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In France and Italy, in the tradition of syndicalism, there has been a turning away of the people from the state. It is at the basis of communist success
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In France and Italy, in the tradition of syndicalism, there has been a turning away of the people from the state. It is at the basis of communist success
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Answers and Contributions régarding the essay of George F. Kennan (published in issue 34 of Der Monat) by Raymond Aron, Fedor Stepun, Ernst Reuter, David J. Dallin, Max Beloff, Wilhelm Röpke,
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»Ellenpontok« is a samizdat periodical. Their appearance is sporadic. Its goal is to cover all restrictions on the civil rights of East Central European people and, in particular, the political, economic and cultural oppression of the Transylvanian Hungarians. For obvious reasons, we cannot disclose the names of our authors, unless they are reprints of texts already published abroad. We ask our readers for support for our project.
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Klaus Ehring - co-author of the book »Schwerter zu Plugscharen« about the GDR Peace Movement - reports for »gegenstimmen« new tendencies in East German dissident antimilitarism.
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On April 20, Ms. Françoise Baluka presented the following text to the public in Paris. We publish some extracts from it. Edmund Baluka was sentenced in April 1983 by a military court in Bydgoszcz to ten years in prison.
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Central Committee Decisions on Education (from: Pravda, Moscow) Current school questions (from: "Communist", Moscow, and others) College today (from: "Izvestia", Moscow, and others) Construction of Research (from: "Komsomolskaya pravda", Moscow, and others) Statements of the Intellectual elite (from: Literaturnaya Gazeta, Moscow, and others)
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CHAPTERS FROM TABLE OF CONTENT: Military-technical superiority and its essential characteristics (from: "Communist Woorushennych Sil", Moscow) On the Present State of the Soviet Military Doctrine (from: "Krasnaya Svedda", Moscow) The decisive Factors: Weapons - Technology - Management (from: "Communist Woorushennych Sil", Moscow) Nuclear Weapons in modern Naval Warfare (from: "Soviet Military Review", Moscow) From Bucharest to Karlovy Vary (from: Pravda, Moscow, and others) The military policy of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Soviet view (from: "Communist Woorushennych Sil", Moscow)
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CHAPTERS FROM TABLE OF CONTENT: The individual and society (from: "Woprosy filosofii", Moscow, and others) Symposium at the Soviet Union Academy of Sciences On the Sense of Life Human and material values Interpretation of History Development of Social Sciences (from: "Pravda", Moscow, and others) Central Committee Resolution Comments of the scientists Against Western Communism Research (from: "Filosofskije nauki", Moscow, and others) "Positive Anti-Communists" Partiality in philosophy Reply J. M. Bochenskis
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Uticaj države na književnost postojao je uvijek i svuda, ali u Sovjetskoj Rusiji primio je sasvim neobičan karakter i ogromne razmere. Komunistička Stranka, postavši državnom vladom, pokapala je vanredan dar za organizaciju, naročito u pravcu nadzora i pritiska, i fizičkog i duhovnog: odlučivši se uništiti staru, predrevolucijonamu, buržujsku književnost i namjesto nje stvoriti novu, komunističko-sovjetsku, koja bi bila samo njoj odana i služila njenim stranačko-državnim ciljevima i planovima, Sovjetska Vlada pokazala je nečuvenu oštrinu, spretnost, i znanje, i vješto je iskoristila sve puteve i sva sredstva podesna u tu svrhu.
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This article treats dilemmas after Albania dictatorship. After the overthrow of communism everything was covered with the slogan “All victims, all guilty.” In these cases, more important than punishment,but also reparation, is the word of justice that defines publicly the responsibilities of each of the protagonists and defines the respective sites of the aggressor and the victim in relation to a fair distance. Can be forgiven one who does not accept his guilt? Should be offended one who forgives? Can someone forgive himself? We are still in time to face these existential questions in order to create a life worthy of living.
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Die gute Nachricht duldet keinen Verzug. Voller Freude teile ich Dir mit, daß das unter meiner Leitung stehende Theater Deine Tragikomödie Im geschlossenen Raum aufs Programm gesetzt hat. Ich gratuliere. Das ist ein schönes Silvestergeschenk nicht nur für Dich, sondern auch für uns, die wir uns alle freudig und enthusiastisch auf die Aufführung vorbereiten. Es ist nicht meine Art, jemanden über den grünen Klee zu loben, aber in diesem Fall muß es einfach gesagt werden: Du hast ein Meisterwerk geschrieben, das läßt sich nicht in Abrede stellen.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: » New China News Agency «, Bejing, Oktober 19, 1957 .ORIGINAL TITLE: » The Campaign to Improve Working Style; Report of the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Teng Hsiao-p'ing to the 3rd Expanded Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee on September 23, 1957. «
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: » New China News Agency «, Bejing, Dezember 7, 1957 // ORIGINAL TITLE: The results of China's first five-year plan and the tasks of future socialist construction. — Report by the Chairman of the State Planning Commission, Li Fu-chun, to the VIII All-China Trade Union Congress on December 7, 1957.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: » The New York Times «, November 17, 1957. / ORIGINAL TITLE: » Sputniks in Sky Obscure Soviet Economic Problem «
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Following the decision of the Central Committee of the CPSU of February 13, 19571, a new territorial system of industrial administration was introduced in the Soviet Union by the law of May 10, 1957. The deadline for the establishment of the new administrative units or economic districts, the sovnarkhoz, was July 1, 1957—a truly Petrine reform tempo! The six months that have passed since then are of course not sufficient for a definitive assessment of the effects of this measure. On the basis of the available reports, however, one can already draw a preliminary picture of the functioning of the sovnarkhosis, in which, after a short setting out of the framework, the perspectives rather than the background of the reorganization are to be illuminated.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: » Oktjabrj «, Moscow, Issue 11, 1957 / ORIGINAL TITLE: » Vremja ne zdet (Time doesn’t wait) «; Author: Iwan Winnitschenko
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: » Oktjabrj«, Moscow, Issue 12, 1957 / ORIGINAL TITLE: » Rabotat’ druzno, soobšča « (One must work together unanimously); Author: I. Buyanov, two-time Hero of Socialist Labor, Chairman of the Vladimir Ilyich Kolkhoz, Moscow Region. / ORIGINAL TITLE: » Nad etim sleduet podumat « (One should think about this); Author: P. Prozorov, Hero of Socialist Labor, Chairman of Krasny Octyabry Kolkhoz, Kumeny Rayon, Kirov Region // ORIGINAL SOURCE: » „Seljskoje chosjajstwo «, Moscow, January 9, 1958 / ORIGINAL TITLE: » Traktornoj brigadoj rukovodit pravlenie kolchoza « (The collective farm board directs the tractor brigade); Author: M. German, director of MTS Vygonichi, Bryansk region. // ORIGINAL SOURCE: » Oktjabrj«, Moscow, Issue 12, 1957 / ORIGINAL TITLE: » Dva nepremennych uslovija « (Two unconditional requirements); Author: K. Orlovsky, Hero of the Soviet Union, Chairman of Rassvet Collective Farm, Kirovsk Rayon, Mogilev Region.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: » Trud «, Moscow, Dezember 19, 1957 / ORIGINAL TITLE: » O rabote professional'nych sojuzov SSSR; Postanovlenie Plenuma CK KPSS, prinjatoe 17 dekabrja 1957 goda « (On the work of the USSR trade unions; Resolution of the Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee of December 17, 1957).
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: » Prawda «, Moscow, Dezember 21st, 1957 / ORIGINAL TITLE: » Sorok let na straze bezopasnosti Sovetskogo gosudarstva « (Forty years in the service of Soviet state security); Author: I. Serov, Chairman of the State Security Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers.
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We test the hypothesis that demographic continuity was a necessary condition of performable token post-communist social restorations. Demographic continuity means sufficient overlapping between populations of original and restored systems. Token social restoration refers to restorations where original and restored systems are identical. It is opposed to type restoration where original and restored systems are numerically different instances of the same type. The identity of original and restored systems in token restorations is achieved by performing various practices in the restored system to establish institutional continuity with the original system. The restitution of property rights is the most important of them in the post-communist restorations. So our hypothesis claims that these practices cannot be performed without sufficient demographic continuity. We abstract the demographic continuity thresholds by measuring shares of survivors from the precommunist times in the population of Baltic countries by 1990. Our data confirm the hypothesis as in none of post-communist countries with demographic continuity below these thresholds there was property rights restitution.
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