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Review of: Vanaaja pulm. Valitud tekste ja pilte 16. sajandi keskpaigast 19. aastasaja viimase veerandini. Kokku seadnud Ants Hein. Tallinn: Tänapäev, 2018. 423 lk.
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Review of: Vanaaja pulm. Valitud tekste ja pilte 16. sajandi keskpaigast 19. aastasaja viimase veerandini. Kokku seadnud Ants Hein. Tallinn: Tänapäev, 2018. 423 lk.
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Reviews of: Enno Tammer. Punatsensuur mälestustes, tegelikkuses, reeglites. Tallinn: Tammerraamat, 2014. 536 lk. Marie Underi päevikud 1922-1957. (Litteraria. Eesti kultuuriloo allikmaterjale 27.) Koostanud ja kommenteerinud Rutt Hinrikus. Tartu: Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi Teaduskirjastus, 2015. 138 lk. Mari Saat. Matused ja laulupeod. [Tartu:] Petrone Print, 2015. 168 lk. Eesti keeles ja meeles. Eesti filoloogid 1967-1972. Kursuseraamat. Koostanud Hille Karm, Anu Saluäär-Kall, Jüri Valge. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2014. 264 lk. Eesti Lastekirjanduse Keskuse toimetised 5. Tallinn, 2014. 108 lk.
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Reviews of: Slavica Revalensia. I. Tallinn: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2014. 220 lk. Slavica Revalensia. II. Tallinn: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2015. 232 lk. Leonhard Lapin. Olejad ja minejad. Mälestusi ja mõtisklusi. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2015. 208 lk. „Kuhu me siis läheme? – Eks ikka koju.” Sajandivahetus saksa kirjanduses 200 aastat tagasi. Goethe. Schiller. Tieck. Kleist. Hoffmann. Eichendorff. Büchner. Novalis. Hegel (Schelling?, Hölderlin?). Schlegel. Saksa keelest valinud ja tõlkinud Mati Sirkel. Saatesõna kirjutanud Ilmar Vene. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2015. 510 lk. Eda Ahi, Kärt Hellerma, Kätlin Kaldmaa, Maarja Kangro, Tiina Ann Kirss, Veronika Kivisilla, Helga Nõu, Carolina Pihelgas, Anu Saluäär, Jelena Skulskaja, Triin Soomets, Elin Toona, Elo Viiding. Kolmteist Eesti kirja. Loomingu Raamatukogu 2016, nr 1. 80 lk. Alexander Genis. Lugemistunnid: raamatusõbra kamasuutra. Tlk Toomas Kall. Loomingu Raamatukogu 2016, nr 2-5. 223 lk. Gennadi Muravin. Ebatsensuursed juhtumid. Sekeldused eesti raamatutega Nõukogude ajal. Kirjanduslikud meenutused. Tlk Toomas Huik. Tallinn: Tammerraamat, 2016. 371 lk.
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Review of: Cornelius Hasselblatt. Eemalt vaadates. Veerand sajandit eesti kirjandusega. Studia litteraria Estonica 15. Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2015. 511 lk.
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Reviews of: Vyvyan Evans. The Crucible of Language. Cambridge, 2015; Arefeh Farzindar, Diana Inkpen. Natural Language Processing for Social Media. San Rafael, 2015; Bing Liu. Sentiment Analysis. Mining Opinions, Sentiments, and Emotions. Cambridge, 2015;
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Review of: Hanness Korjuss. Ludzas igauņi. Zemes dieva tauta. Rīga: Lauku Avīze, 2017. 158 lk.
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Review of: Salmedin Mesihović, Bitka za Ilirik, Udruženje za proučavanje i promoviranje ilirskog naslijeđa i drevnih klasičnih civilizacija “BATHINVS”, Sarajevo, 2018, 622 str.
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Review of: Fra Anđelko Barun, Franjevci među svojim pukom, Kratka povijest Bosne Srebrene, Sarajevo: Svjetlo riječi, 2021, 179 str.
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Review of: Amila Kasumović, Zatočene: Žene u zatvorskom sustavu Bosne i Hercegovine 1878–1914., Sarajevo: Centar za historijska istraživanja, 2021, 165 str.
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Review of: Jerzy Michalski: Studia i szkice historyczne z XVIII i XIX wieku. [Historische Studien und Skizzen aus dem 18. und 19. Jh.]. Arcana. Kraków 2020. 852 S. ISBN 978-83-65350- 61-9. (PLN 49,35.)
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Review of: Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945. Bd. 15: Ungarn 1944–1945. Hrsg. von Regina Fritz. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. Berlin – Boston 2021. 850 S. ISBN 978-3-11-0365002-8. (€ 59,95.)
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Review of: Hannes Heer, Christian Streit: Vernichtungskrieg im Osten. Judenmord, Kriegsgefangene und Hungerpolitik. Hrsg. u. mit einem Vorwort von Frank Heidenreich und Lothar Wentzel. VSA Verlag. Hamburg 2020. 240 S. ISBN 978-3-96488-039-0. (€ 19,80.)
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Review of: Elena Marushiakova, Vesselin Popov (eds.), Roma Voices in History. A Sourcebook, BRILL, Ferdinand Schoningh, 2021,
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Zdeněk Doskočil’s biography, "V žaláři a vyhnanství: Ladislav Novomeský v éře stalinismu a poststalinismu" [In Prison and Exile: Ladislav Novomeský in the Era of Stalinism and Post-Stalinism], presents the fate of the Slovak and Czechoslovak poet, journalist and politician Ladislav Novomeský (1904–1976). In interwar Prague, Novomeský was involved in the activities of the Slovak left-wing cultural group DAV. During the Second World War he became a member of the illegal leadership of the Slovak Communist Party and after the war he was a deputy of the National Assembly and, as Commissioner (povereník) of Education and Enlightenment, also a member of the Slovak government. In 1951 he was arrested and, in 1954, in a political trial together with Gustáv Husák (1913–1991) and other so-called Slovak bourgeois nationalists, he was sentenced to ten years in prison. Having been released a year later, however, he returned to public life and eventually to high political office during the 1960s. In the reviewer’s opinion, in the key chapters that deal with Novomeský’s imprisonment and his journey towards political rehabilitation, Doskočil succeeds, using all the relevant sources, to create a well-informed, balanced, empathetic and readable picture of one of the most important (Czecho-) Slovak communist intellectuals. He thoroughly analyses the preparation and course of the “bourgeois nationalists” trial and describes the reactions of the Slovak intellectual milieu. Doskočil’s book thus ranks among the best biographical works that Czech (and Slovak) historiography has produced in recent years.
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Zdeněk Doskočil’s biography, "V žaláři a vyhnanství: Ladislav Novomeský v éře stalinismu a poststalinismu" [In Prison and Exile: Ladislav Novomeský in the Era of Stalinism and Post-Stalinism], presents the fate of the Slovak and Czechoslovak poet, journalist and politician Ladislav Novomeský (1904–1976). In interwar Prague, Novomeský was involved in the activities of the Slovak left-wing cultural group DAV. During the Second World War he became a member of the illegal leadership of the Slovak Communist Party and after the war he was a deputy of the National Assembly and, as Commissioner (povereník) of Education and Enlightenment, also a member of the Slovak government. In 1951 he was arrested and, in 1954, in a political trial together with Gustáv Husák (1913–1991) and other so-called Slovak bourgeois nationalists, he was sentenced to ten years in prison. Having been released a year later, however, he returned to public life and eventually to high political office during the 1960s. The reviewer introduces in detail the content of each chapter and comments on some events and contexts, such as Novomeský’s post-war political activities, the political trial of the “bourgeois nationalists” and its consequences for Slovak culture, Novomeský’s imprisonment and his lifelong belief in communist ideals. Doskočil’s biography, in her opinion, provides a lesson in honest historical work that draws on extensive archival research and on the solid knowledge of the relevant literature. It offers an empathetic and accurate portrait of a prominent Slovak artist and left-wing intellectual in the context of the turbulent events of Czechoslovak history, as presented by an unbiased Czech historian.
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Zdeněk Doskočil’s biography, "V žaláři a vyhnanství: Ladislav Novomeský v éře stalinismu a poststalinismu" [In Prison and Exile: Ladislav Novomeský in the Era of Stalinism and Post-Stalinism], presents the fate of the Slovak and Czechoslovak poet, journalist and politician Ladislav Novomeský (1904–1976). In interwar Prague, Novomeský was involved in the activities of the Slovak left-wing cultural group DAV. During the Second World War he became a member of the illegal leadership of the Slovak Communist Party and after the war he was a deputy of the National Assembly and, as Commissioner (povereník) of Education and Enlightenment, also a member of the Slovak government. In 1951 he was arrested and, in 1954, in a political trial together with Gustáv Husák (1913–1991) and other so-called Slovak bourgeois nationalists, he was sentenced to ten years in prison. Having been released a year later, however, he returned to public life and eventually to high political office during the 1960s. The reviewer appreciates the sensitivity and knowledge with which Doskočil depicts Novomeský’s political and human portrait from an extensive factual base, outlines his world of meaning and ideas, and critically examines his lifelong belief in communist ideals. At the same time, however, she questions the book’s timespan: the biography clearly focuses on the period of Novomeský’s imprisonment and subsequent path to political rehabilitation, ending in the mid-1960s. Furthermore, she raises questions that she believes deserve deeper illumination. For example: What was Novomeský’s relationship with Husák? What were and how did he perform in his political functions? And was he not sometimes a more autonomous actor than the author portrays him to be?
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"Československo v období socialismu 1945–1989" [Czechoslovakia in the Period of Socialism,1945–1989] by Jan Rychlík is, according to the reviewer, the first full-fledged expert synthesis of Czechoslovak history in the period from the Second World War to the fall of the communist regime in almost thirty years. Unlike other previous works of a similar focus, the well-known Czech historian and expert on the history of Czech-Slovak relations takes due account of the Slovak dimension of internal political development. He also compares the developments in Czechoslovakia with the situation in the other states of the Soviet bloc. Drawing on his archival research and a rich knowledge of literature, Rychlík questions the simplistic interpretation of the historical processes of the time as a struggle between the communist elites and a society that supposedly largely rejected the ruling regime. In the reviewer’s opinion, some of Rychlík’s interpretations can be disputed, but factual errors are minimal and the work deserves high praise.
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The book by historian Jan Rataj and political scientists Miloš Dlouhý and Antonín Háka entitled "Proti systému! Český radikální konzervativismus, fašismus a nacionální socialismus 20. a 21. století" [Against the System! Czech Radical Conservatism, Fascism and National Socialism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries] comprehensively discusses the multifaceted phenomenon of the extreme political right in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic from 1918 to the present. In the first part, the authors cover the period of the First and Second Czechoslovak Republics, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the wartime Slovak Republic. The period of the renewed Czechoslovak and Czech democracy, since the early1990s, is examined in the second part with an emphasis on the developments in the twenty-first century. Despite some differences in the method of treatment and the temporal discontinuity of the two parts, the book, according to the reviewer, is a successful summary of the issues. It analyses the attitudes these ideological trends and political movements maintain towards the liberal-democratic establishment, and it outlines their (common or different) features and continuities. The reviewer agrees with the assessment that, with the exception of the years from 1938 to 1945, the Czech radical-right scene was fragmented and marginal, but she also draws attention to the danger that in other historical constellations the same anti-systemic forces could have gained much greater influence and that they can still draw on the defects of today’s democracy.
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"Marxismus a skok do království svobody: Dějiny komunistické utopie" [Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The History of Communist Utopia], a comprehensive monograph by the Polish historian of ideas Andrzej Walicki, is the Czech translation of the original Polish edition entitled "Marksizm i skok do królewstwa wolności: Dzieje komunistycznej utopii" (Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN 1996) and represents, according to the reviewer, a very serious attempt at an all-embracing interpretation of the genesis of Marxist thought from its “classics” through Leninism and Stalinism to older and more recent revisionism. Walicki looks for the preconditions of the later development of Marxism already in Marx and Engels, pointing out mainly implicit connections and accentuating continuities of Marxist conceptions rather than their differences and contradictions. He sets himself against both the implacable anti-communism that belittles the transformations of Marxist thought, and the Western leftist intellectuals who deny the connection between the original Marxist ideas and the way they were implemented in communist countries. The reviewer focuses on some of the book’s central themes and puts into concrete terms Walicki’s interpretations of the key representatives of Marxist thought, especially Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir I. Lenin and Joseph V. Stalin. These include the rejection of the market economy, the idea of the liberation of man in his generic nature, and the deterministic-teleological conception of history, implying the inevitable development of human society. The book’s shortcomings, according to the reviewer, are its excessive focus on Poland and problems of terminology in the Czech translation.
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Lenka Krátká based her book "Letos musíme být spokojenější než loni! Proměny české firemní kultury po roce 1989" [This Year We Must Be Happier Than Last Year! Transformations of Czech Corporate Culture After 1989] on her analysis of oral history interviews with thirty respondents who were employed in the management of Czech and Czechoslovak branches of Western companies in the 1990s, mostly in the financial sector and information technology. Krátká’s intention is to use Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality to uncover the constitution of neoliberal subjectivity in Czech post-socialist society and to explore the degree of discipline associated with the new power relations in the corporate environment. The reviewers find her conclusion of the practical emptiness of corporate proclamations of loyalty, efficiency and performance by management and employees, who were generally cynical about them, remarkable. The historicization of the subjective experience of an emerging segment of the labour market during the 1990s is, according to the reviewers, the greatest contribution of the publication, while the changes incorporate culture remain rather under-interpreted by the author.
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