The Anatomy of Stalinist Police States

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-123
Author(s):  
Molly Pucci
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Secret Police ◽  
Surveillance Networks ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Meaningful Information ◽  
Informational Barriers ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This article examines the building of Communist surveillance networks in Czechoslovakia and Poland in the early 1950s, focusing on the methods employed by the operational divisions of the secret police in these countries and their system of “preventative policing,” and shows how the secret police networks shaped the information reaching Communist party leaders and Soviet advisers in East-Central Europe during the Stalinist period. By examining how the regimes collected information on the economy, religious institutions, higher education, and other areas of everyday life, the article traces how blanket surveillance networks became more institutionalized, insular, and scripted over time, hindering the state's ability to collect and process meaningful information. These problems were symptomatic of larger informational barriers facing Soviet-style regimes.

scholarly journals Transformations in East-Central Europe from 6000 to 3000 BC: local vs. foreign patterns

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 143-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Local Development ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Considerable Portion ◽  
Local Patterns ◽  
Over Time

In the sixth, fifth and fourth millennium BC, in the basins of the Vistula and the Oder, extremely complex economic, social and ideological transformations took place. They consisted in the emergence and expansion of new systems of circulating information (‘communicative communities’). The majority of these were connected with the Neolithic. The process involved a constant clash between foreign and local patterns. The latter, over time, prevailed. Hence the ultimate dominance of Neolithic communicative communities in the eastern part of Central Europe around the middle of the fourth millennium was essentially a local development. Nonetheless, a considerable portion of the territory continued to remain outside their influence. Therefore, throughout the three millennia, Mesolithic communicative communities not only gradually merged with or evolved into Neolithic ones. They also embraced such transformations, mainly concerning the material culture and ideology, which were completely independent from the advances of the Neolithic, or could have been competitive in relation to them.

scholarly journals The Emergence of East Central Europe in a Welfare Regime Typology

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-112
Author(s):  
Ágnes Orosz
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
State Regime ◽  
East Central European ◽  
Over Time

The paper contributes to the welfare state regime literature by assessing the existence of the East-Central European welfare state regime. The article empirically tests whether East-Central European countries constitute a distinct welfare regime or they can be classified into existing regimes by using hierarchical cluster analysis. The paper defines clusters for two distinct time periods, in order to shed light on the changes over time. The research provides two substantive contributions. First, welfare states in East-Central Europe constitute a distinct welfare state regime only for the period of 2014-2016, and they might be subdivided into two groups: (1) Visegrad countries and (2) Balkan and Baltic countries together. Second, countries within the East-Central European welfare regime has become more similar over time.

scholarly journals Hominin Footprints in Caves from Romanian Carpathians

2021 ◽  
pp. 201-210
Author(s):  
Bogdan P. Onac ◽  
Daniel S. Veres ◽  
Chris Stringer
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Apuseni Mountains ◽  
Homo Neanderthalensis ◽  
Romanian Carpathians ◽  
Western Romania ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThe Romanian karst hosts numerous caves and shelters that over time provided remarkable archaeological and anthropological vestiges. Altogether they show that humans must have entered caves in Romania at least as early as 170,000 years ago. However, ancient human footprints are very rare in the fossil record of East-Central Europe, with only two known locations in the Apuseni Mountains of western Romania. Vârtop Cave site originally preserved three fossil footprints made about 67,800 years ago by a Homo neanderthalensis, whereas Ciur Izbuc Cave was probably home of early H. sapiens that left almost 400 footprints (interspersed with spoors of cave bears), which were indirectly dated to be younger than ~36,500 years.

scholarly journals Faculty of Horticulture Cluj-Napoca: Celebrating 35 Years of Horticulture Higher Education

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mugurel I. JITEA ◽  
Viorel MITRE ◽  
Liviu HOLONEC ◽  
Radu E. SESTRAS
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Special Event ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
The Status ◽  
The University

Although the Faculty of Horticulture from Cluj-Napoca was founded in 1977, the higher education in horticulture has a long and important tradition and history in Transylvania, Romania. It started in 1869, when the Agricultural Institute Cluj, Manastur (today, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca), one of the oldest higher education life sciences centres from East-Central Europe, was created. This ‘Agronomy Academia’ was established due to the efforts of the Transylvanian Agricultural Association and the Status Romano-Catholicus Transylvaniensis, which rented to the Ministry of Agriculture 400 ha of land and the buildings of an old Benedictine monastery near a city that can track its routes back into the Roman Empire. For more than 140 years, the efforts and the predecessors contribution have been creating an important higher education and research institution. In 2012, to celebrate 35 years of excellence, the Faculty Council organised a special event in ‘Aula Magna’ of the University, in November the 29th, 2012. It brought together special guests from partner institutions, forebears of the faculty, academic staff, students, graduates and members of the horticultural business, sustaining the Faculty’s new mission of being a catalyst for the horticulture education and research. On this occasion, the prestigious honorific title of Doctor Honoris Causa was granted for two academic personalities, related to the faculty: Jaime Prohens, from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and Ioan Vasile Abrudan, rector of the ‘Transylvania’ University from Brasov, Romania.

scholarly journals power of path dependence? State capacity and autonomy in East Central Europe during transition

Competitio ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltan Adam
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Over Time

The paper examines development of state capacities and autonomy in East Central Europe during transition, and attempts to establish a relation between state characteristics and trajectories of economic transformation, especially with regard to privatisation and FDI. The assertion is that the quality of state capacities and the degree of state autonomy, although changing over time, mutually reinforces the formulating of economic policies, and hence in structural transformation. Thus, state characteristics are important determinants of transition outcome, but are themselves affected by structural economic changes.

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