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Ivan Lovrenović is an intellectual living in Sarajevo, a writer, publicist, and author of essays and treatises on Bosnian culture and history. This text is a case study describing selected aspects of Lovrenović’s output. The author not only asks questions about the whole of Lovrenović’s intellectual activities but about the position of the intellectual in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She discusses how intellectual activity is conditioned by local circumstances.Lovrenović has advocated a common Bosnian culture, consistently pointing to the danger of dividing descriptions of the Bosnian-Herzegovinan world into solely Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian parts. Lovrenović is considered a total intellectual on account of the complexity of his activities to understand, describe, and systematically propagate that idea, his consistent attitude of protest, and also his commitment to defending common sense.
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The phenomenon of power accompanies the whole history of mankind. In any protosocial community, at the level of biological packs, power is expressed in the distribution of dominance-subordination relations between biological individuals. Such a distribution in biology is due to the need for the pack to survive, to fit into the changing ecosystem conditions. In the course of the study, the characteristics of ideological discourse in industrial social space, the distinguishing features of a totalitarian ideological discourse, the modern form of ideology – the invisible ideology of postmodernism – have been analysed. It was concluded that the two leading principles of postmodernism – tolerance and hedonism today are faced with a new traditionalism or rather a new archaic mass consciousness. As a result of this clash, most likely, a new form of ideological discourse will appear, more severe than postmodernism and more rationally justified than nationalism or religious fundamentalism
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The relevance of the study lies in the issue of divided Korea still being one of the most complex and relevant problems of the global political and legal system. With that, one of the main obstacles to solving the Korean problem is the nuclear missile threat of North Korea. The purpose of the article is to identify or disclose the features of solving the Korean problem in the current political situation, when each party wants to have it their way. The method facilitating the study of this issue is the comparative analysis that provides for a comprehensive consideration of the key factors impeding the negotiation process between the United States and North Korea. A modelling and forecasting methods are also used, which allows one to consider this issue from different perspectives and analyse various solutions. The article discusses the features of the negotiation process at each of the US-DPRK summits. The reasons for the inhibition of the negotiation process between the United States and the DPRK are analysed. It substantiates the importance of strengthening the role of the Republic of Korea, which, first and foremost, is the active promotion and support of the negotiation process and continuous offer of creative ideas that would satisfy both parties. The materials of the paper are of practical value for researchers, experts, politicians, as it considers recommendations for enhancing the negotiation process by inviting all interested parties (USA, DPRK, Kazakhstan, China, Russia, and Japan) to develop new approaches to solving this problem, which include: reconsideration of the position and the search for compromise solutions that would satisfy both parties. The importance of creating an international body to supervise the implementation of decisions and provide guarantees to North Korea is emphasized. The Republic of Korea is also encouraged to take more decisive steps to implement the decision of the two summits, because otherwise it would lose North Korea's trust completely. The importance of forming a real plan for the peaceful transformation of the Korean Peninsula and guarantees to the North Korean regime with the participation of all interested parties is highlighted. Thus, this article provides information and analytical studies of the political events of 2018-19 and possible options for the development of the further political situation on the Korean Peninsula.
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Natural causes have damaged most of the ancient rock art sites to certain extent. Thus, some rock plates were split off the granite capes of the Onega petroglyphic site by waves and moving ice. As a result, some of separated rock plates including those with ancient engravings were relocated or destroyed. Seven rock plates from Peri Nos III and Peri Nos VI capes were transported by researchers to the State Hermitage Museum and the National Museum of the Republic of Karelia. The initial location of some of these rock plates has not been identified yet. The article describes the methods of reconstructing the rock plates’ initial position at the rock surface of Peri Nos VI Cape: searching for relocated rock plates, placing them where they allegedly chipped off, positioning with the help of transparent plastic copies, and virtual positioning using 3D models. This method can be used in further studies for reconstructing other capes of the Onega petroglyphic site, as well as for similar tasks at other rock art sites.
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A reverse is a side, the opposite, but (in Polish) also an IOU of sorts, evidence of a promise to pay back a debt. A word is the reverse of silence but also a reverse of that, which leaves a lump in the throat and renders us speechless. The word can be an obligation, including one that cannot be lived up to. The author attempts to reveal and vocalize thus comprehended reverses – well aware of the fact that actually he would like demonstrate the reverse of silence.The sketch discusses reflections dealing with the status, form, and semiotic potential of handwritten accounts of Shoah, for more than forty years part of the Jan Manugiewicz home archive and today in the possession of the “Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN” Centre in Lublin. An integral part of the article consists of reproductions of the accounts and their reverse sides.
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An archive of sorts can exist within one’s body, cf. memory or DNA. Hidden archive containing the knowledge of one’s ancestors can sometimes induce a change of identity. Some Poles with Jewish roots have gone the way of de-assimilation, or the reversal of assimilation. Almost never does it lead to de-Polonization. At present, virtually all Polish Jews exist as Jews due to the process of de-assimilation. In the paper, a list of circumstances facilitating the process is presented.
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The topic of this text is the photographic archive of Stefania Gurdowa. An unexpected discovery of her 1200 glass negatives, walled up in an attic in one of the town houses in Dębica, was made in 1997. Intermittent numbering demonstrates that we are dealing with fragments of a wider photographic body (whose extent remains unknown). The very existence of this collection (which is actually coincidental) generates two important questions: what does the process of situating photographs within an archival context say about them, but also what do they contribute to knowledge about the composite and unambiguous idea of an archive? While attempting to bring the Gurdowa archive alive the author of the article confronts the artist’s glass images (in a representative selection) with poems-biograms from Spoon River Anthology by E.L. Masters.
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This Theme is a portrayal of the presence of the theme of Holocaust in the post-war circulation of folk art in Poland: the oeuvre of artists and the strategies of collectors, custodians, and curators. The author devotes much attention to the role played by Aleksander Jackowski, for many years editor-in-chief of “Polska Sztuka Ludowa” (1952–1998), in generating the reception of so-called “naive art”. References to biographies of persons creating the circulation of this particular art together with their wartime experiences comprise a backdrop for reflections dealing with the impact of anti-Semitism in Polish culture. The text was written upon the basis of the outcome of the Awkward Objects of Genocide research project realised as part of the activity of the Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts: From Intervention to Co-Production: TRACES (2016–2019) European consortium concentrated on controversial European heritage. More on: www.widokzzabliska.eu (www.terriblyclose.eu).
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A presentation, which at first glance seems implausible, of the French navy occupying the second position among naval powers in the second half of the 19th century but finding itself at the start of the first world conflagration on a surprising fourth place. However, this position is debatable, the total tonnage of the fleet being such an important criterion, without a serious bearing on the quality of the ships and, especially, on the homogeneity and the operability of the combat units. I presented only a few causes, trying to describe them: a political instability with a serious impact on naval investments, the enduring persistence on the "superiority of Jéune Ecole" even after being proven as a failure, the technical inability of the French arsenals being perhaps among the most important.
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This article presens of the first pavilion in the public garden, Alexandria 1900, try to brings light to the casa of construction with the signature of the architect Cristof Cerchez. Cerchez known at the time for the construction of the Minovici Vila was the chief arhitect of the city of Constanța and his signature is found on many buildings in Bucharest, Campulung Muscel, Alexandria. The Cerchez pavilion, extraordinary beautiful construction and with a special history, it was never dated. Based on analogies and archival data we were able to identify the construction years and the extension made by the same architect. Interesting is the fact that the alexandrian authorities based on an idea they demolished it but the alexandrians nostalgic after the beautiful construction keeps his memory for a long timethrough the picture on the postcards.
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The start of the First Balkan War, in early November 1912, forever changed the political and diplomatic scene of Europe, as Christian states (Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia) on one side and the Ottoman Empire on the other, were locked in a deadly conflict.
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It was without a doubt that the Romanian Navy experienced a period of great achievements in the interwar years. Especially compared to the limitations it had to face before, the 1919-1940 years were marked with a significant expansion in material and men. For the ships in questions it was necessary to acquire them from foreign constructors, since the Romanian naval industry was in its infancy. Mostly British and Italian shipyards competed to sell their projects, some of them with interesting and far-reaching features, to the Romanian Navy in an age of rearmament.
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Considering just the traffic volume, the commercial routes across Atlantic were of the highest importance especially for British interests in the war. This was obvious for its enemies as well, so the Germans launched its most important naval forces with the intent of bringing England to its knees.
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The documentary we want to bring to your attentions we are sure contains some important data for all who care interested in the military developments of the Great War in Dobruja, especially those of the Romanian Navy. It was created by Captain Nicolae A. Steriopol, probably in June 1940, when the respective officer worked in the Navy Bureau in the Historical Service of the General Staff. The documents was archived on June 28 1940 with the number 303.
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The period between the years 1913 and 1920 it was a turbulent era for Dobrogea. After the Second Balkan war, the presence of this territory known as the Quadrilateral in the composition of the Romanian state also brought many problems, which are revealed in period documents belonging to both central and local authorities.: the problems of the Muslim minority, the problem of colonization of the Macedonians, subversive communist organizations and the tension of relations with Bulgaria and with the Bulgarian minority in Dobrogea Noua. All these period accounts paint the realities of a rather unstable, uncertain period, which the inhabitants of the province between the Danube and the Sea were forced to cross during the first decades of the last century.
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