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The article puts a light on the features of the financial politics of the government of the Russian Empire in the middle of XIX – the beginning of XX century , which was caused of the multinational character of the state. Determined the complex of the regional political and economical problems, which were influencing on the forming of the empire tax policy in the individual national outskirts. We pay attention on the regional features of the taxation of the real estate in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Lithuanian, Baltic and Polish provinces. The evolution of the fiscal system is investigated. It was grounded on the transition from the fold system of taxation to the accountant one. This transition of the tax system was first applied in the provinces of the kingdom of Poland. It is shown, that the level of taxation of the real estate in Ukrainian, Byelorussian and Baltic regions didn’t have a special features. While in the Kingdom of Poland the over high level of state taxation was observed. The highest level of taxation among other regions mainly was caused because of high tax rates on real estate. It is also confirms the existence of an uneven and discriminatory approach of the imperial legislation concerning some of the borderlands . The statements to the imperial government on a fair and equal distribution of the taxation to all of regions of the empire were only in declarative nature.In addition , the tax mechanism was widely used to determine the relationship between the national government and the surrounding area , depending on the prevailing political situation.
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The study deals with the circumstances of the formation of social protests within the context of the lower classes during the first years after the establishment of Czechoslovakia and with the relationship between social radicalism and radical socialism during this period. On one hand, the author focuses on the social causes of the protests, on the other hand, the ways in which the protests were expressed are analysed. Considering the establishment of Czechoslovakia, the emphasis is put on the process of continuity of the development of social and economic circumstances, in which the lower classes lived in this period. The aspect of the discontinuity of political development remains overlooked. It is distinguished by the differences between the interests and political behaviour of two quite separate social worlds – the interests of the elite and middle class on one hand and the interests of the lower classes, that had been most damaged by the social and economic situation at the end of the war and after the establishment of Czechoslovakia on the other. With socially differentiated views and emphasizing the continuity of the social and economic situation, the process of the national-democratic revolution in 1918 (accentuated among the higher and middle classes, as well as in the official history) seems to parallel the specific development of social protests within the context of the lower classes. At the same time, the study focuses on the multiple radical lexicons present in the sphere of discourse and used in the radicalization of the lower classes. The communist lexicon, which was significantly used by the lower classes in towns and rural areas almost immediately after war, played an important role as a political language of social protest.
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This article explores the phenomenon of the ‘Green Cadres' at the end of the First World War in Austria-Hungary, with a focus on events in western Slovakia 1918-1920. The Green Cadres were bands of army deserters and radicalized peasants who hid in the forests and mountains of the monarchy during the last year of the war and then violently attempted to topple the social-political order in many localities as the state collapsed. The article suggests that they represented both the last major episode of peasant unrest in the region and a radical new attempt by the rural common people to influence the character of national and social politics in the interwar period. The nationalist dimension of this loose social movement appears to have been particularly strong in western Slovakia and may indicate some affiliation with the leaders of Slovak Catholic populism. On the other hand, the inability of nationalist elites to coopt the Green Cadres was in part responsible for their marginalization in narratives of Czechoslovak liberation as well as in contemporary historiography. On the basis of sources in Slovak, Czech, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and German, this study argues that the Slovak case of the Green Cadres fits into a broader transnational phenomenon, which sheds new light on the history of East Central Europe in the twentieth century.
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The studies on coin circulation in medieval urban centers during the 12th-14th centuries are strongly represented in Bulgarian historiography. The author explores the whole numismatic material of various fortresses. A complete comparison between individual fortresses during this period has not been made. The aim of the present study is to attempt to analyze the economic status and development of the large urban centres in the period of the Second Bulgarian Tsardom – Ryahovets, Cherven, Shumen and Ovech, based on the published numismatic material from these cities.
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The article reviews the migration policy of the Ottoman rule in Sofia district (Sanjak of Sofia) in the 1860s and 1870s. To the Sublime Porte this district had important strategic significance on controlling the provinces inhabited by Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire and on fencing off the anti-Ottoman actions of the neighbouring Principality of Serbia. The article establishes the objectives the Ottoman authorities wanted to achieve with their migration policy, it outlines the main directions of its implementation and analyzes the results achieved.
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Trabzon provincial administration was made budget in 1914 via Law of City General Management. Budget was ordered by created Private Management Budget and its practicing instruction consider city characteristic. In the city management was established two different committees and these committees responsible from municipality, education, agriculture, foundation, public works. Thus, gathered taxes from citizen were given by these committees to citizen.
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