подбор, превод, изследване и коментари Румен Генов. Нов български университет, С., 2012. 311 с. с ил.

Author(s): Nikolay Poppetrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2013

Book Review

Ружа Симеонова. Силистра (1849–1900). Документи от фондовете на Националната библиотека „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“. Силистра, 2013, 207 с.

Author(s): Mancho Vekov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1-2/2013

Book Review

Милко Палангурски. УЧРЕДИТЕЛИТЕ. Участници в Учредителното народно събрание в Търново. 10.ІІ.–16.ІV.1879 г. Енциклопедичен справочник. Изд. „Сиби“. С., 2014. 328 с.

Author(s): Veska Nikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3-4/2014

The Encyclopaedia for the Deputies of the Constituent National Assembly (1879) and its Role in the Preservation of the National Memory.

Д-р Константин Иречек, България и Българското книжовно дружество (1879–1884 г.)

Author(s): Yordanka Gesheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5-6/2014

Conference Report

European Legitimism and Serbian Revolution

Author(s): Nikola Samardžić / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2015

The Congress of Vienna (1814–1815) promoted legitimist, aristocratic and clerical reaction, facing the consequences of various revolutions, uprises and Napoleonic reforms. New international order was to preserve the stability of borders and mutual political and caste solidarity. On the other hand remained the permanent discontent of citizenship, and a new reality that lurked beneath the layers of intellectual reflections on the character and the rights of nations, whose leadership restored order and imposed boundaries considered as tyrannical and unjust. One example in this respect was the Second Serbian Uprising, the next stage of the Serbian revolution, begun in 1804. Although it was a local movement placed on peripheral boundaries of both Ottoman and Habsburg empires, the Secon Serbian Uprising has emphasized the legitimacy of the nation. Previously, the first European liberals in Spain, although rebels against Napoleon, had advocated similar aspirations afterwards accepted by the Italian Carbonari and the Greek Filiki Eteria. The long-term successfulness of South European liberation movements, including the Serbian Revolution (1804–1830), was proof of long lasting unsteadiness of reconstructed European order.

Rolul anului 1991 în destinul Republicii Moldova

Author(s): Sergiu Musteaţă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2015

The NEC “Black Sea Link” Yearbook 2013-14: a multidimensional insight into the history of the Black Sea Region

Author(s): Petru Negură / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 2/2015

Koha në romanet e Sefedin Fetiut

Author(s): Sadri Fetiu / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 45/2015

Pata rastin që romanet e Sefedin Fetiut t’i lexoj që në dorëshkrim, madje për disa ngjarje që trajtohen në to, qoftë si tema historike, qoftë edhe ndodhi të realitetit të kohës sonë, edhe kemi biseduar shpesh dhe kemi këmbyer mendime. Dy romanet e tij i kam lexuar pastaj në vitet pas vdekjes së Sefedinit, me qëllim që brenda tyre ta përjetoj atë rrezatimin e ngrohtë njerëzor, atë vullnetin e madhe për jetën, atë entuziazëm të veçantë dhe atë përkushtim të panatyrshëm ndaj letërsisë dhe artit në përgjithësi, që e kam adhuruar gjithnjë tek personaliteti i tij.

Personalitet - sintezë e idealit të njohjes me idealin humanist për botën

Author(s): Arben Hoxha / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 45/2015

Pesëmbëdhjetë vjetori i vdekjes së një prej kolegëve tanë më të nderuar, Sefedin Fetiut, bashkëpunëtorit të lartë shkencor të Institutit Albanologjik, është më kuptimplotë kur atë e shënojmë duke e kujtuar dhe vlerësuar veprimtarinë shkencore dhe letrare, pra punën e tij. Pse? Realizimi i qenies sonë është i kushtëzuar nga veprimtaria jonë në botë. Puna i paraprin qenies sonë. Puna përbën një kategori ontologjike, me anë të së cilës njeriu e strukturon veten në botë dhe vihet në aksion për ta strukturuar botën sipas qëllimeve të vetëdijshme të tij.

Die Internationale Kontrollkommission Albaniens und die albanischen Machtzentren (1913/1914). Beitrag zur Geschichte der Staatsbildung Albaniens

Author(s): Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics / Language(s): German Issue: 73/2014

The best guarantee of protecting the rights of Christian minorities on the European territory of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century was nothing else but the establishing of own nation-states, where the Christian population could lead his life without being ruled or controlled by the Ottoman Empire. This process found support and was assisted by the Great Powers. It means, that one form of the humanitarian intervention was the state-building instructed or assisted from abroad. One of the unexpected experiences of the Balkan Wars 1912/1913 was that the members of the Balkan League committed genocides and other kinds of mass violence against other Nationalities and the Muslim population of the peninsula. Among other things the Albanian state-building project of the Great Powers aimed to prevent further genocide and other acts of violence against the Albanian population and other refugees from Macedonia and to put an end to the anarchy of the country. Th e main international organisation to directly represent the great powers in the new Albania and to be responsible for the state-building process was the International Commission of Control.

Институција кафане као огледало друштвеног живота Београда: улога и функције кафана у Београду у обликовању модерности у Србији XIX и ХХ века

Author(s): Uroš Živković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2013

Throughout modern history of Serbia and Belgrade “Kafana” has shown to be one of the most im-portant social institution in Serbian society. In “Kafanas” of XIX and XX century Belgrade the first politi-cal parties were formed, the first newspapers and the first contours of civil society emerged, the first theatre play and cinema projection were held. The goal of this article is to show that the institution of “Kafana” is a mirror of awakening of the Serbian modernity, that “Kafana” is the true representative of public life of XIX and XX century Belgrade. In the first part will deal with the emergence of coffee and “Kafanas” in the Balkans, as well with the representation of XIX century Belgrade in the eyes of foreign travellers. The second part will address the social functions of “Kafanas” and we will try to explain what political, economic, cultural and societal functions she had. The conclusion is that “Kafana” is not merely a place of vice and hedonism, but foremost a place where modern Serbia was born.

Sscb Sonrasi Coğrafyada Ulus Inşa Süreci: Kazakistan Örneği

Author(s): Ayşe Kaya / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2012

The disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991 marked the beginning of a new era in terms of both the political history of the world and the political geography of the Eurasia. Fifteen new states emerged in the geography where the dispersed USSR was located, an area ‘once ruled from Moscow as the center of a large field, [where] some had never become independent actors of international politics in the modern era’ (Aydın, 2005: 245). After gaining their independence, these states began to work in accordance with ‘building an appropriate nation for their state’. In this context, nationbuilding efforts in Kazakhstan will be discussed by taking into consideration the historical and international dynamics in the post-Soviet period in light of nation-building theories. In other words, the transition period from the Soviet imperial nation concept to the modern nation process in Kazakhstan will be analysed.

Povezanost istarskoga identiteta i Istarskoga demokratskog sabora: analiza programskoga sadržaja i tekstova objavljenih u Glasu Istre od 1989. do 1993. godine

Author(s): Tatjana Tomaić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1-2/2014

Regional party, the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDA), in the transformation from the social and state system, offered its own pattern of values based on the Istrian autonomy, regionalism and multiculturality as identificational features of the Istrian inhabitants. IDA, in the turmoil of the Istrian identity at the beginning of the 90s of the 20th century and in the interpretation of the history through suppressed identity as well as through a slow integration of the Istrian Croats in the modern Croatian society, built its political identity and the political perseverance through a regional mobilization and the resistance to the center of the state authority, interpreting itself to the inhabitants as a defender of the regional interests. Studying the local newspaper Glas Istre, in the period when the Republic of Croatia gained its independence, and observing the role of IDA in shaping of the political and national identity of Istrian inhabitants through Glas Istre as well as through the party’s programme documents, this research has shown a lack of nation-building elements which would be in favour of the thesis of positive role of the regional party in the process of national state building.

Introduction: Citizenship in Post-Communist Eastern Europe

Author(s): Costică Dumbravă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Over the past quarter of a century, all countries of Eastern Europe, defined generally as those European countries that were formerly part of the Eastern Bloc, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, have changed or amended their citizenship laws. Some of these changes responded to the need to modernise citizenship laws in line with rediscovered liberal democratic principles. Others were triggered by dramatic developments in the region, such as transformations of statehood, border changes, war and population movements (e.g. internal displacement, refugee flows, ethnic immigration and economic emigration). The new citizenship laws divided populations that once belonged to the same state, leading to the proliferation of both multiple citizenship and statelessness.

Of Slaveholders and Renegades: Semantic Uncertainties in Volodymyr Antonovych’s Conversion to Ukrainianness

Author(s): Jens Herlth / Language(s): English Issue: 49/2017

In an article published in the St. Petersburg-based Ukrainian language journal Osnova (Foundation) in 1862, Włodzimierz Antonowicz, formally the descendant of a Polish family from the landed gentry in Ukraine, declared that from then on he would consider himself a Ukrainian. In the present essay, I analyze the polemics around what can be called Antonovych’s conversion from Polishness to Ukrainianness. Antonovych as well as his adversaries brought into play various concepts of nationality and national identity, switching quite freely between various frames of references (political thought of the Enlightenment and the Romantic era, contemporary historical fiction, and historiography).

Дилеми концептуалізації сучасної культурної політики України

Author(s): Oleksandr Kravchenko / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2013

The article highlights conceptual approaches to cultural and political strategies of Ukraine. In terms of all attributes Ukraine might possibly play a prominent role in international politics. However, as it turns out, this is a task of Ukrainian politics. Political as well as social and humanitarian sciences have been seeking for explanatory models regarding specific national processes in post-communist societies. Ukrainian realities in particular are determined by quite contradictory arguments appealing to the features of social structure ("peasant" nation) up to the lack of real statehood in the pre-modern past and up to the repressive policies of the Russian administration. Our task is to identify the methodological features of mainstreaming culture in Ukraine with a few recent decades in the context of major contemporary theoretical approaches in terms of post-Soviet transformation. Bryubeyker R. believes that in post-communist Europe, almost all of the new states are to some extent "nationalizing". He points that the titular nation and national minorities differently perceive the policy and it is unlikely that in the "nationalizing state" they will form one political entity, as the itular nation itself is fragmented and is in the process of nation-building. The concept R. Bryubeyker uses and is also exploited by A. Wilson, who is convinced that Ukraine intends to create a "multi-ethnic civil state," one official language, one of the titular nation and the Ukrainian national historiography. T. Kuzyo suggests using the definitions "the civil state" and "the nationalizing ethnic state". Thus, unlike R. Bryubeykera, T. Kuzyo considers all the states in post-communist Europe as a civil, except for two things: Yugoslavia (meaning the governing of S. Milosevic) and Belarus. The researcher believes that the traditional division of Europe, adopted in the literature on nationalism requires immediate revision to reflect changes in the post-communist European countries. The first step in this process is the recognition that many of the strategies "nation-building" in the East, has taken place in the history of the West. The second step – accepting the fact that all the civil states both in the East and in the West, comprise ethno-cultural elements. Proportional balance between the civil and the ethnic modern states is based only on the progress in democratization and the creation of civil society and is much less dependent on geographical location in Europe. T. Kuzyo clarifies that he considers the civil state, consisting of ethnic and cultural elements. One of the most common options for updating the Ukrainian political culture over the past twenty years, in our opinion, can be considered a project "neoconservative" cultural policy, or "the concept of national culture as a spiritual whole", presented in the discourse, which originates from the work program by Ivan Dziuba "Do we understand the national culture as a whole?" Thus, the set of characteristics of the conceptual discourse of modernization of cultural policy is rather controversial and is influenced by a variety of theories and ideas that do not always conform to one another. When formulating certain strategic goals of cultural policy authors hold a similar position: talking about approaching social and cultural standards of democratic European countries, the specification of the trajectory of the different degrees of realism. The presence of several conceptual projects is not something extraordinary, because it may indicate the need in such cases for pluralism. However, methodological differences in understanding that it is the subject and object of cultural policy, different degree of professionalism and responsibility of compilers, a measure of political engagement, demonstrate the apparent lack of the necessary in professional communication. That is the conceptual modeling of cultural policy is the reason for the corporate identity specialists or declaration of political intent but the government apparently does not include the further implementation of the projects themselves.