1. Camus, son of France in Algeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Oliver Gloag
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Early Education ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Early Writing ◽  
World War ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Second World ◽  
French Citizen ◽  
Formative Years

To grasp fully and appreciate Camus’s achievements and the ambiguity of his works, it is important to consider the historical situation that shaped his formative years. Albert Camus (1913–60) was a French citizen born in Algeria. He would live there from his birth until the middle of the Second World War. ‘Camus, son of France in Algeria’ outlines the structure of Algeria under the rule of the French Republic and the early education of Camus and his two major mentors, Louis Germain and Jean Grenier. It also documents his ill-health, unsuccessful first marriage, his early writing, and introduction to politics through membership of the Communist Party.

scholarly journals Creating a communist Yugoslavia in the Second World War

Balcanica ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 243-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kosta Nikolic ◽  
Ivana Dobrivojevic
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Legacy ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Kingdom Of Yugoslavia ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Second World

The Second World War involved the conflict of three different ideologies - democracy, fascism and communism - an aspect in which it was different from the Great War. This ideological triangle led to various shifts in the positions, views, and alliances of each of the warring parties. Yugoslavia with its historical legacy could not avoid being torn by similar ideological conflicts. During the Second World War a brutal and exceptionally complex war was fought on its soil. The most important question studied in this paper concerns the foremost objective of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) - to carry out a violent change of the legal order and form of government of the pre-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

The Surrealist Revolutionaries

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-122
Author(s):  
William Klinger ◽  
Denis Kuljiš
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Guerrilla Warfare ◽  
National Liberation ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Commander ◽  
Commander In Chief ◽  
Second World ◽  
General Secretary

This chapter begins with Marshal Tito's proclamation of being the commander-in-chief of the National-Liberation Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia (NOPOJ) as he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY). It looks at Tito's article “The Task of the National-Liberation Partisan Detachments,” in which he defines the formations and tactics that must be used. It also points out how detailed planning helped make communists successful when fighting on secret fronts or waging guerrilla warfare. The chapter describes Konstantin “Koča” Popović as Tito's military commander and the greatest general of the Second World War. It emphasizes how Koča was the single most important cadre among the tough people from the communist underground who was essential for the ensuing war.

scholarly journals From Pariahs to Patriots: Canadian Communists and the Second World War

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Frazer
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Royal Canadian Mounted Police ◽  
Mackenzie King ◽  
Communist Party Of Canada ◽  
Second World

Official anti-communist policies, adopted by the Mackenzie King government during the Second World War, were only partially effective. These policies were implemented by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) and the armed forces high command, and included internment, banning the Communist Party of Canada (cpc), and monitoring communists in the armed forces. These policies, however, were thwarted by the logic of the war, as well as by opposition from liberal public opinion and the communists themselves.

scholarly journals The Role of Ethnographers in the Invention of Socialist Traditions in the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Ilze Boldāne-Zeļenkova
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
World War ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
Soviet Socialist Republic ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Second World

Abstract This study, based on archive document research and analysis of publications by Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (LSSR) ethnographers, discusses the process of invention and implementation of Socialist traditions and the role of scientists in this. The introduction of Soviet traditions in Latvia did not begin immediately after the Second World War when the communist occupation regime was restored. The occupation regime in the framework of an anti-religious campaign turned to the transformation of traditions that affect individual’s private sphere and relate to church rituals – baptism, confirmation, weddings, funerals, Latvian cemetery festivities – in the second half of 1950s, along with the implementation of revolutionary and labour traditions. In order to achieve the goals set by the Communist Party, a new structure of institutions was formed and specialists from many fields were involved, including ethnographers from the Institute of History at the LSSR Academy of Sciences (hereinafter – LSSR AS). Ethnographers offered recommendations, as well as observed and analysed the process, discussing it in meetings of official commissions and sharing the conclusions in scientific publications, presentations, etc.

scholarly journals WWII MONUMENTS IN YUGOSLAVIA IN THE PRINTED MEDIA: BOOKS, TOURIST GUIDES AND A STICKER ALBUM – POPULARIZATION AND PROPAGANDA

2021 ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Nenad Lajbenšperger
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Printed Media ◽  
Youth Education ◽  
Monuments And Memorials ◽  
The Sacrifice ◽  
Second World ◽  
Tourist Guides

Publications about monuments to fighters and victims of the Second World War in Yugoslavia began to appear in the late 1950s. They were dedicated to one or more monuments or memorial complexes. Over time, in tourist guides, among other sites, monuments and memorials began to be presented as a significant place worth a visit. During the second half of the 1970s, printing of special tourist guides dedicated only to monuments and memorial complexes started. Because of the popularity of monuments, a sticker album was also printed. The intention behind printing such publications was to inform citizens about monuments, but there was also an ideological side to it. Through books about monuments, the state and the Communist party wanted to emphasize again Yugoslav war efforts and the sacrifice that was made during the war. They used it as a propaganda tool in youth education, foreign diplomacy and overall state propaganda about the role of Yugoslav partisans, under the leadership of the Communist party, in the victory against fascism.

The Religious Problem of Evil

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Aho
Keyword(s):  
Albert Camus ◽  
Problem Of Evil ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Human Response ◽  
World War ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Second World

This chapter provides some of the answers as to how evil is experienced and why it exists. Evil explodes into the everyday world unasked and unwelcome, and has little underlying meaning other than in relation to culturally contrived notions of orderliness, goodliness, or legality. Three major reasons or rhetorics are routinely raised by evil-doers when called upon to account for their acts: arguments from affect, from custom, and from rationality. Human evil is always “reasonable” even if it seems at first glance to be crazy. Mankind becomes the occasion of evil; not out of craven malignity, but out of a yearning to triumph over evil. Albert Camus reported on the human response to “plague,” a metaphor for the evils he had just witnessed during the Second World War. However, he failed to determine exactly what a disillusioned grappling with evil might mean.

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