scholarly journals Mazurzy na Podolu Wschodnim: pamięć, tożsamość i dziedzictwo

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelina Jakimowicz
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Polish Population ◽  
World War ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Second World ◽  
Specific Identity

Masurians in the East Podolia: Memory, Identity and HeritageThe theme of this article is specific identity and memory of the Polish population in the selected villages of Khmelnytskyi Raion of Ukraine, with the second most numerous Polish population in Ukraine. The specificity of this Polish population results from a long habitation in the same territory. From the moment they arrived on Podolia until their deportations to Kazakhstan and Siberia in the 1930s, this group did not migrate at all. The article is based on research conducted in three the so-called “Masurian” villages. The inhabitants of these areas are defined as Masurians – they are descendants of Polish peasants who settled therein the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The text shows the identity of the ethnic community of “Masurian” villages and the memory of their Polish peasant roots. Hundreds years of living together in one region and endogamy rules in force since the Second World War have contributed to the fact that these local communities have preserved memory of their Polish and peasant origin, as well as their specific dialect and religion. Mazurzy na Podolu Wschodnim: pamięć, tożsamość i dziedzictwoTematem artykułu jest specyfika tożsamości i pamięci ludności polskiej w wybranych wsiach obwodu chmielnickiego na Ukrainie, który jest drugim co do liczebności polskiej ludności obwodem Ukrainy. Specyfika ludności polskiej na terenie prawobrzeżnej Ukrainy opiera się na jej długim trwaniu na jednym terytorium. Od chwili przybycia na teren Podola aż do momentu zsyłek do Kazachstanu i na Syberię w latach 30. XX wieku tej grupy nie dotykały ruchy migracyjne. Artykuł opiera się na badaniach prowadzonych w trzech wsiach zwanych „mazurskimi”: Hreczanach, Szaraweczce i Maćkowcach. Ludność zamieszkująca te tereny określa się mianem Mazurów – potomków polskich chłopów, osadników z XVII i XVIII wieku. W tekście przedstawiono charakter tożsamości ludności wsi mazurskich, pamięć wspólnotową dotyczącą polskich i zarazem chłopskich korzeni grupy. Kilkusetletnie życie w jednym regionie, jak i obowiązująca do czasów II wojny światowej zasada endogamii spowodowały, że wspólnoty wsi mazurskich zachowały pamięć o swoim polskim i zarazem chłopskim pochodzeniu, gwarę i wyznanie.

‘If you strike a King you must kill him’: Sir Archibald Salvidge and the Revolt of Liverpool’s Conservative MPs, 1927-1928

2020 ◽  
Vol 169 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Paul A. Nuttall
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Second World War ◽  
News Story ◽  
World War ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World ◽  
Local Party

In the spring of 1927, Liverpool’s Conservative MPs concluded that the local party was not equipped to counter the rise of Socialism in the city. They therefore demanded significant changes were made to the structure of the Liverpool Conservative Party. At the head of the local party was Sir Archibald Salvidge, a ruthless political operator who was determined not to give up the powers he had accrued over decades of service. What began as an internal row between Salvidge and seven rebel MPs became a national news story, and the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Conservative Party Chairman became entangled. In many ways, the row represented the moment when Liverpool’s pre-war rowdy Unionism clashed with Stanley Baldwin’s post-war consensual conservatism; and the outcome of the dispute determined the character of Liverpool’s politics until the outbreak of the Second World War.

Alexander and the Iranians

1980 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. Bosworth
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Source Analysis ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The One ◽  
Polar Opposite ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Second World

The last two decades have seen a welcome erosion of traditional dogmas of Alexander scholarship, and a number of hallowed theories, raised on a cushion of metaphysical speculation above the mundane historical evidence, have succumbed to attacks based on rigorous logic and source analysis. The brotherhood of man as a vision of Alexander is dead, as is (one hopes) the idea that all Alexander sources can be divided into sheep and goats, the one based on extracts from the archives and the other mere rhetorical fantasy. One notable theory, however, still flourishes and has indeed been described as one of the few certainties among Alexander's aims. This is the so-called policy of fusion. As so often, the idea and terminology go back to J. G. Droysen, who hailed Alexander's marriage to Rhoxane as a symbol of the fusion (Verschmelzung) of Europe and Asia, which (he claimed) the king recognised as the consequence of his victory. At Susa the fusion of east and west was complete and Alexander, as interpreted by Droysen, saw in that fusion the guarantee of the strength and stability of his empire. Once enunciated, Droysen's formulation passed down the mainstream of German historiography, to Kaerst, Wilcken, Berve and Schachermeyr, and has penetrated to almost all arteries of Alexander scholarship. Like the figure of Alexander himself the theory is flexible and capable of strange metamorphoses. In the hands of Tarn it developed into the idea of all subjects, Greek and barbarian, living together in unity and concord in a universal empire of peace. The polar opposite is an essay of Helmut Berve, written in the heady days before the Second World War, in which he claimed that Alexander, with commendable respect for Aryan supremacy, planned a blending of the Macedonian and Persian peoples, so that the two racially related (!)Herrenvölkerwould lord it over the rest of the world empire. On Berve's interpretation the policy had two stages. Alexander first recognised the merits of the Iranian peoples and placed them alongside the Macedonians in his court and army hierarchy. Next came the ‘Blutvermischung’, the integration of the two peoples by marriage.

scholarly journals Pamięć o ojcu. Refleksje z rozmów z rodzinami katyńskimi. Rekonesans badawczy

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 89-127
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Łagojda
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Prisoner Of War ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
Former Ussr ◽  
Second World

The article analyzes biographical narrations referring to the daily life of families of the victims murdered by Soviet troops in Katyn and other places in the former USSR. The text includes 12 biographical interviews and recorded memories of Katyn families. The text describes the years from the interwar period to the fall of Communism in Poland. The article describes memories of the Second Polish Republic period when families of Polish officers constituted the highest social class, about the moment of saying goodbye to a father who was setting off to the front and then was taken prisoner by Soviets. Using postcards and letters sent from prisoner-of-war camps, which are attached to the article, the author presents the context of the correspondence of families with their close relatives, the sudden break of this correspondence and the anxiety connected with this lack of messages from the camps. The author carries out a detailed analysis of the process of impossibility of accepting the death of loved ones by their families. The text also addresses the issue of the “Katyn lie” and its influence on the lives of families in the Polish People’s Republic, celebrating holidays, their social status after the Second World War and many others. Being aware that the topic is far from being fully described, the author poses a few significant research questions at the end of the discussion that require further analysis.

scholarly journals Collective actions for reconfiguration of urban space Biały Bór, Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Sergiy Ilchenko
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
World War ◽  
Complete Replacement ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

Biały Bór is located in the former German territories that came to Poland after the Second World War. The almost complete replacement of the indigenous German and Jewish populations, initially by Polish and soon Ukrainian communities, was the result of the displacement of state borders by the eviction and relocation of millions of people. To do this, the authorities used certain strategies, which brought different approaches and constraints to local communities and urban spaces. The article considers the differences between the declared principles and the actual actions of the authorities in the context of “small stories” of all actors (national communities), as well as the tactics of indirect resistance of the local community to government pressure. Due to the remoteness of the place from the state center and due to its unanimity, the local community becomes the driving force of the spatial development of the city. And since the city is multicultural, the development of public spaces is influenced by the competitiveness (not confrontation) of two local communities. Therefore, the creation of public spaces is considered in the context of the rights of different groups to the city. This paper argues the conditions under which it is the collective actions of local communities that determine the change in the configuration of urban space.

scholarly journals WALLERSTEIN, ARRIGHI E AMIN: O IMPERIALISMO NO CAPITALISMO FORDISTA

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Felipe Brandão Osorio
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World Production ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Production Relations ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Second World ◽  
Over Time

Imperialism takes on a new guise after the Second World War. In a panorama of expanding production relations, capitalism becomes, in fact, a mode of world production, based on Fordism. In this dynamic, new elements are incorporated into the analysis of international relations, such as the periphery, unequal exchanges, the transfer of value, and the world system, which end up not only eclipsing imperialism but also giving it other outlines. In this tone, it is necessary to investigate three influential authors, such as Wallerstein, Arrighi, and Amin, demonstrating their place and their limits in the central debate of international relations. Over time, the three, due to the vigor of their ideas and political engagement, became essential authors for criticizing the moment of capitalism in which we are inserted, even if it is to refute them. Studying it means unraveling yet another important knot in the task of investigating imperialism, an essential concept for understanding reality.

scholarly journals Making Peace in the Shadow of War: The Austrian–Hungarian Borderlands, 1945–1956

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK PITTAWAY
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
State Reconstruction ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Legitimate State ◽  
The Military ◽  
Second World

AbstractThis article examines the process of state reconstruction in Austria and Hungary's borderlands that followed the Second World War. This process of state reconstruction was also a process of pacification, as it represented an attempt to (re)build states on the foundations of the military settlement of the war. The construction of legitimate state authority was at its most successful on the Austrian side of the border, where political actors were able to gain legitimacy by creating a state that acted as an effective protector of the immediate demands of the local community for security from a variety of threats. On the Hungarian side of the border the state was implicated with some of the actors who were seen as threatening local communities, something that produced political polarisation. These differences set the stage for the transition from war to cold war in the borderlands.

Trouble at the Explosive Plant: Ceri Richards and Dylan Thomas

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-178
Author(s):  
Leo Mellor
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
War Poetry ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Dylan Thomas ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Second World ◽  
Organic As

This chapter analyses Thomas’s Second World War poetry within a comparative context; it reads it alongside – and also through – the art of Ceri Richards, another individual who combined a Swansea-lineage, some European aesthetic influences, and a compulsive – if horrified – fascination with beauty-in-destruction. The wartime works of both Richards and Thomas repeatedly return to representations of the organic as a way of capturing moments of intense violence. In doing so, they raise a number of vital questions. If these works aim to capture the incendiary horrors and transformative energy of the moment when all is in flux, how can they do this using the organic? If a violent moment is knowable through a version of the natural world, how then is destruction changed? What other kinds of temporalities are imported into such a ‘timeless second’ – to use William Sansom’s phrase? And, concomitantly, how is the idea of nature and the natural changed if it is being utilised to portray blast and terror? The chapter proceeds through close analysis of a number of Thomas’s wartime poems – including ‘Deaths and Entrances’ and ‘A Refusal to Mourn’ – and sets them alongside art works by Richards such as Blossoms (1940) and Cycle of Nature (1944).

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Müller
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Women Prisoners ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
World War ◽  
Cell Life ◽  
Women's Prison ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Second World

The introduction introduces the main argument of the book as well as the sources used while to write it. Towards the end, the chapter provides short synopsis of all the chapters of the book. The main theme of the book are the lives of women prisoners who were confined from the end of the Second World War through the first, most brutal and intense phase of the building of Communism in Poland. The book accompanies the prisoners from the moment of their arrests, through their interrogations and years of cell life, to their eventual release. In other words, the book examines the postwar world in Poland from a very particular place: namely, inside the walls of a women’s prison cell, while arguing that prison not only crushed but also created identities.

Racial Violence in the Global South

2021 ◽  
pp. 161-184
Author(s):  
Alexander D. Barder
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Global South ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
World War ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
Second World ◽  
At Home

This chapter explores the manner in which “explicit and implicit racial and colonial/imperial assumptions” operate in ways that proliferate domestic and international violence. The chapter begins by first examining the moment after the Second World War when there was the impetus for decolonization and a drive for global racial equality emanating from the global South. The second part of the chapter then explores the American intervention in Vietnam as a manifestation of this continued global racial imaginary. American violence in Indochina ran parallel to the exacerbation of racial violence at home. Here the discussion turns to African American writers, in particular Martin Luther King Jr., who were able to clearly see the connections between American violence abroad and the persistence of racial suppression and violence at home.

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