The evolution of Soviet Union has a close relationship with national issues,but national issues can’t be regarded alone,because the formulation and solution of national issues are connected with specific stages of social development.So we should summarize the experiences and learn lessons from the past.
How and why did the Nazis seize power in Germany? Nearly seventy years on, the question remains heated and important discoveries continue to challenge long standing assumptions. Beginmning with an overview of the historical context within which Nazism grew, looking at the foreign relations, politics and society of Weimar and in particular at the role of the elites in the rise of Nazism. The book questions the anatomy of Nazism itself: What lent Nazi ideology its coherence and credibility? What distinguished the Nazi's programme from their competitors' and how did they project it so effectively? How was Hitler able to put together and fund an organisation so quickly and effectively that it could launch a sustained assault on Weimar? Who supported the Nazis and what were their motives? Where, precisely, does Nazism belong in the history of Europe?. Since the publication of the first edition, important new works have appeared and this new scholarship has been incorporated into the text. ;
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The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe's most important link with the largest country on the continent. But despite Germany's unparalleled knowledge and historical experience, its policymakers struggle to accept that Moscow's efforts to rebalance Europe at the cost of the cohesion of the EU and NATO are an attack on Germany's core interests. This book explains the scale of the challenge facing Germany in managing relations with a changing Russia. It analyses how successive German governments from 1991 to 2014 misread Russian intentions, until Angela Merkel sharply recalibrated German and EU policy towards Moscow. The book also examines what lies behind efforts to revise Merkel's bold policy shift, including attitudes inherited from the GDR and the role of Russian influence channels in Germany.
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This book combines history, theory and reality, based on historical process of the Socialist Road with Chinese Characteristics; it regards the development history of sinicized Marxist after the reform and opening-up as a main clue; it gives an explanation to the establishment and development of the Chinese characteristic socialism theory system, also its monolithic structure, scientific intension and essential features. This book discusses ideological line and stage of development of the Chinese characteristic socialism theory system; it also analyzes the meaning of theory system in the development history of sinicized Marxist and contemporary development of socialism. This book also gives a comprehensive overview on “the Trend of China” and “the Beijing Consensus”, it gives a definition and an expatiation to development path in Chinese style, establishing an understanding on the development path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
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Presenting a case study of British colonial rule and its aftermath in Sri Lanka, this book explores the collision of competing ontologies in the making of the modern state system. It develops a decolonial theoretical framework informed by the idea of a 'pluriverse' to reveal the empirical and imperial avenues through which the idea of the modern/colonial state became normalised in Ceylon. The book contributes to three areas of scholarly discussion: the politics of ontology as related to sovereignty, postcolonial and decolonial international relations, and globalisation through the colonial encounter. It argues that in order to understand contemporary postcolonial crises rooted in territorial conflicts, we must first understand the historical and conceptual processes that depoliticised and universalised the norm of 'total territorial rule' rather than treating the modern state as a territorial and developmental inevitability.
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Mr. He Fengshan, born in Yiyang city of Hunan province, issued visas to thousands of Jews when he was the Consul General of the Chinese Embassy in Vienna but at the risk of his own life. Finally, he protected these Jews from being murdered by Nazi.
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This is the first book to appear in English about theatre from the entire Nazi period (1933-45). It is based on detailed statistical analysis, contemporary press reports, research in German archives and interviews with surviving playwrights, actors and musicians. The volume has an extensive bibliography and is fully illustrated. It forms a much needed guide to this neglected area of European culture and will be of interest to historians, Germanists and theatre specialists. The international contributors are William J. Niven, Glen Gadberry, Erik Levi, Rebecca Rovit, William Abbey and Katharina Havekamp. ;
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Much has already been written about Ukrainian-Russian relations in the context of Russian interests and priorities. Russia unceremoniously ennobled its history with other people's achievements while depriving Ukrainians of their past. From the Ukrainian's perspective, the story is completely different. For centuries Ukrainian literature has been involved in the anti-colonial discourse. From Kotlyarevsky, Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Kharkiv romantics to the era of modernism and eventually the emergence of contemporary Ukraine, it offered various models of identity, denying imperial claims and asserting its own cultural sufficiency. In this book, the authoritative literary critic Vira Ageyeva analyses the Ukrainian resistance to imperialism and the struggle of Ukraine for the preservation of it's collective memory through the prism of the cultural process.
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Vietnam has experienced rapid growth within its tourism industry during the past decades. This growth is part of Vietnam's opening economy allowing a wide range of forms of tourism. Vietnam Tourism: Policies and Practices provides a comprehensive review of tourism development in Vietnam. Part I outlines the history of tourism, the role and involvement of public and private sectors in governance and planning, and the markets for tourism. Part II offers analysis and assessment of various types of tourism in Vietnam, including marine and island, eco, heritage, dark and community-based tourism. Part III centres on current operational issues of tourism, hotels and events. The book provides an up-to-date analysis on Vietnamese tourism policy, structure, governance, and operations as well as various forms of tourism from both a theoretical and practical perspective by: providing a comprehensive review in a single resource; outlining public and private sector tourism; addressing Vietnamese structure, governance and planning of tourism; examining special interest tourism; · addressing current issues of industry's operations and management; embracing local and global perspectives; principles and practices applicable to Southeast Asia. Written by scholars with extensive research experience on tourism in Vietnam this book is a reliable source of reference for students, researchers and industry practitioners who are interested modern tourism specifically in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
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1939 entkommt der zwölfjährige Hans mit einem der »Kindertransporte« aus Nazi-Deutschland. Als einer der wenigen Überlebenden seiner Familie ist er fortan auf sich alleine gestellt und lässt seine deutsch-jüdische Herkunft hinter sich. Als Erwachsener baut er sich im ländlichen Wales eine neue Existenz auf und gründet eine Familie. Über seine Vergangenheit spricht er nicht, und für seine Kinder ist es schwer, ihren verschlossenen, oft unnachgiebigen Vater und sein mitunter eigensinniges Verhalten zu verstehen. Erst in hohem Alter stellt Hans sich seiner Vergangenheit und reist mit seinem Sohn Jonathan zurück nach Berlin, zu seinen Wurzeln, entlang der ehemaligen Route des Kindertransports. Jonathan Lichtenstein erzählt auf drei Zeitebenen vom Leben mit einem Vater, das geprägt war von den Schatten der Vergangenheit – und davon, wie er ihm endlich näherkam. Ein Road Trip mitten hinein ins Trauma des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts – bewegend und versöhnlich.
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1939 entkommt der zwölfjährige Hans mit einem der »Kindertransporte« aus Nazi-Deutschland. Als einer der wenigen Überlebenden seiner Familie ist er fortan auf sich alleine gestellt und lässt seine deutsch-jüdische Herkunft hinter sich. Als Erwachsener baut er sich im ländlichen Wales eine neue Existenz auf und gründet eine Familie. Über seine Vergangenheit spricht er nicht, und für seine Kinder ist es schwer, ihren verschlossenen, oft unnachgiebigen Vater und sein mitunter eigensinniges Verhalten zu verstehen. Erst in hohem Alter stellt Hans sich seiner Vergangenheit und reist mit seinem Sohn Jonathan zurück nach Berlin, zu seinen Wurzeln, entlang der ehemaligen Route des Kindertransports. Jonathan Lichtenstein erzählt auf drei Zeitebenen vom Leben mit einem Vater, das geprägt war von den Schatten der Vergangenheit – und davon, wie er ihm endlich näherkam. Ein Road Trip mitten hinein ins Trauma des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts – bewegend und versöhnlich.
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"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.
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Nora Hespers wächst mit vielen Geschichten über ihren Opa auf: den Widerstandskämpfer Theo Hespers, der von den Nazis gejagt und hingerichtet wurde. Ihr Vater erzählt sie bei jeder Gelegenheit. Immer und immer wieder. So oft, dass die jugendliche Nora irgendwann auf Durchzug stellt. Dann verlässt der Vater die Familie, und mit ihm verschwindet auch der Großvater aus ihrem Leben. Jahre später, Nora Hespers arbeitet inzwischen als freie Journalistin für Hörfunk und TV, wird sie wieder mit ihrem Großvater konfrontiert. Und das zu einer Zeit, in der die freiheitlich-demokratischen Werte, für die er gekämpft hat und für die er gestorben ist, bedroht werden wie lange nicht mehr. Für Nora Hespers ist es der Startpunkt, sich mit der Geschichte ihres Opas auseinanderzusetzen. Doch was kann man aus dem Widerstand damals für das Heute lernen? Nora Hespers' Buch ist eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Leben ihres Großvaters Theo Hespers. Außerdem ist es die berührende Geschichte einer Wiederbegegnung mit dem Vater – fünfzehn Jahre nachdem er seine Familie über Nacht verließ und sie den Kontakt zu ihm abbrach. Dabei richtet Hespers einen leidenschaftlichen Appell an uns alle: Unsere demokratischen Freiheitsrechte, für die Menschen wie Theo Hespers sich aufgeopfert haben, müssen heute mehr denn je gegen Angriffe von rechts verteidigt werden.
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Securitising Russia shows the impact of twenty-first-century security concerns on the way Russia is ruled. It demonstrates how President Putin has wrestled with terrorism, immigration, media freedom, religious pluralism, and economic globalism, and argues that fears of a return to old-style authoritarianism oversimplify the complex context of contemporary Russia. The book focuses on the internal security issues common to many states in the early twenty-first-century, and places them in the particular context of Russia. Detailed analysis of the place of security in Russia's political discourse and policy-making reveals nuances often missing from overarching assessments of Russia today. To characterise the Putin regime as the 'KGB-resurgent' is to miss vital continuities, contexts, and on-going political conflicts which make up the contemporary Russian scene. Securitising Russia draws together current debates about whether Russia is a 'normal' country developing its own democratic and market structures, or a nascent authoritarian regime returning to the past. ;
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Available for the first time in English translation, this collection of songs is a powerful memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. In June 1945, before the full devastation of the Holocaust had emerged, a team of researchers embarked on a remarkable project. While documenting the experiences of Jewish refugees, they began to collect songs composed and sung in the Nazi camps and ghettos. The resulting book, Mima'amakim (Out of the depths), was published in a short run of 500 copies. Today, only a handful survive. Out of the depths: The first collection of Holocaust songs presents the contents of this extraordinary document for a new generation of readers. Based on a copy of Mima'amakim discovered in 2013, it contains not only the songs' melodies and lyrics, the latter in a new translation by Joseph Toltz, but also short biographies of the composers, drawn from painstaking original research. Introductory essays provide historical and musicological background, deepening our knowledge of this terrible event and the creative means by which the Jewish people responded to and endured it. Described by the original editor, Yehuda Eismann, as a 'memorial stone for Polish Jewry', the songbook is a timeless document of a people's despair, hope and strength.
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The first comprehensive account of the public and cultural diplomacy campaigns carried out by the US in Yugoslavia during the height of the Cold War, this book examines the political role of culture in US-Yugoslav bilateral relations and the fluid links between information and propaganda. Tito allowed the US Information Agency and the State Department's cultural programmes to enter Yugoslavia, liberated from Soviet control. The exchange of intellectual and political personnel helped foster the US-Yugoslav relationship, yet it posed severe ideological challenges for both sides. By providing new insights into porous borders between freedom and coercion in Tito's regime, this book shows how public diplomacy acted as an external input for Yugoslav liberalisation and dissident movements. Using extensive archival research and interviews, Konta analyses the links between information and propaganda, and the unintended effects of propaganda beyond the control of producers and receivers.
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Socialist republic is a timely account of 1980s left-wing politics in South Yorkshire. It explores how Sheffield City Council set out to renew the British Left. Through careful analysis of the Council's agenda and how it interacted with trade unions, women's groups, lesbian and gay rights groups and acted on issues such as peace, environmentalism, anti-apartheid and anti-racism, the book draws out the complexities involved in building a broad-based politics which aimed unite class and identity politics. Running counter to 1980s narratives dominated by Thatcherism, the book examines the persistence of social democracy locally, demonstrating how grassroots local histories can enrich our understanding of political developments on a national and international level. The book is essential reading for students, scholars, and activists with an interest in left-wing politics and history.
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Fast eine halbe Million russischer Flüchtlinge nahm Berlin Anfang der 1920er Jahre auf. Die Stadt war in der Zwischenkriegszeit nicht nur die »Stiefmutter der russischen Städte«, sondern auch heimliches Zentrum der Weltrevolution. Hier trafen die totalitären Bewegungen aufeinander, die das Schicksal Europas im »Zeitalter der Extreme« besiegelten. Karl Schlögel spürt die große Geschichte in der kleinen auf, er folgt den dramatis personae und rekonstruiert die Netzwerke, in denen sie sich bewegen. Die Welt der Bahnhöfe und die der Salons im Tiergartenviertel, die Dichter des Silbernen Zeitalters und die Agitkünstler der Sowjetmacht, der Empfang in der sowjetischen Botschaft und Nabokovs Beobachtungen zum Aufstieg der Nazis, die Stadtwahrnehmung der Taxifahrer und der Skandal um die »Zarentochter Anastasia«. In seiner Darstellung spielen Kursbücher und Adressverzeichnisse eine Rolle, Cafés und Cabarets, das Zeremoniell der Diplomatie und die Praktiken des Untergrundkampfes, die polyglotte Welt der Komintern-Funktionäre und die Karten der Geopolitiker. Das Russische Berlin ist kein romantischer Ort, sondern Schauplatz einer Epoche, die Nachkrieg und Vorkrieg in einem war. Seit der Entfremdung zwischen Russland und der Europäischen Union ist auch das hochvernetzte »Russkij Berlin« der Gegenwart politisch gespalten. Der doppelte Blick auf das einstige und heutige russische Berlin erweist sich als unerwartet aktuell und produktiv.
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This is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race - not just ethnicity - and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects critical race scholarship, global historical sociologies of 'race in translation' and south-east European cultural critique to show that the Yugoslav region is deeply embedded in global formations of race. In doing this, it considers the everyday geopolitical imagination of popular culture; the history of ethnicity, nationhood and migration; transnational formations of race before and during state socialism, including the Non-Aligned Movement; and post-Yugoslav discourses of security, migration, terrorism and international intervention, including the War on Terror and the present refugee crisis.
